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Show k MCE QUESTION Fl SURES IN A SEHAT : DEBATE : 8enator Tillman Denounc ; Policy of President In Encouragln Equality of Negro With the White. V I Washington. Tho senalo. listened to a debate on tho rnco question Saturday, Sat-urday, In which Senator Tillman was tho principal participant, i hd Senator Patterson of Colorado hli " opponent. Thoy brought Into strlkln ( ; contrast the ideas of tho south and! north. President Roosevelt's action in tho Drownvlllo mattor was tholsuujoct of discussion. Mr. Tillman held that nothing wns involved in it 'except tho raco question, and thut tb administration adminis-tration was responsible for) Uio growing grow-ing acuto condition of tho raco question ques-tion in tho south. Tho president, he maintained, has encouraged'tho negro to assert his equality undlthon had wrought vengeanco on a wbolo battalion bat-talion for following that rtneourngc-menL rtneourngc-menL He condemned tho nrosldcnt's action In some respects. f Mr. Patterson defended tho president's presi-dent's right to dismiss tho tioopB, but said thoro might bo somo iround to question Its ik) 1 Icy. Ho condemned I in strong tonus what ho regarded as I tho radical position of Mr.. Tillman, and predicted that tho extinction of tho Democratic party in tllp north would follow n contiuunnco of such tactics. |