Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-01-13
Or. aaouaAroA scoRgs ri.LMAN.
Says HIS Uiteranees on the Race Question are
Those Of Cheap Politician.

Atlanta, January AT the tab
ernacle last night to an audience of
three thousand people, DR.. L. G.
Bropghton took occasion to reply to
the lecture of Senator Tillman, de-
liyered in the city last week. Till
mans lecture was on the race ques-
tion. DR.. Broughton's theme was
the Sensitive Fool" He handled
the South Carolina Senator without.
gloves and used some very foroible
words in speaking of the Senator'S
views on the negro in the South.
DIR. Broughton said;
"Much of this talk of the race
problem is also the result of morbid
sersitiveness. heard Senator Till.
man Friday night give his lecture on
'The Negro l tried to be fair in
my estimate of it. For reckless
frsnkness it was model; for sensi-
BILE argument it was mess. like
frankness /; like to see q man who
believes something and then is not
afraid to say it. In THE respect and
in this respect alone, is Senator Till
man entitled to place among those
who are trying to shape the
destinies of the nation. His whole
talk, from start to finish, was that of
the cheap politician, praying upon
the most subtitle prejudices of igno-
rant people. Never once in his So
luton Of this great question did he
get out of the realm of the rankest
paganism. The Christian religion
was never limited at as having any
thing to do with overcoming bad
conditions or uplifting the race. One
of the most prominent Christian edu-
Gators in the South said to me just
as he finished his harangue, His po-
sition is nothing short of the vilest
paganism.' Senator Tillmsn is a
pagan arguing from the standpoint
of pagan philosophy.
"That there are wrongs with the
negro nobody doubts. 1t is great
blunder to put the ballot in their
hands when they were freed. The
North sees this. Senator Tillman's
effort to fire Southern hearts with
hate for the North because they
forced this iniquity on US is unjust.
/ have travelled North as much as he
has. / have circulated with better
class of people where have gone,
and tell you the best people of the
North are perfectly willing that we
should take the negro out of politics.
Ho ought to be taken out and we
are going to do it, not for our good
only, but for his good as well. l
said in Boston to an audience as
large as Senator Tillman had Friday
night, 'The negro must be eliminated
from politics and white folks So
ciety.' The remark was cheered,
though made in church. The negro
needs moral and religious evolution.
needs to find his place and settle.
This he will do out of politics, but
in it he is an ignorant tool for mean
politicians. Socially the negro is
not a problem to us in this country
and never will be. Senator Till
mans sarcastic comparison of the
love of his old faithful negro SER
want and Newfoundland dog, to be
cheered by an Atlanta audience, was,
to say the least of it, pitiable.
"Let cheap politicians and dema-
gogues sneer as much rs they will at
the Christian philanthropy, it is
nevertheless the only hope for the
salvation and civilization of this
world. Paganism, with its hell of
oppression, is not the policy of our
people. If now and then an excep-
tion is tolerated it is only for the
lack of time for the triumph of the
law of Christian auuitvo