The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1904-11-25
I BLOW a Z THE SOUTH.
The Republicans Will Try to Cut
Town Cur Representation.
! CAMPAIGN MADE ON THIS LINE
And Efforts TO Consinoa Northern
Voters thnt the Basis of Repre-
sentation il; Unfair, Says

S. And Efforts to ConTinoe Northern
Voters I hat the Basis of Repre-
sentation is Unfair, Says
tho w asbinRton Star.
The eWashipgton Star, which il
y said to bs the ctficial organ OF the
resident, say s itis well unde1s sood
amonga number of Republican lea
de1s in Congress that an effort will be
made at the next, long session to re.
duce the representation of States in
The House OF Representative in pro-
portion to the extent to which the
= suffrage Is denied their citzsns Here
Is the tale told by the Star: Massa.
#chusetts and Mississippi would receive
relatively equal treatment in the re-
7%duction. If an extraordinary session
or the FifUy-ninth Congress should be
assembled, the subject would probably
be taken up then.
recent years, stimulated by number
OF close Congressional fights, prior o
{ the landslide, that the situation is in
tolerable, with respect to the over
re rtaticn Of the Southern States
In the House. The Northern r pub
licans have been demanding that one
4 or two things snail be done-an they
don't.very much care which Is adopt
ed-namely, that the negro vote in
the South be counted or when exclud-
ed the representation in Congress
Shall conform to the actual vote cast.
For the past four Congresses the
2 SUI ject has been discussed in earnest.
The leaven set to work by little co.
. terie Of epublicans has been doing
Its work, and in the last session re.
suited in formal caucus OF Republl-
-caHs- uf tue House. 1t was then dc
te1mined to be inadvisable to take up
( the fight. Congress wanted toget away
and go to work fn the campaign. IL
was recognized that a long and bitter
/. fight would have to be made to get
1the desired legislation, and men in
neither bCdy were ready to undertake
lit,
!Durir G the campaign there was a
great deal Of discussion on the sub
iectamoGg Republicans In their pri-
pate councils. When the Congression-
!; al campaign committee started in to
Z figure out the prospect, the first thing
126 representatives. In the House
from the solid South. There was no
: similar situation in the North. There
they stood, a nucleus Of 1875, around
which to gather possible Democrat
ic House. Chairman Cowherc Of the
opposing committee knew it, and 1t
CON forIed q him exceedingly until he
FWen6 TO New y FORK and tried to make
. f.titi Ra1 mt Tn
disgorge some campaign funds. and
they reminded him that he mad 1876
members sure and ought to be able to
pick up the rest.
The Republican national committee
took coguizance of the evil OF over
represt ntation, and 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.
made in The campaign took tha5 issue
as their text
A great deal Of the press matter
furnished by the national and Con
gressional committees bore upon the
subject. Speaker Cannon, in bis
campaign in New England, paid
much attention to 1t and addres :.
ed his remarks mainly to New Eng
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 single Congressional dis
trlct up. North would cast a greater
Scte than the vote OF eight or nine
representatives frCm Southern State
and how the industrial output Of that
district would exceed the output of a
Safe in the South, the idea being to
contrast the relative political power
If the sections and the relative impor.
Lance Of industries
In the Middle West the same leayen
has been working. IL is all for the
purpose OF awakening the voters to
The evils that the leaders sea 1t was
determined that education WIS neces.
sary. Some Gf the caucus leaders
last session pointt out that a big stil
would be made in the Middle States
and even in the East. They said the
<hhOiiCoA puppy nCiC anu
generous folk, goJd natured, and not
inclined to bear down upon their
neighbors. A force bill" as such a
measure would instantly be dubted by
the SOuthe1ners, would Sc und harshly
In the ears OF people Of the central
sections.
But these same leaders resolved that
it was time to do something. Tney
pictured the South as sitting by its
Plantation fires'de, gazing into the dy-
ing embers Of the past while smokir G
the corn cob pipe OF retrospecton, ard
were determined that the march OF
progress OF the East and North shou d
not be- arrested by the Bourbon spirit.
Every time an economic measure csme
up In Congress there were those 1876
inflated votes, solidly arraIgDed
against the rest Of the country, stub.
born, unSusceptible to reason, dead set
in their Bourbonism. They knew that
down South the business interests
were stirring uneasily, but the Bour-
bons controlled the ballot box.
The agitation has been renewed
since election day. The solid South
has been compressed into even narrow.
erspace by the pressure of progress On
its Northern torders. The Republican