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Show day night. "We are giving to the negro ne-gro just such a share in the government govern-ment of our state as he is capable of exercising and that is d d little." "We were forced to do some wrongs," ho continued, "in dealing with the ijiiestinn. au'iiiii There woie more colored people in Soum t arooWk than there were whites, aud we were forced to get down the shotgun when they attempted to have these blacks dictate to us what form of government we should have." "Yes," said this distinguished champion cham-pion of the oppressed Tagal, "we occasionally occa-sionally lynch a nigger down there. Why don't we let the courts try the case? Because we men of the South are not wnite-Iivered enough to permit our wives and daughters," etc., etc. in other words, " because you men of the North are too white-livered to know your duty to your wives and daughters." "that's why," said Senator Sen-ator Tillman. "And we are going to keep right to doing just as we have done so long as we have any shotguns left What do we want of any more biack men in this country when we cannot treat decently those we already have'.'" Senator Tillman was invited into Illinois Il-linois by the national and state Democratic Demo-cratic committees. His views were well understood. His method of expressing ex-pressing them was well understood. Although an attempt is being made now to apologize for the utterances of the foul-mouthed slanderer of northern manhood and American volunteers, the apology comes too late. It was known to the Democratic managers that lie would at his first and at his every opportunity op-portunity brand northerners as white-livered white-livered cowards, because they refuse to sympathize with the sentiments he expresses in relation to the negro, and because they refuse to subscribe to treason like this: "The Republican party par-ty now wants to have free citizens here aud subjects on the other side of the sea, and unless you people vote it down next month we will be forced some day to shoot it down witli our rifles." This is precisely the kind of talk the Tillmans of the fire-eating South indulged in-dulged in previous to the election of lSliO. If the Xorlh would not vote down Abraham Lincoln and all he stood for. they would shoot them down. This is the idea Tillman is endeavoring to convey now. and it would be difficult diffi-cult for any man with ordinary intelligence intel-ligence to misunderstand him. "Let's kiirtlio-snake'' mvanuig the paTriotic sentiment of the nation to-day "Let's kill the snake in the egg before it is hatched out," he says. Tillman has come all the way from South Carolina to Illinois to speak for Bryan. He has spoken for him, and in speaking for him he has the courage at least to tell us frankly what the election elec-tion of his candidate means. Chicago Inter Ocean. TILLMAN IN ILLINOIS. "I am not here to make any apoligies for South Carolina," said Senator Tillman Till-man in his speech at .Toliet last Tues- |
