Birmingham age-herald., 1894-08-09
Colonel Oates received majorities in hit seventeen white counties as follows:

Captain Kolb's net majorities in the white counties, therefore, were only 7491.
 Now let us take the charge of the Kolb party that the negroes in the Black Belt did not register except to a limited extent and eliminate the negro vote utterly from the account. In the fifteen Black Belt counties there were 2l ,673 white voters in 1890 on the basis of to5 5. They now num- Der at least 24 GOO. No argument or state- ment even is necessary to inform any man that three- fourths of those white men are Democrats and voted for Colonel Oates. It is an extremely liberal estimate to say that the sprnkling of white Kolb men in the white beats of those counties foots up a total of 6O0o. Yet, assuming that liberal basis, it leaves white Democratic Oates majority in the Black Belt of 12 600 votes.
 Now tnke Captain Kolb's entire net ma jority in the white counties, eliminate the negro utterly from the Black Belt and what do we have3 Take 7491 from 12 ,OO0 and we have Oates majority, without in- cluding single Black Belt negro, 4509 These are the cold figures as they pan out. even under Captain Kolb's own claims. So that if Captain Kolb's charges were true to the extent that every single negro vote in the Black Belt was fraudulent, yet Colonel Oates is elected by 450g majority.
 
 To put it another way. Captain Kolb's aggregate majorities in all the white coun- ties foot up 15, ,409. Supposing that not negro in the Black Belt voted or that all were fraudulent, and add Colonel Oates aggregate of majorities in the white coun- ties of 791S and his white majority in the Black Belt of IF, ,000 and we would have an aggregate for Oates of 19,9l8. Take Cap tain Kolb's aggregate from Oates' aggre- gate and we have net for Oates of 4509 majority.
 live figure on only 20 900 white votes in the Black Belt, even that would give Oates 25o9 majority. enough to spare Madison and still be elected.
 But as we have eliminated the negro vote from the Black Belt, suppose we eliminate it from the white counties, for one is as fair as the other. Oates would have car ried Jefferson by 150o, Tuskaloosa by 800, Talladega by 800, Calhoun by 1000, Morgan by 500, Jackson by 1000, Lee by 1000, Lime- stone by 500, Lauderdale by 1000, and so on clear through the list of the white coun- ties. h fact, there are not a dozen white counties where Kolb got majority of the white votes. It was the negro voting for him that gave him at least twenty of his thirty y-tbree white counties. Eliminate the negro utterly from both white and Black Belt counties and Oates' clean white majority would be away over 20,OOO. We all know that. In all these white counties we saw the negro actually go en masse to Y < ',o Eselb when he voted at all.
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