New Britain herald., 1928-01-23
DEClARESS0U1H:E
 '1|RfDN THREATS!
Virginia Ssu,tel &ys: Dilis
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 Washington. Jan. ,:s Up- Threats of political reprisaIs against the south. heard 50 often in senate de- bate on the Smith and Ware elec- tion caseE. brought a measured TO- ply and sharp warning to eastern re- publican senators today from Sena- tor Swanson of Virginia. $ +s if
 StrouI Resentment
 The southern democrat satd he could not too strongly, express his resentment at;enorts made to ;tnttmi- date southern representatives in con sress with threats to: enforce tho fifteenth amendment: and to reduce southern representation at the capi- tol because of the -disfranchisen1ent of the negro. fst,.&..s
 Tho time hGs passed in the. his tory of this country" he said. when the south ia subject to hostile and oppressive supervision or csn be in- timidated by partisan vituperation. The time has been auspiciously reached when this republic is . union of +s states equal in rights. equal in privileges. end each state equal in every respect to every other, f
 Not Under Military Rule
 Those who now repeat the bit ter animadversions of the sixties and seventies should realize that certain victorious states no longer hold eleven of their sister states ur- der military domination and con. trol. These eleven states as mem bers of the union are in no sense whatever inferior or subordinate, and purpose to assert and maintain their rights as dehned in the fed eral constitution.
 Bruce Remarks
 Conscious of answering loyalty to the union, conscious of her rights under the constitution. conscious of . patriotic desire for tho develop ment of the entire country along the pathway of prosperity and justice. willing to make in the future such unstinted contributions and sacri- hces to national greatness and glory as she made in the .clden days. the south proposes to exerctse her rights under the constitution as her own will and judgment may dictate, un- deferred by those who are con trclled by either hate or ignorance"
 His remarks were followed by . plea of Senator Bruce. democrat, Maryland. that the south sanction an escape from the tyranny, of the eighteenth amendment" 3
 'GlaAs Retofts
 The Maryland senator brought Senator Glass. democrat. virstna, to hts feet to retort that mo one can constratn or. restrain Virginia from enforcing the eighteenth amend ment by these threats"
 "If. the south by legal tngenuity is able to nulltfy or escape the terms of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments' said Bruce, 'haveut we the right to escape by such means as possible the tyrannicaf oppression of tho eighteenth amend ment?" . Turning to debates in congress during reconstruction days and sub sequent decision of the United ststes supreme. court. Senator Swanson un- dertook to show that the education al and other qualifications for the right to exercise suffrage in the south were not in conflict with the meaning or the intent of the fif- teenth amendment, enacted with the view to giving the vote to the freed slaves in the south
 All of the clamor against the south about the non reinforcement of the fifteenth smendment." Senator Swanson coutipued. ''is ensendered either by ignorance or inspired by the ultertor purpose to intimidate and threaten the south and embar- ras her judgment and will upon other matters. The south has exer- cised her constitutional right to eliminate eiass of ignorant, shift- less and corrupt voters who for many years were in charge of her local. municipal. and state affairs, with the rssuit' of unspsakable im- poverishnent and dissrace.
 E1ercistng their cIear and consti |tuttonal right. thu southern states have enacted suffrage law which are necessary to obtain clean. economi- cal and capable governments The south is resolved and determined that no part of that section shall ever become a Haiti or Santo Domingo and the dark. fostering sores of reconstruction shall never reappear 10 adlict her"