The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-26

They have 30 many units. ir fs bookcase made ip of sections or units, and you have just as many units as you want. and if you take out unit 1t will be a bookcase still and one that will stand and serve all the purposes you need.
 Another thing. Mr. President. we in our section of the State are not cir cumstanced at all like the people in Randolph County. We have over whelming numbers of negroes to con- tend with. When the white people there first thought of controlling the elections by what Is called fraud, 1t was thought they did not like to en- certain for a moment, because 1t Is against the theory of our government, but what could they dor Gentlemen. I have stood up before the Commissions CTS Court that passed on accounts against the county where the Probate Judge was @ Commissioner. The rad ical sheriff was a Commissioner, the radical clerk was 6 Commissioner, the clerk in the Probate office was a Com-
 missioner, and black negro who could neither read nor write, was Commis- sioner, and made legal arguments be-
 fore such court as that. Then We had, gentlemen, hordes of negroes to come
 down in reconstruction times, some- times as many Es 1,600 or 2,000. to the
 town in which lived, and the lives of the women and children were endan- gered whenever they did, because If there had been a riot of any sort, they had twenty or thirty and some times 100 to one, and they were armed and the carpet-baggers had inspired them
 with the belief that we had wronged them; that we had kept them in slav- cry; that they were entitled to their rights, and that they ought to have them at any sacrifice. And there have been times more than once where we had threatened riots in my town, when
 I was in as much danger going out to assist in quelling them as I ever was in the front in the war between the
 States. And yet, gentlemen want to see us again in that condition. They
 talk about giving the colored man all
 the rights of the white people. Why,
 they would not be in power twenty-four
 hours before they would have their
 night meetings. They would not be in power a year before they would act just as they did in reconstruction times, and we would have 1t all to go through with again, and you know 1t and l
 know 1t.
 MT. President. some allusion was made by one of the speakers in refer enCG 10 the 0laCh OCtt WdAtAh8 NhCoe
 darkies kept on the registration list.
 would ask the distinguished gentleman
 who has heard that statement made
 to come down when the Convention ad-
 journs and let me entertain him and
 introduce him to our people. l do not
 know any people In Alabama who are
 more refined and cultured, who stand
 higher morally, who are better people
 than the people I represent. and they
 have been clamoring for this Conven-
 ton for twenty years, and they have
 done 1t because they wanted to save
 the young men of the country from the
 necessity of participating in frauds
 That is why they have done It. ano
 you have made 1t so that we will have fair elections. tell you them will be no place in Alabama where they will have fairer elections than we will have in the black belt. Whenever some oi my friends in North Alabama quit buying negro votes q do not blame them for it. I haven't got word to say about that) then they can say am better than thou art, but not until then. If had been up there. would,
 like my friend from Randolph, have run my hand in my picket and given the campaign committee just as much as COuIu Eflu oaAu So Oh anu eSS 'SN. people in control of the offices. And gentlen.en of the Convention. the young !nen are not to blame for the conditions that are upon us. They were advised by older heads. l never was an inspector of an election. No body ever expected me to be one, bu' thought 1t was right for the white neople of the black belt to elect white people to office and I think now 1t was right. and I will think 1t was right the longest day the Lord may spare my life Fraud. if you will call 1t so, was the only way left us to prevent the | negroes and carpet-baggers from III ing our offices. There was an old gen. tleman who illustrated 1t to me in this way. He said: we have got to carry these elections. There is nothing else | or we will have to move out ot. the country. We will have to Kill them or control them. It is case or taKlns the smallpox or taking the measlvs and I believe I will take the measles. That is the way he regarded 1t, anc | that is the way 1t is regarded with us | We do not like the necessity Tor It pu we had to resort to 1t ar else give uI | white civilization in South Alabama We had to do 1t or leave the country | and we did not intend to do that. | was our country, and we intended tt stay there as long as we pleased, ant | to eyade if we could the fifteentf | amendment in order to accomplish u we have done it. but we are tired 0 l 1t. and we beg the Convention not t | do anything that will throw any i'm pediment in the way of giving us sucl | a suffrage plank as will insure whit civilization in Alabama after we hav' gone and our children have come afte us, That is what we want.
 A good deal has been said abou | General Morgan's views, great dea
 has been said. am the last man oi
 this floor who would say anything about the senior Senator from Ala bama. He is my friend. MT. President and I honor him. honor him no only as a friend. but 1 regard him al one of the most learned men in th' whole country. He is the peer Of an! man in the United States Senate. H' | is the superior in information to all! man with whom l am acquainted, ou when you analyze what he has saiC l you will find that he has never claimed | that this section Is in conflict wlti | the fifteenth amendment. He hal never said that we did not have thu authority to do it--not once-and non' of these gentlemen here have given Ill
 any authority to show us it would b | against the fifteenth amendment | Their whole course has been to In | dulge in mere matters of opinion. Wh!
 they try to scare us with Mark Hanna | Captain White said something abou | Mark Hanna. l do not think any o
 you are afraid of Mark Hanna, bu | they talk about what Mark Hanna | going to do. What is he going to do