The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-03-07
THE RACE PROBLEM.
General Powell Clayton Before Boston's
Business Men.

General Powell Clayton Before Bostonb
Business Men.
At the meeting of the Mystic Valley
Club of business men at Boston General
Powell Clayton, of Arkansas, discussed
at length the Southern question and
gave his ideas concerning its proper
solution. He advocated the adoption of
an educational qualification for voters
and favored the Blair bill as measure
to bring the school-house within the
reach of whites and blacks. Were the
Southern leaders to adopt this plan in.
stead of solidifying themselves for its
resistance they would be in a better
position to ask for Northern confidence
and sympathy. Reciprocal, social and
business relations would foster emigra-
ton to the South and link the two Sec
tons more closely.
On the other hand the leaders of the
dominant Southern party must make
Northern emigrantS more welcome and
treat them justly. In this connection
General Clayton denounced the shame
less Democratic election methods re-
sorted to in Arkansas for the purpose
of bulIdozing and counting out Repub-
licans, referring to the unimpeached
testimony in the election contest case
of Featherstone vs.. Cate as his author
ity. Pulaski County, the largest in the
State, one where the whites largely out.
number the blacks, and where the eX-
cuse of negro domination did not hold
good, was an apt illustration of the
causes of the refiux of Northern emil
grants. There the dominant party by
frauds and bulldozing had kept major
ity of 1000 in the minority for fifteen
years. Was it surprising that under
such conditions men of Northern birth
shake the dust from their feet and turn
their backs upon their homes to seek
homes elsewhere, where such methods
and practices are not tolerated? Con-
Guiding, General Clayton said:
OF that page in the history Of Arkansas, writ
ten in blood, growing out Of the last Congress
sional election, into which these same methods
and practices were carried, l dare not trust
myself to speak. Mr.. Grady. for the people he
so ably represented, has asked you for your
confidence. your sympathy, and that you will
give them your sons as hostages He has also
asked you for your loyalty For the people not
represented by him, white and black, many Of
whom in battle Upheld the flag Of the countryin
the hour Of its greatest peril, and many others
Of wht N, believing they were right, followed
CALAMITY and faithfully the stars and bars"
and who now refuse to subscribe to the motto:
The end iustifies the means'-for all Of these,
constituting, believe, majority Of the South
ern people, l ask your confidence. And for the
widows and orphans Of those who have fallen
in thus far futile effort to tiaIntain the rights
Of American citizenship, ana for the living who.
under the most adverse circumstances, ara
still struggling in that cause, ! ask your sym
patty. J. too, ask you to give up your sons, not
as hostages, but as you gave Them 10 the Terri
tory OF Kansas when the same methods and
practices were employed to free upon unwtll
fng people the rule Of sorrult minorities; and
ask you for that loyalty which at all hazards
and any cost will see to It that the constitution
OF our country shall not be dishonored or nulli
fed and that the 70 untain through which flows
all our liberties-the ballot tox-shall be kept
pure and undetiled