The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-07-22
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GREENSBORO .si N ID G y, u Julyf 2l.- ~ The
Repubiican5party INN orth d Carolina, d.
ali Organization finds itself the subject
OF attack from, friendsSwi thouts and politi-
cal foes within tlles# state, H, on 3 account
Of Its recent demand instits party plat
form for an amendment \ to- the State
Constitution 80 that tho provisions Of tho
constitutional amendment relating to sui
ifrage, aWier eini the grand atlior clause
privilege, which ceases to- operate In 1908,
shall be Z: ext ended Tor n TIVE fvei years, or
8rhe two horns OF the dilemma on which
the party finaaSitself literally lmpaled Is
the construction placed upon is position
by Northern 8(hence party Sorth odox nu :
thority) Republican organs and corre-
spondetl IS, as ~ ell as Ind dependent publi-3
cations, that, by Implication, 1t has q e.
tcepted tho Democratic loot irS Of eliini-.
,nating.the regro vote II 4 Southern cleo
lions, and in express n terns gone the.
Democrats one better BY emandng
that the discrimination against the negro
be made practically perpetual. 5s
While placing itself in this attitude In
national Republican party Y realms the
North Carolina Republican organ zation,s
BY the adoptionSof further grandfather
clause demand II Is being credited 4ot home
with d deep laid scheme to pave the way
for making Unconstitutional the present
which practically eliminates :ttei
the negro vote, and thereby insure g re-
turn to State and county control Of white
al III
cd by negro votes. One of the strangests
part Of the whole situation is the fact
that neither one Of / the only two Repubt-3
ican daily newspapers in \ the State has
ever published that section Of the Repul',-55
lican platform which demanded this ex-'
tension OF the GRANDPA Their clause. VI
& The Industrial News, published 81 at
Greensboro generally accredited az the
organ Of iex- Senator Mari on utler%a g 81
the rganization'' forces OF the party IN
the State, u carefully omitted this section
81 s. the platform & IN Its publication the
following the convent ion, and
the Asheyille & Gazette News; y reputed to-
be the champion OF the Black burn Iiarri
OF anti aniyat ctlon, its next le*'t
day afternoon. sedi ton, Il oon tained not Y a.
word Of this section Of the latfor m, n
They: Came and Did Not See.
The only way Preached N orthern r eNs--
% per 4 rs alnia h was q through b IA the reports
Of the special staff corresponds who
had been sent here on II account OF the
presence OF Secretary Taf t the night be-SS
fore, and the expectation Of q big fight
In the convention over the quest ton Of
which faction of the PAT tyst 81 1oul ID ihave
the disposition OF Federal Off cest and the
manage the I've ~ y atlonal
COMMITTEES campaign funds this fall.
if3T ri ese 4 staff s correspondents nad ,as on
Monday night, at a bout the same hour M,
tie plat torn resolution Of the pa rty de-
mandinE the extension OF the and
father clause was anirnously adopted
Tuesday night-heard Secretary Of War
Taft and prospe ctive Supreme ssI Court
Judge, who probably will be called upon
to judicially decide upon some Of these
address to the 4Rapubl ican delegates as
senbled 3decla r., WI The South has been
kept solid Il by stirring u > RAJ ial 4 prejus
'dices and arouslng unfounded ss alarm
over an Impossible return Of rsconstrlc-
ton days III ss MS l5s al
1.-THE political lead ers OF the dominant
party, after a long struggle In elimlna ting
the negro vote by fraud, \ and by flouting
law, realized the dreadful demo radiation
following the open violation OF any law,
and cast about to make the law sQuare
with the existing condition BY property
and educational qualification which
should exclude the negro, but but mot not the
white. f53 4 :s@Sf IA ii IS 81 3s3
Il The so-called !. grandf ather causes
amendments to their State constitution
apparently have accompli led n this But
1t is impossible To- frameMa law. estaD.
fishing an educational qualification for
suffrage which will stand y the test OF
the fifteenth amendment, and 2& which 1lc4tl
will not ultimately Il operate .Sy no matter
what the qualification or pr sent effect,
to exclude impartially the negroes and
whites from the ballot who lack educa-
tlonal acquirement t. - A 8Ss9 POLICY,
THEREFORE,. IN TILE SOUTH, WHICH
13teIIIS The THE BLACK AND WHITE,
HEN$IGNORANTf OR %IRRDSPONS
BILE. CAN NOTaBE sCRITIClSED..
4 tits not surprising, therefore. that when en-
the Republican State plat form was adopt
ed Tuesday night, and with It al section
demanding that the Democratic organlza-
tlon 'grandIather clause, '5i Whtch oper-
ated to exclude the black but not the
white for only two more years, should
be made to exclude the black for four
teen more years. these Northern, press
and staff correspondents should have
looked upon$thi as not only "a direct slap
In SecrotaryrTa it's and Preside Roose-
velt' 8 ia ce, but "a, solar{ipl exusS blow to
the negro for all ttlr,e,} MI M n NJ
Superficial View.
This, while q natural, was. entirely q SUI
perhcal view " of the situation. VA These
views are yariouslys presented In lnf1u-
entail Republican papers North.
The correspondent Of aenators Aldrlch's
Providence Journal says 'that while
North. Caroline Republicans are standing
on a platform in opposition to tne negro,
the stand taken by them IN demanding
an extension Of the grand father educa-
.tional qualification will make It impossi-
BILE for the Democrats to !, can UP the
9aspectre Of negro domination wlth Whlen
to ,frighten voters into llne,H and further
on the correspondent states that "the
action of the Republican convention was
n shrewd move to place the Republican
party In tho position that has given De-
mncrnnx It's chief atrength In all South