The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-01-13

Deem
the biggest man at negro camp meetings
and receive respectful treatment from the
whites"
Discrimination in Washington.
Senator Tillman convulsed the galleries
ana amused many senators a minute later
Dy illustrating the discrimination between
the races in WASHINGTON Negroes are
not allowed TO drink at all at the bars in
Washington, as you all know" he said
The last three words were given especial
emphasis and the senator waved his hand
TO include the whole senate.
Mr.. Tillman said there were some times
when he wished to be dispassionate and
deliberate, and he had prepared in writing
whether we are to be a confederation or
nation. We are, he said, nation with
big but the southern half of the
country had no conception of the word
Nation except as it is connected with
the word Niger
Senator Beveridge asked that a remedy
De suggested. Mr.. Tillman declined TO en-
ter into that phase of the discussion, say
ing that IL would involve another two
hours speech. 1t had simply been his
OBJECT to point out that the people of the
south were on the crest of a volcano and
confronted with a situation of which the
people Of the north had no conception.
Patterson Supports President.
Senator Patterson followed. announcing
ms belief that the president had the legal
right 10 take the action be had but he
peneved the wisdom or propriety of that
action might be open to question He
had no doubt the president was moved bv
the highest motives, and asserted that the
assertion by Senator Tillman that the
president was moved by race prejudice
was unjust. He believed the Booker
washington luncheon disproved such
conclusion. Mr.. Patterson gave as his
reason for speaking that he did not by
his silence wish to be held to indorse the
sentiments on the race question just ex-
pressed.
The senate In the next session, he said.
would have but two Democratic senators
from the north. and il was his belief
that short time in the future would see
the political dividing line completely
drawn between the north and south
1T was such speeches as had just been
delivered, he maintained which would
hasten this condition. Mr.. Tillman he
SAID was not alone in advocacy of repeal
ing the fourteenth and fifteenth amend
mentS. Governors Vardaman of Missis-
sippi and Hoke Smith of Georgia had
made the same declarations. The repeal
of the constitutional provisions would re-
SUIT IN practical return to peonage for
the negro.
Ascertaining that Mr.. Patterson had
never been in the black belt of Ala
bama or Mississippi, Mr. Tillman suggest
ed that it might be well for him to go
down there and learn something
Both Mr. Patterson and Mr.. Tillman
agreed that the colonization of the negro
was not the solution, but Mr. Tillman
complained when Mr.. Patterson insisted
that the reason Senator T1Iman would
not agree to have the negro deDOrted was
one of selfishness. because of the value
OF the negro as a laborer. II am sorry
the senator cannot give me credit for a
disinterested and honest statement" re-
torted Mr.. Tillman. He added that ''un-
less something is done soon a struggle
between the races is inevitable, and when
the two races get at each others throsts
those who now stand off and theorize
about 1T will not be present"
For White Suorenacu
Mr.. Patterson explained that his pur
pose was to state correctly the position
of the northern Democrat, Mr. TilIman
calculated: Even If there should not be
another Democrat elected from the north
the people of the south will still stand for
white supremacy
This brought applause from the gall
leTieS.
Mr.. Patterson maintained that the dis
franchisement of the negro simply meant
d return to peonage. But" again inter-
rupted Mr. Tillman. 1.-The senator wants
us of the south to lift ourselves over the
connection he explained the suffrage
qualifications of his state Then Mr.. Pat
terson read extracts from recent lecture
by Mr.. Tillman, in which the cOnStitu-
uOnal and understanding clause of the
constitution of his state were explained
as barring negroes from voting.
Mr.. Tillman said there was nothing in
what had been set forth justifying force
and murder SO far as he was concerned
he did not care whether the people of
Colorado liked the process or not AS
this law was said to have been borrowed
from Mississippi, Senator Money ex-
planned that it was not the educational
clause but the failure of the negro to
pay poll tax in Mississippi which dis
franchised him.
Mr.. Patterson continued, insisting that
in his belief only a very small minority
of the south We're in sympathy with the
views expressed; that the better element
was decidedly against such methods, and
he did not believe the people of the
north were getting a correct idea Of the
real situation from lectures delivered in
northern cities by prominent southern
ers.
Mr. Tillman took this as a reference
TO himself and asserted that he had
spoken to 100000 northerners, and that
he had received applause and approba-
ton The character of his audiences, he
said, indicated that he was addressing
the better element. He challenged Sena-
tor Patterson to debate the race question
with hum.
Mr. Patterson declined the invitation
and said he only wished to point out that
both the people of the south and the
Democrats of the north had to bear the
odium and burden such utterances en-
tailed This drew hot retort from Mr.
Tillman.
Exonerates Northern Democrats.
$50 far he said, ''as my own party
is concerned, in the north, 1t is such a
shining example of ward politicians-dir-
ty, low creatureS-that l don't care if we
never have any of that type to back
us"
After the applause in the galleries had