Evening star., 1927-11-16
i. GLASS DEFENDS STAND.
Negro Vote and Dry Amendment Dis.
Cussed i'm Letter 10 StaytOn.

LYNCHBURG, Va, November 16
@.-Because the South is opposed to
negro suffrage, in the opinion OF Sen
ator Glass, Democrat, Virginia, its at
titude toward enforcement of the MI
teenth amendment, dealing with this
question, and its position for the pro.
hibition law and the eighteenth
amendment cannot be declared contra
dictory.
He expressed this view yesterday
in a letter to w. III. Stayton of the
Association Against the Prohibition
Amendment. who had asked Senator
Glass to answer an editorial in the
New York World 1t charges incon-
sistency i'm the attitude of the Virginia
Senator in opposing the sending of
Federal agents to Kentucky to super
wise the State election there and his
approval of sending them into the
States TO enforce the national prohibi-
ton laws.
Parallel Called Silly.
when a public man protests
against sending of Federal satraps to
supervise State elections, for which
there is no sanction of law" said SEN
ator Glass, "it is rather silly 10 sug-
gest that such a proceeding would
have precedent and parallel in send
ing prohibition agents, under full
sanction Of the law, to suppress the
traffic in liquor"
Contending that the attempt to draw
an analogy between the attitude of the
South on the question of negro suf-
frage and the position of persons in
tent upon nullifying the eighteenth
amendment to the Federal Constitu.
ton is simply stupid" the Virginia
Senator continued:
s'1f tn inn a litnra1 fr1yf n
to the alleged analogy, the conclusive
answer would be that the Souths re-
siStance to the fifteenth amendment
was intended TO avert the wretched
consequences of the unspeakable
crime involved in the adoption of the
amendment. IT was done in the pas
sions of war. and constituted an at
tempt to destroy white civilization in
nearly one-third of the Nation and to
erect on its ruins an Ethiopian state.
ignorant, profiigate. corrupt, con-
trolled by manumitted slaves. not ]
per cent of them semi-literate. and
these led by a band Of white miscre.
ants, eXecrated figures in the night
mare of reconstruction.
Faciitation of Crime.
"On the other hand. resistance to
the enforcement of the eighteenth
amendment and the statute enacted in
pursuance thereof is not designed to
avert crime, but to facilitate it. In
effect. 1t amounts to ,condonation. 1t
is intended to stimulate defiance of
both the Constitution and the law"
Senator Glass said he did not mean
TO criticize those who ask for repeal
of the eighteenth amendment but
that he did condemn the mockery of
the law and the applause which its
fagitious violation is receiving III GER
tain quarters
The Nirginian called attention that
no statutes providing for the enforce
ment Of the fifteenth amendment had
ever been enacted. and. incidentally.
remarked that there was sCme doubt
whether il was constitutionally rati-
fed. On the other hand, lie recalled
that the eighteenth amendment was
deliberately and properly ratified by
IS of the 4S State Of the Union.
Moreover. he argued that there is
no constitutional or statutory law in
the code Of single Souther State
that violates the termcs of the fifteenth
amendment and he challenged any
one to point to a single sentence in
the law Of Virginia which 1isirancises
voter "On account Of race, color or
previous condition Of servitude."