The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-22

! Morris case, l felt justified, and while
1 may get no credit for sincerity OF
conviction in this Brownsville matter,
l plant myself on the bedrock that the
innocent should not be punished for
the sins of the guilty, and that men
should be presumed to be innocent
until they are proven guilty.
| Senator Tillman concluded at 1921
u. M. when Senator Spooner arose to
reply
| Senator Spooner said he declined to
be tainted or beguiled into competl-
ton in the use of offensive epithets.
The senator" he said, would look
in vain in the record for an assault or
offensive epithet he had applied to
the South Carolina senator. He was
not senatorial censor. If he was
one. he would not attempt to teach
the senator (Mr. Tillman), because
the latter had deliberately character
lied his colleagues by name at the
outset of his speech.
His estimate of Mr.. Tillman was
that he would regret some of his
words today as he later read them in
the records.
Mr.. SpOOner said the senator could
not be more mistaken or unjust to
charge him with holding malice. HE
has never given me cause, Mr..
Spooner added 1T was appropriate
for him to say he criticized the attl-
tude and utterances of a senator, and
l withdraw in no respect what l said
as to the effect of those utterances."
eff he should utter words which
would inspire the black man OF the
south to disregard law and place more
difficulty in the way of the white peo-
pie of the south, he would expect
criticism.
!, Mr.. Spooner said some of Mr.. Till
mans utterances as quoted by Senator
Patterson had appalled, and shocked
, him. If at later date the senator
from South Carolina did not regret
the epithets he had today applied, Mr..
!
time he had not known the senator.
Mr.. Spooner said the senator had
said today as to his attitude what he
would not have taken with credit had
, it been repeated by any other man.
Without Law.
/ Government without law is tyran-
, n.y." said Mr.. Spooner. land the world
has come to regard how vital it is,
not to the man involved, but to so
, ciety."
To lapse from this fundamental
principle was to lapse into anarchy
and barbarism, he added.
When Mr.. Spooner denied the right
of any state to delegate to citizens
the taking of life on personal judg-
, ment and in anger, he did not refer
/ to the south more than to the north,
: but, he added, he did denounce
, the advocacy of that doctrine by any
, man, especially by those in high
; places.
, Perhaps. Mr.. SpOOner said. he had
no adequate appreciation of the situa-
| ton in the south. He knew it was a
| delicate One-One which would tax
, to the utmost the tact of those who
must deal with it, for the black man
he knew, must stay there. 1t was
, fruitless of anything but danger to
discuss the equality of these races,
, and, to his mind, it meant applying a
. torch.
, Leaving out politics, Mr.. Spooner
law the white and the black man must
be equal" There was no man so
wicked that he was not entitled to the
, protection of the law. Saying he
, would not discuss that unspeakable
r crime committed by both white and
black men, he continued:
THE senator will not claim that the
, appreciation of womanhood and the
F browning jewel of the woman's ex-
istence. her chastity, is limited to any
, locality.
1.-The men of the north. south. east
and west equally love-aye, in the
, palace or in the cabin-equally love
. the home"
Il Court Trial.
:, Even this, he said, did not obliter-
, ate the fundamental principle that the
men in the south had the right to a
court trial.
In all this, he said, he did not at
tack the senator from South Carolina
but his doctrine.
When Mr.. Spooner concluded. Sena'
= tor Tillman obtained recognition, but
said he would yield briefly to Mr.. Car
mack, who was also addressing the
chair.
Mr.. Carmack said:
"Mr. President, I was not in the
chamber in the early part of the
: speech made by the senator from
South Carolina. 1 believe no senator
here has given more frequent or Sc
verer provocation for retort than the
senator from South Carolina. No SEN
ator upon either side of the chamber