The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-11-02
AFTER The SOUTH.
The Republicans Are Determined to
Humilia1e Her.

rational p!aC1O!n coucSlHiLS
ion CT the suffrage in the South has
not been given a large sharge Of atten-
Lion in the campaign, but that it is
very lively consideration to the Re
oublicans ana viii be acted upon IN
tie next Congress if that body has a
majority is proved by an
extended discussion OF the question
made in a campaign document that is
being widely distributed by the na'
tiunal committee in the closing days
Of the c>nvaSs. This document sets
forth the Republican argument IN
citation Of concrete examples OF ailes
ed inequalities Of representation as
follows:
It has been asserted that the Re
publican platform in demanding that
re presentation in Congress and IN tne
electoral colleges be reduced N states
where toe elective franchise has oeen
limited oy special discrimination is
raising the race question. This IS not
true. The platform does not toucn
the race question. The clause 10
Question has to do with more vital
and important matter, the equality OF
voters.
There are States represented on a
basis OF population in which less than
Two per cent of the population votes,
while the average vote in others Is
anywhere from fifteen to twenty, i've
per cent. Before the war these States
we're allowed to count tnree-hfths CT
their non-voting slave population;
now they count the whole OF their
non voting free population. Is this
equality?
There is a district ia Mississippi in
which half of one per cent OF the
population votes; in another only one
rerson in 1873 votes; and votes for John
Sharp Williams, who is protesting
against government without repreSen
tation in the Philippines. One vote in
Mississippi equals from seven to TWEEN
ty.tive in any Northern State" Judge
Parker says be obj CTS to government
by an oligarchY. Where do you think
the oligaIcby is in this country. anc
what do you want to 90 about it?
The accom- panying tables STOW ths
number Of votes received by the win
Ming candidate in each district. the
whole number OF votes cast in the dis,
tricts, its population aud the proper,
tion OF the voters 6 the population.
It will be observed that IN many OF
tee Southern States the successful
candidate ran without opposition, pol
ling the entire vote cast in his dis
trict: while in Northern States th5 op
position, dsvided among several par
ties, frequently cast more votes than
we're cast for TIE winner OF the elec.
Sion. If healthy opposition is sign
CT wholesome political life, this fact
is certainly significant.
/. Compare the First South Carolina
district, which takes in the city OF
Charleston and has population OF
l96 800, with the Fifth Penn >ylvania,
which includes a part Of Philadelphia,
population l96.3l5 Mr. Legare OF
South Carolina received 3.749 votes
nut of a total Of 3, 924; Mr.. Morrell OF
Pennsylvania, 25,35S out OF 25,64o,
both Candidates having practically nc
opposition. Mr.. Legare received the
votes of one fifteenth OF the po2ula-
tion Of bis district. Mr.. Morrcil the
votes of one-seventh the population OF
his. One voter in South Carolina
eouals seven in Pennsylvania.
Com pare the Sixth South Carolina
district, population POI, ST., with the
First Massachusetts, population 2O1,.
37S. In the one Mr.. Scarborough gets
1881 votes, with no opposition; in the
other Mr.. Laurence gets 1908 votes
against an opposition OF l2,0os. In
Mr.. Scarborough'S district ore cnly
person In so voted; in Mr.. Lawrence'S
the proportion was one in seven. One
South Carolina vote equals seven IN
Massachusetts,.
Compare the Seventh South Caro-.
lima district, population 1873, I53, with
the Nineteenth New York, population
1885. In one the successful Demo
cratic candidate was elected by a vote
of 1920 against an opposition of l67
Republican; in the other the Republi-
can candidate got l7,S7S votes against
1888 Democratic and 1929 divided
among three other factions, the total
vote polled being one fifth OF tue pop
ulation, as against one forty-second Of
the population Of the Seventh South
Carolina. One voter in South Carolina
equals eight in New York, and doesn't
have to work so hard to elect his man.
John Sharp Williams, the Demo-
cratic leader Of the House, is much
troubled in mind about the rights OF
the Filipinos, who are deprived CT
proper representation. So long as here
are 1872 people in his own district who
are not voting to one who is it seems
IS if the MiSsissippian might look
nearer home. He was elected to the
present Congress by the total vote OF
bis district, 1,433, and there are l90,-
ss5 people In that district. One in 1873
Of them voted.
In the Eighth New Jersey district
Mr.. Wiley received Is, Sl4 votes-more
than ten times as many as Mr.. vii.
]iams received in the Eighth MiSsis
sippi. The Democrat who ran against
him got l2,005-nore than eight
times as many as Mr.. Williams, and
be was defeated, at that. The combin-
ed votes Of prohibitionist and socialist
in that election amounted to eS4.
Dropped Dead.
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