The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-11-23
BLOW AT THE SOUTH.
The Republicans Will Try to Cut
Town Our Representation.
CAMPaIGR MADE On TEIs LINE

Town Our Representation.
CA8PAIGK MADE On TEIs LINE
And Efforts TO Convince Northern
Voters rhatthe Basis OF Hepre-
sen,ation is Unfair, Says
The Washington Star.
The Washington Star. which is
said to be the tticial organ Of the
President, says 1t is well understood
among number CT Rspubl can lea
oers in Congress that an s6orG Will be
made as the ne xt long session to re-
6uce The representation OF Sites 10
the House Of Representatives in pro-
portion to the extent to which the
suffrage is denied their Cit z:ns. Here
is the tale told by the Star: Massa-
chusettS and Mississippi would receive
relatively equal treatment in the re-
duction. II an extraordinary session
OF the Fifty-ninth Congress should be
Assem- bleo, the subject would probably
be taken up then.
The conviction has been growing il
recent years, stimulated by number
Of c,ose Congressional fights, prior 10
the landslide, that the situation is in
tolerable, with respect to the over
representatit # the Southern States
ir the House. The Northern 3 pub
licans have been demanding that one
or two things snail be eone-snd they
don't very much care which is adopt
ed-nanely, that the negro vote IN
the South be counted OF when exclud-
ed the representation in Congress
shall conform to the actual vote cast.
For the past four Congresses the
81! ject has been discussed in earnest.
The ieaven set to work by a little CO.
terie Of Republicans has been doing
it's work, and in the Lass session re-
suited in formal caucus Of Republi-
cars OF the Bouse. 1t was then de
termined to be inadviSable to take up
tie fight. Congress wanted to get away
and 60 to work cn the campaign. It
was recognized that long and bitter
fight would have to be made to get
the desired legislation, and men in
neither body were ready to undertake
it.
Durirg the campaign there was
great deal Of discussion on the sub
ject among Republicans in their pri-
vate councils. When the CongresSion-
al campaign committee started in to
figure out the prospect, the first thing
they ran up against was that wall OF
l26 Representatives in the House
from the solid South. There was no
similar situation in the North. There
they stool, a nucleus Of 126, around
which to gather possible Democrat
ic House. Chairman Cowherd Of the
opposing committee knew it, and it
comtcr,sd him exceedingly until be
went to New York and triec to make
the Belmont -Sheehan. McCarren outfit
disgorge scne campaign funds, and
they reminded him that he had l26
members sure and ought to be able to
pick up the rest.
The Republican national committee
took cognizance Of the evil OF over
representation, ard one Of the few
campaign documents issued by the
committee was an exposition Of the
extent and scope OF the deprivation Of
actual suffrage and the false represen-
tation in Congress. Many speeche>
na6e in the campaign took thaS issue
as their text
A great deal Of the press matter
furnished by the national ard Con
greSSional committees bore upon the
subject. Speaker Cannon, in bis
campaign in New england, paid
much attention to it and addreS !
ed his remarks mainly to New Egg
land Democrats, pointing out how
they did themselves and the interests
Of their section an injustice by help
ing to swell the Democratic repre-
sentation in Congress that was based
upon erroneous election statistics.
In New England he showed the
voters how a single Congressional dis
trict up North would cast a greater
vote than they OF eight or nine
representatives from Southern State
and how the industrial output Of that
district would exceed the output OF a
State in the South, the idea being to
contrast the relative political power
# the sections and the relative impor.
5ance Of industries.
In the Middle West the same leaven
has been working. It Is all for the
purpose OF awakening the voters to
The evils that the leaders see. It was
determined that education Was neces-
sary. Some cf the caucus leaders
last session pointed out that a big stir
would be made in the Middle States
and even in the East. They said the
American people were kindly and
generous folk, good natured, and not
inclined to bear down upon their
nelehbors. A force bill'' as such a
measure would instantly be Dubbed by
the Southerners, would sound harshly
in the ears Of people Of the central
sections.
But these same leaders resolved that
it was time to do something. They
pictured the South as sitting by its
plantation freside, gazing into the dy-
ing embers OF the past while snokit 6
the corn cob pipe Of retrospection, and
were determined that the march OF
progress Of the East and North shou q
not BE- arrested by the Bourbon spirit.
Every time an economic measure came
no in Congress there we're those I26
Inflated votes, solidly arraigned
AGAINST the rest Of the couatry, stub
born, uosusceptiole to reason, dead set
in their Bourbonism. They knew that
Cnr,th tha hnsineSS interests