West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1900-10-25
NORTH CAROLINA LAW
Bryan Answers Question Put to Him
Regarding It-0resOn Anti-NesrO
Law Brought up and Quoted.
As Well as Sulu Treaty, Passed by Re.
publican Congress, Sanctioning Sla.
very In Sulu Islands.

Marion, Ind, Oct. 5.-Bryan
continued his Indiana tour to-day.
While he was speaking at Marion
some one asked regarding the North
Carolina disfranchisement law.
Bryan said /:
"My friend, am glad you asked
me that. | am prepared for you.
Now, | am going to assume that the
Republican who asked the question
is an honest man. l am going to
ask him about the Constitution of
the Republican State of Oregon.
/ will read provision of that Con-
stitution. 1t says:
" Sec. IS. No free negro or
mulatto not residing in this State at
the time of the adoption of this
Constitution shall come, reside or
be within this State, hold any real
estate, or make any contract or
maintain any such therein, and the
legislative assembly shall provide by
penal laws for the removal by pub
lie officers of all such negroes and
mulattoes, and for their effectual
exclusion from the State and for
the punishment of persons who shall
bring them into the State or employ
or harbor them
"That amendment was adopted
before the Civil War. 1t makes
1t unlawful for free negro to go
into the State, and it authorizes the
officers to put him out. But you
say 1t is old. Let me remind you
that last June an effort was made to
repeal that portion of the Constitu
ton and the effort to repeal was de-
feated, although the State went
10, 900 Republican.
THE sULU TREATY.
"But my friend may not have
time to go to Oregon. If not, |
want to tell him to go TO the city OF
Washington. That is nearer. Go
to Washington and find out what
provision the Republican admins
;ration made for the voters of Porto
Rico. Now you are responsible.
Why don't you correct that? II
you do not go to Washington. lie,
me remind you that your admins.
tration made the Sulu treaty. The
Sulu treaty provides that our flag
shall float over the Sultan's palace,
and that we shall pay the Sultan SO
much to keep it floating there. The
flag floats to-day over Sulu slave.
and the treaty recognizes slavery as
an existing institution, instead oil
providing that slaves shall be free.
The Sulu treaty provides in Article
10 that he shall have the right tc
purchase his freedom whenever h,
can make enough working for moth
ing day to buy himself at market
prices. There never was more
shameful piece Of hypocrisy than il
that under which the Republican,
hide when they talk about Southern
amendments. II is a Republican
! Congress that took the right to vote
away from those in the District o.
! Columbia, and for 80 years th,
negro has been electing Republican
Presidents and getting janitorshipf
in return. You never hear a mod
ern Republican say anything FOL
him except during the campaign
when his vote is needed.
wHES WAS MCKINLEY RIGHT
AZ Hartford City Bryan foun,
the text for his remarks in som,
Mckinley posters conspicuous,
| displayed on a dead wall in tn,
distance. Referring TO these post
ers, Bryan said
81 sec over on the side Of tina
barn a bin, or poster, and all tha
] can make out from here is tha
Mckinley is right
"Now, the question I want 9,
ask is, which time was he right
When was Mckinley right2 Whei
The denounced Groyer. Cleveland