Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-21
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veke me to interrupt for the express pur-
d .1a saus syns s him I'm IN chance sas to ssuss
without having his unfairness and injustice
exposed.
Employment Of 4 Detective.
when I asked the question, why did
not the President adopt Major Penrose's
suggestion and employ q detectiver he
lodged 1t most adroitly by following the
old rule Of Strengthening your case by
abusing the attorney on the other side.
Il call attention, by the way. to the fact
that each Of the three champions on that
side who have been most vociferous in ap-
plauding the Presidents course and de-
Tending his conduct lodged this same
question. My BLUM and earnest friend from
Georsia' Senator Clay. lodged it; The Inn
nessee lodged 1t. The sly and slippery
senator from Wisconsin lodged 1t.
Why were they unwilling to treat this
question seriously? Simply because none
of them have any answer to Il.
III there has been single honest and
sensible effort made to detect the MUIR
derers In this case fail to find record
VI 1cudACe upOfl the inquiry 6GC Oh IOOI
among the soldiers by Maj. Blocksom and
Gen. Darlington as the sole means Of de-
lection are to my mind nothing less than
idiotic.
"The whole procedure has the appearance
of well-laid plan to shield and protect the
real criminals and in the most effective
manner possible and to hurry the expulsion
OF innocent and guilty pen alike from the
army 30 as to put It out Of the power of
anybody at any time to ever prove who the
guilty men were and mete out adequate
punishment to them.
mo senator. not even the senator from
wisconsin, liked to answer the question
about enlisting the detectives. Instead Of
doing so he proceeded to abuse me to dis
trrct attention from this glaring failure of
the authorities to do what every sensible
man KNOWS ought to have been DONE"
Unfairness Charged.
Referring to another subject of criticism,
Mr.. Tillman continued: ut was adroit for
the senator to shift the minds of his audi
tors and the readers of the Record from
the Presidents outrageous discrimination
against the black soldiers and favoring the
white ones to my own utterances and atti-
tude toward the negro rapists and the
shrewdness and dishonesty of the argument
and the indecency of the attack were en-
phasized when the senator from Wisconsin
proceeded to quote from a former speech of
mine in this body in which said: we shot
them. we killed them and we will do it
again.
When asked for permission to point this
out and show how unfair and unmanly was
the attack he shut me Off continually, re-
fusing absolutely to give me an opportunity
to explain OF defend myself.
Now what about those words of mine.
We shot them,' etc. In what connection
did l utter them? If I mistake not the
senator from Wisconsin was in this cham
Der when I used that language, There
m hor Of Loo limo
republicans. challenged each and every
man here to show wherein the people of
south Carolina were not justified and no
Mr.. Ti,lman reviewed the conditions under
which the people Of his state acted at the
time OF his reference-thirty years ago-to
show the disturbed state Of legal procedure
as ]ustifylng the course pursued.
Southern Lynchings.
Now word about lynchfng," he con-
tnued, land my attitude toward it. A
great deal has been said in the newspapers
north and south about my responsibility in
connection with this matter. My position
mas been purposely misrepresented. and
the senator from Wisconsin has assumed
to himself the right to arraign me In this
body and to pass judgment of condemnation
IN most biting and vindictive phrase It is
not worth while to ask who made John c.
Spooner my keeper gave him the right
10 assume this hectOring and masterful at
titude. With self-righteousness that is
characteristic of his breed he dons the robe
OF the Pharisee, spreads broad his phylac-
teries and calls up. the senator from South
Carolina for sentence and pronounces his
decree. -
Have I ever advocated lynch law at any
time or at any place? 1 answer on my
honor. Never I have justified it for one
crime and one only, and have consistently
and persistently maintaine dthat attitude
for the last fourteen years. AS governor
I o1oip
though had taken the oath Of office to
support the law and enforce 1t, 1 would
lead a mob to lynch any man. black or
white. who had ravished any woman. black
or white. This is my attitude calmly and
deliberately taken and Justified by my
conscience in the sight of God.
The Unwrftten Law.
"Mr. President the senator from Wiscon-
sin speaks of 1ynching BEES AS far az
lynching for rare is concerned. the word is
misnomer. When stern and sad-faced
white men put to death a creature In. hu-
man form who has defiowered a white wo-
man there Is nothing of the bee about IL
There is more Of the feeling of participating
as mourner at funeral. They have aveng-
ed the greatest wrong. the blacklist crime
in all the category Of crimes and they have
done 1t not 80 much as an act Of retribu-
ton in behalf of the victim as a warning
as to what any man may expect who shall
the protection of their own loved ones.
THE senator from Wisconsin prates
about the law. He erects the law Into q
deity which must be worshiped regardless
Of justice. He has studied law books until
his mind has become saturated with the
bfgotry which ignores the fundamental
pr.lciple in this government-'law is moth
ing more than the will of the people,
There are written laws and unwritten
laws. and the unwritten laws are always
the very embodiment of savage justice.
The senator from Wisconsin is incapable
Of understanding conditions in the south
or else he has lost those natural impulses
which for centuries have been the charac-
teristics of the race to which we belong
Tacitus tells us that the 'Germanic people
were ever jealous of the virtue OF their
women Germans, Saxons. Englshmen,
they are practically one springing from
the same great root. That trinity of words,
the noblest and hottest in our language,
'womanhood. wifehood. motherhood have
Saxon origin. I believe with Wordsworth:
"A mother is a mother still, The noblest
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