The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-01-10

ments; but when you prescribe a poll
tax or an educational test, you are pre-
scribing reasonable qualifications within
which every citizen can bring himself.
Another proposition. If as the gentle
man from Indiana (Mr Crumpacker)
and the gentleman from North Carolina
tMr. Linney), both contend the laws OF
Louisiana and North Carolina are un-
constitutional. why do you base upon an
unconstitutional act an attempt to de-
prive a sovereign State of her lust no.
resentation? Sirs if you believe these
provisions are unconstitutional you
should regard them as utilities, presume
that they will be so declared and should
not cut down representation on that ac-
count.
Another proposition: Representation
and taxation should go together. The
man who does not vote pays his part of
the taxes of this country just as the wo-
man, the minor and the non voter do The
individual voter now represents the wo-
men, the children and the non-voters.
The gentleman from Indiana, (Mr Crum-
packer) and the gentleman from North
Carolina (Mr. Linney) would deny repre-
sentation to these taxpaying non-voters.
While we have only placed the non-voter
in the same category with the women
and the children, they put the non-voter
upon the level of the mule and the OK,
denying him representation although he
pays his just portion of the taxes of the
country. If you are going to let the num-
Der who vote decide the representation
in the House, then you will increase the
re M cnr1fo Hon nf rk1h loI.~
and other States which extend suffrage
to women. That would be proper as a
matter of right. from their argument
aside from constitutional provisions.
KITCHIN ANSWERS LINNEY.
But Mr.. Speaker the gentleman from
North Carolina (Mr. Linney), in my judg-
ment, Saturday did his native State a
grave injustice in his fourth or fifth an
nual diatribe against the Democracy of
North Carolina. We have heard him Of
ten, and his latest revised edition per-
haps contains more venom and injustice
than any of his former efforts. 1t is not
a new assault that he delivers. He argued
that the white counties of North Caro-
lima were Republican. l deny it, Take
the election of August, 1900, and elm
mating every single county with a black
majority in the State. it went Democrat
ic by thirty-nine thousand majority, in
Guiding only the white counties. Take
the election of November, 1900, and elm
inatig every county that has a black
majority, the State went for Bryan and
Democracy by $4,000 Under the election
law that the gentlemans own party gave
our people, an election law that gave the
Fusionists in North Carolina the absolute
control over the election, the people Of
North Carolina were so shocked and
shamed at the rule the Republican party
had given the State that they hurled it
from power by majority of "a 900 in
November 1893.
The gentleman talked about the coun-
ties Of Halifax and New Hanover In
one county he says the Democrats got
vote of three thousand and the Republi-
cans only two, and that the other gave
majority for the Democratic party Of
more than the registered voters. All.
Mr. Speaker, If the gentleman had been
entirely candid, and not arguing it from
a partisan standpoint, intended to give
the members of this House a fair under
standing of the conditions there, the gem
tleman would have gone one step further,
and would have told you that the county
of New Hanover had been afflicted by his
own party with SO negro officials. He
might have told you that the same spirit
that thrills the white man in North Caro-
lima thrills the white man in Indiana.
where at Rockfort the white mob lynched
two negroes for numbering white bar
Der. He might have told you that the
same spirit that thrills the white man in
North Carolina is the same that thrills
him in Pennsylvania, the home of the
gentleman who is so anxious to investi-
gate these matters. He might have gone
TO Illinois and found that wherever
white man looks to the blue sky, the spir-
it of superiority and progress stirs within
him. He would have told you that under
the digraceful and shameful regime inflict-
ed upon the people by the Republican par
ty the white men did rise in their might
The gentleman wants to know if that is
fair? Was the election conducted fairly:
| tell you in the light of sound philosophy.
in the eye of civilization and justice it is
fairer and juster than the disgraceful re-
gime that made that revolution necessa-
ry." (Applause.)
SPEECH BY PEARSON.
Just before adjournment, Mr.. Pearson
spoke in opposition to the Crumpacker bill
and in favor OF the Burleigh Bill He
said