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The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1907-01-09
Auditor Has His Way.

There amt a black one 10 the
whole push" shouted man in the
audience.
"Where?" inquired the speaker.
''In this audience" was the reply,
"There Is one over yonder as black
as the ace Of spades, 'said the senator.
IL am glad i see two, one genuine
negro and the other aquadroon. Ipre-
sumo they have come here to see how
successful their efforts at gagging me
have been. Don't interrupt me so
much BY applause; let me 90 on and
will tell my plain, unvarnished story.
5000 900 Of them, are pure blooded
Africans; 100000 or such matter as
a million with mixed blood, and $780,
O00,or such matter, of those live In
the South: seven or eight hundred
thousand OF them moved up here.
Now, under the Constitution as
amended-the Fourteenth and Fiji
tenth Observation-Disclosures people
have been given every right that the
general Constitution can confer that a
white man has. That is the legal
status
mot in Virginia" an auditor cried.
"Yes, sir, everywhere" said the
senator. The Fifteenth amendment
the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
amendments have conveyed to the
negroes every right that white man
has"
Excepting intelligence" the audi.
tor again interrupted.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1907-01-09
Tells About the Law.

"Well, we didn't" continued Sena-
tor Tillman. How did we manage
II? Easy enough. We provided that
man must either read or write, or
pay taxes on $500 worth of property,
or understand a clause Of the constitu-
ton when read TO him for the first
registration. Under the provision,
which Is elastic-I am not going TO
dodge-l don't belong to the creed
that lodges; l will give you precisely
the whole story: That first legisla-
tion was merely to get an understand.
ing OF the constitution when the clause
OF 1t was read to the illiteaate voter.
| After that ~ died. And the straight,
plain and unmistakable provision that
you should read and write or pay taxes
or you don't vote has obtained since
1897, and will always obtain until we
change 1t again. And what became
OF the iliteratesy
THE registration officers we're white
men. All OF our officers are white
men, thank God. We had to use shot
guns about 1t. We did whatever was
necessary, but we have never sunk to
the infamy of nominating a negro on
our state tickets. When that legisla.
tion was put in force and man would
come into the Office, the officer would
say: Can you read and writer No
The law says YOU must read clause In
the constitutions let me see II you I'M
derstand IT,. III he was black man
the clause presented by the election
officer would likely-I don't know,
didn't see 1t, but just imagine that
is what would do-would be of twen-
ty lines, maybe, and that involved
questions of Interpretation Of the law
that would get half the lawyers OF
Chicago by the ear, each one ready to
go to court and swear he would win
the suit on his understanding OF
1t II you would pay him enough. lie
would read this long complex clause
to the negro. DO you understand it,?
Il am afraid not Sorry, cannot reg
lister you; you must 70 on
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1907-01-09
Applied TO White Men.

"a white man comes up. Can you
read and writer No Let us read
a clause in the constitution He
would pick out little, short, simple
one, something like. MARY had little
lamb'-and OF course he would under
stand IL, and OF course he would be
registered. So you see how elastic a
clause it was. 1t would open up to let
a white man through, but it would ex-
clude back man.
'In one Of the celebrated battles In
the war the victory was won by com
panies OF men composed, | dare say,
nearly all of men who could neither
read nor write. When you talk to me
about a little smatterihg Of learning,
reading and writing being the basis
for vote, point you to the fact that
some Of the best read fellows you
know are the most Internal scoundrels
and the worst people on the face of
the earth. 1t is a question OF mind
and character and Integrity.
with 100000 more negroes in the
state, with negro boys rapidly getting
the little necessary learning to read
and write, how long will it be before
there will be an issue in South Caro-.
lima between the black race and the
white for mastery? You talk about
seriousness, danger, about perplexity.
All, my countrymen, it Is easy to sit
of in your closets aud theorize and
discuss other peoples live and prop.
erty and rights. 1t is especially easy
for that large ratio Of our citizens who
have crossed the sea and come into
this land Of freedom since the war was
over; free to come over from abroad,
falling heir to the blessings which my
forefathers lived to give us. 1t is very
easy for those fellows to sit of here
and theorize about what the negroes
shall have and what hi, rights are In
| the South.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1907-01-09
Talked OF FOREIGNERS.

