The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-18

1 amble, in Barbour, Jones received 4s92 votes and M. M. Long, the republican op- posng candidate received aS9: in Dallas Jones received 1883 to 112S for Long; in Isowndes, Jones 49e5 to 1920 for Long The negro population was united in favor of the republican party not by mental con- viction, but by racial instinct The ma Jorities for Jones in the black belt repre- sented the negro population. Were the maJorltles for Jones in the black belt in 1890 just criterion upon which to deter mlne the control of the state in 1892? The objective of the democratic and conserva- tive party was white supremacy at all hazards; the rule of apportionment adopted by the party machinery became lrreconcilable with the maxim of the , party, when, by means of it. the presence or the negro secured to a few counties a controlling influence in the state con vention which directed the policies of the party
 The other alleged fatal fault in inc party organization was excess of authority bestowed by the convention of 1890 on a partisan state committee, itself created by that defunct convention. The commit tee under the rule of it's organization was alleged to be a continuation of the con Ventlon of 1899, with all it's prejudices and partisan character.
 Upon the state committee created by Ns.N NtN'N 1SiNtHtlOll bl loSU. ueNOlNGd the power to sit upon contests of the county delegations for seats in the convention ot ls92 The committee was composed two tnlrds of Jones men and one-third of Nolb men. True, the committee would not determine the contests from the cour ties finally, but would present the cases respectively to the convention itself in a report to the convention itself in a re- port, vet the object of the committee In- vestigation was for effect upon the final action of the convention
 holb carried into the state conven- tlon or 1890 the vote of all the black belt counties but two and was content with the achievement. He was recom mended on the floor to the convention as a democrat par excellence in the practice of prevailing black belt meth ods.
 m le92 Jones carried into the state convention the vote of all the black belt counties but two as against Kolb.
 Permanent interest in the history of the struggle Tor white supremacy must attach to the party rupture we de scribe There stands today the mar vicious Tact of recovery of the elector- ate from the degredation forced upon II by the fifteenth article of amend ment of the federal constitution. If ,s important to just understanding of that history that the fact of a split in
 Hioi party De TtCOrdpd 1t was.
 All White men of the state came to- gether again and by organic law placed whlte supremacy upon a firm founda tion
 The negro accepts the situation merely because he has nothing to complain Of There was a pact of white supremacy prior to the conquest of the south by the nofth' Tn which the negro in bondage hourished as negroes nowhere eIsa sn earth than in the south did flourish. Re cause the race thus prospered it was then content. The race has been oblivious of the practical failure of the fifteenth ar- tiele Of amendment because the article was an imposition in it's origin. inapnlIc able to the presence of the negro here and its abortive attempt to revolutionize the race relations here fails because those reiatlons were normal as they had stooc beyond the reach of fanatics and mar plots and their disastrous interferences.
 JOHN WITHERSPOON DUBOSE.