The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1895-11-21
FINAL DEBATE ON SUFFRAGE.
NO DIVISION or MANAGERS.

Effort to tiuvc Political Parties
Represented on EIcctiou Boards -
The Convention Voted HSaiu,,
| Him.
The contitutional convention was
engaged al the morning in Il iiveiv
debate on the uisponsHry law, the con.
tenLton DeinG over MIR. PuttOus prop
osition to prevent tue issuing Of i'm
functions OF a crime. The uispcnsary
law permits jndgc upon aliiNvlts, 70
put u man under II pUrpevuui in juno-
: tlon not To sell ilquOr. Tie natter
was most c%naustlvc!y argued through
out, all heavy weights : Of tho con.
vcn,ion taking 1t baud. MIR. George
ID. Tlliman s:;.thingiy rccuunlcd the
deeds done under this provision n( the
disncnSary law. Senator Iiiimnn de-
tended the uispeno"ry law in his most
pronounced style. The advocates Of
| Mr.. PatlonS measure ar1unL for the
preservation Of the established princI-
pie Of the right oi trial Ivy ,an jIry iur
crime. The ncasure w;:o tinaIiy killed
by {. vote OF 81 to 9J.
At the night scssuu the suffrage ar
ticlo was callru up for 4 th!ru rc:,uInG,
and the most remarkable s.,Ssin" since
! tho convention me-; then cnslIr'..
Alter several insignificant ;tinrndni' nis
| bad been made, Senator Truman
offered this amendment Of scution I:
Each OF the two pOiiLicr. parties
cAsting the highest numh-r o! votes at
tue preceding election shall have re.
: presentation On tho board Of managers
Of election ut each pulling precinct AND
on the board Of county canvass"rs in
! each county,
AS soon as he put in this u,nutimeul
he called the previous question on the
whO!" article. This was the ,uc;,aurc
tnat bad been stricken out before aft ~
Il big fight.
Senator Tillman made IL sncnch
which was the most earnest ono Nc
has yUt madc in the convention, 10 ;.l!
appearances, in the favor oi the hi-
partisan board. His opponents said it
was remarkabie speech and it crcuJ-
cd Il profound scnaiti;on, but it didn't
accomplish Its purpose for all that.
He said
Mr.. President: I DO not desire to-
make II sp1och. | merely nlnan to
mako IL statement. Tnc convention
will remember that The article as re-
ported by the committee had th iirn-
tlcal provision in Il different place.
The other evening on the motion. | b.
hevc, OF the gentleman from Marlboro
and with only one speech from tho
comm ittGc tho section WAS stricken
out. The committee met yesterday
afternoon and after the careful con-
! sldcratlon only with South Carolina,
but in connection with the matter from
4 national standpoint, decided that
| this convention cannot AFFORD to put
itself on record the article having
! been brought in hrrn with this pi'uvis-
| ion in it that IL viii not holp il there
and tho committee are unanimous in
4 hnf ..h h., i,,,.
Of the constitution. But it is not only
in Difference TO public opinion bnt for
our own sci(-rcspCci and protection
that we arise to put it back there.
Such provision is in almost every
constitution Of the Unitild States
North OF Mason AND DiXon'S line
Evory man who has been reading the
NOrtncra press must rc;lli." that we
arc being watched from onl rna OF
this country to the Othur. We arc al
ready twiJted with proposing to Inr-
pHtuatc trlckoy and (I;iuti and TO strike
down full American voters by one
-. chaninations and machiu&ry We
.idvD only avowrd our purpose 20 TO
rcrtaln things, blt We cannot openly
.vow thc purpose
We ask you not TO stuitify this body,
not to pu, it ou record that we pro-
pose To pcrpotnutC The conditions that
nnVo cNistHu IN thC past and sc think
you ought to give Ms some CUusidcra-
tiOn. You invite attack from Con
1rrss, from the Supreme CuurL Ui the
Cuit"d states and from an ti,c enemies
OF South Carolina aud ali the enemies
OI the South and all the friends Of Tho
negroes. But here is unOthcr con.
alritrhtiOn. We have been l.Orrirar so
lOng under the incuhua Of negro ,!nmi-
na.!On tnAt in ou", Au"Ls here 10 rrcbily
oar constitution ana tArOw safrgu,r,la
around our suffrage and utucLiOus, "u
havc been ObliviOua 10 the fact that
We are m"kin9 ii constitution that is
, unAt tclT.hc ana we would leave it. to
the bands Of any party IN South
Carolina that might In the future pcL
possession OF the machinery 20 cheat
white men, our equals and our irlluw
CltlIonS. | D1ilcvC il is almost inrvi-
| table, seeing that men are born diff
| fcrcnt, that they look at things throuuh
| different spectaclcs that we will have
divisions among the whites i'm thi.
state as there is everywhere else
where there are free men and that in
future we Will have it, white man
against white man. and tho question
is arc we going to put it in ,hr power
I OF One set OF white men 30 Se" that
| Ihelr votes are pat IN tho proper boxes
and arc counted. We are mere tod ~
with 10000 Odd on one side ana 80, 600
on the other and nothing but the
patriotism OF one side has kept il from
appealing to those corrupt votes and
OvcrthrOwing us. GGd forbid that We
should 50 lar divide rs to bring on
this vote as Il balance o. power, but il
we should divide. we should not put
it in the power OF the party in Office
to say eve have all the commissioners
and managers you may put your votes
in but we will count /, ON" Don't
let us who arc not in power forget that
the whcols of political fortune are
always turning; that politics arc the
most uncertain ground that q man can