The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-01-06
TILMAN SPEAKS
Ths Senator Makes a Notable
Speech TO Teachers.
BREAK SOLID SOUTH.
By Use of Patronage is What Presi-
dent-Elect Taft Aims to Do, Says
the Senator, Who Warns South
ern Democrats to Be on Their

Guard.
Columbia, S. c., Jan. 1.-Senator
B. r. Tillman, in delivering an ad-
dress before the State Teachers AS
sociation here tonight took occa-
sion to warn the people against the
agitation for compulsory education,
asserting that should such a law be
passed it would mean the education
{ the negro, which would in the
and mean a blow to white suprem-
acy.
Senator Tillman urged the Demo-
Gratis of the South against the
scheme which he said President-elect
Taft and his associates were hatch
ing up to break the solid South. He
said it was the purpose of the presi-
dent-elect to hand ont fe leral Of
fees to the Democrats of the South
in order to build up a white Repub-
lican party in this section.
The Senator took issue squar Ely
,ith two Of the speakers he had
card in the morning, Prof Clax-
Il. Of Tennessee. and the Rer. C.
:. Weltner. Of Columbia, and de-
'oted his speech largely to argu-
nents against compulsory education,
'asi7g his objections to the propo-
ition on the presence Of the negro.
e began by asserting in effect that
'ducation is not an essential Of good
citizenship, and cited the example OF
he Revolutionary soldiers, who
'onght at the battle of Kings Noun
tain, yet many of whom could not
read and write.
He rather resented the structure
on this States illiteracy in the ad-
dress of Prof. Claxton, and in dis
cussing the negro question. referred
at length~to the purpose Of President
elect Taft, of whom he spoke in
friendly terms as a gentleman, to
break up the solid South by the use
Of patronage. He said that if this
intention was successful, instead OF
negroes and scalawags in the Legis-
!ature. we would have negroes an
some Of our bank presidents AMI
cotton mill presidents represent ting
the Republican party.
He declared that the Republican
party was the black mans party IL
the South and the Democratic party
the white mans party. He did no.
believe that any great, number o!
Democrats would be bequi!ed by
toffces. Some times servers would
sell out, but he did not think there
were many Of such men in the
Democratic parey in the South. IN
speaking of the efforts of the Re,
publicans to break the solid South
he asked why they did not advo.
cate the breaking Of the solid North
as well as the solid South.
| Taking up the question of com
pulsory education he urged that tc
compel under the law the Negro
must be given equal rights with the
white man, and that this would mean
the education of the negro to vote
In concluding the Senator praised
the efforts to cultivate the love Of
the beautiful in the school room
The speech Of Senator Tillman
was plain and to the point, as all
of his speeches are The hall OF
the House Of Representatives, where
the Senator spoke, was crowded with
4 large audience of cultured and in
telligent people to hear him. His
audience seemed to be in sympathy
with what he said, and it fire.
quently applauded him enthusiast
cally. While the Senator did not
say so, his speech indicated that ne
would rather have the Offices in this
State filled by true blue Republicans
than by Democrats who had sold out
for Office.