The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-11
nrPUsLIcAN CoRREsPoNDENT.
Lets Out Plan to Reduce so"snern Representation.
 Nnxv vo-.~ cractal tn New Orleans

ls Representation.
 New York Special to New Orleans Times Democrat.
 l New York, Nov. 10.-A speclai to Ahe | Press from Washington says: | Tt was said by President Roosevelt | to the people a few days ago that ne | would give every man square oeai. 1 After the President had said tnis Juose Parker, speaking in the King Coun.y Democratic Club. owned and eontro,.Ssu .S by Senator McCarren. asserted that the President did not mean what he said. MT. Hoosevelts promise to the nation undoubtedly will be carried out ana u will strike the Tillman's and the Earoa- ] mans of the South with terrifc 1orce. For more than a year President Roosevelt and his closest advisers, all of them widely in touch with the sen timent of the country, have believed that legislation should not be delayed which should safeguard the vote or every man in the nation. The sltuatloh in the Southern States where more than one-half of the voters are debar- red from the ballot box has been the subject of keen consideration from moral point of view and consideration was put aside only because 1t was pe- lieved that voters might be misled into thinking that Legislation in advance or the Presidential campaign might have behind 1t partisan color now wholly Justified by the facts.
 "Now that the issues have been de- cided for four years if not more; now
 that the Senate is open for many years to come, and the House of Representa- tives wan have an overwhelming ma porfty. President Roosevelt and the members of his cabinet, who have talk Cd, and Senators from the East and
 west, are determined upon legislation which will make one white man equal to any other white man in respect of his v0ta- m inh xx,flI # Southern bosses disenfranchise the colored voters they may do so only With the loss of representation in Con- gress and the consequent dminution or their votes in the electoral college.
 "Itsis believed that the President has broken into the solid South by carry Ing the State of Missouri. but 1t Is true also that right of franchise Is respect ed Tn Missouri, as 1t is In New York. massachusetts, and Vermont. Tn no other State in the South Is there any respect for the franchise, and the President proposes to make it one of
 the crownfng marks of his administra- tion that before he goes out of office every qualified elector will have a right 10 vote and have his vote recorded, or
 where the right to vote is denied him
 on technical grounds representation in congress will not be had by virtue of the census in regard of population as against the suppressed vote of the man
 whose color does not suit the bosses in
 the Southern States.
 There Is to be a complete realisn- ment of political conditions Represen- tation in Congress for the Southern states will be cut down to fewer than IoO votes. The proposition that a white man in the South is better in a voting booth than two and a half white men In the North will be settled forever flee.
 Republican advisers of the Presi- dent are not united on the question whether the negro shall vote in the South, but they are united on the question that if the negro does not vote ne shall not be counted in the census that makes up the representation in Congress, and these are united in the belief that if the Democratic leaders m the South want only white vote they must be satisfied with a repre- sentation of the vote in Congress and in the electoral college. This is what they are to receive from the next Con- gress, and it Is no violation of confi- dence to say that nearly every North ern Democrat in the House of Repre- sentatives will be glad to see this state of affairs established.
 "The position taken by the Republi- can party now is that if a colored mans vote is to be counted in Congression- al representation in the North, it must be counted in whole in any representa- tton In the South, and if it be not coun- tSu tHe south then the white men there will get the representation to which they are entitled by their vote in the electoral college, and will get no more. Long before this campaign was ended President Roosevelt, with his usual foresight in getting at the hub of political affairs. obtained a precise table of statistics relating to the vote in the South, and it shows a to the general voter North of West Virginia. This is to be corrected by legislation which in all probability will be introduced by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts. It may be surprising to say 1t, but 1t is neverthe- less true. that in all probability the bill will be supported by many Demo- cratic Representatives from the North.
 ''It is not to be an issue for the color ed man South or North, but an issue to be a question whether a white man three times the representation of white man in the North, and President Roosevelt Is determined to-have 1t set- tied by the Congress that will meet in March 4 of next year.
 He will dispose of the question as he did the Panama Canal and the coal strike. not minding the criticism of Southern newspapers or the advice of misguided friends. The net result probably will be that in the next cleo torial college the solid South. if 1t in- sist on a white vote, and only a white vote, will have electoral representation not more than equal to that of New York PennsvlVania and Illinois.