Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-11-28
FAILS no sToP TILLMAN,


ful When the Senator arrived 10
Chicago early in the afternoon he was
told OF threatened Injunction proceedings
to prevent him IRON appearing on toe
platform and of money consideration
that had been offered if he would cancel
his engagement, but Mr. Iillman ex-
pressed scorn f5r both.
Mayor Edward F. Dunno was
scheduled TO preside at the meeting, but
refused to have anything to Go with the
affair after a committee OF colored citi-
zens had visited him.
Senator Tillman gave his address pro
tected by forty detectives. 10 anticips-
ton Of trouble number Of policemen
we're kept at NEARBY stations 10 reserve,
but they were not called for. Six colored
policemen mingled with the crowd which
blocked the street in front OF the hall.
In the audience were many negroes,
but they listened to Senator Tillman s
remarks good naturally, aud, although
he was interrupted many times, the meet
ing passed of without trouble.
In leading up to his address, ''Shsll
the United States Annex Cuba ?" Mr..
TilIman took occasion to criticise Mayor
Dunne's action in refusing to preside at
the meeting.
81 have been told that have been
snubhed By the Mayor Of this city" said
the Senator. al did not ask Mayor
Dunno to be here tonight. IL any one
has been snnbbed it is the gracious
women who planned this meeting to sc
cure money for the Chicago Union Hos
pitsl and who requested Mayor Dunno,
the creature of political hour, to come
forward and add hs mite"
81 have been advertised to discuss TIE
annexation of Cuba" continued Mr..
Tillman, "but in view Of the fact that ]
coull not discuss the race question, ] am
going to go at the matter hammer and
lougs. Therefore | shall discuss the
race problem pure and simple from an
American standpoint and not from a
Cuban standpoint Owing to my ex.
perience with the question and that dill
gent study have made Of it, believe I
am better qualified 10 discuss this ques-
ton than any other man in America."
While discussing the fifteenth amend
ment TO the constitution, which he de-
clsred gave the negro every right that a
white man had, he was interrupted sew
ersl times, by one of his listeners, who
kept ssking. "How about Kentucky :"
Finally Mr. TilIman seemed TO lose
his temper and exclaimed
"Oh, shut your mouth You don't
know the A, u, G OF this thing. | forgot
forty years ago mere than you ever
knew"
"You make up yourminds that equa'-
ity before the law which the fifteenth
amendment guarantees is right and
should be enforced, notwithstanding lis
result. If this law was enforced it would
result in two States at least being dom
insted absolutely by negroes, while four
other States would be so near being goy-
erued by the negro that there would
practically be an equal division Of Off
cerp."
Some one called out GLOW about the
law"
Senator Tillmon" The law? To
With such laws !"
While denouncing the blacks he criti-
cised President Roosevelt for discharg-
ing the negro troops. On this point he
said 81 don't believe President Roose-
welt was justified 10 treating the negro
troops 10 Texas IS he did Because their
comrades would not give up guilty
men he dishonorably discharged. with
out court-martial, to which the men
had a right, three whole companies of
soldiers.
al don't believe the innocent should
suffer for the guilty"
During his speech he said; al want
you to realize the gravity Of the race quss-
ton.
ri have lived among negroes and |
know them. If the white men did not
govern the negroes the negroes would
govern the whites.
ave may have these rules rather
elastic, to suit the necessities OF the
case. We may have stuffed ballot
boxes and resorted to the shotgun, but
We never sank to the infamy of electing
q negro to Office.
Encouraged by the treatment they
have received in the north, the negroes
have come TO think they are better than
u white man. They are not as good as
white men. They never have been, and
they never will be.
IL will tell you the trouble with the
southern negroes. II is simply a case oil
suffrage
"You negro lovers don't know the
quesiion. Before the South will submit
to negro domination, we will send a
couple Of million blacks to the north,
and you'll see the fifteenth amendment
repealed very suddenly.
81 don't believe in lynchng. But
when a southern man leaves home in the
morning, he goes with the thought that
bis wife aud daughters may be attacked
10 his absence by Il negro. I'd rather
see my daughters torn limb from limb and
eaten by wild men than suffer such a
fate.
81 don't believe living thing should
be burned alive, but there must be a way
found TO preveptthis danger.
'If know myself, before my God, /
want to deal with the negro honestly and
fairly, but, knowiog them as | do, never
can believe they should havo the
rights Of a white man"
''No matter what the people in the
North may say or do, the white race IN
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