The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1908-05-08
TILLMAN SCORES
New York Banquet Where Whites
Dlned with Negroes.
WILL HURT BLACKS

Says the Senate, Who Declares the
Incident Makes Progress Toward
Inevitable Catastrophe. He Asserts
that Northern Feeling Differs Very
Little in the Race Question From
the Southern.
Senator Tillman gave on last Fri
day to a representative of the Allan
ia Journal a ringing interview in
which he spoke in his characteristic
fashion of a banquet recently given
in New York and attended by white
and negro men and women, 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 for New Yorkrs, but specially for
southern consumption as was indicat-
ed by some of the orators of the oc-
casion.
The story of the banquet which
evoked the sentiments expressed by
Senator Tillman appeared recently in
the Washington Post, the Philadel-
phia Telegraph and the Washington
Times. and all the eastern and west
ern dailies. The entertainment was
given under the auspices of the Cos
mopolitan society of New York. White
women were sandwiched between ne
gro men, and listened to speeches by
negroes which advocated intermarri-
age as solution of the race problem.
Some of those present were Harold
G. Willard, editor of the New York
Evening Post; William H. Ferris, a
negro graduate of Harvard; Cap
tain H. A. Thompson, negro who
said he was a soldier at San Juan
Hill; Miss Mary w. Ovington, a
white woman prominent in settlement
work in Brooklyn, who sat between
two negro men, and Edward G. Walk
er, president of the Sunrise Club.
which sanctioned the recent "af-
inity'' idea of F. P Earle, who took
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 the suggestion OF
social equality was to remove politl-
cal quality, and that the best way to
do this is by the repeal of the fifteen
th amendment and the modification OF
the fourteenth. This not having
been done, it was pointed out that
the states of the black belt, with the
single exception OF Georgia, had taken
legal steps to disfranchise large num-
bers Of negroes, and that it was the
duty of Georgians to join her sister
states by the passage OF similar
law
MY views on the race problem,
saws Senator Tillman. are so well
known, by reason OF the great num-
her of lectures ! have delivered on
the subject. that do not know that
il is worth while to discuss this lat
est phase of it. But this incident
trivial in itself, only marks the rapid
progress we are making toward the
inevitable catastrophe. have con-
tended for years that existing conul'
tions can inevitable have but one enc
I-bloody race conflicts.
This banquet, or dinner, or "hat'
ever YOU call it, at which lie"
fanatics like Willard and other white
men of that ilk, had drummed up
lot of denegrade or lnnatic white W.
men, to illustrate their practlce o
social equality and launched the pro
paganda of amalgamation betweel
the race, will do no harm III ne"
York, and it was not lntendeu u
affect conditions there. 1t was dc