The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1907-01-13
Anxious to Hear TiIIman Talk
in Senate on the Race
Question.
PREDICTS FLOW OF BLOOD
SAYS WHITES WILL IN EVERY
WAY PREVENT SOCIAL AND Po-
COUNTRY.
publishers Pres..J

washington, Jan. 12.-Announce-
nent that Senator Tillman woul1
speak on the race question in connec.
fion with the proposed investigation
of attracting to the capitol an excep-
tionally large number of people. Long
before the senate convened the CORR
doris were crowded and when the
doors were opened the galleries soon
filled, leaving many in the corridors
in the crowd there was an unusual
number of negroes and, interested as
they were in the dicussion, they were
no more eager to get inside the doors
than were the whites.
In his speech before the senate on
the discharge of negro troops Senator
Tillman characterized the presidents
action as nothing more nor less than
1ynching," and contrary to the funda-
mental principles Of liberty. He said
colored troops were sent to Texas
over the protest of the people, sena-
tors and congressman, and should not
have been sent there. He declared
the troops were discharged because
they were negroes, and contrasted the
action with the protection given regu-
lar soldiers involved in the riot at
Athens, o. He said the race question
Is the whole issue and declared the
president responsible more than any
other man, because of social recognf-
ton of Booker #. Washington, know
ing he was flying in the face of caste
feeling north and south. He cited the
race conflict in Cuba, which Is to set
tie whether the island shall be gov
erned by white men or negroes.
After predicting in the near future
= race conflict to determine whether
the negro is the equal of the eau
casian, the senator said: Broadly
stated, the white people of the United
States are face to face with the vital
issue, to whether the Caucasian race
shall share its inheritance with the
other races of the earth. In Cuba the
question presses for solution and inn
mediate action. Shall that island be
governed by negroes or white men?
Shall it be doomed to the fate Of San
Domingo OF shall 1t be saved for the
white man? The question of a protec-
torate or annexation and OF the future
status of the people there must be de-
termined in the near future. That is
only one phase Of the question.
"On the Pacific coast the relation
Caucasians is involved The president |
announces himself as favoring the pol
fey Of absolute eliminating of the race
line, the granting citizenship to the |
Japanese. The Americans of the Pa |
cific coast. as I understand it, are bit
ferly opposed to this policy and with |
out regard to party lines. These |
ought to know what is for |
their best interest. and they ought to |
and undoubtedly will have the SYM |
pathy and aid Of their fellow citizens |
north and south in protecting their in |
terests. But these two phases of the |
race problem sink into insignificance |
alongside Of the greater and more |
vital question of the relationship of |
the races in the southern states of the |
Union.
I'm six southern states (South Car
DINA. Georgia. Florida. Alabama, Mis-
sissippi and Louisiana) in the aggre-
gate the negroes outnumber the
whites, and in two of them (South /
Carolina and MississippD the negro
is very heavy.
Under the law these people possess
every right that white men have as
far as the federal constitution con-
fers right and the fifteenth amend
ment expressly forbids the enactment
of any law which shall discriminate
In voting on account Of race or color
Large numbers of these negroes are
at this time, but those
laws are only temporary and work no
cure and in the near future enough
negroes will be able to vote to make