The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-11-30

the Senator and He Gave a Sharp
Reply to the impairment Question.
Chicago, November 27.-The efforts
OF the cOlOred citizens of Chicago to
prevent United States Senator Benja-
min r. TiIIman from delivering an
address here tonight in Orchestra hall
was unsuccessful. When the South
Carolina senator arrived in Chicago,
curly in the afternoon, he was old of
threatening injunction proceedings to
prevent him from appearing on the
platform, and of "a money considera-
ton that had been offered if he would
cancel his engagement, but Mir. Till
man expressed scorn for both. Until
he leaves for FOn Du Lac. Wis, to-
morrow, Senator TiIlman will be
guarded by police and private detec-
tiVes. This is in accordance with an
order issued by Mayor Edward F.
Dunno, who is scheduled to preside at
tOnight's meeting, but who refused to
have anything to do with the affair af-
ter q committee of cOlOred citizens
had visited him a few days ago.
Senator TiIlman gave his address,
projected by forty detectives. In an
tIcipatiOn of trouble, a number Of pO-
l1cemen We're kept at nearby stations
in reserve. but they We're not called
FOR. Six negro policemen mingled
with the crowd, which blocked the
street in front of the hall.
In the audience were many negroes,
but they listened to Senator Tillman's
remarks good naturally. and although
he was interrupted many times. the
speech passed off without trouble.
In leading up to his address. Shall
the United States annex Cuba" Mr..
Tillman took occasion to criticise
Mayor DUNES action in refusing to
preside at the meeting.
Il have been tod that have been
snuDbod by the mayo Of his city"
said the senator 7 did not ask
Mayor Dunno to be here tonight. If
any one mas been snubbed, it is the
gracious ladies, who planned this
meeting to secure money for the
Chicago Union hospital. and who re-
quested Mayor Dunno, the creature Of
a political hour, to come forward and
add his mite.
Il have been advertised to discuss
the annexation of Cuba" continued
Mr.. Tillman, but in view of the fact
that l could not discuss that subject
without discussing the race question,
| an going to go at the matter hammer
and tongue. Therefore I shall dis
GUS the race problem, pure and SIM
pie, from an American standpoint, and
not from a Cuban standpoint. Owing
to my experience with the question,
and the diligent study I have made Of
it, I believe I am better qualified to
discuss this question han any other
man in America"
While discussing the fifteenth
amendment to the constitution, which
he declared gave the negro every right
that a white man had, he was inter
rupted several times by n of his
listeners who kept asking How about
Kentucky?"
Finally Mr.. TiIlman seemed to lose
his temper and exclaimed. "Oh shut
your mouth. You don't know the A.
B. c. Of this thing. I forgot forty
years ago, more than you ever knew"
You make up your minds that
equality before the law. which the f1f-
teenth amendment guarantees is right,
and should be enforced notwithstand-
ing its results. If this law was en-
forced il would result in two states
at least being dominated absO-
lutely by negroes, while four other
states would be so nearly governed by
the nocro that there would practical
ly he an equal division of offices"
4 voice. How about the Iaw?"
Senator Tillnlan: The law? TIC hell
witt such law"
after telling in detail how the negro
is prevented from casting his ballot in
the south. Senator TiIlman said:
There is a great deal more to this
question than the little racket here
in Chicago"
\ voice: HOY about the negro
JUDGE
Senator TiTlman: "WelI. I will tell
about Your negro judge and about
vOur political machines putting him
OF your ticket and bamhoozling those
poor bab0Ons into electing him and
then afterwards YOU fellows who voted
the ticket without knowing what was
on il, find a way to cheat him out of it.
\ matter what the people of the
north may say or do, the white race
in the south will never be dominated
by the negro, and I want to tell o
now that if some state should ever
make an attempt to save South Car
DINA We viii show them in their IA
naticism that we will make it red be-
fore We max it black.
"GOd Almighty made the Caucasian
of better clay than the Monaghan or
the African or any other race. The
Ethiopian is a barrier. He has done
absolutely nothing for history, nor has
he ever achieved anything of great
importance. There are no great men
among the race. Yet this people has
been picked out by the fanatics OF the
north, and lifted up the e"ralit" E t
izenship and to the rights Of suffrage.
No doubt many of you have listened to
sratory of the greatest colored man Of
Ahfs country-Booker washington. He
had a white father, however, and his
brains and his character he has inner
TIED from that father"
Senator Tilln:an then told his audi
eAce OF the attacks On white women
by negroes in the South and declared