Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-12
Characterizes Brownsville Incl
dent as Nothing More Nor
Less Than Lynching
ALSO SCORES SENATOR FORAKER
TiIIman Declares Ohio Senator Be.
Titled Himself by Attacking Major
BIocksom as Man Whose Father Was
copperhead, and Makes Prediction
of Race Conflict in the Near Future.

lOll, Jdll. ID Hts
ment that Senator Tillman would speak
today on the race question in connec-
ton with the proposed investigation of
Brownsville affairs, had the effect of
attracting to the capitol an exception
crowd there were an unusual number
of negroes.
Tillman prefaced his discussion on
the question with the Characterization
that it resembled a case in court and
that certain enlisted men of the
Twenty-fifth regiment We're under
Indictment" He said that the pres
ident of the United States is prosecu
tor as well as executioner. The array
of counsel for defense and prosecution
is not yet complete. So far as their
names have appeared on the record
there is an element of incongruity and
the ridiculous. For instance, as at
torneys aiding the prosecution we have
the distinguished senator from Texas
(Culberson), a democrat, the distin-
guished senator from Massachusetts
Godge) a republican, the distinguished
senator from Virginia (DanieD, a dem
ocrat
"And for the defense, IL it shall be so
considered, when I get thru, / will be
put in the record as aiding the dis
tinguished senator from Ohio (For-
aker). OF course, being nothing more
than cornfield lawyer, my contribu-
tion to the legal discussion of the ques-
ton will be very limited; probably
comparatively worthless. My COL
league and brother attorney (Foraker)
himself realizes that so far as legal
assistance will go he will get little or
no aid from me. Thus far | do not
think he needs any. But the ridicu-
lousness of the situation is again ap-
parent when one considers the sena-
tor from the north, who, by reason of
his radical and aggressive utterances
and probably his actions in the past,
once gave him the name of Fire
Alarm The senator finds himself
aligned with that senator from the
south (Tillman, himself), who is us
ually supposed to have broiled negro
for breakfast; who is known to justify
lynching for rape, and whose attitude,
if not that of hatred to the negro, is
feeling akin to it, in the belief that
white men are made of better clay,
that white men alone are entitled to
participate in the government, and SO
this alliance is an odd one"
Blames Roosevelt For It.
Declaring that Roosevelt was more,
responsible "than any other man."
Tillman read from the order issued by
the war department in February last.
signed by the president, as follows:
"The uniform of the enlisted man is
his badge of honor 1t entities him to
a peculiar consideration. 1t shows in
the great majority Of cases that he /,
learned those habits Of self-command,
self-restraint, obedience and fearless
ness in the face of danger, which put
him above most of his fellows who
have not possessed similar privileges
To strive to discriminate against him
in any way is literally infamy; for it
is in reality one of the most serious Of
fenses which can be committed against
the stability and greatness Of our ma
tion.'
That's the milk in the cocoanut,"
CALCULATED Tillman, who said it was
this sort of stuff" that put into the
head of the negro soldier that he is en-
titled to demand social equality. At
this point, Tillman was interrupted for
the first time, Nelson saying:
would you deny those privileges to
the white soldiers?'
II will go as far as any many in Civ
ing the white men, either soldiers or
their rights" answered Till
man.
"Why should not the colored soldier,
if he conducts himself as white SOL
dier, have the same consideration 2"
persisted Nelson.
For the simple reason. that God AL
mighty made him colored, and he did
not make him white" retorted Till
man, who added that caste feeling was
and that it pulsated even in
the bosom of the senator from Mime
sofa.
Washington, Jam 12-Senator Till
man spoke on the Brownsville Incl
dent in the senate today. He char
acterized the presidents action in the
matter "as nothing more nor less than
lynching." He challenged anyone to
produce in the army regulations or ar
Licles of war, any foundation for the.
charge of conspiracy of silence, mutiny,