Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-05-30
POLLOCK HAS IDEAS.
Would Make Legitimacy Of Birth q
Condition of Suffrage.

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w. P Pollock Of Cheraw, former
United States senator. spent yesterday
anu last night In Columbia, having come
to the state capital to deliver address
at the commencement exercises Of
Chicora college. Mr.. Pollock Is keenly
interested in various questions now
pressing for solution, particularly that
of woman suffrage and that Of pos
sible drive on the part Of the negro
for political recognition.
Should Mr.. Pollock be a member Of
the next state Democratic convention.
he will ask the party to grant the
white women of the state the right to
participate in the primaries. The state
owes this to tho women, not only as
right, he says, but as a proper rec
ognition Of their patriotic service
during the great war, which could
never have been won so early with
out their unfagging zeal and enthus-
iasm. He thinks the United States
senate will enfranchise the women
within the next few days.
Mr.. Pollock advances new idea to
restrict the negro's participation in
politics. He would base registration
on legitimacy Of birth, extending back
three generations. The amendment
he would propose to the state consu-
tuition would read:
mo person shall be eligible to vote
in this state, unless such person shall
present a registration certificate to
the managers Of the election; and no
registration certificate shall be issued
to any person. unless such person
shall present sufficient evidence to the
registration officers that such person
Is not an iIlegitimate to the third
generation" Concerning the proposed
constitutional amendment, Mr.. Pol
lock said:
"If such an amendment to the con-
stitution Of the several Southern
States were adopted, the race Ques-
lion would be practically solved. No
one should object to such a provision.
as it would not only solve this vital
question, but it would place ban on
marriage and the keeping Of the fam
lily relation sacred. And we all know
that the familyfs the very foundation
of our institutions and our siviliza-
ton.
"If such an amendment Is adopted
in the various states, there would
never be any danger from the vote of
the negro women when the right Of
suffrage is extended to the women Of
America under the federal woman suf-
frage amendment which will be
adopted by the senate within the next
few days and be sent to the several
states for ratification.
Pending the ratification Of the woS
man suffrage amendment, the next
Democratic state convention should
extend the right to the white women
of the state to vote in the Demo-
cratic primary Of our state in recogni-
tion, not only Of the right Of the wo-
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of the invaluable services rendered by
the women of South Carolina and Of
America in helping win the great war
for civilization and Righteousness. II
I should be a member Of the next state
Democratic convention, I propose to
try to have this right accorded the
white women Of. this state"
The former senator believes cotton
will be selling from S3 LIS to IS cents
within the immediate future. Not
only does he expect this crop to sell
above figures now obtaining, but also
the next. For five years, following
the War Between the States, cotton
sold for IS cents a pound, he said, ex-
cent ono year. There was dearth Of
production. Today there Is a great
dearth Of the manufactured product,
end with the signing of peace and the
opening of the markets of the world,
there will be instant demand for mil
lions of bales Of cotton.-Columbia
State, Wednesday.