Are you willing to try that physic
on yourSelfY You have got some 8. =
0O0, 900 people in Illinois-nearly g.
600, 900, / believe. know a third OF
them are foreign born. / am not
quarreling, but | am merely calling
attention to great fundamental
right that we who helped founded the
American Republic at least have the
right to say what shall be done with
US and our liberties.
81 have good Irish, English and
German blood in my veins, and the
South Carolinians as a whole are the
purest Americans on the continent.
We have some seed corn down there
OF old-time religion. You all have for
gotten all about that there ever was q
God or a Christ or yirtuous woman,
IL appears TO me. And when you I'm.
dertake TO theoretically determine
what shall be done with the negroes
In the South and what shall be done
to the whites in the South through
the negroes, you don't know what you
are doing. In your ignorance you press
along madly following political greed
and ambition. You allow the inter,
ests OF the great party to which you
most belong to dominate and c afro
in all things politically, arc that
party, In its own interest, Sc : fit "a
coddle and pet the negroes. to keep
friends with them, to make oLt 1,
loves them,
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1907-01-09
1i||man and The Negroes
The Senator's Chicago Address Problem Of the South)

"Populism in North Carolina carried
away from the democratic party 3D.
900 ultra democrats, who voted for
Weaver. The democrats carried the
state that year, but these men who
had exercised their right to vote as
they saw ft were bounded, abused,
maligned, scandallzed in every way
the newspapers could put scandal and
abuse on them, so that they grew in
tensely angry, and just then North
Carolina lost her great statesman,
Iebulon Vance. Her people were like
flock OF sheep without a shepherd.
THE result was that 10000 negroes
and mountaineers and 10000 ultra
cranky populists beat the white peo-
pie, who owned practically all OF the
property. pay all OF the taxes, have
nearly all of the intelligence and In
tegrity OF character, and they held
the state for four years. Then the
banner Of white supremacy was thrown
to the breeze. The cry was raised,
"Rally to your colors. Be a white
man or be a niger. You have got TO
take your choice" And North Caro-.
lima went democratic again. But l
would point out to you that the posi-
bility of minority Of white men, not
possessing an equal amount OF intelli-
gence and wealth with the majority,
can use this debased, this ignorant,
this venal vote, and control the gov
eminent.
Nov let us take the States OF Kan
sas, Of Illinois, OF Indiana, OF Ohio, Of
Pennsylvania, OF New Jersey, and OF
New York. In each one of those
states the number OF negro votes is
sufficient under any normal condition
of politics, and has been sufficient to
give the states to the republican party
for they have got in there bodily with
their votes, and by the negro vote
alone, until the silver pace came along
and disturbed the programe. Here,
you, in the very near future, If not at
this very time, are face to face with
this proposition that your great states
will be dominated by these negroes
who will be Rugged and kissed and
cuddled and petted by your dandy
politicians to get their votes,
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1907-01-09
Anger Shown in Reply.

"Oh, shut your mouth" Senator
Tillman said angrily. "You don't
know the A b c Of this thing; have
forgotten forty years ago more than
you ever knew. The supreme Court
Of the United States has declared that
the right to vote is not a federal right;
that the states must settle that. But,
mark you, in settling 1t we find that
the fifteenth amendment declares that
every person born in the United States
is a citizen Of the United States; and
then it goes on to say that no state
shall enact any law that shall discrim-
mate against a citizen Of the United
States on account OF race or color
Therefore, that is why the cOnstitu-
tional amendment has not conferred
suffrage on the negro; has not confer
red 1t on the white, and 1t has said
that no state shall pass law relating
to suffrage or anything else which
shall discriminate against any citizen
Of the United States because of his
race or color. Therefore, the negro
has every right that the white man
has.
Now, having got that fact into
your heads, let us see what the Con.
stitution is. How many OF you know
guarantee there is not man. woman
or child In this house-not news
paper man, and they know as much
about these things as anybody-how
many OF you know that in the six
states Of South Carolina, Georgia,
Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and
Louisiana, a group together around
the South Atlantic and the gulf until
you reach Texas-how many of you
know that there are 10000 more ne.
groes in those six states than there
are whites? How many Of you know
that in the State of South Carolina
there are 100000 more negroes thar
there are whites.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1907-01-09

