Paragould soliphone. (Paragould, Ark.) 1918-1950, 1922-01-13
LYNCHINC BILL
is Played BY
AN ARKANSAN
Radical, Revolutionary and
Siniser," Declares Repre-
sentative Tillman-Bitter
in His Attack.

Washington, Jan. ll.--Radlcal,
revolutionary, sinister and without
constitutional warrant" was the
characterization by Representative
John N. Tillman of Arkansas of the
Dyer anti-lynching bill in an hours
speech on the floor of the House
yesterday Mr.. Tillman is a mem
Der Of the Judiciary Committee
which reported the bill over his
protest.
1.-THE partisan majority" he said
in proposing this bill, lis declaring
war against the philosophy of our
system of government and is seek
ing to destroy all that is left of
local self-government and state SOW
ereignty.
Is Against Mob Murder.
81 am against the abominable cult
Of mob murder, as all Southern pub
lie men are-the bar, the judiciary,
press and pulpit-but the measures
you propose will multiply, not cur
tail, lynchings. You are proposing
to discredit and destroy state courts,
to lessen the apthoring of state Off
Gals and to encourage conflict be-
tween the two sovereignties, weak
ening BOTH
He deplored the fact that the adj
vocates of the bill treated with 81
lent unconcern the crime responsible
for many Southern lynchings, and
said the Washington Post "a hours
after Doctor Fess, 'the imperial
highbrow from Ohio" denounced
Southern MODS, but made no refer
ence to the offense which provokes
frequent mob murders, and told
how negro, Thomas Minar, had
assaulted a woman within sight
of the nations capitol.
''The law does not favor penalties,
and it is not desirable to hold one
person for the crime or tort of an
other, yet this bill seeks to hold
county responsible in the sum of
$4,000 if a man is lynched within
its borders, even if no citizen of the
county participated.
1--WE will put a stop to lynching
in the South" Judge Tillman said.
without long distance interference,
just as Massachusetts put a stop
to witch Burning without long dis
lance interference.
Flags Bills Supporters.
THE Republican members from
Massachusetts, are supporting this
bill, and are always complaining
that the negro does not have equal
political rights, and yet all the
Massachusetts members voted against
woman suffrage, thereby saying that
Mrs. Harding, Mrs. Wilson and Jane
Adams should be denied the right
to vote, but that criminal and il
literate black men of the South
must not have their voting privileges
curtailed even by such constitution
al laws as the Southern states have
adopted on the suffrage
''You say also that some little
mountain county, where a lynching
occurs. must pay a flat penalty of
$4,000 for some dead criminal,
worthless if alive. but worth for
tune dead. l find it difficult some
times to understand the Massachu-
sets conscience or to follow thel
Massachusetts, reasoning, especially
when you vote to compel Southern
counties to pay an appraised rate
of $4,000 of the only good money
of the world for the body of a color
ed rapist when your forbears neyerl
thought of charging a Southern
planter prior to 1860 more than
one-tenth of that sum for a vigorous
field hand.p
He closed by haunting the Re
publicans with debating corn from
81 bushel to nothing and then en-
deavoring to initiate the value of
dead criminals from nothing to $10,-
600