The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1906-10-21
TillmSa Sounds No False
Alarm, Says YOungblOOd.
ALBANIAN ARRAIGNS PARTY
Movement Begun at birmingham De-
stroyed Because of Desire to Cap
ture COIored Delegates to the Re-
publican National COnventiOn-The
south Needs Friend Mt White House.

former auditor In the Treasury Depart
ment. and who has been prominent in
the councils Of the Republican party, does
not hesitate to say that. in his opinion
the negro problem is the most import
ant confronting the nation to-day
Senator Tillman speaks no idle words
A great danger IS ahead Of US said the
Alabamian yesterday, 10 a Washington
Herald reporter.
In discussing the problem. Col Young
blood took a look backward, and re-
called experiences Of his own before the
war. Following the history of the last
forty years. he insisted that the race is
sue and the sectional issue run on paral-
lei lines.
THE race issue, sO-called,' he said, is
getting more violent and serious every
day Many are suggesting remedies with
out considering its birth or origin. Prior
10 1850, the abolitionists of the North gen
Grated this issue. If a Northern man
visited slave settlements Of the South.
the slave owners were on the qui vive and
slaves were often suspected of intention
10 rise or rebel, and not a few were seri-
ously punished. upon imaginery evidence
of their INSTRUMENTATION. Many times tho
Northern man was followed and driven
back TO his home. l. myself. took part
in one of these esCapades.
An Episode of His Youth.
"While "a student at one of the South
Carolina colleges in 1860, a man named
Anderson, was sent by his paper the New
York Sun or World, I do not remember
which, into the state to report the Sc
G.
QuesttOnings Of the negroes around his
hotel led up to a suspicion that he was
an abOlitiOniSt, whose mission was to stir
the slaves to rebellion. A closed door
meeting of the townsmen was held TO
take action. a vigilance committee was or
ganized. and sent up the mountain road
10 meet this sO-called abOltiOnist. an
give him such treatment or bull s-dose'
that he would not tarry or let the grass
grow under his feet until he was back
in New York City. It was fun for us
boys, but terror to the tourist. We met
him at a little place. Marietta, fifteen
miles above Greenville, as he was return
ing from Ceasers Hill where he had gone
with a livery team and slave driver, for
pleasure and sightseeing. About a doz-
en- of us CoTraled him and took him 10
a local doctors Office, 10 question and 10
advise him how 10 ger away Il was
night. The secession leaders had erected
nearby. a fag-pole This tourist. in his
fright and the dim darkness. imagined it
% gallOWs. erected for his especial bene-
fit. After holding him in terror for an
hour, he was told TO go, and not let the
sun rise on him in that section. He had
fifteen miles to travel in private convey
ance; he made all necessary pledges. His
driver afterward stated that the horses
could not travel fast enough 10 suit him.
He made Greenville in time TO catch the
. a. III. train for Columbia making close
connection with Northern bound trains.
We heard-nO more of our friend Auder-
son until after he reached New York.
from which place he sent back to US
write-up Of his adventure, in which he
stated that a long, slim student from Ala
bama wanted to hang him at all hazards
As / am that Alabama student. / want to
assure our friend Anderson, even at this
late date, if ne be living, that nothing was
farther from me. NV sole purpose was
10 brighten him beyond. the Mason and
DiXOns line.
Origin of the Race Issue
"The slaves looked on these proceedings
throughout the South with fear and trem-
bling and secret hopes. while the slave
holders became more and more alarmed
and watchful. hence became more sus-
plcious ana distrustful Of the negroes and
their abOlitionist friends. This generated
the race issue as running mate to sec
tioualism.
Notwithstanding the slaves Of the
South proved to be the most loyal and
laborious people ever known. while their
owners were absent in the army. it did
not remove the fear and distrust of their
owners when they found upon their re-
turn home in 90. the negroes happy in
their freedom.
The Republican party the outcome of
the Abolitionist party, committed the IA
tai error TO the negro, and the peace of
the section, by the giving to the ex-slave
the right Of suffrage, accentuating the
sectional feeling already aroused by polit-
zeal demag0gues. The amendments TO the
Constitution, reconstruction by carpet
haggeTs. sO-called. and negroes added fuel
and saved the old secession leaders from
political degradation. The Charles Sum
neT civil rights bill. pending. in Congress
III 1914. set the whole SOuth7ih a terrible
passion, the Klu-Khx KIans organized.
and oppression, wr0ng-doing. and violence
dominated.
Many Northern Republicans now say.
If 1 lived in the South l would be a
Democrat, but in the North am a Re-
publican
The race Issue has been encouraged
and intensified until il has reached So
acute a stage that il breaks out in terrible
riots. dfsgraceful to the land We love. and
innocent men and women suffer Senator
Tillman speaks no idle words 4 great
danger is ahead Of US.
1t is strange that a government which
runs OFF to humanitize the Filipino to re-
lieve the oppressed Cuban. is so powerful
IN bringing peace between Russia and ia
pan, is so powerless or so Indifferent TO
The protection of the life, liberty. and
property of its own subjects. The head
OF this great government ought 10 con-
slider these things
The Republican Party'S WeaknekS
The race issue and the sectional issue
run on parallel lines. Is IL any wonder,
10 an intelligent man, that no Republican
party can grow uD in the South when we
reflect that Republican party is a sec
tional and negro party. The most
magnificent mOvement-begun in a grand
convention met in Birmingham, which
Judge PTitchard addressed, and was sup
posed to speak the Presidents views-was
destroyed by subsequent effort to. secure
votes III A national convention, and from
2 fear Of losing a few Congressman in the
negro districts of the North Thus the
whole country is WrOnged. and a great
issue. heated in violence, is perpetuated
and made more serious
THE only remedy of the race issue. IS
the election Of a nonsectionaI, nonracial
man TO the Presidency. Csed rid of the
sectionalism and negroism in the Repub-
hcan party, and we will soon have q Re
publican party in the South as effective
Cor good as We have in the North, and