New-York tribune., 1906-11-28
FAIL TO STOP TILLMAN.
NEGROES LOSE FIGHT.
Senator Speaks Violently in Chicago
Is Carefully Guarded.

! Chicago, Nov. 27-The efforts Of the Negro
| citizens of Chicago to prevent Senator Tillrnan
from delivering an address here tonight in Or
chestra Hall unsuccessful When the Sem
ator arrived in Chicago early IN the afternoon he
! was told Of threatened injunction proceedings to
| prevent him from appearing on the platform and
| or money consideration that had been offered
! II ne would cancel his engagement. but Mr.. TIL
man expressed scorn for both.
Until he leaves town for Fond du Lac, Wis,
| tomorrow Senator Tman will be guarded by
! police and private detectives. This is IN accord
| ance with an order issued by Mayor Edward F.
| Dunno, who scheduled to preside at to-
nights meeting but who refused to have any
| thing to do with the affair after committee of
Negro citizens had visited him.
! Senator Tillman gave his address protected
| by forty detectives. In anticipation of trouble
a number OF policemen We're kept at nearby
stations in reserve but they were not called for.
| Six Negro policemen mingled with the crowd
which blocked the street In front of the hail.
In the audience many Negroes. but they
listened to Senator Tillrnans remarks good
naturedly and. although he interrupted
many times. the meeting ended without trouble.
TAKES UP NEGRO QUESTION.
In leading up to his address. Shall the United
States Annex Cuba?' Mr.. Tillman took occasion
to oriticise Mayor Dunne's action in refusing to
preside at the meeting.
IT have been told that have been snubbed
by the Mayor of this city, said the Senator.
II did not ask Mayor Dunno to be here tonight.
II any one has been snubbed 1t is the gracious
women who planned this meeting to secure
money for the Chicago Union Hospital and who
| requested Mayor Dunno, the creature of a po-
litical hour. to come forward and add his mite"
II have been advertised to discuss the annexa-
ton Of Cuba continued Mr.. Tillrnan. but in
AT 7 not
subject without discussing the race question, I
am going to 90 at the matter hammer and tongs
therefore shall discuss the race problem pure
and simple from an American standpoint, and
not from a Cuban standpoint. Owing to my
per1ence with the question and the diligent study
have made Of It, believe I am better qualified
to discuss this question than any other man in
America"
While discussing the Fifteenth Amendment TO
the Constitution which he declared gave the
Negro every right that white had, he
! interrupted several times by one of his listen
ers. who kept asking. How about Kentucky?'
Finally Mr.. Tillman 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 be-
fore the law which the Fifteenth Amendment
guarantees is right and should be enforced. not
withstanding its result. If this law
forced 1t would result In two states at least
being dominated absolutely by Negroes, while
four other states would be so near being gov
erned by the Negro that there would practically
be equal division OF Offices
TO H WITH SUCH LAWsr'
Some called out: How about the law?"
THE law%' Senator Tilman replied. 'to h
with such aTs,"
After telling in detail how the Negro is pre-
vented from casting his ballot in the South
Senator Tillman said:
There is a great deal more TO this question
than little racket here in Chicago"
How about the Negro judge?' asked.
Il will tell you about your Negro judge" the
Senator replied, land about your political
chimes putting him on your ticket and bam-
boozling those poor. ignorant balloons into elect
ing him, and then afterward you fellows who
voted the ticket without knowing what was on
It find way to cheat him out Of it,
mo matter what the people in the North may
say or do the white race in the South will never
be dominated by the Negro and 1 want to tell
you that if some state should ever make
an attempt to save South Carolina we will show
them in their fanatiCism that we Will make II
red before make 1t black.
God Almighty made the Caucasian of better
clay than the Mongolian the African or any
other race. The Ethiopian is burden carrier.
He has done absolutely nothing for history, nor
has he ever achieved anything of any great
Importance There no great men among the
race. Yet this people has been picked out by
the fanatics of the North and lifted up 10 the
equality of citizenship and to the rights of suf-
frage No doubt many Of you have listened to
the oratory of the greatest colored man Of this
country-Booker Washington. He had a white
father, however. and his brains and his charac-
ter he has inherited from that father.
Senator Tillman then told his audience of the
attacks on white women by Negroes in the
South, and declared that the people of the North
were in a great mesure responsible for this state
of affairs.
Now, as a general illustration of the injustice
that is sometimes DONE Senator Tillman said
in closing. President Roosevelt discharged
three companies of Negro soldiers without
court martial, and in doing this he punished in
nocent men for the crime of few. In doing
this he transcribed the authority Of the law,
and he ought not to have done it."
During Mr. Tillman's speech Negro and a
Russian were arrested for creating a disturb
ance in the gallery.
TWO DIE IN C4VE-IN.