Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1900 — Pitchfork Tillman Disgusts Democrats. [ARTICLE]

Pitchfork Tillman Disgusts Democrats.

The Democrats had a big rally at Goodland, Saturday, at which the speaker was the notorious Pitchfork Tillman, of South Carolina, He is the chief apostle of the “Gospel of Hate” in the south, just as Atgeld is in the north; and like Altgeld is despised and detested by all the better element of the party. Tillman has discretion °nough to restrain himself, to some extent, in communities like Goodland, but even there much that he said was so bitter, venomous and vindictive that it disgusted many of his democratic hearers and will no doubt lose votes for his party. That it will gain any is top preposterous to believe. A postal card, quoting some of Tillman’s most vindictive, outrageous and unjust remarks about the colored people had been extensively circulated in Goodland, and one of these cards having been handed to him, he made it the text of a similar diatribe against the negroes in which he savagely justified their forcible diafranchisment in the south, and especially the Carolina method. His remarks on this subject were so venomous that his Democratic hearers were greatly disgusted.