Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-03-29

- ASoA y Oc1A D. Ildu uCCu Au
kluX, worn the red shirt; had
worshiped God in yon grove, and
had helped you hang a negro in
this grove, and thought that
made me a representative man q
did not tell that this was a dunn
my negro.) | told a lot of these
anecdotes. and found this crowd
just like Nick Rogers said our
people were" that they did not
care to hear sensible speeches
like Walter Price and Walter
Hubbard were making, but liked
foolish speeches like | was max
ing"-(and he was going around
to help me, too), for they all con-
graduated me. Tom Brame said
that | had reflected honor on old
NoXubee, and that pleased me.
Jim Love. our efficient bank
commissioner, was granted the
privilege of the House this morn
ing to explain several bills that
had been introduced to strength
en- our present banking laws. He
is we'll posted, and the House
passed every bill that he advo-
Gated. One bill was to prevent
any officer or stockholder from
being q Notary Public, as it in
validated any trust deed that the
bank took on his acknowledge
ment. This will help my friend.
Wood Cockrell. 1t is an i'll wind
that blows no one any good.
We passed the Wilmington
bone dry law" which will GER
tainly put an end to "boot-leg-
ging and the handling of whiskey
at all. A great deal of whiskey
was being brought into the state
in autos and other vehicles, but
this will have to stop, and your
Big Bud will have to bid his trife
goodbye. 80 mote it be-" When
any one sees the great good pro-
hibition has done our state, |
don't see how they can be against
any law that prohibits whiskey.
Our courts don't have to hold
half of the time, jails throughout
the state are always empty, and
a good many counties will have
to quit working the roads with
convlcts, for they will have too
few to justify keeping guards,
and all this IS due TO prohibition,
| voted for this bill; Tom was NOT
here, and Prince voted mo-" as
he no doubt thought it too dras-
tic.
My good friend, Latt Carpen-
ter, has been with US trying to
have a new drainage law passed
with an educational qualification
clause in it, so as to as to cut out
the negroes. He got it passed
by the Senate and brought it
over to the House, and asked me
to vote for it. | told him | did
not like to take part in a faction
al fight of this sort and was very
sorry it had been introduced, but
if it were called up and put upon
its passage, would have to vote
for it, for | had never voted 9TH
erwise than against negroes vot-
ing in any contest between white
folks, and that | believed all mat
ters ought to be settled by the
white voters. Hon. Iva Dorroh
came down Saturday and tried to
show me that in a case of this
kind all landowners ought to
vote; that it would not be consti-
tutional if the negro landowners
were not allowed to vote, and
that an educational qualification
clause would disqualify some
white voters in that district. |
told him | knew nothing of the
constitutional question, that the
courts would have to settle that,
but no white man had been dis,
qualified by virtue of our election
law, for our election commission
er would always read a clause
that any one could understand to
the white man, and then read
one that a Philadelphia lawyer
could not understand to the negro.
And while | believed | had more
friends in that district who were
opposed to this amendment, still
if the issue were made and it be-
came my duty to vote for or
against it. | would have to vote
for the bill. | could not refuse
to vote for any bill that was for
the purpose of preventing negroes
voting. Ny record is straight on
this negro question. When |
moved to Macon negroes were
voting, and while they put out no
candidate, Bill Ferris, colored,
who was rich and influential, con-
trolled the negro vote and could
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