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SENATOR TILLMAN TALKS. Touches Upon Political Future of the South and a Number of Other Questions. Columbia, S. C. Dec. 5.-When I Columbia, S. C., Dec. 3.-When I met him here by appointment as he was passing through Columbia on his way to Trenton Senator Tillman was in particularly good spirits and chatted pleasantly and entertainingly concerning the lessons taught by the results of the national election and the political future of the south. Though when he touched on certain phases of the negro question the cor ners of his mouth went down promptly and with marked energy, his eye flashed and his voice deepen ed into that tone of intense earnest ness for which he is so famous. Asked what he thought of the solid south and whether he saw any im mediate hope of breaking it, Senator Tillman declared with emphasis that the solid south would never be brok en as long as the Fifteenth amend ment is allowed to stand. "The south is solidly democratic, not in the broader sense that the term democracy is understood in the politics of the whole country,'' he said, "but in the narrow sense that the Anglo-Saxon intelligence of the south solidly and always unyieldingly stands for white supremacy. Of course this situation is unfortunate, inasmuch as the results are intellec tually stifling in the discussion of and contention for the broader principles of government and of civilized life.1 But there is no immediate hope of changing these conditions. Every effort put forth by the misguided philanthropists and vicious politi cians of the north with their imprac ticable notions about the equality of man, to break the solid south, only seals .that bond of union as with hoops of steel, and the problem will never be solved until the north lets the south alone to solve it. "Ii these dreamers of the north, working in conjunction with their greedy political brethren, don't stop meddling'in this matter there will be race war and terrible massacre. For political equality means social equal ity, and social equality means misce genation and the mongrelizing of the people of the south with the result that the white intelligence of the south will degenerate to the level of those- South American republics whose history has shown them to be wholly and invariably incapable not on'y of self-government, btut of ac q:arm:s proper:y, the distinguishing characteristic of the white man. and unwillingness to respect law and live in a quiet and orderly manner. "Once let the wedge be driven in just the least bit, once recognize the political equality of the negro and social equality will inevitably follow and the races will merge by marriage between the better class of negroes and the lower class of whites. Those scoudrelly, trifling white men who have lost all self-respect will not scruple to marry the daughters of ne gro men who have acquired property. Then will the sluice gates be opened and there will be no stopping the mongrelizing of the white intelli gence of the south. This is unthink able condition, an impossible con summation." "There is only one solution of the negro problem," he continued, "only one way of eliminating the crime of rape and freeing the land of the re sultant crime of lynching-the com plete subjection of the negro under stringent laws and police regulations.I As long as he is allowed by law to vote and run about the country with Out restraint there is no checking the crimes which he commits. And the north is gradually coming to that viewv of the matter." In this connection Senator Tillman told of his experience in campaign ing in the west and mentioned a num ber of Illinois and Indiana towns which will not allow the negro to live in them. "The north is gradually getting ed ucated on the negro question; the lit tle taste these people have had ofI Cuffy has made them less tolerant of his weaknesses than the people of the south even. The patriotic intelli gence of the north recognizes that the south has a great p>roblem on its hands and is willing to let the south solve it." The overwhelming defeat of the national democracy does not in the slightesct degree, in Senator Till man's opinion, reflect the north's agreement with President Roosevelt's negro policy: He attributes the re publican success to the general pros perity of the country and the per sonal popularity of Mr. Roosevelt. Senator Tillman is not feeling blue about reduction of southern represen- C tation. He said: "I have talked to many of the brightest and most capable newspa per correspondents at Washington, r and they all pooh-pooh the idea, and from many of the leaders of the re public;: party I learn that it is not the intention to attempt any such, thing. These greedy Yankees who want to reduce the south's represen tation in order to decrease our power and influence and increase their own, forget, in their selfishness. in arguing for representation in proportion to voting strength and the number of people participating in government, that their own representation is based largely on hordes of foreigners who C are constantly pouring into the north, who know nothing of our history or institutions and who are less capable. in a sense. of voting intellgently and know less about the needs of this country and are less patriotic than the negroes themselves. They forget the history of the world in contend ing for their idea of the equality of man. They forge+ that not half the white men of E'rope today. lcaving Russian out of the count. are allow ed tu vote. not even tho-s. of the so called limited or constituional mon archies. Universal suffrage is an idle dream. and it is dangerous and deadly pcison to free government. "What of the immediate future of the democratic party?" "The darkest hour is always just before day. These sort of defeats not infrequently presage great victories for the party. Things looked black er in '74 and again in '92. the periods of greatest democratic stccesses. The republicans are drunk with success and a long hold on power. They will be certain to misinterpret the real cause of the recent victory and our time will come if we are true to our elves and to American ideals. "Anyhow the south can neither be seduced nor bullied into change of at titude. Democracy with us means white man's rule. It has meant that and almost nothing else for almost thirty y'ears or more. Republicanism has just as surely meant negro equal itv with all that that implies. But those who think the recent election indicates that the north is solidly re publican on this issue wvill have a rude awakening if they attempt to carry out the idea. I may be mistak en. but I shall wait with equanimity to see the test made. The south meantime will stand by and maintain its Anglo-Saxon civilization. To paraphrase the language of Miartin Luther at. Worms: 'There we take our stand, we can do not otherwise, so help us God.' Horse Talk. The owner should study each horse and know his requirements. There is no excuse for a horse being in poor condition. The first cause is always neglect or abuse. It is money out of pocket to let a horse run down. A little coddling over small detailsI ~ill make the difference between a heartbroken nag and one that von will be proud to show in any com pany. The other day I was in the stable of a man who evidently works on the plan that once a wveek is often enough to clean out the horse stable. The horses themselves looked as if the felt abused in the worst way.I believe it does take the pride otut of a horse to be neglected that way. Do4 not do it! 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