Evening journal., 1907-08-29
TILLMAN SPEAKS
ABOUT THE RACES
Southern Senator Predicts
Serious Conflicts Between
Whites and COIOTel

Senator Benjamin r. Tnlman, Of South
Carolina, addressed more than two thous-
and persons at Brandywne Springs Park
yesterday afternoon On the race qu, s.
ton and for nearly two hours he he'd tho
rapt attention Of his audience. The repu-
tation Of the speaker as an orator preced-
ed him and as he stepped on the band
stand he was well received.
The speaker was introduced by Street
and Sewer Director John c. Gray a pleas
Ing feature of the affair was the presen-
tation TO Senator Tillman at the conclus on
Of his address by Mr.. Gray, in behalf of
the Democratic League Of an ebony god
mounted cane as token of the esteem
IN which the speaker ls held by the mem-
bers Of that organization. The league ox-
pected to entertain the Senator last even
ing but he was obliged 10 leave for New
York at o'clock.
There probably never was more plain
spoken orator ever heard in Wilmington.
Race Question Most important.
The speaker said that the greatest most
serious and threatening problem facing
the people to-day was the race question.
lie said the South had not been In a
war of rebellion but a war between S'ates.
1--WE did not rebel" said the speaker; 1--WE
simply withdrw from tho union because
of rights we thought belonged TO US. The
race question is more serious to-day than
In 1861 There are at present about l0Oo),OoO
negroes in the United States and in my
own State they are in the big majority
ssttff
would face the same conditions as in the
seventies when we had eight years of
such rule and enough to last US for eight
million years
He attributed the present race cond'-
tons TO politicians and said that the
negro held the balance Of power in a num-
Der Of states. including Delaware.
eve were compelled to dsfranch Sc
them" said Mr.. Tnlman, "at least as
many as we could and succeeded In tbs
direction TO the extent Of 1250OO votes
Under the present law in our state, a
voter must be able to read and write. or
pay taxes on $500 or be able to understand
one paragraph OF the Constitution of the
United States when read to him.
Sees Trouble Ahead.
"The negro question" said the speaker
'as a cancer knawing at our vitals and we
must get rid of it. There is a difference
of opinon as to whether education Is do
ing any good for the negro and many be-
liove It is not. The time is not far off
when the negroes and the whites will have
each other by the threats and one day we
will wake up TO hear OF terrible butcheries
in the South because Of the hatred ex-
listing between the two races.
south Carolina" he said, could prob
ably go TO Pennsylvania for help to a'd IN
the suppression OF the negro, but he
added. 1--WE don't need any help, ius Ike ?
your long lanky yankee noses out of our
affairs" He sad that there no longer ex-
listed any bitter feeling between the Nor b
and the South and there would be no
/ war again between the States on the
negro question. but that the matter wou'
one day be settled in conflict between the
two races.
"The fundamental error" said the
| speaker. 'is the belief that the negro Is
the equal Of the caucasian race. You
! have enough whites IN Delaware to in
sure good government, but with us in
South Carolina where the negro Is in the
majority, we are In a far different Pcs.
tion. You can't make a white man ou
OF a negro by sending him to scho !. be-
cause the race has not got the neral fibre
in It. All the brain and character Booker
r. Washington has, he inherited from b
white blood"
He concluded by saying that the negro
IL inferior TO the white man and cannot
undertake to share tho burden Of tn
white man without danger to the country
and the only way TO improve present con
ditons is to have the fifteenth amendment
repealed which gives equal franch 50
rights to whites and blacks alike ard
give each state the right to say who shal
and shall not vote.