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
nom 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 al
large than it is to hug mad dog or q
rattlesnake to your breast, declared
that the race issue is the incompar.
ably paramount issue in this country
to my mind and I shall talk plainly
about it on the platform. Up north
here you are getting to have lynch.
ings. I imagine that the doctrine OF
equality will not especially appeal to
the the stockyards workers whose
places were taken by colored men, as
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. or course.
down South we have always had this
question.
Yes, 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, I
never expect to see q 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 Fortyeighth and
Honore streets. but the hall was
full Of Socialists, and they fired
so many, questions at him it
caused him to lose his temper, and
he shrieked and howled at his
like q oReeyed mad bull.
ex-Aldermsu ehael McInerney. who
will have his own troubles before he
is elected to. the site Senate from
the Fourth Senatorial district. threw
himself into the breach end endea-
vored to save the night for old Ben,
hut he was unable to do so, and the
former heavyweight Alderman. ESo-
has always been able in the past TO
silence his noisy associates in the
City Council, and the rabble At all
political meetings where rough-and-
tumble fights and knocking down and
out were In order, gave up
the ghost in disgust, and retired TO
bis 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 let
your daughter marry a nigger?" lost
his nerve, and became so bewildered
and, as usual, he went on half-eocked
On the race question. He acted like a
-aving maniac when he referred to
he fact that "a little black boy and q
little white girl appeared on the plat
,orm at the Republican National Con-
Tention and waved flags" "On the
asst analysis" he beloved out. that
exhibition meant nothing more than
hat the President Of the United
States win WELD all his power, all his
influence, for the equality Of the
aces. II meant that when that boy
vas brought into juxtaposition
With a white girl the only in
erence is that President Roosevelt is
eady for social equality and stands
.lso for the amalgamation of the
aces. It meant that when that boy
Iot old enough he might marry that
hite girl and raise a breed Of mulat-
PES" :
Il amt got much senatorial dignI-
y" he exclaimed, as he grasped the
ard which was handed to him by
ONE Of the Socialists, which con-
aimed a few OF the many cutting
uestions propounded to him, and az
er glazing at IL. he shouted: Great
iod! That card has Socialism on one
ide and social equality. amalgama-
lon. misegenafion. hell and damna-
ION, on the other side. You want to
hrust upon Us the doctrine that the
ieger Is as good as the white.s !
Ona ~ fho Coafargef. dzr,.-l.l A.