The La Jara chronicle., 1906-11-30
TILLMAN'S TALK
PITCHES INTO THE NEGROES IN
CHICAGO SPEECH.
sEs PROFANE LANGUAGE
Is Guarded by Forty Detectives. But
Meeting Passes Off PeaeeabIy-
Goes at the Negro Problem With
Hammer and longs.

citizens of Chicago to prevent United
States Senator Benjamin R. Tillman
from delivering an address here Mon
day because of the position he has as
sumed toward the negro race. were
unsuccessful
Senator Tillman gave his address
protected by forty detectives in per-
sonal command of Assistant Chief of
Police Schuettler. In anticipation of
trouble a number of policemen were
kept in nearby stations in reserve, but
they were not called for. Six cfored
policemen mingled with the crowd of
blacks and whites that blocked the
street in front OF the hall, to arrest any
one who made a disturbance.
In the audience were many colored
people, but they listened to Senator
Tillman's remarks good naturedly and
although he was interrupted many
times by those who wished to ask
questions, the meeting passed of with
out trouble.
In leading up to his address, Shall
the United States Annex Cuba?" Mr..
Tillman took occasion to criticise
Mayor Dunne's action in refusing to
preside at the meeting.
II have been advertised to discuss
the annexation of Cuba" continued Mr..
Tillman, but in view of the fact that |
could not discuss this subject without
discussing the race question, l am go
ing to go at the matter hammer and
tongs, straightforward, like man
Therefore shall discuss the race prob
lem pure and simple from an American
standpoint and not from a Cuban stand
point. Owing to my experience with
the question and the diligent study l
have made of 1t, / believe I am better
qualified to discuss this question than
any other man in America. 1 am going
to base my appeal on facts-not on
theories
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 one of his lis
teners, who kept asking, How About
KentuclSy?"
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. forgot forty
years ago more than you ever knew"
You make up your minds that equal
ity before the law, which the fifteenth
.dliltHLlilltlll EudL duAtto Is I45ll anu
should be enforced Notwithstanding its
result If this law was enforced it
would result in two states at least be
ing dominated absolutely by negroes,
while four other states would be SO
near being governed by the negro that
there would practically be an equal
division of officers"
A voice: How about the law?"
Senator Tillman: THE law? To
hell with such law"
After telling in detail how the negro
is prevented from casting his ballot in
the South, Senator Tillman said:
There is n great deal more to this
question than the little racket here in
Chicago"
A voice: How about the negro
judge?" (referring to Judge Barnett
colore1, the only Republican nominee
for municipal court judge, defeated at
the recent election).
Senator Tillman-"Wcll, l will tell
you about your negro judge and your
political machines putting him on your
ticket and bamboozling the people and
ignorant balloons into electing him,
and when, 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 | want to tell you now
that if some state should ever make
an attempI to save South Carolina
we will show them in their fanaticism
that we will make it red before we
make 1t black.
God Almighty made the Caucasian
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
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 Washington. He had a white
father, however, and out of his brains
and his character he has gotten his
qualities from that father"
Senator Tillman then told his audi
ence of the attacks on white women by
negroes in the South and declared that
the people of the North were in a great
measure responsible LOT tnlS state OF al
fairs.
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 with
out court martial. and in doing this
he punished innocent men for the
crime of a few. In doing this he tran
scended the authority of the law, and
he ought not to have done it,
German War Balloon.