The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-31

opinion arei not politically sagacious. The more they stir the matter up the more they will lose.
 For ourselves we have no objection to southern democrats stumping the north ern states in defence of their course at home; but they would make little im- precision on public opinion. The north- ern people would not be fpersuaded, be- cause they know that the same policy toward the negro is being adopted in states where there Is no possibility of ig- norant negro domination as in states where such possibility serves as a pre- text.
 Another reason why some democrats think they should make a campaign in the north, according to the writer in The Age-Herald. is because they fear that, In case of 8 close election, congress will refuse to count the vote of some of the states which adopted antl-negro suf- frage constitutions. We feel warranted in saying that nothing of the kind will be attempted. There Is no sufficient ground for suspecting 1t. Congress will not refuse the full electoral vote of any state before it has reduced the represen- tation of the state. No one expects un- der present conditions that a single south ern state that has adopted new suffrage conditions will afford ground for a con test. The circumstances are wholly diff ferent from those of the Hayes-Tilden controversy. The democrats have taken care to eliminate the republican vote and establish themselves in a secure and con stant majority. The question of change of the apportlonment of representatives and consequently of electors to these states, if it is ever acted upon, will not be acted upon before electoral votes are next counted. The ollgarchy ,nat has been established in these states will enjoy the full fruit of its present authority, so far as the next election is concerned If the spectacle of thirteen states made indsputably democratic by flat violation of the spirit of the constitution and artful evasion of It's letter makes northern citi- zens doubt the wisdom of intrusting the national government to the politicians who have done the trick, or consented to It, that is something which the solid south must put up with But we do not think 1t will gain anything by a northern crusade to prevenet such a happening The intelligent north knows all about the alleged motives. The north has great sympathy with the hard problems that confront the south; but no more in the case of the southern politicians than in the case of the Roosevelt administration
 
 does the end justify the means
 MT. Bulger makes much, or tries to, of certain incidents ofignorance of south ern conditions on the part of northern negroes that have come to his knowledge. They are pitiable, tis true; but isolated instances of this kind are not of much account for proof of general conditions, Doubtless they could be matched by the ignorance of the lower class of white Alabamians concerning the civilization and institutions of the north The rem edy for phenomena of this kind is not to insure that ignorance shall persist from generation to generation, but to secure that 1t shall be enlightened by education and by removing the conditions of misery and degradation that foster It. Mir. Bull ger Is In error in assuming that intelli- gent people at the north are ignorant of the real conditions in the south Any 5OOOO of them know the southern condi- tions quite asN well. man for man. as an equal number of southerners knows and understands the economical, social and political conditions in the north, and are quite as reasonable. magnanimous and charitable in respect of differences of opinion and judgment. J