The broad ax., 1909-09-18

the HVlllth Illinois district, received
, 2z,o4I ballots in 1909, while his demo-
cratic opponent received 1884 ballots,
and the prohibition candidate in Mr..
Cannon's district makes a showing of
I,I66 ballots. The prohibition candidate
appears to lead Mr.. Williams in get
ting out his followers to the polls. In
the Xth Indiana district, represented
by Mr.. Crumpacker, the vote for all
congressional candidates, in 1909, was
46I8 or 1878 more ballots than wer'
polled for the entire South Carolina
delegation. Thus it does seem that the
real backing behind the oligarchy of
the States of tfe South is not such a
to entitle the leaders of this regime
to arrogate to themselves the spokes-
manship for "the South" and to as
sumo to themselves the speaking of
public sentiment of and for the actual
South.
The bourbon democracy" of the
South, with its white supremacy
shell, is but a whitsd sepulchre of po-
litical pretension. II may endeavor to
whitewash itself without, but within
it is full of the decayed bones of a
secession democracy" and the tainted
garments of corrupt oigarchy. Pos
ing as the keepers of the ark of the
covenant of white supremacy these
oligarchists have usurped the govern
ment of the States of the South from
whites and blacks. The bourbon re-
gime finally took the loaded political
black belt dice with which to encom-
pass the overthrow of the uprising OF
whites in rebellion against the demo
cratic" machine. The movement of this
political despotism is now NorthWard.
To the Southland the oligarchy has
accomplished its height of political op-
preston. Its despotism is supreme.
Popular government is here buried II
the mire of bourbonism and only
Vardaman could pile on more political
filth. Shall rights of men of the North
be further invaded and encroached
upon and become, sooner or later, so
poisoned with political pollution as has
become the South?
The apportionment prior to the civil
war, conceding to the South three-hfths
of the slave population to be counted
in the representation basis, then made
three slaves South equal to FIVE whites
North in the general government. The
present status of the oligarchists IS the
usurpation of the representation of all
blacks and a majority of whites and
the leaders of the minority regime OF
force and fraud, while denying the sup
pressed vote any voice IN the govern
ment of the States, insist upon It as
right that the North should permit the
oligarchists to misrepresent this i'm
mense population in the affairs of the
republic. The Negro is taxed, but IS
not a voter in state or national cleo
tions. The democracy claims that
IT woud be taxation without represen-
tatior to cut down "the South's' rep
resentation in the general government
Is it that these leaders of this repre-
hensible condition believe that they can
fool part of the North all the time
How long will the patience of pa
triotic people, who gave to the nation
a Lincoln and a Grant, be so trihed
with.
The method by which the demo
cratic" oligarchy fastens its hold upon
the democratic" machine in Alabama.
and the other Southern States, IS the
basing of the representation in eonven-
tons of the party and in the Alabama
legislature upon an apportionment en-
bracing the disfranchised blacks in the
black belt counties, and thereby pro-
hibiting the control of the party or the
legislature by the white counties OF
the States Taliapoosa county, IN Ala
bama, with a white registered vote OF
1.oo6, has only two members IN the
House and one-half senator, it requir-
ing a district of this and one other
white county to name senator, while
the black belt county OF Lowdnes, IN
the same congressional district, with a
white registered vote of IIO6I, has two
members in the House and one State
Senatorl There are not more thar
twenty-five registered Colored voters
in TaIIapoosa county and only abort
City Colored registered voters m
Lowdens In democrats" conventions