The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1906-12-07
TILLMAN SIP PEAKS.
Guarded by Detectives He Talks
Out Plainly In
SPITE OF THR EATS
or Violence In Chicago On the Race
Question. The Senator SCorned Mon.
ey Ofitr and Threatened Re.
st'ainIHg Order Which lie
WIS Told OF Them.

stsaiDI1g Order Which He
| WIS Told Of Them.
Despite the frantic efforts Of the
negroes 'f CDioagO not to have him
do no Sc 1T r Tillman delivered hio
adSrsas IA he racs question in that
c.tY on :sst 4 lesdsy night. A dispatch
= n OliosRe SAYS when Senator Till.
nan arrived who're early Tuesday sf.
aernoon he was told Of threatened in.
Junction proceedings to provent hi;r,
FROM appearing on the platform an
a money confederation THAI had bean
ffer9d IL ha would cancel his engage
mant, but expressed scorn for both.
Until lie lart Chicago on Wednesday
Senator TIllman was guarded by pri-
vate detsoGtve and the police. This
was In ..co " dance with an oder issusd
BY Mayor Eaward Il. Dunno, who was
soheduled 10 preside ah last nights
n,eaaing, bus who refused 20 have any.
tht0g 10 do wish 1t afhnr committee
OF ooioied Slt,zsns had Visited him y
fow days ESQ.
S9naeCr TlligaSn gave his address
protested by 40 aataceivss, In anticl.
gasion OF br0u blo g numbGr Cf police
men ware Kept aS nerrby stationa IN
reserve, bur they were rt called for
Six negro policemen nniLn I'd with the
crowd which blocked tho street IN
front Of tho hall. In the audience wore
many negroes, but they llatened tu
| Senator Tillman's remarks good ma,
turedly and although he WAB interrup
ted many times, the nesting passed
of withous trouble.
| In leSdipg up to his address, shall
Bhe United Ststss Annex Cuba" Mr.
Tillmsn took occasion TO criticize May
or Dunne's ao5ion In r9tusslng TO pre-
side sG the meeting. IL have hesn told
that l have boen snubbed by the may.
or OF this o!by," said tho senator. II
did not ask Mayor Dunno to be here
tonight. II anyone has been snubbed
1t Is the gracious ladies', who planned
this meeting to seOuro money for the
Chicago UNION hospital and who re-
:. aaosuoo Mayor Dunno, the creature
bsS1 S's.ss g olitieal hour, DO, ,cnma forward
Sss,r,s.si MD i1. a ssi;Ssss I.l 20 J
II have bean advertised to discuss
the annexation Of Oaba," continued
Mr.. Tillmar, but In view Of the fact
Jhab ] couli not dGcuss that subj sot
withou6 discussing the race queaslon,
am going to 90 at tho matter ham
mer and toNgS. Therefore, | shall dis
cuss tue race problem pure and aim.
pie from an American standpoinG and
,,nt frcOo II fl,, n ,1 or atynSnnipt n oInu
to my expareDca with phe Question
and bhe diligent study have made OF
1T, believe l am better qualified to
discuss this question than any other
man In America
While discussing the 18th amend.
nent to the conattu tion, whioh he
declared gave the negro every right
Gna6 white man hat, he was inter
! rupted several times by one Of bis liz
teners who kept asklng "How about
Kentucky?"
Finally Mr.. Tillmsn seemed to lose
hts temper and exclaimed:
"Oh shut your mouth. You don't
know the a. 3. o. Of thiB thing. l
torRo 10 years ago more than you
ever .ow."
Y III make UP your minds that
cuu ality bsfore the law which bhe 16eb
ao.endraene guarantoas is rlshS and
should bs enforced Notwithstanding
its reaults. Ii this law was enforced
iss would Yesuls In two States al leass
being dominated absolutely by ne.
groes, while four other States would
be 80 near being governed by the ne.
gro that there would practically be an
sQual divielon OF Offices"
A voice. How aboua the lawp"
Senator Tillman-"T law, DO hell
with such law"
Aftar telling Ia debail how the ne.
gro is prevented from casting hi6 bal.
| 100 In the South, Senator Tlllman
said:
''rhere Is great deal moro to this
question that the little racket here In
UnicSRo."
A voice--"How about the negro
judgef'
Senator Tillman: well, I will tell
you about your negro judge and about
your political machines pusting him
on yeu biokot and bamboozlipg bbose
poor ignorsnS bab00ns into eleotlng
| ltlluj nbi ullCli OIL Ool HSlub yOu lOllOWb
who voted the tiokob without know
Ing Whist was on IL, find o way to
cheat him out OF It,
mo matter what the people In 6he
North may say or do, the white rGce
In the South vii. never be dominated
by the negro and / Wanb to tall you
now 6hat II some State should evor
mako an attemps 10 gave South Oar.
olina' wo will shoW them In their fan.
aticism that we wlll make IL red bo.
fore Wo make 1t black. CJ
God Almighty made thes Oaucas.
ian OF better clay than tho Mongolian
or tho African or any other race. The
Ethiopian is o burden bearer. He has
done absolutely nothing for history
Dor has no aver achieved anything o
gToaS impor tanoe. There are no grea'
men am m,ng tho race. Yet this people
has beon picked out by bhe fanatic
Of the North and lifted up to the 90 lal
ity OF she oitizsnship and TO the right
Of suffrage. No doubt m&ny or you hav,
listened to tina ofatory oJ the groates
oolored man Of this Bocke
) Washington. He had white fAthe:
} however, and his brains aud hi
character he has Inherited from tina
father.
Senator Tlllman then told his audi
a enoe OF the attack on white wOme
by nogroes in the South and declare
, that tho people of the North were i
n q great measure reSpOnSlbl0 for thl