Show RACE wm FIGURES it A SEDATE DEBATE senator tallman denounces policy of pres dent in encourage ng equality of negro with the white washington the senate listened to a debate on the race question saturday in which senator tallman was the principal participant and senator patterson of colorado his opponent they brought into striking contrast the ideas of the saith and north president roosevelt s action in the brownville matter was the subject ot discussion mr tallman held that nothing was involved in it except the race question and that the adminis was responsible for the grow ing acute condition of the race question in the south the president he maintained has encouraged the negro to assert his equality and then had wrought vengeance on a whole bat lon for following that encouragement he condemned the presidents action in some respects mr patterson defended the prest dent s right to dismiss the troops but said there might be some ground to question its policy he condemned in strong terms what he regarded as the radical position of mr tillman and predicted that the extinction ot the democratic party in the north would follow a continuance of such tactics |