The Grenada sentinel., 1909-11-12
WOULD LIMIT
NEGRO SUFFRAGE
II Il Will Eliminate Mason and
Oixon's Line.
SAYSREPUBL|CAN EX-SENATOR
Sen. Cu!lom Sees Future Through Taft's
Visit South. Does Not Blame
Southern People For feariag
Negro In Politics.

Washington, Nov. 7.--Senator
Shelby M. CullOm, OF Illinois, chair
man Of the foreign relations committee
has two political ideas.
One Of these Is that II the negro
did not vote in the South all the
Southern states would join the G. 0.
The other is that the negroes ought
be permitted to vote everywhere else
including The state Of Illinois.
Mr.. Cullom. talking on these sub
jectS today, said in part
president Taft is showing wisdom
in his Southern tour. He is big,
good natured, wholesouled, patriotic
and generous statesman to whom the
South or any other section may we'll
and implicitly trust it's absolute deSti-
ny. Mr. Taft is just now mingling
with the Southern people in order
that he may get better acquainted
with them and they with him. They
will find that be is the right man for
his place.
''Of course, the president doesn't
intend to surrender any principle, but
at the same time he is willing TO
make concessions to the Southern
people commensurate with any fair
sense Of Justice.
Wipe Out MasOn-Dixon Line
"And likewise does he intend to E.
radicate the Mason and Dixon line.
In my opinion. he is just the man for
that task and If he dOesn t accomplish
it, to a certain degree at least, / shall
be sadly mistaken.
That line must be wiped out at
some era or another, that much is a
certainty, and l can't see any logical
reasons why the proper action should
Mt come right now. There are sew
eral states in the South simply ripe
for falling into the Republican col
umn.
Eliminate the negro from politics
in the SOuth-give that section OF the
country an exclusively white ballot,
or a franchiSement, which shall mean
an absolute and unequivOcal white
supremacy in he managemenJ or lis
whole affairs. and there's not u state
below the Mason and Dixon liLe
which will not be found in ihe Repub-
lican column OF the electoral college.
The wEole truth OF the situation
is that the whole 81 nth believes in
and really needs The enfOtct ment o.
tue Republican doctrine Of d prOtcc
tive tariff. I 1herefure, the peOpie Ui
that ST G. iuu would like to vote III be
half Of candidates = congressional.
national and State-whU would sup
port sucl ap1licy.
Fear Negro Domination
But tney are held in leash, SO tt
speak, by the fear Of negro domluatio
the tear Of cOlored men in Office, both
of the elective class aud those appoin
ed at Washington,
They are afraid Of the race issue
There Can be no doubt Of that. They
are constantly in a state of excitement
over the prospect Of d cOlOred vote ot
superior mum ber>, aud naturally they
cling together against the black man
as matter Of nti-noG vi
their industrial Interests, but ot
their personal atflilS.
Take a state like A bama. for
instance. Cheie is 2 L. immunity
which . Ssesses VAST dI. con ano
other Industries demald.hg d prOtec-
tive tariff. With her rank states like
Tennessee, Texas and others, they all
want to be protected nduStrially, and
the peocle are ready to join u>, were
it not fox the negro.
How can you blame communities
like South Carolina and Mississippi,
for instance, for voting the Demo
cratic ticket, where in some sections
the proportion Of colOred population
is ten blacks to one white? 1t is in
communities like these that the white
people are afraid.
Northern Negro Different
II do not necessarily mean that
favor the total diSfranchiSement OF
the negro. In Illinois, for instance,
we have large negro vote. just as
Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, New
Jersey and New York have. But up
in these communities it is a different
proposition. There appears to be a
distinction somewhere between the
two sections in this respect. and the
Northern colored man uses his ballot
with wisdom and fairness. We are
satisfied with him, but it is notorious
of course, that the South is not.
And if it were lot for this colored
ballot in the South. the Mason and
Dixon line would be wiped out of ex-
istence as far as politics is concerned.
The Democratic party-or what is
left Of it-would then be in sorry
plight. II, indeed, there should remain
any Democratic party to be in any
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