The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-12-12
THIS IMPRESSION GROWS
Republicans Will Not Follow Crum-
packer and Moody. j.,
so DECLARE MEN OF THEIR OWN PARTY
"It Would be Good Thing For the Republi-
cans" Says One of the Party, IF
the Negro Had No
Vote"
Especial to News ard Observer.)

Washington, D. c., December Ill
prominent Republican member of the
House says that the Republicans will
not follow Crumpacker in his scheme!
The mdianian is trying to get Repub
lican caucus to consider his
scheme, with the view to MAX
ing reduction of Southern rep
resentatives a party issue. He is
understood to believe that the Republi-
cans in Indiana and Ohio will need to
influence the passions of the people
against the South to stop large defec-
tions to the Democratic party III the
next election. That is the principal
argument made to Republicans in private
in favor of the Crumpacker bill. But to
return to the view of this Northwestern
Republican who is opposed to the plan.
He says:
MY idea is that the Southern States
which want to disfranchise should be
allowed to do so. Neither should any
action be taken by Congress to punish
the States passing disfranehisement laws.
The truth of the matter is the negro
must be eliminated from politics. The
SOUueT ne lS pIdteu OulSIuS lHS ppitLlCstl
breastworks the better.
at would be a good thing for the Re-
publican party if the negro had no vote.
Such a condition would greatly benelt
the Republican party.
Later it might be we'll to regrant the
colored man his right to vote. 1t might
be done by either party. l intend TO
project my views when the caucus meets
If it ever does meet-and in the posi-
tion | have assumed l am sustained by
many of my Republican colleagues. We
think it would be a good thing for the
Republican party to let the Southern
States continue to disfranchise the negro.
We ought not to threaten the white peo-
pie of such States with reduced repre-
sentation. Let them proceed with their
work"
The impression that the President will
put his foot down on the Moody and
Grumpacker schemes for reducing South
ern representation grows. 1t is gener-
ally believed that he will pursue Mr. Nc
kinleys do-nothing policy and let the
South work out it's own destiny. Most
of the newspaper correspondents here.
who are the first to catch on, believe that
the South has nothing to fear. Mr..
Walter Wellman, the able representa-
tivesof the Chicago Record Herald. who
usually knows what's what in Washing
ton, sends this view to his paper:
Notwithstanding all the agitation
about reducing Southern representation
in Congress on account of disfranchise-
ment of voters in Southern States, it is
perfectly we'll understood among Repub-
lican leaders that nothing of the sort is
to be actually done. There will be a
great deal of talk and an Investigation
may be ordered, but no one believes that
legislation will follow. Some Of The men
who are back of the movement are sim
cere in their desire to have the num-
Der OF Southern representa- tives reduced
but the leaders privately say that tie
people of the South are entitled TO
chance to take up this problem of the
colored vote and solve it in their own
way Efforts have been made to induce
the President to lend his influence to
the effort to reduce representation. but
Mr. Roosevelt has declined TO interfere.
AS matter of fact, he is not in favor
of it.
Men who take a broad Wow cf the
question say the troubles which the peo-
pie of the South have been experiencing
were thrust upon them when tha Repub-
lican party gave the negro the right to
vote before he was prepared for it, and
that it would be wrong to repeat that
injustice by interfering with the efforts
which the South Is now making to find
a solution of the problem This view
OF the case has recently been discussed
q good deal among PARTY leaders, and
the President has heard it without ex-
pressing any dissent
Representative Sims of Tennessee. will
seek to have the Agricultural Depart
ment TO make a special investigation of
the chemical composition AMI economic
uses of cotton seed and it's products, and
has introduced a bill for the sum Of Sl0,-
600 for this purpose.
North Carolina got two presidential
appointments on Monday. Both good
places, too, Rev. A. A. Pruden, Episcopal
preacher, chaplain of the War Depart
melt, and Mr. Richmond NJ. Pearson.
consul to Genoa. Mr.. Pearson's plkce
pays about $500 and is pleasant and
agreeable berth in the consular service,
though not very important.
There will be no doubt about the pas
sage of Senator Pritchard's bill TO give
permission 10 erect the monument TO
Lieut.. Shipp on the public grounds in