The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-06
TO INVADE SOLID SOUTH

Now, let no one suppose that the re- puolicans intend to confine their efforts only to the so-called. doubtful states. Ineir scheme is more ali-embracing. They intend to make a clean" sweep They want the solid south, or rather it IS part Of Ntheir machinations to break the solid south, and make that term an obvious misnomer.
 Their plan is almost as simple as the entertainment of the location on the lace Of the nasal organ. Through con gressional action they would reduce the representation of the south in the lower house, or under threat of so doing force the south to register and vote the negro. Senator Moses of New Hampshire, who has learned no lessons from the horrors of the carpetbag regime in the south, has introduced a resolution requiring the Senate, while it looks into the all leged Newberry steal, to investigate the election laws of all states, and here in the germ, especially those which throw restrictions around the promiscuous vot- ing of all men of voting age" It is a palpable thrust at the south. The re- publican party, led in this instance by the senator of New Hampshire-and be is the man who shocked the nation some time ago by charging on his own au- thority that the President suffered from brain lesion-would put in the Senate several Pinchbecks and LIP Arthur J Johnsons and others of the xanthic or stygian cast of countenance with whom the republican party could find greater joy in an official and social utilization. DOSE FOR SOUTH TO SWALLOW
 This is the dose the republican party by means of the Moses resolution would force the south to swallow. It is the gen. eral dose. Other specific doses are in course of preparation, and in the process the republicans are finding and will con- tinue to find rat holes into which to drop fair proportions of the s100 0oo. 600 slush fund in the production of which they are busily engaged. One of these especially prepared connections is intend . ed for the gullet of Alabama. The re- publican party is determined to put a republican from Alabama in the lower house of Congress. Next year they will make a harder fight than ever before in the Seventh district.
 Representative Rainey. who now speaks for the Seventh district, stated to the correspondent of this newspaper today that the republicans of his district arc busily paying up poll taxes of those re- publicans who have not seen proper in other years to act in accordance with state regulations in this particular. The money for these payments comes, Mir. Rainey has cause for belief from na- tional sources, out of the, gigantic slush fund, the beginning of which has already been noted. In one county, MT. Rainey says, referring to St. Clair, the repub- licans in paying up arrears in poll taxes, have been most active. In Clebtfrne, ar shall and others similar activity has caused the observing democrats to spec ulate.
 The republican party's hatred of the south and southern institutions, espe- cia1y those which require the colored races to occupy separate compa rtments in street cars and on railroad trains. and which make it as difficult for a negro to vote as fora white man to vote, causes 1t to move against the solid south. They would not have 1t possible for any man ever again truthfully to declare ''the south is in the saddle" They would ap- parently change that sentence to read, 'The south is sending negroes to Wash fgton."