Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-03

nan of the national democratic COM
mittee, who charges that Mr.. Bryan was
four years ago by the vote of
the ignorant foreign born citizens of this
country, is himself the president and a
heavy stakeholder in what Is known as
the Round Bale Cotton trust. which has
a monopoly of the vast cotton baling
business of the south, and this fact
seems to have had a deterrent effect
u democratic friends in the dis
cussiOn of the trust question.
The only trust I know OF in Montana
is the East Helena smelter, which is a
of the great American Lead
trust. l cannot believe that this con-
Germ is depressing or robbing our people
in any manner, because ! am informed
that Hon. Joseph X. Toole is it's able
and efficient attorney. and he would
surely refuse to take a salary or fee
from any concern which was violating
the antitrust law of our state, a law
passed by the last republican legislature
in 1895, and which is one Of the most
drastic of any in force anywhere.
CoNGRESsMEN FROM THE SOUTH.
What is the condition in the south re-
sulting from the wholesale d~!sfranchise-
ment of colored voters? I will tell you.
There are in congress today Is congress-
men from southern states whose average
vote is 5000. while the average vote
against them was only 60.
There is one congressman from the
Sixth district of South Carolina elected
by 1,675 votes, with only Isl votes against
him, while the district itself contains
16O.0O 0 people; but they were not per-
mitted to vote because their kin is
black.
In the state of Colorado, with a popu-
lation of 400. 600. it takes 141, 900 votes to
get a representation of two votes in con-
gress, while in the state of Mississippi,
with a population of 1880, 900, only $4,000
votes are cast, and these elect seven con-
gressmen.
In South Carolina, with a population of
1,150, 900, there were cast $1,000 votes all
told, and these elected seven members
of congress-, while in the state of Minne-
sofa, with about the same population. 1t
takes just 24S, 900 votes to elect the same
number.
In the state of Georgia, with a popula-
ton of nearly 2,ooO,o 600, $4,000 votes elect
II members of congress-, while in Mon
ldIAu, "AlA popuiocAoA VI oOoul w.
UCO, co. 900 votes will be cast to elect Jus,
one. ,
Eleven southern states get Sc members
of congress on 1924. 900 votes, while IL
northern and western states are required
to cast 1850, coo votes to get SO members
nearly three times as many votes for
about the same representation. ,
o. ask the reason for this unjust and
unequal condition of affairs. 1t is easy
to explain. Under the constitution the
states are given representation in con-
gress according to population. In the
southern states, where the democratic
party is supreme, the colored people are
ounted in the census returns for the
purpose of getting seats in congress-, but
when election time comes around they
are driven from the polls with shotguns
and unjust laws and are not permitted
to vote. And after thus strangling the
constitution and splitting upon the Dec
laration of Independence in a dozen
southern states, we have the sickening
spectacle of this same party going to,
Kansas City n shedding crocodile
tears, d~enouncing William Mckinley and
the republican party because 10, 900, 900
savage and lhalf-civilized Filipinos are
not Immediately given the rights OF
American citizens!
The fourteenth amendment to the O.
stitution provides that if the right to
vote is denied to the citizens OF any
state, their representation in congress
shall be reduced accordingly. And, fo-
one, 1 sincerely hope that if the repub-
leans are successful in this campaign
they will at once proceed to reduce the
humble of congressman in every state
now enjoying this fraudulent representa-
ton to the actual number they are en-
titled to, based upon the number of votes
they permit to be cast.
Let me say that the issue in this
campaign canno be the republic against
the empire, as the democrats allege, be-
cause everybody in this country wants
the republic; nobody wants the empire.
It cannot be the question of whether
the republic car exist half slave and
half free. because that question was
settled IS years ago at Appomattox.
It cannot be a question of whether
the constitution follows the flag because
that question has been decided many
times, in congress-, in the supreme court
of the land and upon many battlefelds,
and uniformly against the doctrine.
It cannot be a question of e%nslaving
or prosecuting or enslaving any people
because our WUOlc IllSlOTy, anu cNcIy
act of the present administration con-
tradicts and. protests against such a
Islander upon the American people.
It cannot be the question of trusts,
because both parties are against un-
lawful combinations, and the republic
can party has given us all the laws we
have seeking to control them, and
would have given us more. but the
democratic party would not let them.
It cannot be the question of corpora
ton dictation in this state, because
everybody knows hat the control of the
democratic party has long been in the
hands of corporations and m~illionaires
and that the rank and file have had
little to say.
In this state the main issue. the para
mount issue. is the lifting of the state
out of the rut of degradation into which
the democratic party has dragged it,
and the re-establishment of political in