The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-12-06
SCORES RICH WOMEN.
Patronesses of Tillman Lectures Are
Excoriated.

Dr.. jenkins Lloyd Jones, one of
negroes held at Bethel chapel, Chi
cago Sunday, excoriated those wom-
en- of fashion who permitted their
names to be used as patronesses in
connection with the Tillman lecture.
He said the very use of their names
did more harm than did all the rabid
utterances of the senator from South
Carolina.
He bemoaned the fact that women
would go to that length in the name
of charity. He said that it would
be better a thousandfold to have the
two greatest pugilists in the world
battle for supremacy. He said the
women would do less injury t. the
community if they lent their names
to such a battle and it were fought
for charity And his words seemed
to find an echo among those who lis
tened, for the resolutions that we're
adopted denounced in terms that
were scathing those women connect
ed with the coming of Senator Till
man.
The meeting of Sunday afternoon
was a remarkable one. Bethel chapel
is the. largest negro church in the
city, yet its auditorium was made
quate and an overflow meeting was
held in the basement, that part of ths
structure that is used for a Sunday
school room. Many of the speakers
were white men, divlnes prominent
in the city. Bishop Fallows presided
and among those who spoke were
Rev. NJ c. Hartzell, pastor of the
Park Avenue Methodist church and
son of Bishop Hartzell; DIR. A K De
Blois, pastor of the First Baptist
church; Patrick H. O'Donnell, Will
liam Farmer and Dr. c. E. Bentley
spoke for the negroes
Although the meeting was schedul-
ed as a peace gathering that the
friendly relations between the white
men and the negroes OF Chicago
might be furthered, there were utter
ances that did not speak of peace be-
tween the races as whole. Bishop
Fallows predicted that if the words
of the South Carolina senator came
true and there was war of races be
tween the Writes and the negroes in
the south it would be another in
which the fathers would be compel
ed to face their sons.
There were more than 1000 ne
groes in the audience when Bishop
Fallows was introduced.
THE call that brought me here Is
one of duty as we'll as privilege" he
began, and was cheered. Il did not
hear Senator Tillman speak and
thank God for that ne continued.
and the cheers that broke forth made
it impossible for him to proceed.
But what of his reception? Is il
not -, direct contrast to that which
would have been accorded the senior
senator of Illinois had he invaded
Charleston and told an audience the
simple truth that there were 100000
or more of African descent having
more of the blood of the white than
the black in their veinss Would they
have relished that? Would they have
pinned a Pullman ticket on his coat
There lives a man in South Car
DINA, native and to the manor born,
who has devoted forty years OF his
life to the uplifting of the negro race
He fired the first shot OF the civil
war. He is in marked contrast to this
senator who was too young or some
thing else to enter the confederate
army. What if Mr.. Tillman were tc
be in that kind of war that he pre-
diets and upon the side he says he
would choose? He would be upon the
side of fathers arrayed against sons
and they would not have to fight the
black man but fight the white man
in the black man and that combina-
tion would be one that would make
Tillman wish he had never been But
there will no be race war And there
came a roar from the negroes