Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-01-13

| Tillman, in which the constitutional
and understanding of the constitution
/ of his state were explained as barring
negroes from voting.
Mr. Tillman said there was nothing
/ in what had been set forth justifying
force and murder So far as he was
concerned. he did not care whether
/ the people of Colorado liked the pro-
cess or not. AS this law was said to
have been borrowed from Mississippi.
Senator Money explained that il was
not the educational clause. but the
| failure of the negro TO pay poll tax in
| Mississippi which disfranchised him.
! Mr.. Patterson continued. insisting
! that in his belief that only a very
small majority of the south were in
sympathy with the views expressed:
that the better element was decidedly
against such methods. and he did not
believes the people of the north were
getting a correct idea of the real situ-
alton from the lectures delivered i'm
northern cities by prominent south
erners
Mr.. Tillman took this as a reference
| 10 himself and asserted that he had
spoken to 100000 northerners i'm his
! lectures and that he had received APP
plause and appreciation. The charac-
| ter of his audiences. he said. indicated
| that he was arrressing the better ele<
ment. He challenged Senator Patter-
, son to debate the race question with
| him. Mr.. Patterson decline dthe in
vitation 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 odium and burden
such utterances entailed. This drew
a hot retort from Mr.. Tillman so
far" he said, "as my own party is
concerned in the north. it is such a
shining example of ward politicians
dirty, low creatures-that | don't care
| if we never have an yof the type to
back us up"
After the applause i'm the galleries
had died out and the vice president
had warned the audience against APP
plauding, Mr.. Patterson remarked;
II will not reply in any way to the
last utterance of the senator from
South Carolina"
Mr.. Patterson then took up Grim
inal assaults and lynchings and read
statistics showing that there had been
seventy-three lynchings during 1906.
Three-fourths of these, he said, were
| for criminal assaults and this number
| did not bear out the impression made
prevalent by the constant continuation
| of this crime especially when ii was
realized that there were more than
100000 negroes in this country He
| believed a strict reliance on law would
| in large part eradicate this crime.
At this point Mr.. Money called the
speakers attention to a case of Grim
| inal assault in Colorado during the
| year mentioned for which a negro
| was burned at the stake.
Mr.. Patterson did not justify this,
| but explained that ii occurred in a
sparsely settled section of the state.
He endorsed the presidents mes
| sage condemning mob violence
Mr. Money again interrupted to
quote from memory a statement in
one of President Roosevelts books en-
titled "Roughing It," in which the
president justified the lynching of
horse thieves in the early days of Ida
! no. This reference.1o Idaho brought
Senator Hepburn to his feet with
disclaimer that the senator was mis-
| taken in the state.
Perhaps | am, as the senator is still
alive" retorted Senator Money much
/ to the amusement of senators and the
] galleries. He at once disclaimed any
| thing but a pleasantly in his remark,
and said he would say it was Wyo-
/ ming if he did not see Senator War
rem in his seat. Mr.. Warren pro-
| tested that it was not Wyoming. Mr..
| Patterson said he would name the ter
| ritory were it not that he knew the
/ senator's would rise to protest He
explained the early frontier conditions,
| lack of courts and sparse population
served to justify the methods de-
| scribed by the president.
| When Mr.. Patterson read the statis~
| tics of lynching by states, showing
| that five lynchings had occurred dur
| ing the year in South Carolina, Sena-
| tor Tillman was on his feet and eN-
! claimed, "and as long as negroes con-
tinue to ravish white women we will
| continue 10 lynch them"
"If | had supposed ! would have
provoked such an utterance as that
| from the senator | would have omitted
South Carolina" exclaimed Mr.. Pat
\ terson.
Mr.. Money believed Mr.. Patterson
| had allowed his imagination to get the
| better of him in presenting lawess
| conditions in the south and called his
attention to the mob rule in Colorado
in 1904 and 1905.
| Mr., Patterson replied, i'm concluding
| his speech. that he had spoken with
| little effect If he had failed to demon
strate that he 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 had no such radical views
as had been expressed. and that those
who held the radical views We're few
in number. To support this, he read
extracts from the utterances of edu-
cational leaders and the clergy of the
south expressing the idea that the way
| to solve the race question was to build
up and recognize the manhood of the
negro.
Senator Mallory hat 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 resolutions then.
The debate occupied four hours and
was listened to with great interest by
throngs which filed the galleries, by
many members of the house, who
lined the senate chamber, and by
many senators.
On several occasions the galleries
had to be warned against applause by
the vice president, who finally threat
ened to clear them.
No action was taken on the resOlu-
tion for an investigation of the
Brownsville affray, but Mr.. Foraker
gave notice that on Monday he would
endeavor TO have 1t disposed of.
General Bell Confirmed.
Washington Jan 12.-The senate
today confirmed the nomination of
Brigadler General Franklin Bell, chief
of STAFF of the army, to be major gem
eral.
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