The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-07-18
AGAINST
THE NEGRO VOTE
SENATORS OWEN AND GORE
URGE THE ADOPTION OF THE
GRANDFATHER CLAUSE.

Many encouraging letters are being
received daily by Chairman Luther
Harrison, of the democratic state
press bureau upon the adoption Of the
grandfather" clause. Senators Gore
and Owens, both say by all means
adopt the clause.
Chairman Fred Branson, Secretary
Duke Stallings and Luther Harrison
Of the press bureau, predict that the
amendment will carry by 10000 ma
jority.
Senator Gore has the following to
say about the clause
This amendment is clearly within
the puryiew and limitation of the fif-
teenth amendment. We do not go as
far as Massachusetts has gone. We
do not follow the example Of Connec-
ticut. California. Minnesota and Wis
consin. which in 1858, absolutely de
feated negro suffrage altogether. ONO
in 1867. voted down an amendment
for negro suffrage by more than 5O,-
900 majority. Kansas, the same year,
rejected the same amendment by s.
93S. In 1871 a republican congress,
with the approval of President Grant
abolished the local government in the
District of Columbia in order to get
rid of negro domination. The reason
for this action was forcibly stated by
Col Mcclure. one of the fathers ana
founders of the republican party. and
an intimate personal and political
friend of President Lincoln. when he
said. A very few years made it an
imperative necessity for congress to-
disfranchise the entire people of the
District of Columbia solely to escape
the ignorant and profligate rule of
the negro. The same republican au-
thority that had enfranchised the ne
gro under the shade of the nations
capital was compelled to declare that
his disfranchisement had become an
imperative necessity to protect prop
erty and maintain social order. The
southern states which have by ingen.
ious constitutional devices practically
disfranchised the negro have simply
followed the teaching of a republican
congress and president which disfran-
chised him in the capital city.
The democrats do not believe that
ignorance should misrule intelligence,
or that vice should misgovern virtue
Nine tenths of the republicans in Ok
lahoma agree with the democrats on
this proposition The negroes hold
the balance of power in fourteen coun-
ties today, and will soon hold the bal
ance Of power in fourteen more. Wag-
oner has 1,724; Logan 1857, Oklaho-
ma 2,121, and Muskogee 3,179.
Race riots have been worse on the
east side since the ballot came to the
negro than before. Recent bloody
events shed an ominous and a lurid
light upon the gravity of the situation
We must act soon or we act too late.
Every white man should vote for the
suffrage amendment on August .
THE alarming feature of the repub-
lican attitude on the election law is
the fact that it gives conclusive proof
that the republicans would, if they
could, repeal the Jim Crow car law.
THE SAME SPIRIT THAT WOULD
RETAIN THE MIXED BALLOT BOX
WOULD RESTORE THE MIXED
CAR"
Senator Owens says:
The language is so plain that no
analysis of the grandfather clause
seems to be needed. With certain eX-
cepticns ii denies the suffrage to any
person who is not able to read and
write any section of the constitution
of the state of oklahoma. It is equal
ly plain that it does not include with
in its provisions any person who, on
January l, 1866. or prior thereto. was
entitled to vote under any form of gov
ernment. or who. at that time, resided |
in some foreign nation and their des-
cendants. The effect of this is to al
/ low Indians and white, who cannot
read and write the constitution. to .
v-te and EXCLUDES NEGROES /
/ WHO CANNOT VOTE. This provis-
ion will take care of old federal and
Confederate soldiers whose education
was prevented by the war"-Okla-
homan.
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