The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-01-17

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Washington, Special.-The senate
listened to a debate on the race ques-
ton Saturday in which Senator Till
man was the principal, participant,
and Senator Patterson, OF Colorado,
his opponent, which brought into
striking contrast the ideas of the
South and North on this question.
President, he maintained, had en-
couraged the negro to assert his
equality and then had wrought ven
geance OF a whole battalion for fol-
lowing that encouragement. He con-
demned the Presidents action in
both respects.
At this point MI. Tillman was in
corrupted for the first time. Senator
Nelson asked: "Would you deny
those privileges to white soldiersP"
81 will go as far as any man in
giving white men, either soldiers or
citizens, their rights" answered Mr..
Tillman.
"Wby should not the colored SOL
dier, if he conducts himself as a
white soldier, have the same consider
alton? Z"
"For the simple reason that God
Almighty made him colored. He did
not make him white" retorted Mr..
Tillman, who added that caste feel
ing vas universal; that it pulsated
aUnn in kho hnCa~o 80 XIa -o-ok1 &c..
Minnesota (Mr. Nelson).
Nh. Tillman characterized the
President 8 action in the Brownsville
natter as "nothing more or less
than lynching." He challenged any
one to produce in the army regula-
ton or elsewhere any foundation for
the charge of conspiracy of silence,
mutiny and treason made against the ,
soldiers, although he declared that
there was no doubt that the soldiers
were responsible for the COURAGE at
Brownsville"
"The whole issue involved is one
Of race, and the President is pri-
marily more responsible than any
other man for the position the ne
yroes In the South have taken on the
question of negro rights. He gave
recognition to Booker Washington in
/ social way. He did it knowing he
vas flying in the face of caste feel |
ing among seventeen millions of
Southern white men and against the
same feeling of t~wo-thirds or three.
of the Northern people. He
Ices not understand the negro or the
leep and vital character of the issue
involved. He made a mess of it in
he first instance and he has made a
worse mess of the last,
"The well-known attitude of the
administration on the racial question
as been the cause of a great and no.
lceable change In the demeanor and
elton of the negroes through the
'outh and the greater question of re-
ationship between the races cannot
e much longer kept down." He pre-
lcted In the near future a race con-
let to determine whether the negro {
the equal of the Caucasian,
Something ahould Be Done.
cit is high time something was ,
eng done to have this great and vi I,
question brought before the coun- f,
~ In some practicable and sensible !
'ay. The deep interest shown IL |
Brownsville tragedy is ample evil t
ence that the people of the country
beginning to feel a deep concern J
| the various phases of this ques- a
on, and it is absolutely useless for Q
octrinaries and politicians to I'M 4
to pooh-pooh the question Q
nd dismiss it with a wave of the "
and and for one, / am ready to go '
battle under the slogan America :
n the Americans and This is the :,
hite mans country and white men !,
ust govern it.
Senator Tillman convulsed the gal g
ries and amused many senators by c
..ustrating the discrimination be- n
the races in Washington. "Ne- v
'oes are not allowed to drink at all b
le bars In Washington, as you all n
low," he said. The last three e
ords were given especial emphasis, g
Id the senator waved his hand to in
ude the whole senate.
Mr.. Tillman said there were some n
mes when he wished to be dispas- y
onate and deliberate, and he had 3
In writing, his discussion of !?
e race question and would read it. 4
ne war had settled the question of h
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neither we were to be a confedera- 4
IN of a nation. We were, he said, a 4
Ltion with a big en-" but the q
'uthern half of the country had no q
inception of the word "Nation," u
eept as it is connected with the y
ord "Nigger," and more's the 3
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To a question from Senator Bever- Y
ge that a remedy be suggested, Mr.. b