The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-05-10
Joe MANNING
BROKE LOOSE AGAIN-AWAY UP IN
MASSACHUSETTS THIS TIME.
At His Usual Business of Maligning
Southern People and Traducing
Those Among Whom He
Lives,

The Boston Post of the 9th inst,
shows that Representative Middleton
from Chiffon County, and Joe Manning,
Post Master at Alexander City, have
broken forth in the classic city. Shaw
NUT Avenue Church. where they held
forth, Is negro. church. Mr.. Middle
ton is not the only Republican in the
Alabama Legislature. There is one
Mr.. Barton of Winston. Joe Manning
is not a representatives, elect or other
wise, of anything we ever heard of.
There is no minister in this city named
Wiltze. The, following is full re-
port of their ridiculous performances:
Ben Tillman and his crowd are
film Tanning the North with the bogy
of negro denomination in the South
said the Hon. o. ] Middleton, the only
Legislature, yesterday afternoon in an
address at the patriotic mass meeting
at the Twelfth Baptist Church on shaw
nut Avenue.
Il want the elf-respected men of
the North, both black and white" he.
continued, ito ask Mr.. Tillman If it is
just as bad to do a thing illegitimate-
ly as legitamately, for 1 doubt II ne
himself has learned to know the differ
ence. 1t has come to pass when the
Tillman crowd, numbering a few thous-
and are conducting a Democracy far
more serious than Is imaginative, So
called political slavery, slavery which
denies a man the right of suffrage,
right which 100000 white and $780, 900
colored men are not allowed to exer-
ciSe."
Whites Worse Than Negroes.
Mr. Middleton is very energetic and
forceful speaker, speaking with an ear
nestness which could not be doubted.
There are some bad black men," said
Mr.. Middleton, where l come from, but
for every one L will find you two white
men who are worse. DR.. Wiltze of
Montgomery Ala, has publicly declared
from his pulpit that there are over 400
white men in his county who are living
life lower and more debased than any
negro.
Crusade Against Machine
Il want all to realize the situation in
the South, both politically and socially,
and am particularly anxious to interest
you in the new movement, or crusade,
under the leadership of Mr.. Manning,
against the oligarchy, or Democratic
machine, a movement far greater than
the civil war, as it concerns both black
the interest of the blacks only. here
by prophesy that the days of Ben Till
man and his crowd are\ numbered, for,
as it says in the good book. AS a man
soWs, so shall he reap-anu great Will
be Tillmans harvest.
The second speaker of the after
noon was Joseph c. Manning, Repre-
sentative elect of Alabama, leader OF
the great crusade for republican
form of government in the State, YER
satile orator and energetic worker.
Mr. Manning was assaulted by crowd
of thugs about two months ago for adj
vocating a form of political equality
among the negroes of Alabama.
situation In Alabama.
Things are bad in Alabama" said
Mr. Manning, and in fact the whole
South is not much better off when
twelve States are under the lash of q
handful of men In 1892, "a and 90
the Democracy was saved in the State
| of Alabama by the fraudulent return or
60, 1000 votes from sixteen counties.
"One year we were obliged to carry
our Congressional contest to Congress
| for settlement before that grand old
man whom / would like to see In the
White House today, the friend or the
South, Thomas B. Reed of Maine, who
| knew the rascals and the klhd OF Hleul-
| cine they needed.
Votes of the negroes both dead and
! alive. are counted for the Democracy,
| and the Ingenious schemes employS.
| to uphold the white supremacy are de-
| plorable.
"On Bunker Hill here we have mon
ument erected by the people for those
| who fought and bled to escape taxation
without representation. vet In the South
! TODAY there are 1000 coiored tax pay
ers and only 5000 colored voters.
| "Ry the revision or the Constitution
! Of Alabama. brought about by the DEM
| ocracv machine to save themselves,
some 100000 men. both black and white,
! have been denied the right OF Suffrage.
! 7 have been much encouraged, he
! continued, by my visit to New York
and Boston and intend 10 iet inc
whole world know the situation in Ala
! bama, even if there is not enough
| of me left for my wife to recognize
when 7 reach home