Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1906 — TILLMAN IN FIERY TALK. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TILLMAN IN FIERY TALK.

Senator In Chicago Lecture Predicts Race War. Senator Benjamin It. Tillman passed unscathed through an exciting meeting in Orchestra Hall, Chicago, the other night.

There, for the benefit of the Chicago Union hospital, the statesman and lecturer from South Carolina delved into the heart t of the race question. In dramatic’ answers to interrupting questions he predicted war between the black and white races within ten years. Two disturbers, one a colored man and the other a ~ Russian sympathizer, were arrested and taken

from the gallery. The colored people.,,of (_ uicago had attempted to have the lecture called off because of the race prejudice it might” arouse. The speaker argued that the fifteenth amendment had not conferred suffrage on the colored man, because it %lid not confer if on the white man, declaring that it simply prohibited any State from enacting a law discriminating on account of color, “So the southern people are confronted with a prohibition which says. ‘Make any rule you please, provided it applies to both races alike.’ “Now, how mafiy of you know that there are 30,000 more colored than white people in the States of North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama and Mississippi? How many of you know that in South Carolina there are 230.000 more blacks than there are whites? South Carolina and Mississippi are swimming for their lives.

"You make up your minds that etjtiality before the law is right and should be enforced, notwithstanding it would result in two States at least being absolutely dominated by the negroes.” He declared the North was face to face with the proposition “in the pear future, if not at this time. I have been charged with advocating lynch law. I have justified lynch law for one crime; that is all. I don’t believe iu lynch law.”

B. R. TILLMAN.