Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-09-11
BY Lieutenant Colonel


erful hot when it is heated.
When his temper is hot he yanks at
sll Of the valves and goes, wide open,
at speed that is more than break-neck
in character.
The old senator is not as bad a man
as the red-hot words his red-headed
temper pushes to the front.
indeed, at heart, he is not bad man
at all.
Every now and then he plunges a.
poor Sambo, head down and dust fly
ing, and burns his hide off with his
double-shotted words, white with heat,
but let white man, North or South,
give Sarnbo an under-the-rib blow
treat him with rank injustice-and you
would sSs the South Carolinian rush
to the side of the black man, pitchfork
ready for action, demanding, and
loudly, that he be given a square deal,
and always square meal, and the
chances are that he would have some
thing to say like this: "He is not to
blame for being black-God made
him. though of ar inferior class of
clay, thus uniting him for a seat at
the white mans table,"
The colored men Of the town in
which the South Carolina senator lives
are not a bit afraid of him. They
know him at first hand, far, far from
the Chautauqua platform. They re-
member some of the many favors the
man with red temper has done the
colored people in misfortune, In sick
ness, poverty and death. They have
seen his man unloading food and other
goods at the homes of the worthy
poor of their race; they have seen
him sending doctors to the homes of
sickness, and undertakers to the
homes of mourning.
They have never ceased to talk
about "Massa TiIlman's knocking
down brutal white man who pur-
posely pushed sick, weak negro into
a ditch"
They have liked him well enough to
name many little kinky haired coal
black pickanninny in his honor.
People up north, who have seen Sen
ator Tiliman raging ny and down
the Chsutauqua front, and heard his
unclaimed torrents of pitch-forky de-
nunciations of the negro, will be sur
prised to know that South Carolina has
black boys enough whose given name
is Tillman, or Benjamin. Tillman, to
make up battalion large enough to
take the place Of the one mustered
out Of the twenty-fifth infantry.
There are Benjamin Tillman Washing
tons, Benjamin Tillman LiRcolns, Ben
jamin Tillman Clays Tillman Cal
houns, Pan Tillman Shermans, Till
man Grants, TilIman Lees, and so on
all along the line.
The colored people of the south are
not afraid of Senator Tillman, and
those WHO are within close range of
him, like the good things he has done
for them and their neighbors.
1t is 80 in the senate
There are not many senators who
have larger number of warm per
sonal friends among the members than
this man who at times erupts worse
than old Vesuvius.
1t is only now and then that any
one feels that it is worth while to
throw slab in his path.
The spirit moved Senator Spooner
to roll sawlog in his way last win.
ter, but it did not disturb their pleas
ant social relations; it did not reduce
Tillman's friends among the senators,
One of these days the right man will
corrall the South Carolinian and give
him such a shower of logic, common
sense, craftsmanship and patriotism
on the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
amendments to the constitution of
the United States that his future ap-
peals and demands for the repeal of
those amendments will be as innocent
of harm as the cooling of dove.
No man in the nation knows better
than Senator Tillman that the people
OF this wonderful republic will never
repeal those amendments to the con-
stitution
And he knows as well as any man
living that on that subject the south
ment
And few, If any on earth know bet
ter than Senator Tillman that If the
government Of the United States ex-
lists for million years it will witness
no more civil wars between the north
and the south.
There is one subject Senator TILL
man touches that demands few side
glances.
At Manitowoc, recently. where he
had terrible brain storm, if the re-
ports are true, Senator Tillman spoke
about the north having twenty-eight
soldiers to the south's one. at a GER
tain period of the war that took
place SO long ago that it ought to be
a crime for men to talk as if it were
still going on.
The men who were called upon to
stand and shoot at one another are
mighty well pleased that the shooting
stopped more than a lifetime ago.
Four years of such a war was enough
for the men who during those years
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