The Sentinel=record., 1911-02-17
SENSATIONAL
 ELECTIONS
SENATOR BoRAH SAYS NEGRO PREJUDICE EXISTS IN NORTH
 AND SOUTH ALIKE.
Declares North Plays Hypocrite in It's contentions--Sutherland Amend ment Will be Taken Up This
 Afternoon.


 dice against the negro is just as in tense in the North as in the South and that the North plays the hypo- crite in its contentious to the con. trary. was boldly and bluntly asserted in the senate today by republican senator.
 The speaker was Senator Borah. of Idaho. His declarations regarding the negro were made at the close of pro- longed speech in opposition to the Sutherland amendment to the senate resolution providing for the election of senators by popular vote That amendment would have the effect of giving congress control of senatorial elections
 The Idaho senator's pronouncement on the race question was made in re- sponse to the recent assertion of Sen ator Root that without the Sutherland provision the resolution would deprive the southern negroes of federal pro tection in the exercise of the fran chise Mir Borah dissented from tle New York senator's view and in do- ing so used language which elicited congratulations from many senators.
 Notwithstanding MT. Borah's notice that he would ask the senate to sit today until vote could be reached on the election resolution, the pro- ceedings on that measure were con fined to his own discussion of it. He succeeded, however, in getting a con cession that the resolution should be taken up tomorrow immediately after the disposition of the routine business and without waiting until 2 o'clock which will give an additional hour and a half The postponement was grant ed to accommodate number of sena- tors who still desire to speak on the subject.
 Mir. Borah already had spoken for almost three hours when he entered upon the consideration of the effect i. of the Sutherland amendment on the race problem of the South In his gen. eral remarks he contended that as the resolution stands, notwithstanding # gives the state legislators control of senatorial election. congress still would have the rigit to interfere in protection of any citizen whose right of franchise had been interfered with
 The Idaho senator expressed deep regret that the race question had been brought into the controversy and as- serted that its introduction was in- tended only to imperil the resolu- ton. He began this portion of his ad- dress by paying his respects to the Northern states.
 V wonder how long the north is go- Ing to play the hypocrite and the mor- al coward on this question" he said and added that section always had assumed mere wisdom and more tolerance in dealing with tais problem than had been displayed elsewhere. He insisted that call of the roll of the northern states in which there are any appreciable number of negroes would demonstrate that the north had not dealt more leniently with the negro than had other sections.
 "Fae northern states have exhibited the same race prejudice that has been shown elsewhere" he asserted.
 Tn the north we burn the negro at the stake and there, as in other sec lions, We have our race wars We push our negroes to the outer edge of the industrial world We exhibit the same weaknesses. the same intolerance that IS apparent in the southland"
 Senator Borah declared that if con gress had power under the existing provision of the constitution giving congressional control over senatorial elections, 1t should be exercised.
 If that right exists the north has the greater obligation under 1t, De cause 1t makes claim to it. We assert the power, but we admit that We have not had the moral courage to exercise it.,
 For himself he denied the existence of any such power and said he re- sented such position because of the position in which congress was placed by 1t.
 The race question, Mir. Borai said' had been brought into the discussion in the fond hope that it would d' service in defeating the resolution as a whole.s He declared it had been