Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-10-11

spare from fighting negroes in the
Philippines can defeat the purpose OF
the white people to rule In North Caro-
lima. The object of that amendment
can be stated in ten words-to disfran-
chise ignorant negroes and not dis
franchise an uneducated white man
and by the Eternal God, every white
man shall vote
NOW, this amendment which was
described by Chairman Simmons in
the choice language that have quoted,
was as follows:
Every person presenting him
self for registration shall be able
to read and write any section
Of the constitution In the Eng
lish language. Before he shall be
entitled to vote he shall have paid on
or before the LIST day Of May, Of the
year In which he proposes to vote, his
poll tax for the previous year. but no
male person, who was, on Jan. /, 1867,
or at any time prior thereto, entitled
| to vote under the laws Of any state Of
the United States wherein he then re-
sided, and no lineal descendant Of any
such person shall be denied the right
to register and vote at any election
to possess the educational qualifica-
tons herein described
"That amendment was adopted at
the election held in North Carolina
Aug 2. Concerning the effect Of this
amendment, Senator Marion Butler,
the Populist senator from North Caro-
lima, says: Unconstitutional regula-
tons have taken the place Of the guar
anteed right of suffrage and represen-
tation; and those in a little brief au-
thority are the masters who select the
rulers and servants Of the people. At
first 1t was cheating the negroes, but
now II is depriving Of the right to an
are born free
Pitchfork Tillman Tells How IL Was Done.
"As another instance of the viola
ton Of the consent of the governed"
continued John, II want to quote to
you some remarks made by Senator
Tillman of South Carolina in a speech
in congress during the last session.
You will remember that Senator Till
man read the report of the platform
committee at the Kansas City conven-
ton, and wept crocodile tears over
the consent Of the governed In the
islands of the sea that are now in in
surrectiOn. On Friday, March 20,
1900 in the United States senate, Sen
ator Tillman gave utterance, in re-
ferring to the suppression Of the col
ored vote in South Carolina, to the fol
lowing statement. After referring to
the fact that the negroes had a ma
jority Of the votes in South Carolina,
he said: How did we recover our
liberty? BY fraud and violence. We
tried to overcome the 10000 majority
by honest methods, which was math-
ematical impossibility. How did we
bring it about? Every white man
sunk his personal feelings and ambi-
tons. The white people of the state,
illustrating our glorious motto, ready
with their lives and fortunes came
together as one. BY fraud and vio-
lence, If you please, we threw 1t OF.
In 1873 we had to resort to more fraud
and violence and so again in 1880.
Then the registration law and eight
box system was evolved from the SUI
perior intelligence Of the white man,
to check and control this surging,
muddy stream of ignorance and to tell
% hna oil,
ried our elections without resort to
any illegal methods, simply because
the whites were united
Admits They Shot Negroes and are Not
Ashamed of 1t.
This was what Mr.. Tillman said
when making his set speech. On Feb.
26, 1900, in the course of a running
debate, he said, in referring to the
manner In which the Democrats over
came the Republican majority in
South Carolina: When that happened,
we took the government away. We
stuffed ballot boxes. We shot them.
We are not ashamed Of it. The sena.
tor from Wisconsin would have done
the same thing. With that system
force, tissue ballots, etc.-we got tired
ourselves. So we called constitu-
tional convention and we eliminated,
as 1 said, all the colored people we
could under the Fourteenth and Fiji
teenth amendments
ut doesn't seem quite right, does 1t,
John?" remarked Framer Brown.
:You are making your case still strong
er at every lesson, but I am beginning
to understand many things that l did
not see quite clearly before"
JULIAN w. RICHARDS.