The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-07-11
IfiIIman,s WoariI.out Re!netly.

What fntelligentjmar on sober res
fiection finds any thing in the speech
of Senator Tillman here that is new?
The. school boy is thoroughly familiar
with all the basic features of his lee
ture on the race problem, and all
those features have been fought over
and over again for more than quar-
ter of a century. A great deal he
says is in the text books, especially
the historical features His review
of the history of the negro in Amer
lea is stale, and has been threshed
threadbare thousands of times.
Wherein is the greatness of his
lecture on this question none know
as the thought is common to every
man who reads. Nothing novel or
new was brought out and his mode
Of presentation was neither polished
nor. extraordinary, executing, of
course, the interiections of .vituper-
alton and egotistic assertions, Till
man assuming to know more than
any other man on this Question,
though in fact not presenting any
new, knowledge. ,e, -..,......s.l,
Talking repeatedly. throughout the
lecture that he had a remedy, as he
caIls3;it.t he winds 3up with nothing
more than the repeal Of the fifteenth
amendment to the national constitu-
ton, which repeal has been advocat-
ed a. number of years and long before
Senator Tillman engaged in politics
or became identified in any way with
government. And, what has the
remedy shown as cure? The his
tory OF Tillman's own State shows
that he has not. solved the problem.
The colored people have not been
voting there for years, and yet he
himself asserts that social and moral
conditions are dangerous there. This
demonstrates the fact that his
remedy is not cure and never can
be. But. he has an additional rem
edy, whose use he strongly advocates
and encourages. This remedy Is
massacre. To be sure. he qualities
his advice as to the use of this
remedy, but it is evident he would
encourage the prescription, at least,
he is not going to restrain its use.
Tillman's suggestion to cut threats
and butcher the negro comes in bad
grace, in connection with his asser-
ton that the South taught the negro
there is a God and true religion.
That act impresses the belief that the
South recognizes the. negro as, a
human being and in former days at
least did not believe that he should
be cut off from the earth in the bar
barous manner Tnlman suggests and
would some time foment his people
to the pitch of observing. He, says
the negroes are SEMI and
Yet he himself suggests and resug-
gests that his own people should re-
sort to the methods Of barbarians,
not semi-bar barians, to rid them
selves of semi-barbarians, as he calls
them, but this is only to be done,
when the negro develops into an in.
telligent citizen, according to Till
mans plan.
Again, Mr.. Tillman had good
deal to say, regarding good govern
nent. All know that good govern
ment is based on honesty, fairness
and respect for law. and not on sub
terfuges and dishonesty and trick
cry, such as he exulted in telling
his audience, the South observes in
the matter OF elections.
Tillman himself took a leading
part In framing a suffrage law In his
State that requires an educational
qualification, and he tells with pride
how his party evades that law, when
It comes to elections. To the OUT