Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-08-25

| is uedfly IOur years OH ana he may
be dead in 1912. But the newspa-
| pers are anxious for something to
say, and so they jump on him cad
when he Is criticised he's goinc to
hit back. "When people slap one
| jaw for me-" he said, "I'll be dog
goned If I'm going to turn the
| other"
| The State newSpaper) has been
urging the Legislature to pass
| compulsory. education law, and
yawps and snarls at his (Tillman's)
heels and says that he's in favor Of
| Ignorance because he opposes COM
pulsory education. Now, what does
| compulsory education mean? 1t
| means that every child in South Car
| olina between certain ages shall be
| forced to go to school-the public
| school. This also means that there
must be public school for them to
go to before they can attend it. Com
pulSory education means taxation to
furnish the necessary facilities, and
that the negro must go, too. If it
meant white children only he'd say
amen" and pay his share of the
taxes, but the Fifteenth Amendment
forbids discrimination. He has moth
ing against the negro, but as the
negro pays relatively no taxes in pro-
potion to population, he objects to
their being educated at the expense
OF the white people. The Fourteenth
Amendment gave to the colored race
the right to vote, and herein lies the
danger. The mountain counties of
South Carolina know nothing Of ne
gro domination, but in the lower
counties, where the blacks outnum-
Der the whites, the danger is easily
seen. The question may be asked,
why don't they vote now? Because,
in 1898, the people of South Caro-
lima called convention and chang ID
the Constitution the radicals had
thrust down their throatS in 1868.
and by this change diSfranchiscd the
negro. lIe laborcd hard to have it
changed, but ii took two years to
get retormcrs enough in the state
Senate to vote on Il Constitutional
convention. In the campaign he
urged it, but dcmagogues and fools
opposed 1t. because, they said, it
would deprive the white man Of his
vote. Two of the hardest opposers
OF that convention were the editors
Of the Charleston News and Courier
and the Columbia State But he
was chairman of the Committee on
Suffrage in the convention of 1895,
and that committee devised a scheme
and put IL into the Constitution that
allows the white man TO vote, but
deprlNes the negro of that right.
That scheme is the clause which
gives the board of registration so
much latitude in Judging as to quail
fcation to register. When a white
man presents himself to register, if
he hasn't the required amount of
property, he is asked to construe a
clause OF the Constitution. and he
had never heard of a white man be-
ing unable to cOuStrue the clause
that was read to him. On the other
hand, when negro presents himself,
If he hasn't the property. he is also
asked to cOnStruc q clause OF the
Constitution, but he had never heard
OF negro being able to construe the
clause that was read to him. This
has given us relief, but it has not
cured, and the only thing that will
cure is the repeal OF the Fifteenth
Amendment
He had been criticised about be-
ing absent from the Senate during
the discussion Of the tariff, but he
did not see any use in sitting and
watching Aldrich and Payne fix the
schedule, and he did not see that 1t
KEGS were willing to pay him two
hundred dollars to talk to them two
hours. He has been over the North
and West, and given them the very
ID, because he had given them the ,
gospel according to Tillman by dis
cuSSlng before them conditions be-
lore the war as compared with the
preseE'. He'd "sassed 'cm and sass
ed en- in the Senate until he has
gotten them SO not one Of them
would open his mouth in reply to
him. Just before Roosevelt's term
OF office expired he (RoospyelD re-
nominated the negro Crum as collec-
tor of the port of Charleston. He
(Tillman) succeeded in holding the |
appointment up until Mr.. Taft came
IN. Then Taft came down to Allan
ia and Charleston, and the people |
slobbered over him till he telegraph
ed back to Washington that the SEN
ate could confirm Crum's nomination
or not, Just as they chose Mr.. FRYE
called up the nomination, and he |
tTillman) asked that it be allowed
to go ovel 70" the day, as he was not
feeling very we'll. This was granted.
and then the Democrats told him
that 1t was no use to fight but he !
tod them that he had heard that one
man and God are a majority, so he !
began to load his batteries. He saw
no reason why South Carolina should
nave the last dose OF "nigger." so he ,
determined to fight. The "nigger"
in the North has got the politicians
by the throat and they have to pre-
tend to love him whether they do |
or not. The second day the nomina-
lon was called up he was feeling
line. so he 1alknl two hnnrn and q |