The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1900-07-12

srasehissA De- -.
The White Man.
Louisiana In 1898 c>st sa,19l
votes, South Carolina In 1898 cas,
Is, 159 votes, Mississippi In 1898 casi
q, ,s2I votes.
North Carolina had . population,
1890, l,5l1,947; Louisiana had q
population, 1890, l,l1s,5se; South
Carolina had . population. 1890, l..
151,I4 Mississippi had . popula-
ton, 1890, 1,2s9,60O.
II comparison with North Caro-.
lima lone voter for every i've per
sons) Louisiana should have cast In
1893, 223,717; South Carolina should
have cast in 1898, $780, ,229; Misris-
sippi should have cast in 1898, 1884,
$40.
Louisiana must have had 223,717
men that should have voted, les
81 e225 men who did not vote, which
leave 1852 men who were dis
franchised.
South Carolina must have had dis
franchised the difference between
230, ,229 persons Of voting age, lees
%, ,159 who did vote, leaves 202,07O
persons disfranchised.
Mississippi must have had the diff.
ference between 259,72O Of voting
age and 1851 votes cast or 232, ,099
persons disfranchised.
North Carolina under her free and
fair election law Of 1898 cast one
vote for every s persons.
Louisiana under the disf!anchising
laws cast one vote for 34} person.
South Carolina one vote for 40
persons, and Mississippi one vote for
46 persons.
We see by this that in Louisiana
six persons out Of seven were dis
franchised.
In South Carolina thirteen persons
out of fifteen were disfranchised.
And Mississippi seventeen persons
out Of nineteen were disfranchised.
Now suppose we say that in Lou.
isiana, South Carolina and Missisip
pi that no negro voted; let us see II
any white men were disfranchised
Then the white mGn Of voting age,
taking the census of 1890 and the
same comparison a herstofors used,
that one person in five were Of vo
ting age, then we find that Louisians
had white men in 1898 to the mum.
Der of Ill, 1879; substract from it the
whole number Of votes cast that
year, 1926, and we find that not
less than 69,654 white men were
disfranchised-on1y one white man
in three voted.
South Carolina, under the same
comparison, must have had $4,000
white men of voting age, less total
number of votes cast in 1898, 2,S15e
and we find that South Carolina had
|63,841 DISTINGUISHED white men,
Only four out of nine white men vo
ted.
In Mississippi, under same COM
parison, we find 1O8,99O white mer
Of voting age; substract the 27,621
who voted in 1898 and we find she
has 81, ,349 white men disfranchiseG
that only one white man in three
voted.
| Now let North Carolina adopt the
amendment and endorse the election
law in August, we will then have
the same kind of machinery at worl
;, in this State as in those three State.
where the disfranchising amendment
is at work. Taking Louisiana's los
as basis, it being the least loss
lone out of seven voted) and W.
find one-seventh of 1880, tn
votes cast in North Carolina in 1898
will give only 1920 voters 70
North Carolina after the Machin
should get to its work. Now I'd
mitting as we did for Louisiaus
South Carolina and Mississippi tha
no negro should vote, then we fin
that North Carolina's white vote G
1898, 221, 1,076, less the votes tha
would he cast, 48, 8,28O, and we fin
, that 177,796 white men will be dil
franchised, while il every negro
!. disfranchised there would be onl
116,SS4 of them, making the -di
franchisement of the white men ,
to the negro in the proportion, thrt
white men to two negroes.