The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-01-03
"TEDDY MAKES A MESS
Every Time II. Touches the Negro,
Says TiIIman-Snator Expire. 2es
Himself Terse'y in Lectures.

Roosevelt does not know anything
about the negro, and every time he
touches him he makes a mess Of it.
He had no business discnarging the
negro troops at Brownsville before
making careful investigation.
doubt very much whether or not he
is vested with the authority to take
! such matters in MS own hands any
way"
Thus spoke Senator Benjamin R.
Tillman, of South Caroline, as he STEP
ped from a Louisville and Nashville
train in Birmingham, Ala, Saturday
afternoon.
Senator Tillman addressed a large
Birmingham audience at the theater
Saturday night, which enthusiasrical-
ly cneered the vigorous sentiments he
expressed. The senator talked on the
regro question: largely, and said that
the white man owed all his good quail
tiles to the women of the race.
The negroes bave not the women
possessing qualities which will make
them high-rninded, and this has teen
their greatest drawback.
Speaking of lynching, which he said
would continue as long as the
crime of rape continued, the senator
exclaimed:
with the oath on MY lips to up
hold the law c5oulG lead mob any
tinue to lynch man, black Or white,
who had ravished a woman"
Thursday night Senator Tiliman de-
liyered his lecture, The Race Ques-
ton in the South" in the court room
at Tiftoa, Ga.
The audience was large one, made
IN of the best people Of the city. MI.
Tillman prehxed his address with a
remark that he Lad been Intentionally
and otherwise so persistcitly nlsquot'
ed end misrepresented that ne was
always pleased to COME before new
audience and let them zee what sort
of an animal he was. He then called
attention to the fact that negroes out
numbered whites in South Carolina
and Mississippi and Li.at III several
! other states the whites scarcely equal
led the negro numerically.
He sounded note of warning
against social equality and amalgama-
ton. and declared That all the long
nosed Yankees between Cape Cod and
hell would never be able to saddle
negro rule upon the south; that the
grandparents OF The present people
Of the north had traded rum and glass
beads for negro slaves and had then
bartered them to our grandparents,
and that, 80 far as the original
question of slavery was concerned,
they were as deep in tie mud as we
are in the mire.
/ He paid a high tribute to southern
wcmanhood and declared that it stood
as the cre great bar 10 racial ANAL
gamtion. the enc strong defence and
protection against 'glnger'cake
race"
Taking up the history of Rome, ne
declared that the dark Skinned deca-
dent Dago of today was the result OF
the mingling of the blood Of Roman
masters and negro slaves.
Senator Tillman paid his respects 10
the African race, tracing lis history
and commenting on the poverty Of It's
achievements. Declared that it was
designed by God as race OF Durden
bearers and unified by nature for any
other duty. Had 1 the absolute pow
er today said Senator Tillnlan, 10
frame such legislation az conditions
demand, | do not know that l would
be able to save this negro people from
final butchery-and I am not blood
thirsty either"
Mr.. Tillman says that he likes to
"sass" the Yankees and that they have
shown their appreciation OF his aD1ll-
ties as a truth teller, by engaging all
of his spare time during the coming
year.
Mir. Tillman stated that the present
system of educating the negro was a
farce; and that the only result OF 1t
was to make him a candidate Tor one
of the three P's-Politics, Preaching
or the Pelitentiary.
EXCHANGE UNDER FIRE.