The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-04-18

ROOM" "Ladies' Waiting Room
and "Colored Waiting Room" TIL,
front coach on all the trains il for tn,
accommodation of Negro passengers
On the through trains the whole ca
will be given up to them, but on thu
local trains there is frequently bu
half a car. a partition being rur
through and the other half used as 9
white smoking Car. White passeng
ers may ride in the colored car, bu
they are not allowed to smoke in it
1t goes without saying that negroes
are never seen, except as servants, in
any decent hotel or respectable place
of amusement.
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One occasionally meets with 9
Northern Democrat who, being ar
honest man himself prefers to believe
that all his party associates are also
honest, and SO insists that elections in
the South are as free and fair as they
are in the North and that the stories OF
intimidation and fraud are all Repub.
lican lies. No Southern man Of any
intelligence deems it necessary to pre-.
tend that this is the case. I talked
politics with all classes of men from
Gov. Taylor, of Tennessee, with whom
[ had an hour of most entertaining
talk, to the negro loafer on the street
corner, and not one Of them claimed
that the negro vote wac fairly counted
During the conversation with Gov.
Taylor, above alluded to, the Secretary
of State, Treasurer, Adjutant General
and member of the Supreme Court
were present and they all admitted
that with fair count Tennessee would
be overwhelmingly Republican. Nor
did they seem to think it incumbent
upon them to apologize for the frauds
on the ballot. A fair count meant ne.
gro domination, they said, and that the
whites would never permit. Speaking
ex-senator Buffers deportation scheme,
the Governor said he did not think it
feasible, but he had no doubt that a
majority of the white people in the
South would heartily favor it. Ques-
toned regarding the acknowledgment
plan that had been proposed, with its
accompanying decrease in representa-.
ton from the South, the Adjutant.
General seemed to voice the sentiment
of his associates when he said: "We
do not suppose that will ever come,
but I think I speak for all the South
when I say I wish to God it might
come. And I say this remembering
that the result would be to place the
Government In the hands of the Re.
publican party Of the North, probably
for all time to come. We would be
willing to submit to indefinite Repub-
lican rule, bad as that is, to be rid OF
the niger in politics." In concluding
the discussion they said: Cali we
want is to be let alone. 1t is fellows
like your man Ingalls, who make all
the trouble. We can handle the mig.
ger and take care of ourselves if you
will just call off your dogs" With a
good uatured reminder from our side
of the house that fellows like your
man Butler" were possibly response.
BILE for part of the trouble the talk
drifted to less war-like channels.
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1 have quoted at considerable length
from this conversation in the Govern
or's Office for the reason that it brought
out the views of intelligent men who
may be fairly regarded as representa-
tive Southern Democrats. Talk with
men of lesser note brought out similar
views, expressed with less elegance
perhaps, but usually with more force,
The fixed and central idea with all of
them is: ave will not stand niger
domination. The white men are go
ing to run this country" And once
in q while there were expressions that
sounded like an echo from ante-bellum
days. On a train in Mississippi, for
example, a local passenger, involved
in a dispute with a companion said,
You needn't tell me the niger is a
human being. Why, he's got wool on
his head, he's sheep!"
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I asked Republican member of the
Tennessee Legislature what the Re-
publicans of the South thought of the
proposed Federal election law. ave
think it ought to be passed." he re.
piled, "we will never get fair vote
without it," "Could it be enforced
without trouble?" "No. The army
would have to be behind it, and in
some places there would probably be
blood she'd" A number of other Re-
publicans gave similar replies 10 the
same questions. A delegate from
Sheffield. Alabama, said, "The negro
vote Is positive detriment to the Re.
publican party in my District and I
believe throughout the South. In the
first place it is not counted. In the
second place, and mainly, it furnishes
an excuse for the old stock Democrats
to yell "Nigger Domination" and by
this cry, and through fear of the op-
probrium which attaches to any one
voting the "nigger ticket" to whip