Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-13

| hundred thousand northerners in his lee
lures. and that he had received applause
ana appreciation The character OIL MS
! audiences. he said. indicated that he was
| addressing the better element He con-
cluded his interruption by issuing chal-
| lenge to Senator Patterson to debate The
| race question with him in Colorado at any
time or place.
Mr.. Patterson declined the invitation to
| debate, and said he only wished to point
out that both the people of the south and
the democrats Of the north had to bear the
odfum and burden such utterances entaileo.
| This drew a hot retort from Mr.. T1llman
so far. he said. las my own party Is con-
cerned in the north. 1t Is such shining ex-
ample of ward politicians, dirty low crea-
lures. who use every tactic and all means
to buy votes. that l don't care II we Lever
have any of that type to back US up.
We've got no use for them"
After the applause in the galleries had
died out, and the Vice President had
warned the audience against applause, MIR.
Patterson remarked:
Il will not reply in any way to the last
lima
Mr.. Patterson then took up the subject of
criminal assaults and lynchings, and read
statistics showing that there had been.
seventy-three lynchings during the year
1906. Thirty-four of these lynchings, he
said. were for criminal assaults. and this
number did not bear out the impression
made prevalent by the constant denunci-
alton of this crime, especially when 1t was
realized that there were more than TO-
600, 600 negroes in this country. He believed
strict reliance on law would in large
part eradicate this crime.
One Negro Burned in Colorado.
At this point Mr.. Money called the speak
er's attention to the record of one case of
criminal assault in Colorado during the
year mentioned. for which negro was
burned at the stake by mob.
Mr. Patterson did not iuStify this but
explained that it occurred in sparsely
settled section of the state. He Endorsed
the words of the President in his annual
message condemning mob violence In this
connection Mr.. Money again interrupted
to quote from memory a statement in one
of President Roosevelts books, entitled
justified the lynchings of horse thieves in
the early days in Idaho. This reference to
Idaho brought Senator Hepburn to his
feet at once with a disclaimer that the
senator mistaken in the state.
Perhaps I am, the senator is still
alive, retorted Senator Money. much to the
amusement of senators and galleries. He
at once disclaimed anything but pleas
antry in his remark. and said he would
say it was Wyoming if he did not see Sen
ator Warren in his seat. Mr.. Warren pro-
tested that 1t was not Wyoming. Mr.. Pat
terson said he would name the territory
referred to were it not that he knew two
senators would arise and protest. He ex-
planned the early frontier conditions, lack
of courts and sparse population to justify
the methods pursued as described by the
President.
Mr. Tillman persisted that the tate ought
to be named.
When Mr.. Patterson read the statistics
of lynching by states showing that five
lynchings had occurred during the year in
South Carolina, Senator Tillman was on his
feet and exclaimed, land as long as
negroes continue to ravish white women
we will continue to lynch them.
"If | had supposed l would have pro-
voked such an utterance as that from the
senator l would have omitted South Caro-
lima exclaimed Mr.. Patterson.
Mr.. Money believed Mr.. Patterson had
allowed his imagination to get the better
of him in presenting lawless conditions in
the south and called his attention to the
mob rule in Colorado in 1904 and 1905.
Mr. Patterson replied. in concluding his
speech, that he had spoken with little eff
feet if he had failed to demonstrate that he
had not apd was not assailing the people of
the south On the contrary, he declared his
whole purpose to be to set forth that the
better element In the south held no such
radical views as had been pressed. and
that those who held the radical views were
few in number. To support this. he read
extracts from the utterances of educa-
tional leaders and the clergy of the south,
expressing the idea that the way to solve
ognize the manhood of the negro.
Senator Mallory had indicated his desire
to discuss the question at the conclusion of
Mr. Tillman's speech. and doubtless will
proceed Monday, as Mr.. Foraker Indicated
he would call up the Brownsville resoiu-
lions on that day soon as the legislative
appropria ton bill had been disposed Of.