Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-05-14
TILLMAN SCORES
New York Banquet Where Whites
Dined With Negroes.
WILL HURT BLACKS

Inevitable Catastrophe. He Asserts
th"t Northern Feeling Differs Very
Little i'm the Race Question From
tho Southern.
senator Tfllman gave on last Fri
oay 10 representative of the Atlan-
Ia journal a ringing interview in
whlch he spoke in his characteristic
iashion OF banquet. recently given
IN New York and attended by white
ana negro men and women, who sat
SIDE by side at the banquet tables
senator Tnlman was severe in his
conoemnation of the banquets. and
stated that the speeches made were
not FOR New Yorkrs, but specially for
southern consumption. as was indicat-
eo py some of the orators of the oc-
casion.
lhe story OF the banquet which
evoked the sentiments expressed hv
senator Tillman appeared recently in
the Washington Post, the Philadel-
phia Telegraph and the Washington
Iimes. and all the eastern and west
ern daiiies. The entertainment was
gwen under the auspices of the Cps-
mopolitan society of New York. White
women were sandwiched between ne
gro men. and listened TO sre.. les ~
negroes which advocated inl msrri-
age as solution OF tho race r.,,b,em
Some OF those present wore Harold
G. Willard, editor of the New York
Evening Post; William II. Ferris. a
negro graduate of Harvard: Cap
tain II. A. Thompson. a negro who
said he was soldier at San Juan
Hi; Miss Mary w. Ovington,
white woman prominent in settlement
work in Brooklyn. who sat between
two negro men. and Edward c. Walk
err. president of the Sunrise Club.
which sanctioned the recent "af-
finity' 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 10 remove politi-
cal quality, and that the best way TO
do this is by the repeal OF the fifteen
tn amendment and the modification of
the fourteenth. This not having
been done, IL 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 il was the
duty of Georsians TO join her sister
states by the passage of a similar
law.
My views on the race problem.
says Senator Tillman, ARE so we'll
known. by reason of the great num-
ber of lectures / have delivered on
the subject, that I 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 condi-
tions can inevitable have but one 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 drummed up O
lot OF denegrade or lunatic white wo-
men, to illustrate their practice of
social equality and launched the pro-
paganda of amalgamation between
the race, will do no harm in New
York, and il was not intended to
affect conditions there. II was de-
signed for southern consumption and
20 affect the south. For instance. DR..
Ferris, the colored Harvard graduate.
emphasized this. when he said:
This means more to the negro
IF the black beIt~ of the north The
incident is revival of the old scheme
of those radicals who. with Thad
stevens and Charles Sumner. caused
the re-construction deviltry in the
south i'll '6S. That Stevens practiced
miscegnation, and Charles Sumner
endorsed il. and nothing but the i'm
people-men and women alike-sav-
ed our civilization then.
THE negro newspapers throughout
the country will publish and send
broadcast over the south this story
of black men and white women sitting
down to dinner, with what results
need not say. Roosevelt's luncheon
with Broker Washington caused ur-
told mischief. and. as one Of these
speakers said, conditions are going
to get worse in the south before thev
get better. When the colored peoplt
get educated, tn whites in the South
will have TO recognize them Closing
mis- statement with assertion that de
portation is impossible. then it must
he amalgomation and education.
"A few statistics will indicate what
this means. South Carolina has 225.-
| 900 more negroes than whites; Mis-
sissippi 265. 900 more negroes than
| whites. and the six southern states OF
South Carolina. Georgia. Alabama,
FLORIDA, Mississippi and Louisiana,
constituting the black belt. have 30
900 more negroes than whites. YcuT
own state Of Georgia has over t.000,
900 negroes and less THAI 200, 900
white majority.