The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-25
Insulting Honest Voters


 The donothingness of the present session of Congress is fully equalled by it's demagogical cunning. Although there is not the slightest intention on the part of the republican leaders to pass a campaign publicity bill the House has passed one loaded down with a CTumpacker amendment which l looks to the reduction of southern rep. l resentation. The leaders know the Crumpaclier scheme will not be ac- cepted by the Senate. but they think they will be able to say they passed campaign publicity bill in the House and the democrats talked it to death in the Senate.
 | This is their scheme, but it will de- ceive no one, for every democratic speaker will explain the Crumpacker amendment, which has not the slight est relation to the corrupt use of vast sums of money in elections. It stands T piece of transparent deception. It is an effort to satisfy the demand for a publicity bill without doing thing to stop the corruption that is undermin- ing the republic, for the vast funds in- augurated by the republican party In 1896 are used to purchase voters out right in congested districts in doubt full states. Legislative demagogy is thus added to corruption, that's all. And so the Crumpacker amendment will appear when presented in it's right colors on the stump. Political cum ming and downright deception have come to the support of purchased bal lots, and elections will continue to be bought after the fashion set in 1896. When the story of these plutocratic times is truthfully written 50 years hence the story of 1896 will disclose the republic in the hands of corrup- tionists who bought and sold electors like cattle.
 In order that all may see what Can non, Payne and Dalzell have added to campaign publicity bill we give the Crumpacker census amendment, as fol- lows:
 That for the purpose of enabling Con- gress to apporton representatives among the several states in accordance with the Han showed in the second section of the Fourteenth amendment to the Constitu- ton, the director of the census, as soon as possible after each decennial census of population, shall submit to Congress a report of the population by states as shown by such census, which report shall alsb show the number of male citizens, white and colored respectively, in each state 2 years of age and over, the num- Der of such male citizens in each congress sional district at the last general election, the number of such male citizens in each state that had not complied with the reg istration and election laws therein, re- | curing the payment of a poll or property l tax as a condition precedent to the right l to register or vote, and the number of l such male citizens in each state to whom | the right to vote at anJ election for the I choice of electors for president and vice president of the United States. representa- 1 tives in Congress, the executive and judi 1 cial offices of the state, or members of l the legislature thereof, has been denied or in any way abridged except for partic- l ipation in crime'
 It is not claimed that money is cor luptly used in the southern elections The Crumpacler amendment is sim ply parliamentary trick, but it is one that will arouse the indignation of all honest men when its use in campaign publicity bill is explained to the Amer ican voter who desires to suppress dis honest voting in congested districts | -
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