The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1906-12-06
FlAYED IN HIS SPEECH
rs THE SENTIMENT OF THE
NORTH FOR THE NEGRO.
TILLMAN BRAVES HIS FOES
And Tackles the Race Dispute With.
out Gloves-Hepeal Of Fifteenth
Amendment Urged.

Chicago, Nov 2S.-United States
Senator Benjamin h. Tillman spoke to
an immense audience that packed Or
chestra hall from pit to dome. He
spoke exclusively of the race question.
Thus he did the very thing that he
mad been dared to do. and to prevent
which every effort had been made by
the NEGROES of Chicago.
A dozen negroes in the audience sat
mute through the terrific arraignment
OF their race, only to break themselves
into applause when the senator declar-
ed that President Roosevelt had vio-
lated the law when he dismissed the
battalion of the 2jth infantry without
a trial. furnishing the innocent with
the guilty.
As he made his way from the build
ing to accept the hospitality of friends
the thousands that had crowded into
the streets Joined in an outdoor ova-
ton that was greater even than that
which met him on the inside.
a few tmorous souls made bold 10
interrupt the speaker as he proceeded.
Interruption only served to add fuel
10 the speakers fire. and his replies
10 the Interruptions elicited prolonged
applause.
Perhaps. for the first time since the
days of abolition, the negro heard a
vast assemblagc in a northern city
violently applaud the assertion, This
Is & white mans country"
They heard the accusation that the
northern love for the negro was only
far political effect, and on election day,
and they heard an answering thunder
OF applause from the entire house.
They heard him roast the republican
party in Chicago for nominating ne
gro for judge and then counting him
out They heard him plunge cold steel
Into Mayor Dunno, and heard the audi
ence add the approval of applause 10
his unalloyed sarcasm.
He said that the white people OF the
north had settled the first three ques
tions to suit their selfish purposes
ana that in each of them the white
man had been made supreme He dc
nlcnied that the fourth question be
settled on the same basis. and his con
Ciusion was that the settlement would
be reached by the repeal of the Fiji
tecnth Amendment TO the Constitution
uf the United States.
While discussing the Fifteenth
amendment he was interrupted sew
eral times by one of his listeners, who
kept asking. How about Kentucky?'
Finally Mr. Tillman seemed to lose
his temper and exclaimed:
oh shut your mouth. You don'i
know the 4. b, c of this thing | for
got 40 years ago more than you ever
knew"
You make up your minds that
equality before the law which the
Fifteenth amendment guarantees is
right and should be enforced notwith
standing its result. II this law was
enforced IL would result in two states
al least being nominated absolutely
by negroes, while four ~ther states
would be so near being governed by
the negro that there would be prac.
tically an equal division Of ofices."
Senator Tillman came from the
Great Northern hotel accompanied by
two plain-ciothes men from the Cen
trail station. Assistant Chief Schuet
tier had large detail Of policemen ON
the streets in front Of the hall and had
taken every precaution TO prevent the
rouble before the hour for the lecture
had arrived. The precautions were
4 necessary. The police detail was
y useful In clearing his way through
the mass that cheered him as he left
the place.