Telegram-herald., 1889-12-29

M -. "a - - - l4l Va
Feaes J.a44ryz z. ~il have SER
..- question: 81 dec -ae-tas Necessity Il
holding a constitutional CONVENTION.
great amor for a nas constitution
CAS- ez sted f9r several year., aad &
a. 50 so.ey from tls race question.
Iae 39H -alEg desrs 0f Democrats
tlsre t3 aes 81 sonie means 81 gett a
r.t ~ t-e negro vote. Governor LoNry
-Dgoses tae ao.alaz 0f saen a eonyen-
-.a. aa1 says tust = Is unnecessary
blt h,a POSITION = attacked Vigorously
- tls more rabd neggophoo-sts CT
his party
Tie only feasible plan for eating
down t4s aegso vote, that has been
81 1zsested s ~ means OF Al education
a. aleuailhcauon. Dat that would afford
l4l temporary relief Il sll be
noticed that the southern ho~l Is a.
ways against negro dom n4tion" aud
nQt against gn0rsnce domination. 4"
Au educated negro wiu be a negro
sta- As .oola as be 4tlains tie standard
ot educsllon set. be can rot be legally
6. straacn.ss4 any longer. Then more
rad.ea- means wIl have 70 be taken, or
tAe sane o.d tear of negro DONNA
uou VIII agaln pasalyze Southern
statesmen. 4 reasonable educational
qualification, honestly applied, could
nOL be objected %, but lt would dis
franchise about 10 per cent. OF the whites
tnd then howl would 20 up A south
eru white maA-lgnOrant, degraded.
VICIOUS and drunken though he be-ls
vastly superior In his own ewes 70 the
brightest and most respectable negro
lslg. HI- the trouble would he that
mine the quantity Of the education.
Tie more qualifications and hlndrances
20 suffrage that can be legally pre-
scroed, the greater the opportunities
20 rule Out whOmsoever the Southern
Democrat desires That such 8 their
real object, appears from the language
the project, says: AFRAID of the North
for what The sensible men up there
c0ncede 70 Is the right 10 manage our
.Ocal governments; but even If no such
concessions were granted Il would make
no difference-we would do Il anyway"
But the Judge knows, in spite OF bis
pettfogglng, that il Is not question of
"lOcal government" but question Of
National interest, whether 4 certain
portion of rs citizens are swindled out
of their votes. Ii they are not entitled
20 vote, they are not entitled TO repre-
sentation IN the National Congress and
Electoral College, least of all by those
who have stolen their right Of suffrage
from them.
Il IS quite likely that the truth of
the case Will come out during the dis
cuss,on IN the Legislature of the propO-
st.ou fora convention. III the cOnyen-
ton s held, the question VIII gets more
| thorough airing. And then, when the
new constitution is framed for the eI-
press purpose OF disfranchlsing the
negro. aud the question of It's adoption
IS submitted To the qualified elec-
tors, Will the negro himself, who
is now p qualified voter, vote 10 dis
franchise himself2 Ii j. not within the
bounds of reason to suppose that be
wij Judge Yerger himself says that
/ the negroes ARE IN ratio IN Mississippi
/ of five 70 three of the whites" Then
| how will the new constitution be
adopted The ten per cent. of whites
and all the negroes, who, according to
Judge Yerger himself, are to be dis
frsnch,sed, would naturally combine IN
a solid majority against the new consti-
tutiOn. And yet the advocates of the
new constitution proceed TO argue IN
favor OF It, with the most complacent
confidence in its adoption. Whence
/ tins confidence IL arises solely from
/ tine fact that the negroes will never vote
/ ON the question. and the ten per cent.
| % ignOrant whites viii simply be sacri-
| feed on the altar of negrophobia. Great
IS the shotgun policy.