The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-18

be few educators or those Wno are lnter- ested in the betterment of the educa- tional system of the State who will vote against ratification on the 1lth of Novem- ber.-Greenville Advocate.
 With one exception, every Democratic paper in the State favors the adoption of the new constitution. With such an over whelming endorsement by an independent press, the people cannot fall to be taught that their salvation rests in its adoption.- Huntsville Democrat.
 The only chance to defeat the new con- stitution is to play on the prejudices or the people by stuffing them with talk of corporation lawyers controlling the con-
 vention and that some white men won't
 be allowed to vote. The opposition
 orators realize this and they are using
 such demagoguery for all it is worth. But
 we have confidence in the Intelligent
 judgment of the majority.-Roanoke Leader.
 Alabama is safely Democratic under the present constitution. That is fact admitted by all Very well. Why then,
 do the Republicans oppose the new con- stitution, on the ground that 1t will give | the negro a majority in the black belt? | Is there any sense or reason in such a position? Do the Republicans really be- | lieve the negro will dominate the black belt under the new conditions? Of course not If they thought the negro would I dominate the black belt under the terms | of the new instrument, they could not | get to the polls fast enough, and would | be the strongest ratifiers.-Uniontown | Herald.
 The time-worn foes of Democracy are | the leading agencies opposed to ratifca-
 ton of the new constitution. They have | with them some able and sincere Demo-
 crats of the highest repute, and these | Democrats have a right to vote against ratification if they so desire; but 1t re- mains that, If ratification does not carry, l the Democratic party has met defeat. | The Democratic party has always rep | resented the white masses of Alabam. | It's defeat means the defeat of the white
 masses and a victory for the Republicans | and the illiterate negro. It stands to reason that ratification shall must and | will lwin.-Birmingham News.
 The real issue in the campaign for and | against the ratification of the new con- | stitution can not be yelled by political | strategists. It will not down. When mar | rowed down to the real issue who can | say that 1t Is not question between the l races? That meeing of the negroes in | Birmingham settled the whole thing and chilly sensations have been running down | the backs of the opposition to the new l constitution ever since. The resolutions | adopted by that meeting shows clearly that the negro realizes that the adoption l of the new constitution cuts him loose from politics entirely.-Alexander City
 Outlook.
 | It Is our opinion that some men who | are now opposing the ratification of the | proposed new constitution for Alabama
 will wish in few weeks that they had
 not done it. Sometimes it is forcibly
 demonstrated to us weak morals that
 the hindsight is better than the fore
 sight especially when there is little
 feeling intermixed with the vision. Some
 times our great desire to have a thing
 look certain way biases the vision to
 correspond with the biased judgment, and men will express surprise that others
 cannot see things as they want thenl-as
 their dehecting vision makes them appear. Clarke County Democrat. | The movement of Johnston, Shelley and | Stallings against the new constitution is merely movement of revenge. They are three defeated politicians and are pre- pairing a march to sudden and sure politi-
 cal death world without end. General Shelley is said to be a lobbyist in the employ of the Pacific Railroad; this road
 is opposed to the Nicaragua canal; the advocate of the canal is Senator Morgan. Now they say let us defeat the new con sttution, reorganze the parties of the State with Johnston, Shelly and Stallings as leaders, work Johnston and Shelly in the United States Senate, turn Morgan and Pettus down, make Stallings Govern or do away with the canal scheme-and there you have it in a nut shell-Pickens County News,