Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-01-13

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the distinguished senator from Texas
lculbersop3 q demoerat; ths dis
tinguished senator from Massa-
chusetts (Lodge), republican; the dis.
ltinguished senator from Virginia
(Daniels), democrat. And for de-
tense, if it shall be SO considered,
when get through / will be put on
record as aiding the distinguished
senator from Ohio Foraker). OF
course, being nothing more than a
cornfield lawyer, my contribution to-
the legal discussion Of the question
will be very limited, probably com
paratively worthless. MY colleague
and brother attorney (Foraker) him
self realizes that so far as the legal
assistance will so he will get little or
no aid from me and thus far / do not
think he needs any.
But the Righteousness of the stu,
alton is again apparent when. one con
siders that the senator from the
north, who, by reason of his radical
and aggressive utterances and public
/ actions in the past, acquired the name
i of fire ALARM finds himself aligned
with that senator from the south
i lTfllman himself) who is usually sup
! posed to have broiled negro for break
fast, (Laughter) who is known to
! justify lynching for rape and whose
/ attitude if not that of hatred to the
negro is a feeling akin to it, in the
belief that white men are made of
better clay, and that white men alone
are entitled to participate in the gov
eminent, and SO this alliance is
rather odd"
| Declaring that President Roosevelt
| was more responsible than any other
man, Mr.. Tillman read from order
No. 80, issued by the war department
February 10, and signed by the presi-
4 dent, as follows: ~. ..s,-.,. s..zs'a,. -.
"The uniform Of an enlisted man
is a badge of honor 1t is intended
to secure for him peculiar considera-
ton; it shows that in a great ma
! jority of cases he has learned those
habits of self command, of self. re
straint, of obedience and of fearless
ness in the face of danger, which put
him above most of his fellows who
have not possessed similar privileges
To strive to discriminate against hin,
! in any way is literally infamy, for ii
4 is in; reality one of the most serious
Eoffenses which can be committed
against the stability and greatness OF
our nation <i,..s -. Il. q
That is the milk in the cocoanut,'
iejaculated Mr.. Tillman, who said il
Iwassthis sort of stuff that put into the
i headrof the negro soldier that he was
| entitled to demand social equality.
4 AT this point Mr.. Tillman was inter.
i rupted for the first time, Senator
Nelson asking: ..+
y" Would you deny those privileges
| to white soldiers?" 5..-',
/ ST will go as far as any man in
giving white men, either soldiers OF
/ citizens, their rights" answered Mr..
Tillman. .-5...",- +.,'
chn ,,1I h. cn1
der, if he conducts himself as a
white soldier have the same consider
ation?''' persisted Mr.. Nelson.
For the simple reason that God
Almighty made him colored and He
did not make him white retorted
Mr. Tillman, who added that caste
feeling was universal. that it pull
stated even in the bosom of the sena-
! tor from ota-Nelson. ~.s
Following a colloquy with Senator
| Culberson on his position as to the
presidents authority under the arti-
/ Giles of war to discharge soldiers, Mr..
| TilIman remarked that none OF the
4 Negroes discharged would return to
Texas. e One of them" he continued,
j." that famous sergeant, Mingo San
dos, comes from South Carolina. l
4 would like to meet Mingo and shake
his hand. But he is not going back
to South Carolina and let me know
that he is coming lr-s 81.
=" Why not?" interjected Senator
Foraker.
f" Because Of a suspicion that might
! prevail as to who really did the kill