The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-01-13

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.-The an
nouncement that Senator Tillman would
speak today. on the race question in con-
nection with the proposed Brownsville
affair. had the effect of attracting 20
the capitol an exceedingly large gather
ing of persons, Long before the SEN
ate convened the corridors were crowd
ed and when the doors were opened
the galleries soon filled. in tho crowd
there was an unusual number of ne
groes, and interested as they were in
the coming discussion. they were not
moro eager TO get inside the doors than
we're the whites.
1t was nearly clock when the
Senate completed its morning business
and the matter was taken up. Many
members Of the House were IN the
chamber and every available space in
the galleries was occupied when Mr..
Tlllman took the floor 10 make his ad-
dress.
Mr.. Tiilman prefaced his discussion
Of the question with the characterize
tion that IT resembled a case in court,
Calls President Prosecutor,
"Certain enlisted men of the Twen-
ty- fifth regiment were under indict-
ment,' he said 1.-The President OF
the United States is the prosecutor as
well as the executioner. The array of
counsel for the defense and prosecution
is not vet complete. So FAR as their
names have appeared on the records
there is an element OF incongruity and
of the ridiculous For instance. after
attorneys aiding the prosecution, we
have the distinguished Senator from
Texas (Mr. Culberson), 2 Democrat,
the distinguished Senator from Massa-
chusetts (Mr, Lodge), a Republican;
the distinguished Senator from Virginia
(Mr. DanieD. a Democrat.
And for the defense, If it shall be
so considered, when 7 get through [
will be put in the record as aiding the
distinguished Senator from Ohio (Mr.
Foraker). OF course, being nothing
more than a cornfeld lawyer, my con-
tribution TO the legal discussion of the
question VIII be very limited, probably
Comparatively worthless.
MY colleague and brother attorney
(Mr. Foraker) himself realizes that so
far as legal resistance Will go, he will
get little or no aid from me, and thus
far do not think he needs any.
Ridiculous Situation.
q But the righteousness of the situa-
tion is again apparent when one con-
siders that the Senator from the North.
whose radical and aggressive utterauces
md probably his actions in the past
once acquired the name of Fire
Alarm, finds himself aligned with that
Senator from the South (Mr Tillman),
who is usually supposed to have a
broiled negro for breakfast Qaughter(,
who is known TO Justify lynchlng for
rape and whose attitude. ii not that of
hatred TO the negro, is a feeling akin
to it, in the belief that white men are
made of better clay and that white
men alone are entitled to participate
in government. And so this alliance is
an odd one
Declaring that President Roosevelt
was more responsible than any other
man. Mr.. Tillman read from order Nc.
% issued by the War department Feb
ruary 8, 1906, and signed by the Presi
dent, as follows:
Pulls Record on Roosevelt.
''The uniform of the enlisted man Is
a badge of honor lit entities him TO
peculiar considerations shows that in
the great majority of eases he has
learned those habits of self-command,
OF SELF restraint, of obedience and of
fearlessness in tine face of danger.
which put him above most of his fel-
lows who have not possessed similar
"To strive to discriminate against
him in any way is literally an lnfamy:
for it is in reality one of the most
serious offcnses which can be committed
against the stability and greatness of
our Nation
"That is the milk in tho cocoanut,'
CALCULATED Mr.. Tillman, who said 1t was
this sort of stuff that put into tho
head of the negro soldier that he was
entitled to demand social equality.
At this point Mr.: Tillman was inter.