The Prescott daily news., 1920-06-18
THE TRIBUNE AGAIN DIS
 russES THE NEGRO PROBLEM

.l;torial columns of the Chicago Trib-
 me We reproduce the following
 srom the Tribune of Sunday:
 Rotten Boroughs Are More Than They
 Seem
 l The delegates from the. south in
 panublican conventions seem to rep
 resent something, no matter how
 small a vote it is, but that vote is roallv no vote. It is a vote only be- couse it is ineffective. So long as # amounts to nothing it may be cast 1f if ere to amount to anything it would be topped by little increase in the Democratic vote rstopped by little decrease in tho Republican vote.
 So far as negro voting is permitted in the south it is upon the condition that it shall be ineffective. The south cannot take chances with effective negro voting. Neither would the north take chances. When there are enough Chicago negroes to elect negro may ors judges and legislators, even Will liam Hale Thompson will be with the dominant white minority. The southern Republican vote is % manipulated and controlled by the Democrats that it cannot count or u,. sident. Occasionally a southern congressional district in some fringe state, elects a Republican congress- man. It is so rarely done that it is a piece of news of national in- terest. The south is solid and the | north is solid bone.
 Because Republican administrators want to capture this block of south. arn carpet paggers the northern Re pubHcans permit their organization to preserve a system of representa- ten which C!n nishes the .eg':nateI power of northern votes by giving inequitable power to southern dele gates.
 If the south voted in Republican conventions as it votes in national elections cone would care whom the southern delegates were for There would not be enough of them. In the system of representation now govern ing, northern Republicans have one delegate for about every 10000 votes; southern carpet baggers have one for about every 5000 votes; and the southern votes are not really votes. They are fictions.
 The next Republican president will not oppose the system He will use it. The time to make change IS when there is no Republican presi- dent Chicago Tribune, June 13, 1920.
 The second editorial printed in Mondays Tribune is a verification of the old story of chickens coming home to roost or reaping what one sows.
 / Think of the Chicago Tribune ad- hitting that after 50 years the car pet bagger who went out of the north to harass and bedevil the southern people is sending his sons or coming back himself to harass and bedevll the controllers of the Republican party.
 From the point of the onlooker The Commercial Appeal is firm in it's con viction that the evil in the Republic an party in the south as to leader ship is due to the ambition and self ishness of the old Republican leaders in the north.
 In the days of boss rule it was gen. erally accepted in Republican party circles that the south was fair fleiu for machine tactics. It the leaders of the machine were in Pennsylvania or from any eastern state they got in touch with Republicans in the south who had come from that region. They were practical and Immediately proceeded to capture the Republicah controller of the southern party ma chinery. The southern delegates were considered the fair prizes of those who got them first. The method of getting was not then consldereo'
 In states like Tennessee the Ke- publican party was hard to handle There are Republicans in Tennessee whose ancestors were in this state during the Revolution; they fought m