Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-05-24
SENATOR TILLMAN
sUPT. vlGNEss FoRclBiY Ex-
PRESSES HIS VIEWS ON THE
RECENT LECTURE

THESE VIEWS ARE ALSO THOSE
OF a LARGE NUMBER OF PEG
4. PIE HERE
Editor Tribune: Senator Tillman,
orator statesman and politician
of South Carolina, has addressed a
Bismarck audience ON the Race
Problem from Southern Point of
View The writer being a member
of the audience thus had an oppor-
tunity to hear and '..size up" Senator
Tillman. He was told some time ago
by a party in the city that illman
certainly is great and having heard
and read considerably about this man
he felt considerable curiosity to see
and hear him at close range. When
the hour came he therefore took his
position in the front row of seats in
order not to miss q single word COM
ing from this mans lips. He has been
puzzled ever since as to what the
Bismarck citizen really meant when
he said Gilman was great" He sat
patiently enduring for nearly three
hours TRADE which so far as. sub
stance is concerned ought not to re-
quire more than fifteen minutes. Five.
minutes was sufficient to size up"
the man.
No doubt many came expecting to-
see and hear a typical southern gen.
tleman endowed with the fiowery
eloquence characteristic of the south.
The writer came prepared to hear
eloquence of the razor-like sort,
keen edged and satirical, but was.
disapp pointed.
The lecture showed that Tillman
does not possess a southern gentle
mans refinement and polish. He is
uncouth in dress, bearing and
gestures. He is not an orator but
man surcharged with violent ex-
/ plosives. He is ignorant, narrow.
/ minded, prejudiced and filled to over
flowing with hatred for the colored
people. He showed himself to be a
! man almost without educational train
i ing There was no logic, no broad
. ness Of mind, no charity. Hatred is
the motive power behind this man.
He stands for social inequality Of
i the races based upon the theory Of
cast-the Causasian race being the
superior. The writer concurs in this.
Il But in order to maintain this in
4 equality Tillman advocates lynching
and indiscriminate slaughter of the
4 negro and the stuffing Of ballot boxes.
Y. Just think Of this man boastfully
4 Dragging to a northern audience that
4 he had at one time assisted in killing
3 seven "niggers' and at another time
4 between $50 and 100! No compunc-
q tions, not a word Of sympathy. Till.
man stands before us as nothing bet
q ter than q savage brute. He is the
embodiment OF ballot box stufing,
& lynch law and anarchy.
shall not devote any more time to
Tillman. have been in the south on
!. two occasions. I have there met and
talked with few intelligent people
q and have personally seen the condi-
tions as they are. The race problem
4 is serious one. The fifteenth amend
ment to our constitution was prema
y ture and is so to this date. The neg.o
as IA rule is shiftless and does not
{ accumulate property. A dual system
{ of schools is an absolute necessity.
The same educatio nal qualifications
4 for teaching are required both in the
4 white and the colored schools and the
same wages are paid. The white man
must bear the greatest part Of the
burdens OF maintaining this dual
8 school system. This is an allustra.
( ton Of the actual conditions. Social
Equality is out Of the question.
1t seems that Booker T. Washington
q tof whose ancestry MI. Tillman
knows more than Washington himselD
is doing q great work in his wonder
full institution at Tuskegee by edncat
ing the negro to occupations in the in
b dustrial world. Mr.. Tillman sneers
4 AT fI1is rnan--in fact hisses at him
like snake, but the fact still stands
!, that the Hampton Institute and
Tuskegee and similar institutions are
doing wonders in lifting the Negro
from the gutter in which he was LEFT
!. by his owner at the time Of his
emancipation from slavery. The solu
tion of the negro problem must coms
through extending to the negro help
ing hand through industrial education
Teach him to work that is the secret