New-York tribune., 1903-06-16
TO REVIVE WAR FEELING
WILL SWEEP COUNTRY.
Negro Suffrage Question Thus
Spoken of at Republican Ctub.

the Republican Club took up the negro queS-
ton in earnest last night at monthly meeting
held in its new home in West Fortieth-st-' which
Was opened informally, and passed resoiutio-i9
urging Congress 10 make speedy ana thoroUeh
investigation into the conditions in the South
where the suffrage is abridged in Nlolauoh %
The amendments to the Constitution of the
limited States. and demanding that. without
further delay, measures be taken to render those
amendments effective The resolutions were
read bv c H. Denison chairman of the COM
rnittee of national affairs. They were the SUD-
ject of much comment. Mr.. Denison read a re-
port on the subject, in which he said;
Our cordial sympathy is extended to every com ON
nunity struggling with debased Or or lglioI dtt xid
fraoe and we should rejoice to see lillteriacy
cd from The franchise throughout the repupliS,& & %
s9ere' S5 onsfitmons comprise what is known
as the grandfather clause, the h.eit - - baen
nad more pain If his exclusion from the suffrage
had beer expressed in the most SpeG5I ppa5 dice with
which the Democratic party plays , OIIe IN every
Presidential election by methods abhorrent TO every
conception e OF esore 6ess@e tS or Chances are even
q a B. Humphries, in rising to second me
adoption of the resolutions, said:
Perhaps the question cannot be overcome un-
iii rbe next census is taken No State can be
admitted 10 the Union without first submitting
sress has this right hasn't it the right when
state constitution is perverted TO take cog
,,izancep The grandfather clause is not con-
stirutional The negroes have taken up the
ouestion. They are organizing. That shows
their qualification TO citizenship. That shows
their qualification to vote. This is not poiltl-
cal question. 1t is not one of partisanship IL
&c one in the defence of the Constitution of the
United States.
Ex-Judge James w. Halves said that the reso-
lutions were not as full and as strong as he
should like them to be.
..rbe whole question contains the central idea -
he said that the people will be stirred up as
the, were on the question of slavery. The ques-
zion shall run through the country like prairie
fire and arouse such sentiments as were aroused
before the Civil War Congress and the whole
nation would again be aroused, as the people are
not satisfied with a country half democratic and
the other half aristocratic.'
b. Pratt Brown refused to second the motion
for the passage of the resolutions unless the
clause spirited campaign TO purify the public
service be stricken out from the last paragraph
OF the resolution
Il for one. viii not stand on record in this
club as opposing the Constitution of the United
States" he said.
The clause was stricken out.
In the resolutions the club appeals to every
member of Congress. that without unnecessary
delay a searching investigation be made with
the view to determine. if possible, the extent
TO which the suffrage has been abridged in any
State, and that such action be taken as the
Law and the facts may warrant
In sending greeting to President Roosevelt
the club declares its unqualified approval of
his valiant determination to extend the equal
protection of the laws TO every citizen, however
humble
Herbert H. Gibbs chairman of the committee
on election. when resolutions were offered for
the election of several new members, asked that
the name of Demetrios J. Nlasto, whose address
was given at Nos. and Stonest-, be stricken
from the ballots, because il had been put there
through some error the part of the COM
rni+tee When asked for an explanation. he said
that il was A private club affair which he did
NOT to discuss.