The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1904-10-14
SOUTHERN 0UGARCEF
Spirit of the Constitution ViOlat-
ed--Votefs' Rights Destroyed
In Centralized Power.
IOtin Sharp Williams In Congress on .435
Votes - Speaker Cannon Has
22,94l-SOme Facts.

II has been asserted that the Repub-
Gcan platform in demanding that rep
rvsentGtion in congress and in the elect
oral colleges he reduced i'm states where
abe elective franchise has been limited
~ special determinations is raising
abe race question. This il not true. The
platform does not touch the race ques-
zion. The clause in question has to do
with a more vital and important mat
ter, the equality Of voters.
The constitution of the United States.
AItICle l. Section III. s. defines the basis
Of representation as follows:
Representatives and direct taxes
shall be apportioned among the several
&<Atva which may be included within
this Union according TO their respective
~1-'hc-e which shall he determined
by adding 10 the whole number of free
persons. includinG those bound to Scrv-
h .or a term of years, ana excluding
Italians mot taxed, thrre-fifths # all
t.Aer persons
According II the fourteenth amend
nsant:
ed among the several states according
tn their respective numbers. counting
she Uluic number If persons in each
state excluding Indians not taxed"
Now. obviously if hy some such plan
rs t. wholesale diSfra nchisement of
Il certain class ~ the population the
t7lt'r POI Ulatiou Of a state. voting and
Jn"ntiur AN We made 10 count in
Abe represt ntation of that state in con-
greSS, while other states are there rep.
resented T. proportion TO their number
OF voters, here Is an inequality which
tends toward the establishment of Just
sH%h an oligarchy as existed I'm the
Entebellum congress, only instead of
counting thrce-ffths OF n large non
~ ting pOpula ion certain southern
states now count the whole. More over,
their representation is vested i'm men
who are committed 10 a policy not only
Denro[r;ltic, but essentially local and
III nIaiy respects directly antagoniStic
20 the interests not only Of northern
Republicans, but Of northern Demo
crltS as we'll. The perception Of
similar condition of things made the
'@war Democrat Of forty years ago.
-Hdrr the present Mississippi const-
lHicn one voter in Mississippi equals
ten in Connecticut, ten ia Ohio. twelve
s. Massachusetts sixteen in California,
SCI "uteer III Iowa ana twenty mine in
New York Low do rou like that cit
izrns:
LIT H. look nj the matter i'm detail
John Sharp Williams. the Democratic
leader OF The house, was asked some
Gi1ie l.o ,v,ethcr he would accept the
nomination FOR president He said:
MY nol..' alton would no sooner be
announced than II would be heralded
far and wide that my platform consist
al of III" constitution of Mississippi
and the amendments thereto"
Mr. Williams knew he could never
Nfl on thar platform. He was elected
81 thc Fifty-eighth congress without
opposition. receiving ! ,I33 votes, his
district, the Eighth Mississippi, having
g. population OF 19O.SS5 In the First
district Of Connecticut, having popu-
alton of 220.0O3, 10 per cent more than
ihat Of the Eighth Mississippi, L.
Stevens Henry received 2O2S9 votes.
ntsl mad that district been of the same
xi4e as Mr.. Williams district Mr..
s1eniy must have had 1902 votes to
.sculo election IIDrc than ten times
IL, many rs il took TO elect the Demo
cratic leader OF the house. Moreover,
Il opposition TO Mr.. Henry, 1T,211
yvtAs We're cast for William O'Neil,