The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-01-17
SAME AS LYkCH|NG
TiIIman Lambasts Roosevelt
Anent Brownsville Affair. =
YIELDS HIS P|TCHF0RK
Carolina Senator, in Sensational Ha.
rangue, Holds President RESPONSE
BILE for Outrage Which He
Later Punished.

s"The presidents action in dismiss
ing these men was nothing more nor
less than lynching.'
This was only one of many bitter
exclamations made by Senator I'LL
man in a speech OH the door OF the
senate Saturday afternoon on the
Brownsville affair. 1t was regarded
as the most violent address ever de-
livered by the South Carolinian before
that body.
In a voice heavy with emotion, ne
charged President Roosevelt with
having revived the race issue and
with bringing about conditions more
threatening than those Of 1861.
The president is primarily more re-
sponsible than any other man for the
position the negroes, in the South and
out of it, have taken on the question
of negro rights" he declared. "He
gave recognition to Booker T. Wash
ington in a social way. He did it
knowingly, flying in the face of the
feelings Of caste among 100000
white people in the South, and against
the same feeling of two-thirds or
the people of the North.
"He does not understand the ne-
gro o. the deep and vital character
of the issues involved. He made
mess of it in the first instance in the
Booker Washington case, and has
made a worse mess OF it In the
Brownsville case.'
Senator Tillman spoke with unusual
emphasis and reminded his hearers
of the old days when he received his
title of "pitchfcrk.'
After quoting the presidents
Brownsville message, in which the
president declared that each man
should be dealt with on his merits as
man and not have his conduct Judg-
ed because of his color, Mr.. Tillman
shouted:
'.Is President Roosevelt ready to act
upon this theory and have his children
marry men and women of the other
races?
would he accept as daughter
in-law a Chinese. a Malay, an Indian
or a negro in accord with the doc
trine laid down in his message?
1--WE all know ne would not, and
while fine words butter no parsnips,
words like his are source of incaicu-
liable evil coming from that high
source
Discussing the Brownsville case, he
said:
"There is no doubt OF the guilt OF
some of the soldiers as being res2on-
sible for the outrage at Brownsville,
but it is contrary to the fundamental
principles of liberty and of English
and American law that the innocea.
should suffer because of the sins of
the guilty. In this case 167 men have
been punished while not more than
twenty have ever been charged with
participation in the crime.
"The troops never should have been
sent to Brownsville. 1t was done
against the. protests Of one senator
and members OF congress from that
district and done in the face OF the
record Of the Twenty-Fifth Infantry"
In his conclusion, speaking of the
amalgamation of the races, the sena
tor said:
"In Cuba the color line has been
obliterated and miscegenation is IN
full blast, At the North, the same
conditions exist and q large num-
ber of mulattoes and quadroons with
white blood in their veins, who have
;nigrated there, are the leaders In
the doctrine of absolute social equal
ity, encouraged as they have been
and are now being by the president
cf the United States.
THE Southern white men and wo-
men who have for forty years resist
ed in every possible way the doc
trine of the equality of the races are
Just as resolved now as they have
always been not to submit to it, or its
results.
"The conditions are growing worse
and more aggravated every day. Race
antagonism Increases in intensity. Are
things. to drift until dire tragedies
multiply on every hand and blood
shall flow like water? Is the states
mauship of our time inadequate ID
cope with this question just as the
craftsmanship of 1860 failed to pre-
vent the dire catastrophe OF civil
war
"That war was fought to settle the
race question, but forty years after
it's termination, We find conditions
more threatening in some of their re-
spects than they were in 1861"