There Is no reader OF curret lieta
ture unfamiliar with Senator Till
mans doings In congress and certain
phases Of his public life, and while
most know that he Is a lecturer Ia
greatest demand, but few in this
country have ever had the pleas
ure Of seeing or hearing South Caro-
lina's notorious "Pitchfork." The
senator from South Carolina delivered
a lecture In Chicago not long ago, and
believing that a reproduction Of a
Chicago newspapers report of that
lecture will prove of more than pass
ing interest, THE REPUBLICAN pre-
sents 1t here. Senator Tillman was
billed to speak on "Shoud the United
States Annex Cuba?" but he devoted
practically his entire time to a fiery
discussion of "The Negro Problem. y
The speaker talked along in his most
engaging manner until ten O'Clock,
and after vainly trying to quit, he hit
his usual train with the following
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1907-01-09

home; but had failed to get a little
education that would equip him for a
vote under the constitution. DO you
suppose we would disfranchise them?
Would you have done 1t?
mo" came shout from the au-
dience
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1907-01-09
Appeals First to Reason.

After introducing the negro ques.
tion the senator continues;
perhaps can enlighten you a little
as TO what 1t is, knowing all the while
that you know nothing about it. Let
me premise BY saying that regard 1t
as most scrious-the most dangerous,
the most pregnant issue before the
American people tonight. propose
to deal with IL not from the stand.
point OF pejudce or passion. l am
not going to appeal to your feelings.
am going to appeal to your reason, land
am going to base my appeal upon
facts, not on theories.
"What is 1t? There are in this
country, according to last census, some
$500, 900 or 5000, 900 people with Afri
can blood In their veins, called negroes
They love to call themselves Afro
American to indicate that some Of
them have studied little Latin
These 9,OOO,O0O people, we will say, are
divided about this way: There are
100000, or about that, | guess
there are no statistics - with white
blood in their veins in greater or less
proportion, ranging all the way from
one.eighth or possibly one sixteenth Of
negro blood, and the balance white
and from that down to one.sixteentf
OF white and ifteen.si xteenths black
About 70O,000-in that neighborhoot
they are rapidly increasing, thank
God--live in the north; 5000, 900 il
the former slave states"
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1907-01-09

THAT is not a right, retorted the
senator. God gives that. Am | not
right? And the right TO vote Is not
conferred, because 1t is not federal
right"
"IIow about Kentucky" asked the
same auditor.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-02-26

Every word OF profanity is prayer
to His Satanic Majesty.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-02-26
HOTEL ARRIVALS.

Palmer-W S. Hlnzie, Clarendon,
Ark; Alcan Moss, New York; G. T.
Fubrath Chicago; ]. V. Park. Mt.
Vernon. o.; ]. w. Hackney, Louis
vile; c. II. Leman, Smithlapd; Bunk
Gardner. Mayfeld; E. A. Robinson,
st. Louis; L. Schwartz, Chicago; w.
j. Mccormick, indianapolis; G. X.
Gilbert st. Louis; H. NJ. Harris,
Morganheld; Ben Holdridge, Kala-
mazoo, Mich; J. 0. Tilden. Louis
vile.
Belvedere-C. ]. Hill, Nashville,
Tenn; Joe Ryan. Murray; c. G.
Beale Evansville; d. C. Turrentine.
Chattanooga; L. A. Jackson, Macon.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-02-26
HEALTH OFFICERS SEEK
PHYSICIANS HELP in FIGHT
AGAINST CONSUMPTION

The Kansas and Minnesota state Boards Of Health have made
against tuberculosis have been mailed both
patients requesting with
nform
observation and
advising methods of treatment
tuberculosis patients the fol-
OWNS
Men with should beard mustache.
Sleep
essential be afraid of the cold Eat plenty
T.
consumption
These wise Instructions and should be observed by every
afflicted the important duty We'll Colds and
the
wearing the
authority trouble that following
a
is
Pipe
vil
the name-Vhgin
Cincinnati mi-
style Of packages Never these substitute
Virgin Oil Pine will Invariably
effect the desired result
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-02-26
IDENTITY
CONCEALED IN ORDER TO ST.
CURE WORK on RAILROAD.
Woman Claims TO BE Widow of Fred
A. Hunter, Whose Real Name
Was Cushman.

