The Globe-republican., 1890-01-22

THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Special Correspondence to the GLOBE Re
PUBLICAN.
WASHINGTON. D. c., Jan. 10.
Hon. John. Allen, of Mississippi. is
one of the wittiest members of the house
of representatives. Here is one of his
stories concerning southern Outrages
at is not true' he said THAT the negro
does not have a chance to vote and have
his vote counted as cast. There never
has been any intimidation of negro vot-
ers in my state. On the contrary, we do
all that we can to get them up to the
polls and induce them to vote. They are
generally ignorant. and have no idea of
dates and places. They forget when
election day comes. and where the bal
lot boxes are located. In order to help
them remember, we plant cannons at
each polling place the night before cleo
ton, and fire off several rounds to let the
negroes know that there is to be free,
fair election on the morrow; and, it is
An actual fact that even then, that they
prefer spending their election days in the
swamps rather than at the POLLS
Fellow citizens, the abuse of the elect
i've franchise by the elimination of the
votes of over a million citizens, has be-
come no longer matter of grave con-
sideration at the national capitol, but it
is become by-wOrd and a jest. The
negroes are given to understand, as in
the recent case at Jackson. Mississippi,
that if they come to the polls, they will
be shot down like dogs; and hence they
do not vote. Each black voter sees be-
fore him the spectre form of poor Paint
Matthews, of Judge Chisholm, and of
other republicans white and black; and
seeing those spectres lowering over every
voting place. they dare not risk their
lives, and hence remain away. 1t is a
matter of common acceptatiOn. long
past the stage of rumOr or accepted
proof. that the negro vote in the south is
suppressed. This being the case, there
should be some legislation which will
from that section. Only voters should
be represented. Do you know that the
state of Georgia casts only $4,000 votes
to elect ten congressman, while the state
of Wisconsin. in casting 100000 votes,
is only entitled to nine congressman?
There is the infamy of this southern Out->
rage business. 1t not only outrages the
black citizen of the south, but it outrages
the white citizen of the north. The vote
of Mississippi democrat is worth eight
times as much as a Wisconsin republican.
The same ratio and proportion exists all
over the country. The white people
of the north who have indifferently and
listlessly looked upon the outrages per-
petrated upon the negroes of the south,
will be less than men if they do not re-
sent and remedy the outrage which
makes southern vote so much more
than northern vote. If the
negroes are not to be allowed to vote,
they should not be counted in the ecu
sus as citizens.
Whoever sits in the gallery of the
house or senate, must notice the disprO-
portion in representation. For example,
the state of Texas. which casts 275.GOO
votes, elected eleven eX-cOnfederate con-
gressmen. and there they sit in the house;
while the same state, with only 275,O 900
has two eX-cOnfederates i'm the senate.
The state of Iowa has only eleven repre-
in the house and two senators,
yet the state cast 10000 votes for con-
gressmen. The same parallel may be
drawn between the various states, and |
the proportion will be even worse than |
the comparison between Iowa and Texas;
because in Texas the white democratic
vote is quite large. ..-
The theme to which | desired to call |
especial attention, however, was the flip
pant manner in which southern Outrages
ire spoken of. right under the dome of
he capitol, where the Goddess of Lib
erty looks down upon this hollow mock
Try of justice. The illegally and uncon-
'titationally elected representatives from
southern states, now say boldly that they
10 not intend to allow the negro to vote.
How long will the people of the loyal
states permit these things to be? ssThe
people assert that they have ac-
,epted all the results of the war. but they
lave not" says Congressman Lacy. of
iowa. Zone of the results of the war is.
hat the negro shall vote and have his
'Ote counted. Until that constitutional
light is conceded to the negroes in the
outh, it will be useless for the people
ately in rebellion to say that they accept
he results of the war. The freedom
md enfranchisement of the slave. con-