The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1907-01-12
THE FREEMAN TAKES ANOTHER
SHOT AT BENJAMIN r. TILL
MAN.

Chicago had a taste of Tillmanism
that will last it a lifetime, and the Win
dy City wants no more of him. We
do not believe that even Mrs. Adele
Keller, who, out of a sense of pride,
maintained a stiff upper lip to the last
for the South Carolinioan's appearance,
would go through such nerve-racking
siege for the sake of maintaining her
"Anglo-Saxon independence of Negro
domination" Her assertion that IF
the committee backed down at the de-
mand of the Negroes the blacks would
become so arrogant that the white peo-
pie would not be able to stay in Chi
cago,' was the veriest rot, and wholly
unbecoming in one who claimed to b.
the daughter of a soldier who fought
to free the slaves" She has heard her
Tillman, and We sincerely hope she got
enough of his blackguardism and low
billingsgate, that neither instructs noz
amuses. The country at large has taken
his measure long ago, and it is a no.
torious fact that he is not welcome in
the homes OF the refined members OF
the Senate in Washington; he has no
serious standing as a law-maker among
his colleagues at the capitol, and even
the Democrats pay no attention to any,
thing he may have to say on the floor
of the Senate or anywhere else, for he
invariably allows his beastly temper to
get the better of his judgment and
makes sorry mess of all he under
takes. The Louisville Courier Journal.
which represents the decency and aris-
tocratic instinct in the Democratic par
ty spews him out as an unclean thing
and a menace to the reputation of the
party in the eyes of right-thinking Am
orleans. 1t is well known that he was
a positive burden to the party manag-
ers in the Northern states all through
the last campaign, and lost votes for
Parker wherever the liberal element
abided in any considerable numbers. Not
a few Democratic chairmen actually re-
fused to let him speak in their coun-
ties. They knew the demoralizing eff
feet of Tillmanism upon the respectable
voters, white and black.
Mayor Dunno showed good sense
and a rightful conception of his high
Office in declining to lend himself to the
Tillman propaganda, although it was
thinly disguised under the mantle of
charity. As conserver of law and or
der, he could not have sat silently BY
and permitted even so distinguished
parsonage as United States Senator
God save the mark!-to yell out, like
a barroom tout, ITO he'll with the law!"
The demonstration made by the Col.
ored people did them proud. Their
protest was dignifed and orderly; at no
time did it approach the mob deadline.
They exhausted the resources of the
law-and abided by the result. Tha.
the authorities were frightened at the
possible consequences was amply attest
ed by the extraordinary precautions to
avoid an outbreak, and by the impregn-
able guard they placed around the
speaker. 1t is safe guess that Till
man will not be invited to Chicago
again for many moons, and it is doubt
full if he can secure an engagement I'M
der reputable auspices anywhere, for no
charity or educational institution cares
to have an orator on their hands who
is so distasteful to any large element
of the population that it is necessary to
surround him as though he were the
Gar of Russia travelling through a
hostile section of his empire.
The Negroes of Chicago have scotch
ed TiIlmanism, if they have not killed
it-and that is something.-The Free
man, indianapolis, Ind, Jan. S, o..