The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-27
1ILLMAN RIPS
EN- WIDE OPEN
Carries Big Audience With Him
in Discussing Negro
Problem.
GRAVE FEARS FOR FUTURE
NEGRO DOMINATION MEANS
BLOOD AND HORROR.

IL Senator Benjamin r. Tillmsn OF
South Carolina didn't rip the race prob
lem up the back, down the sides and
across the middle. there is no such word
as rip in the dictionary. For three solid
hours last night, in the Salt Lake theatre.
Senator Tillman talked about the negro
question. An immense audience heard
his lecture; manifestly the audience sym
Dathized with the doctrines of Mr.. Till
man. for the enthusiasm was high and
the applause loud and long continued. Mr.
Tillman. in the first place. said that he
knew all about the race problem. and at
the conclusion of his remarks the audi
did
If Mr.. Tillman carried his pitchfork for
the negro, he added TO IT a couple of long,
sharp tines for the express purpose of
jabbing them into the front, flanks and
rear of the Republicans. especially the
Republicans in South Carolina.
Early in the course of his address. Sena-
tor Tilman was interrupted by a man ia
the balcony. If that man stayed
throughout the evening he must have had
q skin thick that Of a rhinOceros
and a nerve case-hardened. for the prOngs
of Mr.. Tillmans celebrated agricultural
implement were sent in his direction nu-
merOUs times, and with ViSor IL the pro
lection.
Whites Must Dominate.
It is a vain task to attempt to summar-
lie Senator Humans points. His lecture
Is all points, pointed points. In a general
way, it may be said that Mr. Tillman
hopes that the people will repeal the fiji
teenth amendment to the constitution and
modify the fourteenth He says thar
three of the four race problems have been
settled. and that there is now only one
more to settle The three settled are
The Indian question, the Malay question
and the Monaghan question; various
methods were adopted IN the adjustment
of these problems, but they were all eff
fective, especially so in the case Of the
Indian.
Mr. TiIlman denOunces the system that
permits political Tenegades to come into
the southern states and. with the help
of the ignorant negro vote, hold domino
ton over the whites. He says that South
Carolina had eight years of il. and viii
have no more of it. He is bitter against
the nOrtheTner who is a fanatic. he pitics
the northern fool and fOrgives the north
ern ignorant He declares that all of the
advancement and progress the negro has
made. and the achievement he has at
tanned were brought about during slavery
days. and that when slavery ceased dtsor-
der and Generalization began and con-
tinues-
He says that the relief from negro rule
in South Carolina and Mississippi is only
temporary, and that as soon as the white
taxpayers money IS spent in the teaching
of the negro how to read and write, the
temporary expedient viii have been eS-
EauSted in its usefulness. ana then MI
TiIiman sees only bloOdshed and horror
Mr.. T11lman declares Booker T Wash
ingtOn to be OF white paternity and negro
maternity; he admits that Washington
has brains plenty of them-inherited from
his father. He scores the system that
makes it possible for OctOroOns and
quadroOns to come into the world out
side the state of wedlOck.
Cannot Tell Ii All.
Senator TiIlmau says that he talked
once in congress for five hours on the
race problem. and then for two hours
more. Even at that. he had covered only
a few of the more important phases Of the
subject In a three-hOur speech, there
fore. asked Mr.. Tillman, could he do full
Justice to the question. one Of the most
grave and serious that has ever confront
ed the American people-the gravest that
now cOnfTOntS it.
After a few words by way of intrOduc-
ton by James IT. MOyle, in which he re
ferred to MIR. Tillman as ono Of the great
est statesmen. and one who was qualified.
above any other living man, TO discuss
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