The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-13


not allowed to drink at all the bars in
Washington, as you all know he said.
The last three words were given spe-
cial emphasis, and the senator waved his
hand to include the whole Senate. It had
simply been his object he said to point
out that the people of the south were on
the crest of a valcano and confronted
with situation of which people of the
north had no conception. AS to the
Brownsville matter, he stood on the
proposition that the innocent ought not to
be punished because there was some
guilty, 'and I think the President has
made some very grave blunders in deal
ing with this subject"
Senator Patterson followed Mr.. Till
man, announcing his belief that the Pres
ident had the legal right to take the ac-
tion he had, but he believed the wisdom
or propriety of that action might be open
to question.
The Senate in the next session. he said,
would have but two democratic senators
from the north. and it was his belief that
a short time in the future would see
the political dividing line completely
drawn between the north and the south.
1t was such speeches as had just been
delivered, he maintained, which would
hasten this condition. Mr. Tillman, he
said. was not alone in advocacy of re-
pealing the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
amendments.
Peonage, Says Patterson.
Governor Vardaman of Mississippi and
Hoke Smith, soon to be governor, if he
is not already governor, of Georgia, had
made the same declarations, and there
was rapidly being organized a sentiment
toward uniting the people of the north
and the south in the repeal of these con-
stitutional privileges, and which would
result in practical return to the peonage
for the negro.
Ascertaining that Mr.. Patterson had
never been in the "Black Belt" in Ala
bama or Mississippi, Mr.. Tillman sug-
gested that it might be well for him to
go down there land learn something"
when Mr.. Patterson exclaimed that his
purpose was to correctly state the posi-
tion of the northern democrat as opposed
to the radicalism expressed by Mr.. Till
man, who CALCULATED even II there should
never be another democrat elected from
the north, the people Of the south will
stand for white supremacy
This sentiment brought applause from
the galleries. Mr.. Patterson maintained
that the disfranchisement of the negro
simply meant a return to peonage.
But again interrupted Mr.. Tillman,
''the senator wants us Of the south to
live, but to lift ourselves over the fence
without boot straps. We could not do
could"
Mr.. Patterson continued, insisting in his
belief that only a very small minority of
the people of the south were in sympathy
with the views expressed; that the better
element was decidly against such methods,
and he did not believe the people of the
north were getting correct idea of the
real situation.
Mr.. Tlllman took this reference to ap.
ply to himself and asserted that he had
spoken to hundred thousand northerners
in his lectures and that he had received
applause and appreciation.
Hot ReJoinder.
Mr.. Patterson said he only wished to
point out that both the people of the
south and the democrats of the north had
to bear the odum and burden such ut
terances entailed. This drew a hot re-
tort from Mr.. Tillman.
80 far" he said ''as my own party
is concerned in the north, 1t Is such
shining example of ward politics. dirty.
low creatures who use every tactic and