The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-07-30
OHIO SENATOR JUsTIFiEs WAR
AMENDMENTS
SOUTH UNJUST TO BLACKS
He Ssys-And Further Declares that
Amendments Were Never In.
tended to Compel So
eisl Equality.

cent remarks on the race question by I
United States Senator Tillman OF
South Carolina before a similar Ohio |
gathering. brought an extended an.
swer by United States Senator For. .
aker of Ohio In an address to the |
Chautauqua assembly at this point /
today.
In part Senator Foraker said I
Before taking up anything else | /
want 20 speak briefly In answer to I
some utterances Of Senator Tillman /
He has been making speech In
Ohio II was on the race problem. .
This Is his favorite topic. He is Al
his best when he talks on that sub /.
iect. but his best Is also his worst. F.
He Is one Of the frankest and one
of the ablest men the South has ever
produced Every one is fond Of him
as man. but his views on this sub
ject are so extreme that but few OF
his democratic colleagues in the sen.
ate II any Of them, fully agree with
HIM.
"In this latest speech he is quoted
as saying: II after the war the
North had not I'm It's passion and
sectional hatred gone far beyond the
bounds of reason. decehcy and right
eousness. there would today be no
race problem.
1--WE resent and resist the doc
trinc Of equality under the four.
teenth and fifteenth amendments
"'You have done wrong. The
North has done wrong. II can rem.
edy the feeling. by repeating the
fifteenth amendment and letting the
states control the franchise
IAN the way through his discus
sion is in the nature of protest
against social equality. Nothing
could be more wide of the mark
Everybody understood then as now,
that social equality cannot be forced
upon anybody. The purpose of the
fourteenth and fifteenth amendments
was not TO provide social equality.
hut to put all citizens in the United
States whether rich or poor white
or black. upon the same plane as far
as the rights of citizenship were con-
ccrned
What ! want to answer Is his
charge that in hatred and passion the
fourteenth and fifteenth amendments
to the constitution were forced upon
the South and that in this way the
| North needlessly precipitated upon
the South the evils they suffered dur
ing the recon struction period These
amendments, II not fully demanded
by the war itself, were made nee.
essary by the situation created by
the seeding states Immediately after
the war"
senator Foraker discussed condi
tions AT the close of the civil war ~
considerable length and then contin.
ucd
IF they had accepted the four.
toenth amendment there would no.
have been any fifteenth amendment.
for with the fourteenth amendment
accepted and all the seeding states
restored 20 their places In the gov.
crnment the ratification OF the NJ.
teonth amendment by the requisite /.
number OF states would have been
an impossihility. II. therefore. there /.
be any fault TO find with anybody on
account of the fifteenth amendment .
II rests with these seeding states.
for they by their refusal to accept .
the fourteenth amendment. not only
compelled reconstruction. but prccipi.
tated a submission and ratification ~
the fifteenth amendment
They acccnmated all this by
their treatment OF the black man. II
would be- difficult 10 exaggerate m,
unfriondly character OF the legi ala.
tion affecting them that was enacted
before the war In most OF the seced-
ing states II Is no exaggeration 90
say that the spirit OF this legislation
was not Justice bur Injustice. and
that OF the most malicious and re-.
Vongcful character This kind Of leg. I
islatiou, coupled with refusal to ac.
cept what We're thought "a be the
generous terms OF the fourteenth
amendment naturally created a pub.
lie opinion in the North that secured i
the ratification Of the fourteenth !
amendment and led TO the ffteenth L
amendment, by which It Is provided p
that no state should have the right 5
to deny or abridge the right to vote q
on account OF race. color or previous l
OF servitude. There was