The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-26


No Distinctions say That Gun VIII
settle the Voting Question In the South.
SOUTH HAVEN. Mich. Nov. 25.-After
having announced in Chicago yesterday
that he would not trim his speech there
Tuesday night next by cutting out the
negro question, Senator Tillman spoke
here last night. If his coming Chicago
talk is modelled after the one delivered
here there will be little but the race problem
in IL.
He started with an attack on the
negro race in the South and kept il up for
an hour and a half. incidentally taking
the Republican party to task for being
responsible in a measure for the race ques-
ton. He predicted a bloody war as the
natural outcome OF race. prejudice and
asserted that white women in the South
dared not cave their homes without escort.
He said that the white race of the South
holds women higher than the whites of the
North do. He informed his hearers that
he has no set speech on the race subject,
but could talk from one to five hours on
the question and still lave something to
relate. He said in part:
Il tell the truth and l despise a 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 hat almost all Of them are by
nature liars, and all will steal.
The younger generation Of negroes
are being taught that they are equal to the
white man." he said, "and are at this time
e~ndeavoring to get these rights. led by
Booker 7. Washington. a halfbreed. who
is seeking a political position.
The farmers wives OF the Southerners
are prisoners, Tor II Is not safe for them
to cave the house alone for fear of negro
intrusion. We have in Carolina exhausted
all remedies. We have gone the limit; il
we could have gone further we would have
forbidden any man voting except he be
white.
Il expect a struggle, for never again
will the niger govern the South. and | hope
the North will heed the warning and rea-
lie the danger and by abolishing the Fiji
teenth Amendment help us.
A the same time | doub if the North
will do this, as ! realize it will be a confess
sion of guilt. We will resort to the shot
gun, which is the best instrument / nave
yer seen to make a Negro stay in the road.
History has no record where the negro
ruled and Carolina will not be first to start
it.. The situation is grave and calls for
wisdom and all manner of craftsmanship.
II we had our say the negro could never
vote.
Il believe that God made the white man
out Of better clay than that which the negro
was made from, and as long as the whites
have made the progress they have in the
thousands of years we don't need another
race to help us at this time.
-In many States of the South the negro
holds the vote OF control. In West Virginia
the wealthy mine holders have imported
enough negro lei TO give a Republican
majority, while in Delaware Gas Addicks
has lone the M In Chicago the Repub-
licans needed the negro vote to elect their
whole ticket, 80 a niger was nominated
for Judge and elected and then they counted
him out.
an South Carolina the Republicans are
rotten. Those who go to national conven-
well heeled with money. while post office
positions are sold, and the State is as bad
as a province in Russia.
"Republicanism means negro equality,
while the Democratic party means that
the white man is supreme. That is why
We Southarners are all Democrats. We
hat the low white men Of the South
do marry ne gro women, but l am unable
to trace a ~parentage to a single white woman
and ne gro man.
Il advocate a passport and police system
80 we NAV keep track OF these animals.
They are like wild beasts and attack
helpless women, commit an act of violence
and then flee.
"Lyncn law Is all we nave Ie1J. 1 90 not
believe in slavery and could | with a stroke
OF a pen get back the slaves taken from
my mothers farm l would not do it.
~You want equality, but you will not put
with il. Why then do you thrust it down
our throat. We have had four race prob
First, the Ihdians; second, the
Chinese; third, the Malays, and fourth,
the negro. We have disposed Of the first
three to the entire country's eatisfaction.
Now, why not the last? The Southern
are as good as you he rne RS,
and in many things are better, and one
of these higher things is that we value a
woman higher h you The question Of
voting in the South will in the long run
be settled with the shotgun"
Senator Tillman left this morning for
Wisconsin.
CHICAGO, Nov. 25.-Mayor Dunno will
not preside at the lectu re for the benefit of
the Chicago Union Hospital, which will be
delivered by Senator Tillman on Tuesday
night. He addressed a letter to-day to
Mrs. A. j. Keller, chairman Of the COM
Of arrangements, reconsidering his
of the invitation to preside.
His reconsideration is brought about by
the utterances of Senator Tillman at South
Haven last night.
A d%eputation Of Chicago negroes called
upon Mayor Dunno this afternoon and re-
~ G---G~ Eli /