Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-05
ON NEGROES
SOUTH CAROLINA SENATOR
AGAIN DECLARES HIMSELF.
It is a Burning Question and Must
Be Decided Sooner or Later,
He States.

SALISBURY, Md, January 5.-In char
acteristic speech Senator enjamin r. Till
man of South Carolina made another at
tack on the negro this evening in the opera
house in Salisbury There was not negro
in the large audience of more than 500 per-
sons. and from the applause which greeted
the hot language of the speaker 1t seemed
that the audience was in sympathy with
the senator.
The senator compared the negro to the
baboon. He called him 1.-The missing link"
and finally declared he saw serious trouble
and bloodshed ahead in the south as re-
suit of the negro question, which, he de-
clared. was the most important thing con-
fronting the American people. AS senator
from South Carolina he declared no negro
was good a white man in his state
and that every white man in South Caro-
lima believed he was just as good as any
one who walked in shoe leather
The constant outrages upon white women
in the south, he declared. would ultimately
terminate with an immense amount of
bloodshed He said 1t was not the desire
but that the whites did not intend to allow
the negroes to butcher them.
Point of Equality.
When he touched upon the point of equal
ity the senator became most earnest. He
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the past to study conditions he certainly
could look ahead, and then he pictured
what might happen in a case of equality.
This he called mongrelIZation. He declared
the people would become a ginger-cake
color in the course of years. He concluded
by saying that I'VE want the world to
know that South Carolina will not be
mongrelized so long as there Is such a
thing as the state of South Carolina.
The lecture was given for the benent OF
the Eastern Shore College. which Is con-
Quoted by Mr. NJ. T. Skinner. There were
several other speakers on the program, but
naturally Senator Tillman was the feature
of the card. When he reached the peninsula
Hotel he found it's corridors filled with per-
sons who had come from all over the east
ern shore to listen to him. All expected 10
hear him talk about the negro. FROM the
offstart Mr. Tillman found his way INTO the
hearts of the audience and he held them
spellbound during the hour and halt he
spoke.
Mayor Charles E. Harper of Salisbury in
troduced the senator and called him an ora
tor of national repute who was well known
for his straightforward method OF telling
what he thought about things
Immediately there was a howl of approval
and after the applause had subsidized. MI
Tillman continued.
Cannot Be Ignored.
This question cannot be ignored and /
may be able to give you some facts that
will enable you to understand more about
the matter than you do now I realize,
however. that~I am south of the Mason
Dixon line and that the audience Is COM
posed of people who feel about the same
as l do about this matter. Why, 1 read in
one Of the Washington papers as l was
coming down here that the whites in Cuba
We're discussing the proposed plan of the
President for a general election in Cuba.
The whites, it was said, feared the blacks
would gain control of the island and that
property and other things of even more
Importance would be in danger. A few
weeks ago 1t was the japanese question,
and now 1t has gone to the courts to de-
eide whether or not California has the right
to manage its own schools or whether the
treaty with Japan overruled that right. The
race question will soon loom up and be the
most burning in the country, for it cannot
go much longer The people will be COM
PEELED to consider and determine what to do,
for the conditions will become so outra-
geous.
THE negro is learning to read and write
rapidly, however and it will only be mat
ter of twenty or thirty years when the
blacks will once more be in the majority
Then the people of Mississippi and South
Carolina will have to take away their
estates.
II have spoken of these things to north
ern people and find them the most generous
warm-hearted people possible when they
learn conditions. l have mingled with them,
and recently l was in Ohio, in the city of
Marion. There are few negroes there, and
the race question did not seem SO impor-
tant to the people until / asked them II
they would like a negro governor and
negro legislature. They yelled back MOI!
THE northern people growing up have no
hatred, but they vote the republican ticket"