The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-31

l in form. Here we may encounter a | sleeping giant, eftectual for the pro- | lection of civil liberty in Alabama. Can | 1t be said that this State will have a government either Democratic or Re- | publican in form, when the organic law | of the State has been saddled upon the people not by their own free will, but | by fraud and an arbitrary disregard alike of their liberties ana their votes. A Constitution adopted not by votes, | but by the count. Is not d government | republican in form. nor democratic in | theory, hut is only the bastard off, | spring of despotism and anarchy. If this amendment is adopted the ! world will know what the people sttsdnk
 of our work here. but if defeated M wifi | never be known and it will only see by | the face of tho election returns that | "a, 900 negroes in the Black Belt voted | for their own disfranchisemen.? This nobody will believe. The only effect | therefore. will be to satisfy everybody | that the organic law of Alabama which ! was conceived in partisanism. was | brought forth in fraud. Let this Con- | vention do one bold and manly act--. adopt this resolution. and submit the | result of our labor to the white vote | of the State. Let us show to the world | that we are sincere about white supre- macy. and not solicitous about it only | that some party advantage may come | therefrom. Let us do more to prevent | the degradation of the State and It's possible loss of representation, ani
 maybe reconstruction by Congress. Under the proposed Constitution we will have neither freedom nor white supremacy. The registrars will destroy | liberty and white supremacy will be | swallowed up In the unequal represent | tation accorded the Black Belt, wdere | as now, one white vote is equal to fivc l or six in the white counties. We will have simply the supremacy of the n:a- chine. Can we afford thus to treat our | fellow citizens? Can we again face l our several constituencies. after we have denied to them the only chance | they could have of securing to them
 selves and their posterity the blessings of civil liberty. by a defeat of the work of destruction which we have so reck- | lessly submitted for their forced adnp- ton. Let us give to the people the chance of self-preservation. Now. on the amendment onered, l demand the previous question and call for the ayes and noes.
 Mir. Long (walker)-I would like to ask the gentleman q question. MT. Freeman-I decline.
 Mir. Long-I want Ca know wno wrote
 
 ham faction. (Applauseo
 MT. deGraffenreid--I move to lay the amendment on the table.
 The Presidpnt--The gentleman from Winston moves the previous quesgacai. and the gentleman from Hale moves to lay the amendment upon the table. The motiou to table has precedence over the motion for the previous kuestion: MT. k'reeman-I ask for the ayes anu noes on that.
 The call was not sustained. .l Upon a vote being taken the amend | ment was tabled. The President--The queStion will be upon the adoption of the article as re- ported by the Committee on oroer, consistency and Harmony. M.. .,Bia- -kwell--I would like to ask the Committee a question? Th. President-The gentleman hao
 better address some one or the com
 mittee.
 M. Blackvell-I would like to ad.
 dress 1t to Mir. Spraggins. It is relative to A provision on page 50. would ike to know why 1t is that towns In Jer-
 ferson County having from l.eeo to S,ooo inhabitants are to have these ike extra
 days to register, and towns in no other
 county are to have them. MT. Spraggins-I presume 1t is be- cause there are number or large towns in that county. MT. Coleman (Greene)-l Will answer the gentleman We canvassed all the counties in the State, and there were
 so many more cities in Jefferson Coun- ty is the reason why an exception was made of that county. Now as to the town of Huntsville in Madison County, if was said that there was ample tlme for that county. and so With Mopile County, but the population or JenHrson was so much greater that we thought
 it required an additional session or five days to give them ample time, the other towns in the State being amply
 proyided for. There is no other coun- ty in the state. having the number Of largo towns that Jefferson has. ,M:. Burns Dallas)--l have in my
 hand an amendment which 1t may rot
 be necessary to offer. thought may
 be the Committee would accept It.
 The President-Possibiy they will af-
 ter they hear 1t read.
 The amendment was read as follows:
 Amend Article VIII. Section 1S6, Sub
 division {, line IS, page 5l, by striking
 out November" and inserting "Octo-
 ber' in lieu thereof, so as not to conflict
 with line 12, Section 46, Article lV"
 page II.
 Mr. Burns-What I want to cali at
 tention to is that the election Is set
 for the first Tuesday after the first
 Monday In 1902, which would be the 0tn
 day of November, and then over In this
 other Article 1t says that the Regis
 trars shall hold during the third week
 or November, 1902.
 Mir, Coleman (Greene)-That Is all
 right. We provide here for the regis
 tration of all voters for the election in
 November, 1902. Then we provide for
 reeistrat ton up to 1903. of such as may
 become of age afterwards. or who have escaped registrs tion that is registra- ton for a subsequent election, that IS on the life registration list. This reg l2tration prior to November, 1sO2, IS to qualify all parties to vote at that election. After that election Is over, We go on then and have a permanent reg istration.
 M. Burns--If 1t is understood that
 way, all right. I cannot understand 1t that way myself, because just after this election, you call together those same registrars, who have just been engaged ir registration the month before.
 M. Coleman-We arc admitting to permanent registration all who are en- titlel to it.
 M. Burns-I will ask the consent of tn, Convention to withdraw my amend men. .. ..
 Ih, consen: wal given.
 M. Burns-I have another amend men:.
 The amendment was read as follows:
 Amend Article VIII, Section iS2, line