The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-01-08
A GREAT SPEECH.
Senator Tillman Opens the Eyes
Of Many People.
ao Discusses tzao Raco Question in
Calm, Dispassionate Manner to
Large Audience.

Calm. Dispassionate Manner to
Large Audience.
In accordance with previous an
nouncement Senator B. r. Tillmar
delivered an address on Wednesday
to a large audience Of ladies and
gentlemen on the race problem,
The audience was composed largely
Of city people, the bad roads 10
doubt preventing many people from
the country coming in to hear the
distinguished speaker, as they would
have liked to do. The court house,
where the meeting was held, was
comfortably filled, one-thiro OF
the audience being ladies.
Senator Tillman arrived in the
city on the Atlantic Coast Line train
on Tuesday afternoon at 5 O'Clock
and was met by Capt Clafy. Sheriff
Dukes, Clerk Of Court Salley. Hon
l. W. Bowman and Mr. j. c. Rams.
dale, of the committee appointed by
| the ladies to receive and entertain
the senator while here Mr. J. l.
Sims, Of tho committee, was unable
to meet the senator en- account oi
sickness in his family. Tho com
mittee escorted the senator to the
beautiful country home of Mrs. J. "
Stokes, few miles from the city
where he was royalty entertained
for the night. All the members o:
the committee and some OF theil
wives were also guests Of Mrs
Stokes, Tuesday evening, except MT
Sims, who, from the cause alread!
stated, was denied that pleasure.
This. was not the first visit OF the
senator to the hospitable home o.
Mrs. Stokes, as he and Mrs. TIL
man have been guests there before
Mrs. Stokes drove the senator in OF
Wednesday morning and hf
was taken to the st
Joseph's Hotel by the com
m!ttee, where he remained Until
time for the address. During the
short time he was at the hotel
number of gentlemen called to pa!
their respects A few minutes be
fore IL o'clock he left the hote
and reached the court house JUS
about the time appointed for tn
speech. He was warmly greeted OF
the street and in the court house b!
old friends and admirers.
The meeting was opened witt
prayer by Rev. D. D. Dantzler. The1
Hor. I. " Bowman introduced Sen
ator Ttllman in very few words a.
the greatest South Carolinian an:
one Of the foremost statesmen OF th'
/; times The senator, as he arose
was greeted most enthusiastically OF
all sides. He opened his address b.
referring to his former visits t
Orangeburg, and said he felt some
what embarrassed this time beeaus
a fee was charged Ito hear him. =
said this was dong by the ladies a
his suggestion as a means to hell
! along the grand cause they wer
wishing for, and that he was glat
to be able to contribute, by hi
time and labor, to the establish
fent Of a hospital where tn
afflicted could be treated withou
going to some other city.
Senator Tillfan then took up tn
race problem and discussed it in
calm and dispassionate manner
There was no bitterness in hi
speech towards the negro as race
/; but he painted out the great dan
ger that confronted the South in tn
years to come when the presen
means used to curtail the negro Vot
will no longer be applicable. H
said it was a lementable fact tina
more negro children were ATTENDING
school in South Carolina than whit
children, and that it was a question
Of time only when there would b
more negro voters in this Stat
than white voters. He said that tn
trainers of the present constitution
went as far as they could in disfran
chising the negro without disfran
chising white men, which he sait
would never do.
He thought the day would come
unless present conditions wer
changed, when the whites would di
vide and the negro would b
brought in by the two factions o
the white people to settle their DO
litical disputes. He referred to tn
fact that no election On any Ques
ton could be settled now in thi
State without tho charge Of frau'
being charged against one side O
the other. He cited as an evidenc
Of what he meant by referring t
the frequent contests over dispen
sary elections and new county cleo
tions. He said these contests be
tween white people encouraged tn
negro to hope for political powe
some day, and ho thought the whit
people should stop it. and settle thei
| troubles without so much quarrel