The age-herald., 1901-07-19
THE GRANDFATHER CLAUSE


 and reserve to the law all that properly belongs8to the law.
 Regarding the grandfather clause the same is true. It does not accord with good government and is so entirely for eign to the American idea that one does not recognize one utterance of Democracy in 1t. s.f From the Talladega Mountain Home
 The recent letter of Senator Morgan to Frank s. White on the grandfather clause reported by majority of the committee on suffrage and elections is an able and timely exposition of the dangers and anti- republican features of the proposed elec- ton law.
 The Senator's letter is brief, but thor ough and convincing in it's argument against all political privileges flowing from the claims of heredity He epoints out that the American revolution was not so much a redress of grievances as it was a struggle to abolish heredity in govern ment. which the grandfather clause would revive. He shows how political heredity was annulled and all its prerogatives
 
 etc.. with its protecting laws were abol- ished by our constitution and correctly argues that the restoration of any of these principles to that extent, discredits the cause of the revolution.
 ITO make blood the medium of trans- mftting the electoral power from father ito son." argues the Senator, Ifs to uproot from its foundation the whole system of Democratic government and to reinstate the form of regal government" And he further observes: 'The transmission of the electoral power by the blood of in- heritance from father to son would de- stroy all distinction between regal gov ernment and Democracy, and throw the door wide open for a return to the system that the American revolution abolished"
 With the perils of the odious grand father clause thus portrayed, it is be-. lieved that the conviction on serious sec- ond thought will strike 1t from the pro- posed organic law. proposed ordinance so perilous in its possibilities.
 From the Ashville Aegis.
 The frame of the new constitution Is al- ready well loaded down to the waters edge for defeat at the ballot box. South Alabama will have to resurrect every dead negro who has departed life in the last twenty years to cast his vote to have the least chance of getting its constitution forced on the white citizens of the State There will have to be change and radical ones in some of the adopted provisions of committee reports, before the end if the Instrument is adopted as white mans constitution by the white vote of North Alabama. As it stands now the Aegfs will oppose its ratification. We want a constitution for the whole State-not for Birmingham, other large cities and the negro counties alone.
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