The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-10

iadega. MT. Browne--that it has been the custom in England to grant linn itfd woman suffrage upon the question of education. That being the case, 1t seems that the very home of our civ ilixation, the mother country from which we are descended, the great An glo-Saxon spirit of the age, authorizes this procedure that we desire in Ala banla. Men who claim to be intelligent and patriotic deny right, justice and equal privileges to women who pay taxes to say whether or not she shall have that tax imposed upon her. I move to lay the motion to reconsider upon the ta- ble.
 Mir. Long Cwalker)-will the gentle man please withdraw that motion? MT. Cunningham-It is insisted that do not withdraw. but I never have much sympathy with the little boy who ate up all the candy and said that he did not love 1t. and I withdraw the motion to lay on the table. Haugh- ter.)
 MT. Long (walker)-I am very glad the gentleman Is so kind. because he made such an eloquent speech, and in stead of jumping from Alabama to Kansas as he should have done, he jumped up among the stars and used such big words as "Constantinopie," |" and 1t is difficult for any one to an swer him. (Applause.)
 Seriously speaking, I think this is the straw that will break the camers back. l am serious upon this propo- sition. At last am I face to face in Alabama with what feared was com ing. the time when women would vote; when my wife would go to the polls and Kill my vote, and give me no peace because she could not vote me. You are going to allow negro women to vote the same as white women. This Is the entering wedge. You may talk about mortgagilg your property as much as you please, they have no more right to vote upon the proposition of issuing bonds than they would have as stated by the gentleman from Lauder dale. to vote upon any other proposi- ton. I think the time has come, MT. President. when we should change the name of Alabama. It should not be said, Here we rest" for here there will be no rest (applause). with such "men" as Carrie Nation and others, with hatchets. parading our streets. You will come to 1t in Alabama, for this will be but a shining mark and invitation to all the women cranks in the United States to assemble here. MT. President. rather than have that. l wculdy take any plank that has been proposed here to be put in the Con stitution. The best women in Alabama don't want to vote. and the reason to- day that Southern women so outshine any other people in the world for beau ty and virtue is because they stay at home and do not try to make them selves masculine in the affairs of this world .lApplause.) Why. gentlemen. our mothers never thought of such things. Our men have always been able to run this country. It is the men of the country that do the fighting in time of war. and should vote in time of peace, and have peace when they vote. daughter.) 1 do not want to go home and explain to my wife why I cast a vote. My wife could vote un- der this proposition and If couldn't vote her I would think that I had no influence over her. and she would mo | doubt, think she had no influence over me, and there would be a row that would start in North Alabama. the echoes of which would reach to the Gulf. Loud applause)
 It Is indeed a fine proposition to let the women go up and vote. Why. I know of three or four. less than half . QCZ6n WOIHeLl. Itly tOWH HONs we can hardly hold an election for their interference. You give them the right to vote, and I tell you they will stand by the polls. and talk about the l dark days in Alabama when the ne- groes were intimidated, and when the shot gun ruled, out they will intimi- date every white voter in that town, and you will have to run away from the polls or vote their way. daugh- ter.) That will be the result gentle men.
 The men in Alabama own ninety-five or ninety eight per cent of all the prop erty in Alabama. I respect women, but it is the mans business to make a living for them, and the man is a william that does not do it, and he should do the voting for the household. You have no right to enfranchise one of them, because it is wrong in prin- cirle, and tell you I never want to see the day when 1t will be written in our Constitution. when three or four women can get together and go around the polls and sing a few nallelu1an songs. and get d Carrie Nation hatchet and intimidate every white voter at the polls Naughter.) That is what they will do
 Now I appeal to this Convention se- riously not to adopt this provision. It will start rows in Alabama that have never been dreamed of and which are not half started now. and which will not end outside of the divorce courts, | and a knock-down and drag out, and mixing up of fathers-in-law brothers in-law who will all take in it before | 1t is through.
 You give the women the right to vote on that. and she will want the right to run for President the next day. If women want to run this country and you gentlemen think they are better cualified to do so than the men, am willing to vote with the majority of the Convention to disfranchise e.ery man in the State of Alabama, black and white. and turn it over to the wo- men and let them run 1t. If you thlnk 1 they are better qualified and that the men should not do it. show your falth by voting for a proposition like that | They have no right to vote. God never intended for them to vote. It was the Apostle Paul who said that they should keep their mouths closed in as- semblics. and you could not keep their mouths closed around the polls 10 save their lives. GLaughterJ l hope that fhis convention will not adopt such a nroposition as this. We will be as Kansas and become the laughing stocK of all creation. We are not called up- on to pattern after Louisiana. where until wear or two ago. they had no Sunday law. They fell from grace, and got so low down that they let women