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I A Portion of Senator 6. R. Tillman's
Speech in the Senate on Sat- !
urday Last, in which he Scores the :
President's Action in Discharging .
the Negro Soldiers?Urges that Im
mediate Action be taken. 1
After the usual introductory re- ]
|S|: marks, the Senator went right into '
the discussion of the question and
f said:
"But the ridiculousness of the situ- J
ation is again apparent when one conaiders
that the senator from the
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v ssotui, wno, oy reason 01 nis ratucaj.
and aggressive utterances, and probably
actions, in the past, once ac11
quired the name of 'fire alarm,' finds
> himself aligned with that senator
from the South, (Mr. Tillman himself),
who is usually supposed to have
a broiled negro for breakfast (laugh5
. - ter); who is known to justify lynching
for rape, and whose attitude, if
not that of hatred to the negro is a
q, . ~ feeling akin to it, in the belief that
. white men are made of better clay'
and that white men alone are entitled
to participate in government.
|*. And so this alliance is an odd one."
Declaring that President Roosevelt
was more responsible "than any other
? man,"'Mr. Tillman read from Order
No. 29, issued by the wardepartment,
February 8, 1906, and signed by the
president, as follows:
"The uniform of the enlisted man
is a badge of honor. It entitles him
to peculiar consideration?it shows
that in the great'majority of cases he
has learned those habits of self-command,
or self-restraint, of obedience,
and'of fearlessness in the face of danger
which pnt him above most of his
fellows who have not posseSed similar
privileges. To strive to discriminate
against him in any way is literally
an infamy; for it is in reality one
of the most serions offences which
can be committed against the stabilr
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ity and greatness of our nation."
"That is the milk in the cocoanut,'?
ejaculated Mr. Tillman, who said it
was this "sort of staff' that put into
the heads of the negro soldier that he
was entitled to deman&^oeial ."equality
. ,
At this point Mr. Tillman was interrupted
for the first time. Senator
Nelson said: "Would you deny those
privileges to white solmers?" '
"I will go as far as any man in giving
white men, either soldiers or citizens,
their rights," answered Mr.
Tillman.
"Why should not the colored soliier,
if he conducts himself as a
vhite soldier, have the same consideration?"
persisted Mr. Nelson.
"For the simple reason that God
Almighty made him colored. He did
lot make him white," retorted Mr.
Pillman. who added that caste feelinsr
was universal, that it pulsated even
n the bosom of the senator from
tfinnessota (Mr. Nelson).
Mr. Tillman characterized the presdent's
action in the Brownsville matter
"as nothing more nor less than
ynching." He challenged any one
? produce in the army regulations or
irticles of war any foundation for the
charge of conspiracy of silence, mutily
and treason made against the solhers,
although he declared there was
10 doubt that the soldiers were reiponsible
for the "outrage at BrownsMr.
Tillman held that it, was conrary
to the fundamental principles of
iberty of English and American law
hat tne innocent should suffer be-.
?ause of the sins of the guilty; also,
le declared that a man snail be conddered
innocent until he fe proved
juilty. "In this case," he said, "167
nenhave been* punished while not
nore than 20 have been charged with
jarticipation in the crime.
"It is useless to deny that the race
inestion lies at the bottom of ail this,
t is equally useles to say that these
roops were discharged because they
yere negroes. If the negroes had
>een treated the same way as white
egulars were treated at Athens,
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in the courts. In that instance
the war department defended the regulars,
although they had committed
murder, and it was declared the
troops were the wards of the nation,
a very proper and right position to
take.
4'The whole issue involved i9 one of
race, and the president is primarily
more responsible than any other man
for the position the negroes in the
South have taken on the question of I
negro rights. He gave recognition to I
Booker Washington in a social way. I
He did it knowing he was flying in |
the face of ca9te feeling among 17,- j
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the same feeling of two-thirds or j
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"The well known attitude of the administration
on the social question
has been the cause of a great and 1
noticeable change in the demeanor 1
and action of the negroes throughout i
the South and the greater question of
relationship between the races can
not be much longer kept down."
He predicted in the near future a 1
! raee conflict. to, determine whether .<
the negro is the equal of the Caucasian.
"It is high time something was be- J
, irg done to have this great and* vital <
j question brought before the country
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The deep interestshown in the Browns- 1
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38 the white man's country and white
men must govern it."
Following a colloquy with Senator
Culb3rson on his position as to the
president's authority under the art
cles of war to discharge the soldiers,
Mr. Tillman remarked that none of
the negroes discharged would . return
to Texas.
"One of them," he continued, that
famous sergeant, Mingo Sanders,
comes from South Carolina. I would
like to meet Mingo and shake his hand.
But he isn't going back to South Carolina
and let me know that he is mm.
ing."
4'Why not," interjected Senator
Foraker.
"Because the suspicion that might
prevail as to who really did the killing
would make it unhealthy for him
down there. I wish it wasn't so, but
I can't help it. If he had been discharged
honorably he could have
come down there and been the biggest
man at negro camp meetings ana received
respectful treatment from the
whites."
"What would probably happen to
him?" persisted Mr. Foraker.
"Oh," ejaculated Mr. Tillman, with
evidence of impatience, "I am going
bo discuss the race question directly,"
and as the evidence of amusement at
his retort subsided, he added:
"Don't you fret, I am going to get
right down to the milk in the cocoanut,
but I don't want the 'fire alarm' to go
off until the. bell rings.'' (Laughter.)
Senator Tillman convulsed the galleries
and amused many senators a
minute later by illustrating the discrimination
between the races in
Washington. ' 'Negroes are not aUowod
to drink at all the bars in Washington,
as you all know," he said. The
last three words were given especial
smphasis and the senator waved his
band to include the whole senate.
Mr. Tillman said there were some
times when he wished to be dispassionate
and deliberative, and he had
orepared in writing his discussion of
;he race question and would read it.
The war had settled the question of
slavery and also the question of
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whether we were to be a confederation
or a nation. We were, he said,
a nation with a big "N." but the
Southern half of the country had no
conception of the word "nation" except
as it is connec* 3d with the word
"nigger"?"and more's the pity."
To a question from Senator Beveridge
that a remedy be -suggested, Mr.
Tillman declined to enter into that
Ehase of the discussion. He said he
ad arisen from a'sick bed to speak,
and to follow the suggestion of the
question would involve another two
hours' speech. It had simply been
his object to point out that the people
of the South were on the crest of a
volcano, and confronted with a situa
uuu cu wuicn tne peopie 01 tne north
had no conception. As to the Brownsville
matter, he stood on the proposition
that the innocent ought not to
be punished because there were some
guilty, "and I think the president has
made some very grave blunders in
dealing with this subject."
Sevea Bales ef Cotton on Three
Acres.
A Texan writing to the Dallas News
tells of his experience in raising cotton
last year, which was in the nature
of the phenomenal. The owner of a
small farm which he cultivates himself,
planted part of it in cotton. On
a certain three acres he raised 3,500
pounds or seven 500-pound bales. The
rows were laid out five and a half feet
apart, ran north and south. He also
relates that cotton planted in rows
running east and west did not produce
"nearly so much" as the cotton with
rows running north and south. This
agricultural note, while in a measure
explaining the bountiful cotton crop
of Texas this year, also offers a suggestion
that it would be well to plant
cotton in rows running north and
south since by this method the growing
cotton gets the benefit of the most
sunshine.?Cotton Journal.
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