The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-07-03
SENATOR TILLMAN 4
ISSUES WARMING
The Senator Defends the New
Primary Rules.
RAPS GOVERNOR BLEASE.
Sends to Every Court House in State
Photographs of Negro Legis-
latOrS OF 1868.

Photographs of Negro Legis-
latOrS OF 1868.
The following is taken from The
Spartanburg Herald of thursday:
The Herald has received from
Senator b. r. Tillman copy of a
photograph showing the radical mem
bers of the South Carolina legisla-
ture of 1868. or 63 members of this
body, so were negroes or mulattoes,
Al were unable to read or write and
"A paid no taxes
Senator Tillman writes that he
found the picture in Greenville and
had it enlarged and framed in order
to have one sent to each county, so
that the people of South Carolina
can see it for themselves.
Under the picture, which it is ex-
pected Will be hung IN every court
house in the state appears this in
scription
Presented by Senator Tilman to
the clerks Office in cnch county OF
South Carolina as a warning to his
fellow citizens of the necessity for
white unity
Lord God of hosts! be with us yet
Lest we forget! Lest we forget!"
Along with the photograph Senator
Tllman has sent a statement in
which he warns the white voters to
stand united, so that the negroes may
never get into power again. The
senator defends the new primary
rules and takes several fings at Gov.
Cole l.. Blease.
The statement follows:
TILLMAN'S STATEMENT.
when in South Carolina last April
returning to Washington from Glenn
son college, l stopped in Greenvine
to see my niece. While there l.. M.
McBee showed me photograph,
2X3 inches in size, of the reconstruc-
tion legislature in 1868, the first we
had. There were far more negroes
in it than white men, borrowed il
and brought il to Washington and
have had it enlarged. / have had 1T
framed and intend 20 send one to
every county, TO be hung in the
clerks office so that those people
may see it who have a mind to.
NJ
are bowling about the negroes hav-
ing white teachers and the danger to
our ciliization from that source.
am inclined to believe the southern
people made a great mistake when
they did not take charge of the
negro's education &nd put them all
under white Teachers instead of negro
teachers However that may be, the
one real danger and a great one it
is, TO South Carolinas civilization
lies in a possible division among the
white people themselves, making the
negroes the balance of power and the
controlling factor in our politics. AS
long as the white people stand sheuI-
der To shoulder and fight it out
among themselves, we need never
fear. The new rules ecopted at the
last state convention to govern the
primary insure an honest vote and
every good democrat will abide the
result, whatever it be There is little
possibility of our having ever again
as bad a governor as Blease has
been.
South Carolina can even stand
Blease in the senate, however nau-
seating it will be to some of us but
would never recover from an appeal
by the Bleaseites, or any other, to
the negro vote. Should that occur,
our civilization would be doomed. An
indefinite EZRA of good stealing"
would come again. and in the course
of time another "ringed streaked and
striped" legislature would assemble
in Columbia