Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1902 — ADVOCATES THE SHOTGUN. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ADVOCATES THE SHOTGUN.

Senator Tillman's Sensational Speech ia the Senate. Senator Tillman made a aensational speech in the Senate the other afternoon, in which he advocated the use of the

shotgun, when necessary, in settling the negro problem in the South. He discussed the situation in the South and declared that if it had keen known prior to the conclusion of the war that in the South the reins of government were to be turned over to

the negroes there would have been inaugurated a guerrilla warfare in the swamps of the South that would have been kept up indefinitely. In his own State there were 200,000 more negroes than whites and in Mississippi 300,000 more colored than white people. In order to maintain their selfrespect the whites, he declared, were obliged to take the reins of government in the gouth by whatever means they could —using the shotgun as one of the means. Referring to the reinauguration of white supremacy in South Carolina, he said the whites had secured a majority j>t 3,900. It might just as easily have been, he said, 39,000 or 99.000. They simply got such a majority as waa necessary. In the United States, he maintained, a serious problem confronted the government —the negro problem—and it might better try to solve that than to hunt for trouble in the Philippines.

SENATOR TILLMAN.