The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1889-03-23

Yazoo Sentinell.

cause they have majority OF Whlte
people within their borders, against
the ~Black counties, or those in which
the negro predominates. This means
in effect to array the Eastern against
the Western portion of the State. In
this the Hon. Frank Burkitt will keep
up his record as a glittering failure.
But work more mischievous than that
which he is attempting could not be
undertaken by the worst enemy of the
best interests of the State. The ~ar-
guments' he is employing are as unfair
as we have ever known. They are
worthy of little Billie Mason, of ILL
nois, or old Kennedy of Ohio, and |
seem to have. been patterned after them.
1t will be remembered that these two
worthless scored Mr.. Crisp, of Georgia,
for having been elected to Congress by
a vote of little over 100, the small
est vote by which Congressman has
ever been elected and that therefore
one vote South was equivalent to 10
or Is votes in the North. But Mr..
Crisp's reply covered the case COM
pletely. Hehad no opposition and the
people did not leave their business 20
go and vote because there was no ne
cessity for ii, his election being fore
gone conclusion.
Now listen to Mr.. Burkitt:
ain 1886 the Democratic vote in the
primary IN Chickasaw county exceed
ed 2S00, and these electors chose two
representatives in the Legislature. AT
the November election that year five
counties elected twelve and half rep
resentatives on total vote of 2403, as
follows: Lowndes 46l votes, 5 mem-
bers, Madison COZ votes 2 members,
Washington 615 votes members, Boil
ivar 24S votes 2 members, Yazoo Az
votes 5 1-2 members
1t will be observed that he takes the
primary in Chickasaw, at which there
were warm contests, and makes COM
parison with the November election in
other counties, when there was no op-
J position to the Democratic nominees.
Unless Mr.. Burkitt is inexcusably ig-
norant he ought to know that Lown-
des, Washington and Yazoo haYe about
, $4,000 voters and that Madison and
Bolivar have each about the same
number Of voters that Chickasaw has,
that the apportionment is based on
the number of qualified electors and
can be arranged on no other basis, so
/ that instead of the IL 1-2 representa-
! tives of those counties representing
2403 voters as reckoned by Mr.. Durkitt
I after the manner of Mason and Kenne-
dy, they in fact represented over 25,-
900 voters. There being no opposition
to the Democratic nominees, light
, vote was polled, just as in the case of
J Mr.. Crisp. In counties where the ne
/ gro vote predominates 1t is wisdom to
have as quiet elections as possible for
obvious reasons, and the white people
, in East Mississippi will not be slow to
: understand that II is better to send
, IL l-2 Democratic representatives with
small vote, than to send IL LIZ Re-
J publican representatives with large
vote, though this doesn't seem to ac-
cord with Mr.. Burkitts idea If his
criticism is to be taken as an exposi-
ton thereof. If the "black counties
under the present difficult circumstan-
ces send white Democrats to the Leg
islature and to Congress, without
trouble, Is this to be accounted 10 them
crime by their fellow-citizens who are
:. supposed to be of the same political
: faith and who are SO fortunate as to
D live In white counties Docs not the
: Honorable Frank Burkitt know that
: no Constitution Convention can ap-
! portion the State ON party or color
: lines? 1t must be done on the basis
I of population or number of electors
$ Il has always been done that way,
I The Democrats of the negro counties
perform double duty in the struggle
: to preserve our State from the domi-
Il nation of the 10000 negro majority
e that threatens her institutions and CIV
d illzation. Ifthey contented themselves
with merely going to the election and
n voting the State would soon be in the
+ grasp of the negro and their allies.
But why this effort to stir up strife
}, at home? Mr.. Harrison has just been
Il inaugurated and his inaugural address
. squints at the support of the fisherman
b Bill, to control Southern elections
Q The public prints show that the harpy
0 crew that harrassed and preyed on
d us from 1867 to '75 are winging their
}. fight to Washington and having Sc
D cured some converts, "certain lewd
J. fellows of the baser Sort" are whet
v ting their beaks for new efforts in the
n same old line. Is IL time in the pres
I ence of new dangers, to SOW seed Of
L discord by drawing unfair deductions
d from election returns and attempting
D to array our State on geographical
J. lines? The whole people, the Demo
Gratis of our State, must stand shoulder
to shoulder If they desire to maintain
their civilization and supremacy. They
have done II in the past. They will
" do it in the futurel Those who liv,
q in the white counties understand th
situation. They know the difficul
i, circumstances that surround those witt
8, live in the negro counties unde