The age-herald., 1901-03-31

VNHI public cannot exist on the
 INVIt mainland with an empire at-
 <90S tachment in the Islands. That is because of priority of befoulment
 on the mainland. MT. Lincolns ideal, "a
 government of the people, by the people,
 for the people," was never the American
 government, and will not be until we
 lapse from the constitutional forms to
 the military and out from that into an- | archy.
 In Alabama we lapsed from the con- | stitutional form at one period, well re- membered by living men, into military | despotism so absolute that in time of un-
 broken peace and industry every execu- tive civil officer from constable to Gov ernor, inclusive, was removed, the Gen
 eral Assembly overthrown and every ju-
 dicial officer from justice of the peace to
 chief justice, inclusive, was busted The
 general commanding Military Division
 Number Five" embracing Alabama, was
 invested with non-appealable authority
 over the liberty of all men and women,
 over all rights of property and over the
 life of everybody Out from thiD mili- tary period we have reached forward in-
 to the present period of fraudulent elec- tions, lynchings for all kinds of individual offences against the prejudices and pas-
 sions of the mob, and into a period of
 distressing public distrust of every feat ure and function of our civil authority.
 For instance. the recent State Democrat ic Convention, which met to select dele gates to the proposed sovereign conven- | ton to give us a new constitution, for mally ratified those provisos enacted by | the late session of the General Assembly | as within the power of dictation usurped
 by the General Assembly over the forth l coming new constitution. Anarchy Is not | easy to define under conditions that pre- l vail in this country. It ls hard to excite l anarchy and prosper the trust at the | same time.
 But after the clouds the sun. The reign | of law Is fast becoming necessity to the | empire on the mainland. The Republican
 party. entrenched at Washington, has | passed beyond the stage of critical hold upon power. Considering that historic | event in it's relations to the movement
 in Alabama, to juggle with the negro
 question by new State constitution. we
 find ourselves freed of sincere alarm and
 quondem actual Jeopardy.
 We need not juggle with the negro question in our new constitution. The | native Scotch sagacity of MT. Mark Han | ma has taught him how to secure a need l ed successor to MT. E. w. Pettus. With
 alacrity and eonsummate urbanity Mir.
 Mark Hanna will permit Alabama to re-
 wise the negro franchise absolutely out
 of her new constitution. Mir. Hanna is of
 mature mind in affairs of exchange, l where the "quid' Is to come in for the quo that gooes out. Look about Ala | bama, from the hills to deep water. Bee 1 the allies of Mir. Hanna! Even now, when
 the cry of white supremacy fills the cir cumambient. even yet while the echoes
 resound from the Auditorium at Mont
 gomery-see the allies of Mir Hanna in
 Alabama. If Mir Hanna does not see a 1 fighting chance for a ship subsidy Sena- l tor from Alabama, a chance for an Amer l ican International Bank Senator from 1 Alabama, a chance for a militarsm Sen
 ator from Alabama, just as soon as a | new constitution eliminates from our To- | cal politics the Pettus shibboleth Of
 white supremacy" then MT. Mark Han | na Is man of visions, victim of mirage l none of which pha ntasms is he beholden l to-
 True, there is variance between the followers of Mir. Hanna at Washington
 and in Alabama upon the policy of a 1 new anti-negro constitution for this State. | The certainty of gain ar Washington and
 the equal certainty or deterioration and | loss in Alabama from the same political event, Is unQuestioned, yet Washington
 requirements are paramount in the prem | ises In Alabama widespread conver-
 sion of the old Pettus white supremacy | Democrats to the faith of Mir Hanna
 would not leave the local supply of Rev | publicanism in adequate proportions to | go around. There are too many Republi- | cans here already for the deal The late | Dr. Moseley was embittered by shameful
 neglect, as an example. This fact of va | riance between Washington and Ala
 hama does not disturb MT, Mark Hanna. l The credentials of the proper successor
 to Mir. Pettus would please him only lit-
 tie less than the final disappearance of | contesting Alabama negro delegations to | national party conventions
 Our new constitution is net te ignore the negro. Far from 1t. When the prob lem of public education comes forward
 our new constitution will solve it. The solution will eliminate nc God.ordainsd