Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-11-26
TrLImaN AND NEGRO RACE.

| to Orchestra Hall, Chicsgo, while
Senator Tillmsn Is clearinghouse tomor-
row night have aroused the police to the
most elaborate precautions for the pro
lection Of the southern stateman and his
audience. The threats Of violence are hard
to trace to their sources, but they are so
numerous and 80 much apprehension is
shown By the peachful negroes that the
police are treating them with much re-
spect
One negro woman, thought to be in
sane. who has sworn publicly to kill Sen
ator Tillman, has been locked up and
will be kept prisoner until the lecture
| is over.
Chief of Police Collins has announced
that, though, in compliance with Sena-
tor Tillmsn's expressed Wish, negroes
will be admitted to the hsll, they will be
confined to the gallery under heavy guard.
and that all suspicious persons will be
searched.
Mayor Dunno. has decided 10 preside
at the lecture, despite the request from a
delegation Of prominent negroes that he
prevent the address, or, at least, refuse to
sanction it by his presence.
After having announced in Chicago,
Saturday, that he would not trim bis
speech there Tuesday night next By cut
tag out the negro question, Senator
Tillman spoke at South Haven, Mich,
Saturday night. :.
He started right out with an attack
on the colored race in the South and
kept it up for an hour and half, incl
dentally taking the republican party to
task as being responsible in measure
for the race question. He predicted a
bloody war as the natural outcome OF
race prejudice and asserted that white
women in the South dared not leave their
homes without an escort.
He said that the white race Of the
South holds women higher than the
whites of the North do
He said, in part
'I tell the truth and 1 despise liar
The facts of the race problem are not
known to the northern people and those
who write about it are largely smart
alecs "
Referring TO the negroes in the South
he said that "almost all Of them were by
nature liars and all would steal. F."
''The younger negroes are being taught,
that they are equal to the white man and
are at this time endeavoring to get these
rights, led by Booker 7. Washington, a
hali-breed, who is seeking a political
position. "
He continued
"History has no record where the ne
gro ruled, and South Carolina will not be
first to start Il, The situation is grave,
and calls for wisdom and all manner Of
craftsmanship If we had orr say, the
negro could never vote, | believe that
God made the white man nut OF better
clay than that which the negro was made
from, and as long as the whites have
made the progress they have in years,
we don't need another race to help at
this time. In many states OF the South
the negro holds the vote of control. In
West Virginia the wealthy mineholders
have imported enough colored men to
give a republican msjority, while in
Delaware, Gas Addicks has done the
same. In Chicago the republicans
needed the negro vote to elect their
whole ticket, 30 niger was nominated
for Judge and elected, and then they
counted him out
In South Carolina the republicans are
rotten. Those who 60 to national con
yentions, when there Ia fight on, come
back we'll beeled with money, while
postofIice positions are sold, and the
State is as bad as province in Russia.
"Republicanism means negro equality,
while The democratic party means that
white men are supreme That lie why
we southerners are all democrats We
admit that the low white men of the
South do marry negro women, but am
unable to trace parentage Of single
white woman and negro man.
81 advocate passport and police sys'
tem go we may keep track Of these ami
mails They are like wild beasts and at
tack helpless women, commit an act OF
violence and then fee
Lynch law is all we have LETT. do
not believe in slavery, and could | with
stroke Of pen get back the slaves taken
from my mothers farm | would not
do II.
"You want equality, but you will not
put up with it, Why, then, do you
thrust it down our throats We have had
four race problems: First, the Indians;
second, the Chinese; third, the Malays,
and, fourth, the negro. We have dis
posed Of the first three TO the entire
country's satisfaction. Now why not the
last The southern people are as good as
sou northeruerH, and in many things are
batter and one Of these higher things is
that we value a woman higher than you
The question of voting will in the long
run be settled by the shotgun
Senator Tillman left yesterday morning
for Wisconsin.
Educational.