The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-11-04
.SUfFRAGE RESTRICTION
HAS BEEN GREAT SUCCESS

,lage restriction laE thst eliminates
.Ie19rznt negroes. said Co r ?. Arez-
.del of Raleigh, \ C., Eho vas Il Ok
lseoma City yesterday. the CUES: Of
Is H L Campbell, eie-E q The 81
b rene court Republican Is wsl as
democrats approve Of e and wz have
completely I'D the state q The negro
issue il politics As = result re have
clean politics and clean poliliciz1s-
The North Carolina law vas adopt
ed - Al amendment 70 the constftu-
ton nine years ago. The Oklshon1s
grandfather clause amendment 70 the
constitution. which vas adopted BY q
majority of more than 1900 august
2 vas copied after the North Caro-
lima Law. The latter law. however. en-
bodied some Of the best features q
the Oklahoma election law but pro
vided that within eight years the edu-
.catoinaI test as regards negroes should
become effective. The Law =. the out
set disfranchised all negroes. how-
ever. II made II possible TO become
eligible By the time he reached his
majority. This provision was inserted
as an encouragement TO the negroes
no educate their children.
No Trouble TO Enforce.
I'VE have had 10 trouble whatever
in enforcing the law" said Col Aren
dell The negroes approve Of it anl
it has gone q long way toward making
comparatively decent citizens Of some
of them. Ten years ago the state was
flooded with negro politicians and
hangers-on around the republican
strongholds. Nearly every negro
preacher was a politician NJv these
negroes are az work and We have no
more black politicians. We disfran-
chised 10000 illiteIate negroes and
placed the state on the white mans
basis Perhaps 20 per cene Of the
counties Of North Carolina we're
threatened with neg.o domination. a |
percentage that am informed obtains
in Oklahoma"
The Carolina law never has been
taken into the federal court, nor is it |
likely to be, for it meets almost uni |
versaI approval The people Of North |
Carolina are satisfied and the most
dangerous policy tnat a republican
could pursue would be advocacy Of |
the repeal Of the law.
Kept Out Of Federal Court.
Virginia has similar law. Suit
was brought in state court to test
It and the Iitigants threatened to take
it into the federal court. A federal
ofice-holder objected, however, say
ing that it was matter for a state to
decide as to the qualifications Of it's
citizens for suffrage, and the law was
upheld by the state supreme court |
From no southern state, where an edu-
cational qualification has been placed |
upon the negro, has a case been taken |
into federal court, and Oklahoma has
taken the lead in this matter Senti- |
ment is so strong for a white mans
government in the southern states that
there is a general impression that the
United States court has no desire to
render an opinion giving strict inter
probation of the 18th amendment to
the federal constitution that would alb
literate from the statutes of the south
ern states one of their most cherished
laws
The Day Of Victory
"One Of our greatest troubles was
that of fusion among the negroes, re-
publicans and socialists" said Col.
Arendell. "a fusion ticket was elected
in North Carolina time ago and for
four years we had the negro exalted.
A negro was placed on every school
board Of the state and one was made
a member of the board of regents of
the state institute for the blind, one
1f our Oldest and most sacred institu- :
lions. When the four years were near II
IN end we went on the stump with It
he negro for an issue, and won. The
lext legislature had been in session
)ut for few days when his name was h
stricken from the cornerstone of the It
Institution for blind that had been err 9
scted during his encumbency. It was +
/ day Of jub. on in Raleigh when a +
sculptor in the presence Of several h
thousand persos, chiseled the name Of Z
ba paero From, +bo cx.r,, o,cts,,,o - I