The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1908-05-15
TILLMAN SCORES
New York Banquet Where Whites
Dlned With Negroes.
WILL HURT BLACKS

Incident Makes Progress Toward
inevitable Catastrophe. He Asserts
that Northern trcciing Differs Very
Little IN the Race Question From
tho Southern.
senator Tiilman gave on last Fri
day to a representative of the Allan
la Journal u ringing interview in
which he spoke in his characteristics
fashion OF a banquet recently given
IN New York and attended by white
and neg men and one who sat
SIDE by side at the banquet tables.
senator Tillman was severe in his
condemnation of the %banquets, and
stated that the speeches made were
not Tor New forkrS, but specially for
southern consumption, rs was indicat-
cd by some OF the orators Of the oc-
CuSion.
The story Of the banquet which
evoked the sentiments expressed bv
Senator Tillman appeared recently in
the Washington Post. the philadel-
th'' tPiI tll Tie w "uSnlnSlOn
Times, and all the eastern and VEST
crn dallicS. The entertainment was
SiVcn under the auspices Of the Cos
m%opolitan socictyof New York. White
women were SandwiChcd between ne
gro men, II listened to speeches lv
negroes which advocated intcrmarri.
& as II solution OF the race problem.
Some OF those present were Harold
Z. Willard, editor OF the New York
Evening Post; William II. Ferris. q
negro graduate OF Harvard; Cap
tam II. a. Thompson, Il negro who
said he was Il soldier at San Juan
Hul; Miss Mary w. OvingtOn, a
white woman prominent in settlement
york in brooklyn. who sat between
two negro mon. and Edward G. Walk
or. president OF the Sunrise CluL.
which sanctioned the recent ''af-
Unity" idea Of Il. p, Earle, who took
Il notion to Quit his wife for another
woman he liked better and whom he
designated as his affinity"
Such ideas Senator Tillman stated
that the south would forever resist at
every hazard. He said that the best
way to eliminate tho suggestion Of
social equality was to remove politi-
cal quality, and that the best way to
do this is by the repeal of the fifteen
tn amendment and the notifications of
the fourteenth. This not having
been done, 1t was pointed ont that
The states Of the black belt, with the
single exception OF Georgia. had takcn
legal steps to disfranchisc large num-
beers of negroes, and that it was the
duty OF GcorgianS 10 Join her sister
states by the passage Of a similar
lax.
My view, ON the race problem, -
says Senator Tillmau. are so well
known, by reason OF the great num-
Der Of lectures have delivered on
the subject, that do not know that
it is worth while to discuss this lat
est phase OF il. Bat this incident,
trivial in itself, only marks The rapid
progress we are making toward the
inevitable catastrophe. have con
tended for years that existing cOndi-
lions can inevitable have but II end
bloody race conflicts.
'ThiS banquet, or dinner. or what
ever you call it. at which a few
Fanatics like Willard and other White
men OF that ilk, had drummcd up Il
tot OF dcncgradc or lunatic white We
men, to illustrate thcir practice OF
social equality and launched the pro
paEanda OF a~malgamatiOn between
the race, will do no harm in New
York. and il was not intended to
affect conditions there. 1t WAS de-
signed for southern consumption and
IN "a fTnri 4 no Annih INnI. inst l1I.