The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-10-02
Hight to i've. move ana have its being.

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fright to live, move and have its being.
Political Jobbery.
Now to place any suffrage quail
ficatIons supoh ctfi1enshlp, Is to
abridge the privilege OF such citizen
ship-logical fallacy, backed up by
political jobbery and trickery (to OBJ
tain certain dishonest spoils,9 would
make It appear that the right to vote
n remains. yes It does, upon the same
principle that It Is the right OF the
| common laborer, to take the place Of
r the capitalist But the barriers p1ac-
ed In his way are SO heavy. his wage
4 kept so small, that he dies without
ever accomplishing, 1t. So in re-
stricting or qualifying voters. as the
democrats have sworn to do. should
they be successful in getting enough
4 ..nfgger'' votes. as they call them.
n Notwithstanding all their protesta-
lions to the contrary, 1t does reallS
ana truly violate the principles of
ways. sought to do, by taking the
government from the hands of the
4 many and placing 1t in the hands OF
their daulnable, but sorry looking
I few Their advocacy of the dis
! franchisement of the Negro, SO that
they might ape after the South IS
nothing more nor less than rank in
II Justice, born of inherent prejudice
and race hatred.
II Everybody knows that the ballot
! placed in the Negroes hands, is the
badge of his citizenship, and has
Il been no more abused by him, than
/ by the army of foreigners, who are
/ by political trickery and methods of
4 peljury. made ready for voting in
! state and national elections. The at
4 tempt to qualify electors either by
4 education or property qualifications.
. IT, -AT,1r aVNfaVsg
4 who desire to exercise the first and
I highest right of citizenship. Is
Il thing that the trainers, of the constt-
I tuition never dreamed of. That the
/ Democratic party who makes It's
4 boasts as champions of freedom and
huTnantarianism. should resort to
1 these methods. only shows how low
z it is possible for ignorant and wilfully.
stupid politicians and low grad
! statesmen to stoop-
Ignores Constitution
| The Acknowledgement of any class
/ of citizens must inevitably lead to
dreadful. civil and political compli-
\ cations. creating sectional ineauali-.
I ties of enormous magnitude and lg-
noring the safeguards against the
same, which reads:
Sec. 1. All persons born or natural
ICED in the United States, and sub
4 iect to the jurisdiction thereof, are
/ citizens of the United States. and Of
the state wherein they reside NO.
I state shall make or enforce any la"
which shall abridge the privileges.
/ or iu1munities of citizens of the Uni
! ted States. nor shall any state, de-
prive any person of life, liberty OF
property, without due process OF law
! nor deny to any person whiting the
/ Jurisdiction the equal protection OF
the laws.
1taa- states
according to their respective NUM-
bers. counting the whole number oil
persons in each state, excluding In
dams not taxed. But when the rlght
to vote at any election for the choice
of electors for president and vice
president of the United States, rep
resentatixes in congress, the eXecu-
tive andG5 UdicIal officers of a state, OF
the members of the legislature there
Of IS denied to any of1the male m
habitants of such state being twenty
one years of age. and citizens OF the
United States or in any way abridg-
ed. except for participation In reoei-
lion, or other crime, the basis OF rep
rcsentation therein, shall be reduceo
in proportion which the number OF
such male citizens shall bear to the
whole number. of male citizens
twenty-onc years of age in such
state.
The first attempt at a constitution
al definition of the phrase Citl-
zen of the United States" was made
after story experience of eighty
years ago. ii refer to the joint reso-
luton of the thirty-ninth congress
of June 16, 1866, proposing what IS
now know as the fourteenth amend
ment. which was ratified by the req
uisite number of states, on the 2lst
day of July. 1866.
The fourteenth amendment, set
tied. as 1t was intended to settle. this
vexed question at once and forever
Thanks to the Republican party.
This amendment established citizen
shin of the United States. This IS
wholly Independent of state lines. II
thus creates authority, commanding
the common obedience of it's indtvid-
ual members, and. for the first time
made us a nation In fact as Well as III
name. A person may now be
citizen of the United States, without
being a citizen Of any particular state.
But by no conceivable combination OF
can he be citizen OF
one of the particular states. TIL he IS
first a citizen of the United states
Now, what is the best way in which
to offset these violations OF the law
as regards our people. as 1t is prac-
ticed nv the Southern and Northern
Democrats and law hating "Reos
Argument will never do. Brethren'
M newer to do so lies in Congress,