The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-03-10
What Mississippi, Louisiana, North Carolin
and Tennessee Have Done,
THEY ELIMINATE NEGRO VOTE
Virginia Will Consider the Important cues.
ton of the Electoral Vote This
Summer.

The student of political history can
scarcely find u field OF greater interest
.han The methods adopted by the States
of the South In dealing with shc enormous
class OF ilfitorate negro voters, which, in
numerous instances. has threatened the
supremacy of the White man in a white
man 5 country.
i, is a story of unique interest Its
like has never before been told The
white man of the past has had TO deal
with what he termed inferior races, who
might ciamor for control of the govern
1n,nt but he has never until during this
generation ard in the southern States of
America had 10 stand Oh The same ground
p it'll his inferior and battle with him
for The kinciy privilege OF ruling The
li.lcts OF Greece neEer had the might
weapon of free suffrage; the peoples
brought under the imperial dominion of
Rome were held in subsection by the stern
power that deprived them Of their free
dcrl. in the long and finally victorious
struggle of the Anclo-Saxnn against his
Norman conGucror il contest
between m alien invader and the rignrfui
lord of the soil--thc right the side of
ihe conquered race. inferior people, as
the proud Norman termed thcn.
BATTLE on EVEN GROUND.
Tie white man 81 the South has had
To battle with the negro restrained by
LAM that made them absolutely equal. BY
constitutional amendment color, educa-
lion. character. were made 10 count for
nnHellt. BY stroke OF the pen the
4il;tcrate slave WAS pu- upon an exact
level with his proud master Every right
once held by The white man alone, and
regarded rs peculiarly 4 mark of his
superiority. WAS accorded the black man.
IL cannot hc said that the struggle with
the black man has always been carried
ri
ct the white. Goaded on by Tho fear that
their former siarcs would become their
political mast crs, the Southern whites
have rcsorted to bloodshed to maintain
their asccndency. And always with the
result desired. Bribery has been used
by those who preferred Establishments 10
force. and false counting has also been
thought preferable 10 applying violence
as preventive of negro supremacy.
But these methods We're never satisfac-
tory to the white men of the South. And
50 it was that when Mississippi adopted a
PROSTITUTION containing daring clause
prescribing qualifications for suffrage the
people Of other Southern States were
deeply interested. Mississippi's lead WAS
quickly followed
THE LEAD OF MISSISSIPPI.
In November. 1890. Mississippi adopted
her present constitution. Ii confers the
right of suffrage upon all sane male in
habtants of the State, y years OF age.
who have resided in the state two years,
and one year in the district. city or town
Ehere he offers TO vote; who has never
been convicted Of certain specified Of
Fences. ond who before the first
fay OF February in the year III which he
nffcrs 10 vote has paid all taxes legally
required OF him, and which he had oPror-
iunity to pay for The two preceding years.
md who shall have been duly registered.
The constitution imposes a uniform poll