Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-05-07
Chapter 1042

Is, 1895, with the approval of the gov
ernor. Passed, three-fifths being pres
emit
The people of the state of New York,
represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
Section 1. That all persons within the
jurisdiction of this state shall be entitled
to the full and equal accommodations,
advantages, facilities and privileges of
inns, restaurants, hotels, eating houses,
bath houses, barber shops, theaters, mu-
sic halls, public conveyances on land and
water and all other places Of public ac-
commodation or amusement, subject only
to the conditions and limitations estab-
lished by law and applicable alike to all
citizens.
Sec. 2. That any person who shall vio-
late any of the provisions of the fore
going section by denying to any citizen,
except for reasons applicable alike to all
citizens of every race, creed or color, and
regardless of race, creed or color, the full
enjoyment of any of the accommoda-
lions, advantages, facilities or privileges
in said section enumerated or by aiding
or melting such denial, shall for every
such offense forfeit and pay a sum OF
not less than 500 nor more than $500 to
the person aggrieVed thereby, to be re-
covered in any court of competent juris-
dietlon in the county where said offense
was committed, and shall, also, for every
such offense be deemed guilty of a mis-
demeanor, and upon conviction thereof
shall be fined not less than $100 nor more
than $500, or shall be imprisoned not less
than thirty days nor more than ninety
days, or both such fine and imprison-
ment.
Sec. 8. That no citizen of the state pos
sessing all other qualifications (which
are or may be required or prescribed by
law shall be disqualified to serve as
grand or petit juror in any court of this
state on account of race creed or color,
and any person charged with any duty
In the selection or summonlng of jurors
who shall exclude or fall to summon any
citizen for the cause aforesaid SHALL on
conviction thereof, be deemed guilty of
misdemeanor and be fined not less than
500 nor more than $780, or Imprisonment
not less than thirty days nor more than
ninety days, or both such fine and inn
prisonment.
Sec L. This act shall take effect imme-
diately.
Do the men who helped to overthrow
radicalism in Alabama in 1874 and 1876
want to link their political destiny with
a party committed to such legislation as
the act above published? That is just
exactly what they are now being urged
to do. OF course 1t will be said that there
are republicans in Alabama who are not
favorable to such legislation. Such is
the case, but that class of republicans in
this state are in a helpless minority in
their party. There are republicans in
New York state who are opposed to such
legislation, but all the same it is now
the law in New York state, put upon the
statute books by the republican party.
No true populite would allow himself
nominated and placed upon a ticket with
men who favor such legislation. When
Hon. A. T. Goodwin was really a popu-
lite he would have scorned the offer of a
nomination upon a ticket with men COM
mitted to such legislation; but the Hon.
A. T. GOODWIN is no longer populite.
He was once a gallant fighting democrat.
His first step was out of the party he
loved and had served faithfully and eff
fectively into the Jeffersonan ranks. The
second step was into the populite party
The third he has taken, and it has landed
him into the republican party. There
was not power enough in Alabama in
1892 to have made GOODWIN accept a
nomination on ticket with Tom Grim
met of Macon county and w. H. Smith,
Jr., of Walker county. Step by step he
has reached his present political status,
and today GOODWIN and every man on
the ticket he heads, and every man in
Alabama who supports that ticket, Is
thoroughly committed to. the enactment
of just such law as the one published
above. While they may not be in words,
they are by acts, and actions speak
louder than words. Can the men in
Alabama who were born of DEM
ocratic mothers and rocked In democratic
cradles return to their firesides on the
eve of the first Monday in August next.
after having cast their votes to place
upon the statute books of Ala bama such
| a law as the above, and look their wives
! and little ones in the face and feel tina [
| they have discharged their duty to them ?
We think not. We trust that the men
who are NOT seeking Office, but who must
do the voting, if Goodwin and his re-
publican allies stand any chance will
come to full realization of what they
are being urged to commit themselves TO
before they take the fatal step. If they
| will only reflect before they act we have
! no doubt as to what their action will be.
| But few of the white-skinned, straight
| haired Caucasians of Alabama will go
| over the precipice with Goodwin and
| his aidS-de-camp.
|