The Carlisle independent., 1920-11-11
of new conditions.

requirement of new conditions.
 The defeat of the amendment pro- viding for an increase in the personnel of the Supreme court is not wholly un- expected, as similar proposal has been defeated before. The increased vote however in favor of it indicates growing sentiment on the part of the people that the Supreme Court is an overworked and underpaid body. The time is coming when this will be rec ognized by majority and the needed relief provided.
 The defeat of the Suffrage Amend ment, while it is an anomolous condi tion, not readily explained, can have little or no effect upon the situation with reference to the participating of women in our political affairs. This has been assured by the Federal con stitution, which is superior to the pro vision of any state constitution or stat ute. The adoption of the amendment could not have added much to the privileges accorded women. The de- feat of the Initiative amendment is most serious, and will probably result in a movement for the resubmission of the constitution of 1918. This course will be recommended by Cover nor Brough in his farewell message.
 The man without a party is to be found in Arkansas today It is the negro voter. He is no longer part or parcel of the Republican party, and it is certain that the Democrats will not offer him resting place. The Lilly White Republicans are positive that their action in eliminating the ne gro will be upheld by the National or ganization, and that never again will a negro sit in the party councils of the state. The negro has been the cats paw of Republican political leaders for 65 years. The negro, in fact, has been considered the real backbone of the Republican party in Arkansas. The up-to-date Republican leaders, of whom A. c. Remmel is the leader, realizing that the negro was driving the white vote from the Republican party in Arkansas, began a fight several years ago for his elimination. The old time standpat Republican leader drowned on the efforts of the coming politicians. They said that it would never do. The Lilly Whites re- fused to be coerced and continued their light for an entirely white Re publican party. Finally, the negroes after listening to spread-eagle speech es by brethren who had returned from the North, determined that they were the Reublican party in Arkansas. The more it was told to them, the more they believed it and negro Republi- can candidate for governor was tire result. The Lilly Whites welcomed the challenge, as they had already de- cided that the time for a test had come. The negroes raised a consider able sum and conducted a strenuous campaign to bring every negro voter to the polls on election day. From the returns from counties where there are large number of colored citizens, this propaganda had it's effect, and in many of them, the negro guberna- torial candidate ran ahead of the white Republican candidate, but it is the re- suit in the entire state that counts, and Wallace Townsend, the Lilly White candidate, has so completely showed under Blount, the negro, that the question is settled for all time to come.
 "The Republican party in Arkan- sas," says A. c. Remmel, 'shas never polled it's full strength. Many of our electors supported the Democratic ticket because they did not care to be associated with party which so