The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-23

three of the white counties, Jefferson.
Mobile and Madison from extreme por-
lions of the State and they will show
a registration of 70, i6S. about two tnou-
sand more than the entire fourteen black
counties. The white persons of voting
age in the three white counties foot up
s9.1S7, going to prove conclusively that
the white people in the black counties
have thought more of their privileges OF
citizenship than their white brethren In
the white counties it being a lamentable
fact that IN these three counties alone
1919 of them have deliberately disfran-
chised themselves. In Jefferson alone
there are 9,151 whites who are excluded
from voting by their own act of indiffer-
ence and wilful selfdisfranchisement and
in Mobile there are 1,7SS and in Madison
l,T90 who cannot vote for the same
reasons. The white people In the black
counties have always taken more interest,"
in elections and pubic affairs than the
white people in the white counties as the
figures in elections will prove and In the
supreme and final test there is no de-
parture from the rule. We can take
seven counties of the white tier, Calhoun,
DeKalb, Henry, Lauderdale, Ialladega.
Iallapoosa. Tuscaloosa, pretty well dis
tributed over the State and they will show
of negligence and disregard of the rights
of citizenships for out of white voting
population of 32,l32 they have registered
26, 426, there being 57O6 white men there
who can't vote, and many of these nave
not paid poll tax, but the proposition Is
about the same in all the counties.
Where the Vote Is.
jefferson is the largest county with
l46S1 registered voters, but in a conser-
vative calculation, taking off those who
are disfranchised from failure to pay poli
tax and members of other parties, that
there will not be over 5000 votes In the
primaries. In Mobile. the second county
there are $500 registered in Henry l,'Jo
Calhoun 4,5lS, Montgomery 4,42s, Dehaln
APIS, Walker AIS Jackson 4,O'6 with
large number in the three thousand class
and so on down the table, with Greene
73O and Macon $50, the smallest t"o
counties IN the list.
The Negroes.
The Advertiser tables have heretofore
reported 1E92 negroes registered in forty
counties The Ave counties in the black
belt-not included in this-were Autauga
with 81, Greene with so, Lowndes with 81,
Marengo with 800, Perry. &c. which added to
that already reported make the total ne
gro registration in forty-five counties, IN
GLIDING the fourteen black counties. OF
2,117. In most of the twenty-one other
counties where reports have been made
as to registration. not negro was reg
istered and in the others there Will not be
enough to count on the fingers of the
hand, and will not change the aggre-
gate.
Registration.
Those who have not already registered
are barred from doing so before the cleo
ton in November, except as the Consti
tuition provides for the opening of the
list, viz:
ION Friday and Saturday next preced
| ing the day of election in November. 1902
| the Board of Registrars shall sit in the
court house of each County during such
days and shall register all applicants
having the qualifica tons prescribed under
Section 1872, who shall have reached the
age of q after the LIST day of August. 1892
or who shall prove to the reasonable sat
isfaction of the Board that. by reason OF
physical disa bility or unavoidable alb
sence from the County, they had no op
portunity TO register prior to the LIST day
of August, 1902, and they shall not or
such days register any other persons.
This knocks in the head the lie and bug
aboo story that the negroes could be
registered in these last two days before
election in November. These sins against
the Democrats of the black belt will bt
enough to damn those guilty of them fol
all time to come. The black belt people
have shown a most commendable patriot
ism and self-sacrifice in this matter and
will continue to do as they have in the
past, exercise a most potent influence ant
have great deal to do in shaping the
affairs OF the party and of the State.