Evening star., 1900-08-02
fore 1905 have to be able to read and write

fore 1908 have TO be able to read and write
to vote after that time?''
No. Every white man who registers I'M
der the grandfather clause of the amend
ment before 1905 will be placed on the per-
manent roll, and will forever thereafter as
long as he may live, be entitled to vote al
though he may never know letter in the
book"
THAT is all right and suits me to a dot
But let me ask you, will an uneducated
white man, if the amendment passes, have
TO produce witnesses to show his right to
register under section five?"
'Oh, no; certainly not. As all white pao-
pie could vote before 1867, his white skin
VIII prove his right to register under that
secu"f' unless he is foreigner natural
lied since 1867"
under the educational clause and all the
uneducated whites register under the grand
father clause if the amendment is
adopted?"
mo, not necessarily. In Louisiana wher.
they nave an amepdment almost identica
with ours, L am told many of the educat ed
white registered under the 9TH section.
Whenever white man registers under the
grandfather clause his name is placed unon
ehe permanent registration roll. and he is
forever thereafter permitted TO register
from that roll. Many educated people in
thls state have declared their nurnosa 70
register with the uneducated. nnder tho
grandfather clause. The permanent rolf
Ior Whlch the amendment provides will be
d Ioll OF nonor.
To Disfranchise the Nerro
Then the effect of the amendment will
De to disfranchise the ignorant and ire
sponslnie negro, and not to deprive any
native white man of his vote. That is lust
what we white people want amt it?"
That is certainly what all white men
VINO respect their race and families and
love and honor their state ought to want
II VIII be good thing for the negro. too
because he has always used the ballot
recklessly and against the best interest of
his race, as well as against the best in
terest Of the state The amendment is the
only permanent remedy, and 1t is a com
pie'e remedy against the possible recur-
renee of negro rule, such as we had here in
1867 and in 1897 and 1895"
Why do the republicans and federal Of
ncehoiders tell the people that the amend
whiteS?'
They are simply trying to deceive the
people and to play politics. The mean
white leaders of the negroes that the
oHces that the negroes have given them
are about to be taken away, and they are
desperate. They hope, by soaring the un-
educated white people with this disfranch-
isement lie, to induce them to vote to keep
the ballot in the hands of the negro
through whose vote they receive their meat
and bread
why do the republican officeholders and
bushwhackers tell the uneducted white
people such outrageous stories about the
amendment disfranchising them and re-
quiring them to pay their poll tax before
due, and when they are exempted from
such taxes. Don't they know the people
will catch up with them as soon as they
hear the amendment read and explained?"
LAS a rule the men who are circulating
these falsehoodS in the hope of deceiying
uneducated white men are class of un-
scrupulous fellows who have been trained
in these methods in dealing with the negro
and they fail to discriminate. They have
learned from experience they can palm off
any sort of story on the negro. They
are making a sad mistake in supposing
they can, in the same way, impose upon
the uneducated white man. They under
estimate his intelligence. He cannot be
duped like the dull, stupid negro. He may
perception, clear In Judgment, independent