Charlevoix county herald., 1906-12-08
EXCITING RACE
-''''''' PREJUDICE PREF
BOMBAsTEs FURIOSO TILlMAN
DELIVERS A TRADE ON
THE "NiGGER."
CHICAGO FEARED A RIOT
Audience Become Wild Over the lurid
Word Pictures and Picturesque Pro-
family.

Senator Tillman, of South Carolina,
addressed most frenzled appeal to
race prejudice to 5000 men and wo-
men in Chicago Tuesday night, paint
ing in terrifying perspective the spec
ter of black supremacy" and punch
ing hard and straight at everybody
and everything that has to do with the
colored race.
So hot was his talk that a riot
seemed imminent on several occasions
and once was narrowly averted.
Tillman waxed furious several times
over Interruptions from the few ne
groes present.
ITO HI with the law" he yelled,
while all but handful of his 5000 hist
eners cheered madly.
Shut your mouth" he shouted at
one man who asked question.
One time, when denouncing the pure
blooded Afro-Americans. man near
the front said. with laugh I'VE
haven't that kind of blacks here"
you HAVEN'T" rang out the shril!
voice of the senator. Look down that
aisle There's a niger as black as the
ace of spades"
The man pointed to by the senator
was a pronounced type of the negro.
The audience, angered at the inter-
ruptions that came from negro in
the gallery, made demonstration. 1t
bowled and yelled and demanded so
loudly that the disturber be put out
that the speaker could not proceed.
The demonstration continued fully
two minutes and two plain clothes po-
licemen who sat near the offender ar
rested the negro. Excitement was at
high pitch and 1t seemed likely that an
attempt would be made to do the in
terrupter bodily injury.
After telling in detail how the negro
is prevented from casting his ballot If
the south, Senator Tillman saidI
f"There Is a great deal more to this
question than the little racket here in
Chicago"
A voice: How about the negro
judge?" Chicago elected a negro to the
bench a few weeks ago, but he was
counted out.
Senator Tillman: well, will tell
you about your negro judges and about
your political machines putting him on
your ticket and bamboozling those
poor ignorant balloons in electing him.
and then afterwards you fellows who
voted the ticket without knowing what
was on 1t, find way to cheat him out
of it,
God Almighty made the Caucasian
of better clay than the Monaghan or
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 are no
great men among the race. Yet this
people has been picked out by the ia
natics of the north and lifted up to
the equality of citizenship and to the
rights of suffrage. No doubt many of
you have listened to the oratory OF the
greatest colored man of this country
Booker T. Washington. He had white
father, however, and his brains and
his character he has inherited from
that father"
In conclusion Senator Tillman said:
Now, as a general illustration of the
injustice that is sometimes done.
President Roosevelt discharged three
companies of colored soldiers without
a court-martial, and punished innocent
men for the crime of few In doing
that he transcribed the authoritv of
the law, and he ought not to have DONG
it."