Cecil Reed was appointed receiver
of the estate Of Fred A. Hunter pend
ing the tria, of suit filed yesterday
afternoon by Mrs. Henrietta Cush-
man. who claims to be the wife of the
late Fred A. Hunter, an Illinois Cen
trail engineer, who died several weeks
ago of pneumonia.
Mrs. Cushman alleges in her pc
tltion that she is the undivorced wife
of Hunter, whose real name was Fred
"A. Cushman. The reason he
changed his name is because of Sc
rious wreck in Alabama which made
It impossible for him to secure en-
ployment on other roads until his
identity was concealed. They had
been separated five years.
Hunter left all his estate to Lula
white, and County Judge R. T. Light
foot before the probating of the will,
appointed f. G.. Rudolph administra-
tor. Miss white came in with petit
ton in county court asking to be rec
ognized as executrix. but the petition
has not been acted on.
All funds by virtue OF Judge Reed S
orders have been turned over to. Re-
ceiver Cecil Reed. The estate is not
large. consisting of a $1,000 insur-
ance policy, horse and buggy and
some personal estate.
formal remuneration of the will
of Fred Hunter. alias Cushman. was
filed by Henrietta Cushman in county
court today. Yesterday cross petit
ton was fled by the wife to remove
r.. G. Rudolph as administrator of
Hunters estate. The remuneration Is
a mere legal formality.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-02-26
NO REPoRq no BE MADE.
Bailey's Friends Win Victory in the
Texas Case.

Austin, Tex, Feb 2G.-By vote
of 10 to IL the Texas senate today
discharged the investigating commit
tee which has been in session several
weeks looking into charges against
United States Senator Joseph w. Bar
ley Antl-Bailey followers offered a
resolution, instructing the commission
not to bring in a report at this time,
but to send a subcommittee to St.
Louis to secure the testimony Of H..
Clay Pierce. of the Waters-P Pierce Oil
company, and to embody such evil
dence in its final report. Adhereats
of Senator Bailey promptly offered a
substitute that the investigating COM
mittee be discharged at once without
making a.. report and that Senator
Bailey be fully Endorsed. After rath-
err heated debate the substitute reso-
luton was passed by vote Of 10 to
II.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-02-26
STEEL TIES
SAID TO HAVE CAUSED WRECK
on PENNSYLVANIA.
Road Used Ties on Solicitation, But
This May End Experiment
With Innovation.

Pittsburs Pa, Feb. 26-Although
the Pennsylvania railroad continues
to insist, in its statements for the
public, that the wreck of the IS
hour flier near Johnstown on Friday
night was caused by broken brake
hanger, the opinion is almost firmly
fixed in railroad circles that the steer
ties were to blame.
Railroad men who examined the
damage to the roadbed assert this.
SO does the conductor of the hier.
And that the company itself leans to
the same view is shown by the fact
that 1t has demanded That the Carne-
gle company make good on it's claims
for the new tie.
Still another indication that the
PENNSYLVANIA officials. far from be-
lieving the wreck was an act of prov
iderce, as they profess in public, pri-
vately blame the ties is the fact that
CNhN "N'Oi VI. W. folDSa Vi tHt uleT
reported the cause as fol-
lows: rf Us.
Cause of wreck, spreading rails"
This message was wired to Pitts
burg and Philadelphia headquarters
from little signal tower on the
near the scene OF the
crash It was Inadvertently allowed
to be come public.
1t is believed that the wreck OF the
dier signals the passing Of the steel
tie, yet only in the experimental
stage. It's use by the Pennsylvania
was at the solicitation of the makers.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-02-26

by any means, 1t is simply tentative
and viii make tne committee so
that II will be satisfactory He re-
peated the word'tentative' two or
three tines. but ! made up my mind
at once that Ways and Means Com
mittee satisfactory to the revenue re-
form people would never be made by
Blaine, and so we parted after an
hours talk. with the understanding
that ne would see me again soon.'
THAT evening General Brinkerhoff
met Garfield by appointment. You
are not to be chairman of the Ways
and Means Committee he told him.
The protectionists viii be majority
on It.
"'You are wrong, fairfield said,
Mr.. Blaine has already written me
assuring me of my appointment
Let me see the .etter.' said the
general. Garfield's face fell. He
had not the letter. Mr.. Blaine had
asked that it be returned because
life was uncertain. You will not be
appointed General Brinkerhoff re-
iterated Garfield walked the floor
for a few minutes. and tehn stopping,
said: General Brinkerhoff, If Mr..
Blaine does not appoint me chair
man OF the Ways and Means Commit
tee he Is the basest of men, He was
not appointed, but a few days later
Mr.. Dawes was"
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-02-26
Domestic Bliss.

