Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1890-12-26
DISFRANCHISE BLACKS.
SOUTHERN SENATORS WANT THE
XIV. AMENDMENT REPEALED.
such q Resolution 60 He Introduced I'm
Congress---O Opinion OF Prominent soions
ON the subJeot--- Senator Vance Opposed
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90 It.
WAsmEGToN, Dec. %. The Post pub
fishes the views Of a number of South
ern congressman on aproposition, which,
Il says, Senator Butler viii bring for
ward in the senate before the debate on
the;election bill closes for joint resolu-
ton depriving the negro Of his right to
vote, and at the same time reducing
relatively Southern representation in
congress. Senator Butler is reported
as saying that he will dare Republican
senators to vote for such measure,
which he declares would receive his
hearty support. Senator Pugh declares
emphatically that the South would not
hesitate one moment to give mp any
representation based on the negro vote,
IL by so doing il conld forever eliminate
the negro as political entity. This, the
senator thinks, is the universal senti-
ment OF the Southern people, and this he
thinks could be done by repeating the
Fifteenth amendment TO the constitu-
ton and relegating the powers back TO
the states again, as it was before the
adoption of that amendment.
Senator Vance says, the South is
working Out This Race Problem
to a happy solution. A few years more
and il will be solved completely. AS
the negro acquires property he becomes
better citizen. HIS interest is identi.
cal with the white man and with this
community OF interest he is quite as
DESTROYS OF good government as his white
neighbor is. Representative Stockdale,
OF Mississippi, says that he would be
glad to see the negro question taken ont
from politics In the South even II this
resulted in his losing his seat In con-
gress. Representative Catchings, of the
Same state, said that to eliminate the
negro and accept the reduced represen-
tation would be happy solution Of .
yexing problem. He does not believe
that the Republicans will ever adopt
such resolution as Senator Butler pro-
poses to offer, because it would result
in the
Political Ruin OF Their Party.
Representative Oates, of Alabama,
SAYS two-thirds of the south are in favor
of reduced representation in congress
and the electoral college il, on the other
hand, the negro population is taken out
Of the apportionment calculation. He
denies the Republican claim 10 twenty
| or twenty-five districts from the South,
but is willing to concede them seven or
eight He acknowledges that the Dem.
ocratic legislatures in Alabama and
South Carolina gerrymandered the state
90 that all black counties were thrown
| into one district In each state, but says
that gerrymandering Is practiced by
both parties in the North without criti-
| cism.
l Doesn't Concern Mills.
Representative Mills, q. 9. Texas. says
that the question does not concern him
personally, as there are only 70,000
negroes in his state, but he says the Re-
publican party will never consent TO
| disfranchise the negro, even though the
| Southern representation was decreased
| thereby. If the colored vote was elm
mated, New York, Pennsylvania. Ohio,
/ Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and other states
would go Democratic for the simple
/ reason that the Republican majority in
those states is less than the colored vote.
| Michigan, Connecticut and Massachu-
| setts would also be doubtful Republican
states.