The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-12-18
STATE RIGHTS VS.. NATIONAL

STATE RIGHTS VS.. NATIONAL
RIGHTS.
CAN AN ALIEN VOTE BY TAKING OUT
e HIS FIRST PAPERS?-AN ADVOCATE
OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE RAISES AN
INTERESTING QUESTION.
Edor Representatives:
The overwhelming defeat of the Demo-
cratic congressional array in the fall Of
1894 opened wide the doors Of the editorial
sanctum of the Peoples party for public
opinion" The reporters faAacy to step
outside political family gates with the firm
determination to enter upon cool, quiet
dispassionate discussion Of the decision
made in the federal court Of appeals for
the district Of Minnesota by Judge San
born May, 1S93-in the case Of the City OF
Minneapolis VS.. Frederick Reum-defininR
the exclusive rule-bred powers Of the fed
eral sons Of water realization, sec. 2.165-2,-
1877
In the constitution Of the state Of Min
nesota, art. g. sec. 1.-endowiag all persons
of foreign birth, who have been in the
United States one year, four months in the
state, and ten days in the voting precinct,
with all the rights and privileges Of both
state and federal citizenship.
In Art. !, Sec. :, page 4, of the federal
constitution uniform rule OF naturaliza-
tion must be enforced by the federal au-
thorities, and be duly recognized, upheld
and obeyed by all Of the states
The federal power of naturalization, Sec.
2,165, ZIP. renders it imperatively neces-
sary for the executive political power Of
any and all Of the states to know that n
person of foreign birth can emily be admit
ted to become citizen In the following
manner. and not otherwise: '1st. He shall
declare on oath before a circuit court or
district court of the United States . (. (.
two n
admission, that it is bonafide his intention
TO become q citizen of the United States
and to renounce forever all allegiance and
hdellty to any foreign prince, potentate,
state or sovereignty OF which the above
may be at the time citizen or subject
In the state Of Minnesota more than two
thirds Of the population is Of foreign birth.
or parentage, and are voters (see the case
OF Andrew Jordine. county school super
intendent, but who, never having complied
with the requirements Of the federal laws
of naturalization, are not citizens Of the
United States (see Att. Gen. Chids opin-
ion in the Andrew Jordine case) thus al
though born in the state are not constitu-
tionally and legally qualified to hold
state elective position or to vote at any fed
eral election; and as under the recent de-
cision Of Judge Sanborn, which holds that
no state has the power to denationalize SUBJ
jects OF foreign powers and that no per-
son of foreign birth can become a citizen
OIL Il state untll ne mas lTSC become Iuily
naturalized citizen of the United States.
This resident and native born alien voter
not having complied with all the requires
ments Of the federal laws, is not, nor cam
not be looked upon or considered citizen
of the United States entitled to the citizen
ship franchise, and qualified to vote at any
federal or state election
In the federal constitution, Art. 6, Sec. 2,
1.-THE federal constitution and all the laws
made in pursuance thereof shall be the
supreme law of the land, and the judges
in every state shall be bound thereby, any
thing in the constitution or laws of any
state to the contrary Notwithstanding.
Ignorance Of the text Of the law and fed
eral constitution is no excuse for an exc
cutive, official, judicial crime.
We have national laws of naturalization,
and the imparable fact of unnaturaliZed
native born aliens holding state and ma
tional elective and appointive positions,
voting al all state as well as national cleo
tions in the states of Minnesota, Wisconsin,
etc, does not speak well for the presiden-
tial administrative ring of legal shysters,
seeking to obtain and retain control Of the
executive and legislative powers of both
state and nation.
Under these vicious political low ring cir
cumstances of foreign capitalists control
ing the national judicial bench, in
the United States Circuit courts, the sus-
picious actions Of Judge James G. Jenkins,
of Wisconsin, in that notorious injunction
infamy of the N. p. r. r. and the cabinet
legal ring manipulating the judicial sys-
tem-the United States treasury gold bond
iSSues-and controlling the management of
all the industrial, commercial enterprises
of the whole nation through this alien vote,
which placed that mental mbecile Harri-
son. then later that physical and mental
monstrosity, Cleveland, in the national
and executive chair, and the lawyers, G.
x. Davis and Gov. Nelson, in the United
States senate. There can be no better time
than the present to bring before the people.
the farming element and city industrial
classes Of the nation and the state of Min
nesota, this important question of the con-
stitutional right and sovereign power of
any state to endow the right and concede
TO aliens, lliterate, ment ally and domestic.
ally unframed persons Of foreign birth and
parentage the state franchise; confer upon
them all the political rights Of personal
liberty or industrial privilege of action and
freedom Of speech on all national financial
and labor questions comprised in the state
certificate of federal national citizenship
and voting suffrage privileges, which is
persistently withheld and unlaWfully de-
MED to the native born, educated, socially
intellectual and mind refined American
woman and her daughter.
FRANK SMITH CROKER.
st. Paul, Mimi.