The broad ax., 1904-10-22
Waved the Red Flag of Race
Hatred and LaWlesnesS at the
Stock Yards and Made Many
Votes for the Republicans.
The Democrats of Joliet Would
Not Allow Him to Speak in
That City.

devil and half beat, arrived at the
Sherman House Thursday morning
Iom the swamps Of South Carolina.
In an interview with him which ap-
peared in the Evening News" Of that
date, (Pitchfork) Tillman, who is a
red-handed anarchist, and it is more
dangerous to permit him to run at
large than it Is to hug a mad dog or a
rattlespake to your breast, declared
that the race issue Is the incompar-
ably paramount issue in this country,
to my mind and shall talk plainly
about 1t on the platform. Up north
here you are getting to have lynch
ings. 1 imagine that the doctrine of
equality will not especially appeal to
the the stockyards workers whose
places were taken by colored men, as
l have been informed, while they were
out on q strike"
"will you state your opinion Of the
race issues importance on the
stump"
81 shall speak plainly. OF course,
down South we have always had this
question.
Eyes, we keep the colored man un-
der restraint down there. We have
too. We want to live. II you, here,
in Illinois, had as many colored men
as we have In proportion to the white
race issues importance on the
We are outnumbered and we are al
ways on the qui vive. Personally, l
never expect to see a week go by
without some lynching horror.
On that same Thursday evening Ben
Tillman, who should be swung up by
the neck to a telegraph pole until he
is dead, for the many brutal assaults
he has made on the colored race, at
tempted to speak in the stockyards
district at West Forty-eighth and
| 1fonore streets. but the hall was
full of Socialists, and they fred
30 many. questions at him 1t
caused him to lose his temper, and
he shrieked and. howled at his
ouestioaers like a oReeyed mad bull
ex-AIdermsn Aehael McIuerney, who
will have his own troubles before he
is elected to. the site Senate from
the Fourth Senatorial district, threw
himself into the breach sepd endeS
vored to save the night for old Ben
hut he was unable, to do so, and the
former heavyweight Alderman, VA
has always been able in the past e
silence his noisy associates In the
City Council, and the rabble at al
political meetings where rough-and
tumble fights and knocking down and
dragging out were In order. gave uI
the ghost in disgust, and retired tc
his corner In the ring.
AS the meeting progressed the So
cialists stood their ground, and an
archistic Ben, whose chief argument
| on all occasions is, would you lel
your daughter marry a nigger?" los
his nerve, and became so bewilderet
and, as usual, he went on half-eockeC
on the race question. He acted like
raving maniac when he referred Il
the fact that "a little black boy and
little white girl appeared on the plat
form at the Republican National Con
Vention and waved flags" ION thu
last analysis" he beloved out. "tha
exhibition meant nothing more thai
that the President Of the Unite'
States win WELD all his power, all hi
influence, for the equality Of tn
races. It meant that when that DO!
was brought into juxtapositior
4 with a white girl the only in
ference is that President Roosevelt Il
ready for social equality and stands
also for the amalgamation Of tn
races. It meant that when that DO!
got old enough he might marry tina
" hite girl and raise a breed Of mulai
toes"
| Il amt got much senatorial dignl
Ity," he exclaimed, as he grasped tn
card which was handed to him b,
some of the Socialists, which con
tanned a few Of the many cuttin;
questions propounded to him, and al
ter glaring at IL. he shouted: "Grea
;Godl That card has Socialism on on
side and social equality. amalgama
,tion. misegenation. hell and damna
ton. on the other side. You want Z
thrust upon us the doctrine that tn
Niger Is as good as the whiteIS
One OF the Socialists demanded t