Mrs. Oldboy after a slight difference
of opinion)-Oh. If only | had been
born in the days Of chlyalryl
Mr.. Dwell. you came pretty near 1t.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-02-26
William Allen White on Roosevelt

William Allen White on Roosevelt
Roosevelt is no braver than many
another man, who has fallen in the
lstrugg.e against Mammon. But he
has moral vision A broader
education than any man mas brought
to the White House since Jefferson's
day, life unstained by vice of any
kind, a clean mind, and a boyish
heart. simple, conflding. just, have
combined to keep Theodore Roose-
velt's faith in God and his belief in
the common honesty of the common
man unseared."
Thus writes William Allen White
in his Roosevelt: A Force for
Righteousness" in the February Nc
Cures. Successful contemporary
portrafture is so rare an achievement
that an article like this of Mr.. Whites
merits unusual attention. Through
out he displays the sureness of touch
and soundness of intuition that have
distinguished his earlier work; some
of his passages indeed, seem inspired.
so brilliantly do they nit it on
What, for instance, could be better
than this:
"a middle1aged, middle-sized
figure struggling against pudginess.
simple. boyish, direct; impulsive for
the right and intolerant of wrongs;
human to the core, with his blind
side for his friends and his sleepless
eyes for his enemles-a group of
gentlemen for whom he never has to
blush. e. a happy mixture of the
cheerful idiot, the seer of visions,
and the captain and crew OF the
"Nancy Brigg"-a man who does the
undisputed thing in sucn buoyant
wayl"
Mr.. Whites analysis Of Roosevelt's
career. and "the tremedous effect OF
his precepts and his consistent ex-
ample" is handled in this writer's
most brilliant and able manner.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-02-26

Wen Poverty come in de do.
Ef Love fly out dc wInder.
OATS de very sort err Love
You never orter hinder
II.
You can't stan prosperity,
En- trouble makes you fiutter,
De very time you say "Hooray,"
You drops yo' bread and butterl
III.
En- heaven Is too high fer you,
En- t'other rlace-too hot dar!
En- ef at las you wins de race,
You dunno how you got dar
Atlanta Constitution.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-02-26
ARE YOU RUNNING A
LOSING RACE
WITH THE CALENDAR?

Does every day record, In the
Office, failure to quite "catch-
up" with that days work?
Does every, day witness, in the
home, another failure to finish
today's duties-Decause of the
unfinished duties of yesterday?
Does every day record, in the
store, a few more customers who
couldn't wait" to be served by
over-busy clerks?
II any of these things are true
You need more heIp"-so that
an immediate resort upon your
part to the classified ads. win
enable you TO "catch up with the
calendar" and TO do today's
things today.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-02-26

Ga; w. j. Smith. Baltimore; +. S.
Wenheimer Philadelphia.
New Richmond-Prof. G. P. Rod
gers. Smithland; Rev J. c. Smita-
son, Smithland; o. e. Travis. Bir-
mingham; W. T. Fair Murray; j.
w. Wade Almo; F. l.. Chi,es, st.
Louis; Caleb Harrison, Grahamville:
G. w. Smith, Benton; H. B. Jacobs,
Toppenish Wash; Oscar Woods. Me-
tropolis, H.; John Granam, Graham
Vile; Mrs. C. f. Cardwell, Helena.
Ark; A. p Jacobs. Toppenlsh. Wash.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-02-26

The Salvation Army is established
in SO Countries and colonies. and
breaches the gospel in thirty-one LAM
guages.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-02-26

Many a man has managed to sue
coed in this world despite the adj
vice that onlookers gave him.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-02-26

Your property may be worth
more TO another tenant than it is to
the present one. An ad. will test the
matter.