The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-22
LONDON IS ASTOUNDED AT AFFRONT OFFERED 1
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nature and we would hunt him down and kin him just as soon as possible What shall we do with a man who has outbruted the brute ana committed an
 Try himi Drag the victim Into court, for she alone can furnish legal evidence, and make her testify to the fearful ordeal through which she has passed, undergoing second cruel fixion? That Is what the Senator from Wisconsin says he would do, and he Is welcome to afl of the honor he can get out of 1t. Our rule IS to make the woman witness, prosecutor. judge and jury. I have known Judge Lynch's court to sit for week while suspect after suspect had been run down and arrested. and in every instance they were brought into the presence of the victim and when she said: That Is not the man. he was set free;. but when she declared the guilty wretch. 1t was enough, and until the white men of the South shall change their natures and become degenerate. 1t will continue to be enough.
 Scorn Such Creatures.
 The Senators from Wisconsin and Colorado may rave; the newspapers may howl. but men who were reared by virtuous mothers and who revere womanly virtue as the most priceless jewel of their civilization will do as we of the South have done. On this question l take back nothing and apologize for nothing. spurn and scorn the charlatanry and cant, the hy- pocrisy ana cowardlce. the insolence and effrontry of all such creatures"
 Concluding with the explanation of hts position on the Brownsville affair." Mir. Tillman said:
 T find myself on this question for the first time since l have been member of this body. holding different views and taking a different position to my Democratic colleagues. l have no fault to find with them. nor do criticize their action. No one under stands the attitude of the South on the negro question better than do. especially in regard to the negro sol- diers. They were auartered In 1865 and 1866 in nearly every Southern Commonwealth and were guilty of some most horrible acts of oppression and cruelty. I fully expected that the people of my own State and of the oth- CT Southern States. would commend the Presidents action fin discharging the battalion of the 25th Infantry.
 Should Be No Negro Troops.
 '"They do not believe there should be any negro soldiers in the army at all and they would welcome the repeal of the law which provides for their enlistment. They have not paused to analyxe the Presidents action. I knew that my attitude would displease my constituents. It would have been easy for mo to have kept quiet but belIev- ing as I do that a great wrong has been done the innocent negro and that the President had again exhibited a willingness to override law aud usurp authority, have in my feeble way tried to show why joined his critics.
 @Mr. Roosevelt has already rescinded one part of his order and warn my fellow Senators on this side that they need not be surprised to find him a lit- tie later on modifying or changing his attitude in essential particulars on this question. I am prepared for anything he may do and shall be surprised at nothing for since his somersault on the court review feature of the rate bill and his surrender upon question of far more vital importance than this. he will be only too glad to seize the first opportunity to p1acate the negro and resume his place as their idol
 "I am charged with being unable to see anything good in Theodore Roose- welt and being a monomaniac in my personal hatred of him. I beg to re- mind Senators that when we were ADOuI 10 nave U VOIe OH tu0 IatC OAll gave him all the credit for having com pelled any railroad legislation and as being entitled to gratitude for what ever benefits might arise from 1t. may be narrow and preJudiced but try to be just and when I criticized him about Indianola. about usurpation in Panama about his San Domingo policy, about his conduct in the Minor Morris case I felt Justified and while I may get no credit for sincerity of convic- ton fin this Brownsville matter. l plant myself on the bedrock principle that the innocent should not be pun ished for the sins of the Eu'lty ana that men should be presumed to be in- nocent until they are proven guilty"
 Senator TIllman concluded at S;2l p. m when Senator Spooner arose to re- ply. ., ,Sa conclusion of the morning busi- rsss tn reply to the recent criticism of himself by Senator Spooner'
 Fire Alarm Foraker.
 As a prelude to this he paid his to Senators who had spo- ken on the Brownsville incident. ne said the press had denominated him inc burnt cork artist of the Senate. and he added If he were "entitled to thia aupelIation on that of 'Pitchfork Rem at one end of the minstrel line, certainly Fire Alarm Joe (Senator ought not to be Ignored at
 we both do the orlando and Flu rIoso act admirably" he said.
 Senator Culberson was designated as a solo on the "bones" in pralse of the president; Senator Daniel was called the brilliant and courtly Senator from Virginia" whose special tv Is oratory md who works his rhet- [ ic overtime.
 Next" said Mir. Tillman. we have the dying swan. Smiling Tom of Col orado, the State recently bought at auction by one Guggenheim and the svan song Is a dirge for the dying Democracy of the North. stabbed in It's vitals by Ben's pitchfork. His act js A very pathetic one indeed, and al- ways brings tears Into the eyes of the audience
 Next we have the redoubted Ten nesseean who was once Q knight very -hot-spur in the lists whose spear has rung true and clear on the visor of the usurper at the White House, and who has made the sparks fly in many an onset: but his spearhead Is broken off; he has been anhorsed, but before retlrfng from the lists, he seizes sarland of flowers and placing 1t on lis headless weapon (now alas no lon- ger of any use) he lays 1t at the feet of the victorious Roosevelt aS a peace and joins the minstrels to sing a last song to the victor of who whistles Democrats 4o come to the White House and lick