The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-12-06
WILL FREEZE THEM OUT.
The Black Delegates Too Expensive a
Luxury.

Mr.. Henry Payne, Of Wisconsin
member of the Republican National
Committee, it is announced will offer
to the committee at its next meeting,
two weeks distant, resolution recon-
meadine change in the basis of repre-
septa,ion in future Republican National
Conventions, on the ground that the
pre sent basis is unjust and unequal,
and that this il justice should be rene
died.
The resolution proposes, as stated
thar the new basis of re. reSentetlon
>l.sl. be four deleeates at large for each
Sac. and one additional delegate for
sch ten thousand votes, or majority
iractinn thereof cast at the prec" ding
Presidential election for Republican
electors. and four delegates from each
organized Territory and the District OF
Columbia. II the plan is adopted by
the (odvention, it is explained, the
total number If delegates would remain
S94. as at present, but the rim her from
arkansas, Alabama, Florida. Georgia,
Louisiana, Mississippi and Sou'h Caro-
Iioa would be reduced from l29 under
the pre~srt appnrrioument to 4s-a
ln>s f 50 to the States named: while
other Southern States would lose
heavily
What is the "ipjastice" and Sine
ou ,ljts" in the present arrangement.
shich it is proposed to correct, Is not
i,dicattd or suggested 10 the dispatch.
aud nust. therefore, be i"frrred: We
are not iu the confidence of Mr Payne
and other Repu.J .Jlican leaders and pro
mot, rs of the proposed change, and
cannot, ther, BE, speak with authority
for them, but it will be noted that the
change mainly affects the representa-
rion Of the Southern States in the Re-
publican Convention, which 1t reduces
ny oyer hundred delelates, and that
he reduction is INST sweeping In the
ranks Of those from the Cotton States,
and the Blsck Belt of those 5 ates, and
Of hos from the State Of a kansas,
which has the largest black population
Of any State outside the South.
In view of these facts, the most
natural as it sindubitably the correct;
inference. is that the change IS designed
10 have the #. c: i, will have, and that
the condition it is meant to reform =
hat If the presence Of so large a NUN
her of ne gro, and color, d men In ths
National Conventions of theil party
Why they are unwelcome. it l. not f"'
us to say. of cour>e, but possibly th'
white l-29-rS of the party rrg'rd 1t a.
an ''lnjlstice" to so;uit so many to the
part, conventions 10 he lp.to choose he
publican Presidents when so few Of
them are allo we'd to share in the spoils
which the Presidents dispense, and
dpcul that the best way To correct tue
in, Quality in the ranks of negro
delegates and of negro ofhteholders III
hizh places is to cut down the uumber
of hr fnrmer.
Ard then, again, it may be cousid-
cred tt at it is an ''iDjns'ice" to the
Republican candidates for national!
honors 10 be co,upelI,d to bid aga'rs'
each other 10 buying up, say, lo0
Southern delegates, white and colore"
in every Convention, when they might
easily be rid Of two-tnirds of t at mum
Der by the proposed plan, and so be
S,ared prrportionate wear aid tear OF
niud and the expenditure Of much
cash. There is something in that
The contemplated change will not ouls
relieve the leaders of embarrassing
com.any in the conventions, but will
be Of an economical character besides.
1t will doubtless be adopted with sln
cere if secret enthusiasm. News and
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