The Washington herald., 1907-01-22


from South Carolina, Mr.. McLaurin, in
1902
While the Democrats were talking
among themselves, Mr.. Foraker rose TO
ask that vote be taken on the COM
promise Brownsville resolution.
Mr.. Teller objected. explaining that he
desired to speak on the subject He would
consume only q few minutes. he said.
Mr. Carmack interrupted: 81 think /
may say TO the Senator from Ohio that
not more than fifteen or twenty Senators
desire to speak, he said.
Mr.. Foraker nared up instantly. Let
me inform the Senator from Tennessee
that he shall have no monopoly on the
speechmaking." he said. Neither shall
anybody else have a monopoly"
Mr.. Carmack who was about to enter
the cloakroom, returned 20 explain that
his remark had been wholly jOcular.
'Hum0r does not seem TO be appre-
ciated here to-day Mr.. Foraker re-
turned with a smile that was not wholly
free from grimness. Then he moved 20
adjourn to-day and the motion prevailed
Mr.. Tiliman's speech in reply TO MI.
SpOOneT which he read Immediately after
he concluded his invasion of the field
of honor, was as radical as any ne has
ever delivered. After ten years Of service
together, both he and Mr.. SpOoner had
each other. he said. Their
many clashes had caused feeling on his
part, which however, had always passed
away. and he had supposed that the case
with the Senator from Wisconsin was
the same until last week Il have been
forced, reluctantly, 10 believe that have.
without knowing how or when. earned the
ffasF.
Reviewed spooner's speech.
MIR. TiIiman then reviewed Mr.. Spoon
er's speech. Having shut me of In
discourteOus and brutal fashi0n-I had
almost said ungenuemanly-the Senator
went on to read me a lecture" he said.
He characterized Mr.. SpOOner's perform
ance as "a most excellent piece Of act
ing, and worthy Of Uriah Heep in his
most humble exhibition Of himself"
The South Carolina Senator went over
his own speeches and the position ne had
taken on the Brownsville matter 1T
was adroIt of the Senator from Wiscon-
sin, he said, at one time, TO shift the
minds Of his auditors and the readers Of
ne Record from the Presidents outra-
-tDtAn l-E' iAaliLsl tlAtili slAl4HA A4lN BltlNh
soldiers and favoring the white ones 10
my own utterances and attitude toward
the negro Tapists, and the shrewdness
and dishonesty Of the argument and the
indeCeuCy Of the attack were emphasized
when the Senator from Wisconsin pro
ceeded 10 quote from former speech of
mine in this body In which ] said. We
shot them. We killed them, and we Will
do il again
when asked for permission 10 point
this out and show how unfair and IN
manly was the attack he shut me of
continually, refusing absolutely 10 give
me an opportunity 20 explain or defend
myself
Now what about those words Of mine:
We shot them. &c. In what connection
did I utter them? II ] mistake not the
Senator from Wisconsin was In this
chamber when I used that language.
There were present "a large number Of
leading Republicans. I challenged each
and every man here 10 show wherein the
people Of South Carolina were not Jus
tilted, and lao one dared reply
Does Not Advocate Lynching-
Mr.. Tiuman denied ar Spooner's right
to arraign him, declaring Mr.. Spooner
had with a seIf-righteousness that was
OF his breed donned the
robes Of the pharisee. spread abroad his
had called him CTillmanj
up for sentence. and pronounced his de-
cree.
The South Carolinian fatty denied that
ne had ever advocated lynch law, He
had. however, Justified il for one crime.
and while governor Of South Carolina
had proclaimed the fact that ne would
even lead a mob TO lynch a man that
committed IT, He objected 10 Mr..
Spooner's term '1ynching bees" As FAR
as lyHchings for rape were concerned, it
WAS a misE0mer.
When stern and sad-faced white men
pat 90 death a creature in human form
who has defowered a white woman" he
declared. there IS nothing OF the bee
about it. There is more Of the feeling
of participating as mOUrner at a funeral
They have avenged the greatest wrong.
the blacklist crime, in all the category OF
crimes. and they have done il not so
much as an act Of TetributiOn in behalf
Of the victim. but as @ warning as 10
what any man may expect who shall re-
peat the offense. They are looking 10
the protection of their own loved ones"
Senator SpOOner, Mr.. Tillman de-
clared. has erected the law into a deity
which he had worshioed regardless Of
justice and had studied law books until
his mind had become saturated with the
bigotry that ignored the fundamental
principle of the American government.
that the law is nothing more than the
will Of the people.
The unwritten laws were always the
very embodiment of savage justice, he
said The Senator from Wisconsin was
either incapable Of understanding con
ditiOns in the South. or else had lost
those natural impulses which for cen
turtles had been the characteristics Of
the Anglo-Saxon race.
Southern Conditions Explained.
Mr. Tinman told of the South being
"engulfed. as it were in a black food of
semi barbarians." Then he supposed a
case where Senator Spooner's own daugh-
ter was the victim of a black brute. and
asked if there was within the sound OF
his voice "a man with red blood in his
veins who doubted what impulses the
father would feel when told what had oc-
CURED.
rs it any wonder" he asked, that
the whole countryside rises as one man
and. with set. stern faces, seeks the
brute who has wrought this infamy?
Brute. did l say? Why that crime is
Islander on the brutes. 1t has been left
for something in the shape of a man to
do this terrible thiIs And shall such
creature because he has the semblance
of a man. appeal 10 the law? Shall men
cold-bloodediy stand up and demand
for him the right to have a fair
trial and be punished in the regular
course of justice? So far as I am con-
cerned. he has put himself outside the