Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-01
TlLLMAN'S HONESTY
JULIAN RICHARDS ANSWERS
STATEMENT MADE BY TAY.
LoR IN HIS LETTER.

Des Moines, Sept. 29.-(Special.)-
1t is currently reported about demo
cratic headquarters that the colored
vote in the sixth district is to be d.
vided this year and that enough of it
will go to the opposition to defeat Ma
jor Lacey.
1t is claimed that Taylor, the pres
idential candidate of the new liberty
party, has been in conference with
Chairman Morrissey of the democratic
state central committee, and has made
boasts that the colored people would
go back on" Major Lacey
In his letter of acceptance of the
nomination of the new liberty party
for president, Mr.. Taylor said that
Tillman and Vardaman were "scrupu.
lousy honest" in declaring their plans
for the treatment of the negro, while
the administration was INSCRIPTIONS
ly dishonest"
Some idea of what Mr. Taylor calls
the "scrupulous honesty" of Senator
Tillman in reference to the colered
people in his state (South Carolina)
may be obtained by perusal of a
speech made by him in the senate of
the United States on May Z, 1902. In
speaking of the way the Ku Klux ere
deemed" South Carolina, he said:
"Redeemine" State.
81 could go back, and 1 have done
so during the debate with my friend
from Wisconsin (Mr. Spooner), some
two or three years ago, in which
came out boldly and, like brave and
true man, told you when we found we
could not overcome this numerical ma
jority by sny fair and lawful means,
that we simply asserted our manhood
as Anglo-SaXons, and asserted it by
whatever means we thought necessa-
ry, and we took possession of our
state and defied you to protest against
it or prevent it,
Grant had sent regiment of ten
companies Of union troops into my
own county of Edgefleld; sent there to
repress rebels sent there to sub
ject us to the government of those
negroes and their carpetbag leaders,
They were ordered to preserve order,
to prevent us from terrorizing the ne
groes. to keep them from being kept
from the polls. and to let them vote.
They obeyed their orders as we'll as
they could. but the result of the cleo
ton was that, with numerical major
ity of 1000 more negroes who were 81
years of age, and who, under the dis
pensation of my friend from Mary
land, (Mr. McComas, were entitled to
vote. and ought to be allowed to vote
now-with ten companies of troops,
and 100000 more back here to go
down there if it was thought they
were needed to keep us down how did
they come out in the struggle against
white manhood and white brains? We
only beat them $500 votes. But we
could have beaten them $500, or $500
or $4,000 if it had been necessary"
The Sand Cure.
Further on in the same speech. Sen
ator Tillman said:
We have not had any water cures
in the south on the negroes, but one
senator said the other day, something
about the sand cure.
II say, from my knowledge Of the
situation, that when we get ready to
put negro's head in the sand, we put
his body there. too"
After giving expression to this
choice sentiment, the speaker re-
ferred to the Kindness Of the old slav-
cry days" On this subject he said:
The Kindness of Slavery.
II look back to my childhood on a.
slave plantation where there were a
hundred slaves. and remember moth
ing of that. There was an occasional
whipping Of some one because of lazi-
ness or some disobedience, but re-
call nothing but kindness in the main,
and no effort to give them good
clothes. plenty of food, and to take
care of them in Sickness and all that
kind of thing
These are the deliberate utterances
of prominent representative of the
party which MrTaylor and others who
are trying to defeat Major Lacey by
dividing the colored vote of the sixth
district, would help put into power.
Surely the colored men of the district
are too wise to give assent to such a
proposition. Julian Richards.