The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1906-01-05
Lee county's Sad Condition.

to the following quesLloA'
III there is a county in Georgia
that needs negro disfranchise-
ment it is Lee county.-Lee Coun-
ty Journal.
Let us see how that works out.
Lee county. according TO the edi-
tor of the Lee County Journal, is In
a position that 400 white voters
cannot and will not outyote 1000 black
voters
Why not?
have only the election returns
from Lee county for the years 1900
and 1904, but they are instructive.
In 1900 the Democratic vo,e was
2C9. the Republican vote 149 and the
PopulIst vote 2. Total 42O. and Dem
ocratic majority 11S.
In loQ4 the Democratic vote was
2S5 tEain OF 1G), the Republican vote
So 0oss D.. 86), and the Populist vote
for Tom Watson 113 (gain OF iii.
Total 46l, and Democratic majority
OF 109 Ooss OF 81.
Losing 8 votes every four years.
~ continued, Lee county will be TWEEN
tyeight years losing enough Demo
Gratis to give the anti-democratic com
bine a county majority.
But, II the educational Qualifca'
ton is substituted for the tax-paying
qualification, we shall see following
the states average) about 40 per
cent. OF the Lee county male negroes
en.ranchised-tha rs, over 500 OK
them-and then, instead OF waiting
twenty-eight years for negro domino
ton, that good county will be In the
hands Of the negro voters In less
than FIVE years, II not at the very
next election after the educational test
is established The proposed dis ran
chisement scheme would make that
result absolutely certain!
II seems to me that Lee county
had better stick to the present Dem
Ocratic system than fly to the one
championed by the calamity Demo
Gratis and the nti-Democratic lead
ers. SAM w. SMALL.
The above from the graceful pen o.
the Rev. Sam SmNll might be good
argument II It was good argument
when things take q change as they
might do in the future, but not be-
ing founded on reasonings Tor the fu-
ture conduct of clear niger major
ity OF 1892 votes is no consolation
Tor the future. It's useless to mince
words Les be plain. We are tired
OF fraud and such. If necessary now,
He figures 1t out that It win take
Lee county 2s years to go niger
ward" We can tell him without any
figuring whatever that with the pres
emit population II would take largely
in excess o; 2S.0OO.OO0,OOO years.
Lee county is a white man govern
ed county and she Is going to stay
so. There are yet a few hands that
remember feats OF legerdemain with
little printed slips of paper that would
make the great Herman ashamed Of
himself
The teeth that can chew wads OF
paper when occasion demands It. are
not yet worn to the quick.
The carpenter that can split a plank
and make twin boxes knot for knot
and grain for grain is rot yet dead
II all Of this desert us, the Smith
and Wessons seldom fail and the
Winchester could plaintively COO to
its mate the sweet music that the
white man is runnin' this lection"
There are a few little words and
the words are these:
Lead us NO" into temptation. ~
Doubtless the Rev. Sam remebers
them we can keep Lee county going
like she is wont to go, but 1t is not
plessant-We can send white face
to answer roll call at Atlanta but to
do 1t we may have 70 % Il. Don't
tempt us to do things to send him
there.
Did the Rev. Sam ever have big
black Niger to occupy a seat in the
legislature from his county. Other
folks have. Somewhere in Holy writ
II is recorded that what has been
will be again Just few people in
Georgia would like to postpone 'ts