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? axil "^LF* I jjjj ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ SPEECH HON CHAS. L. BARRETT OF CEORGIA WHO VOTED AGAINST ' , THE ADOPTION OF THE BRISTOW AMENDMENT. %r t>~.4.1^.4.4. -rvorrV. i "T nronnse to stand bv the Demo- -S UI' DQii'UClli aaiu iu pui u . j. j. . ,^^^ ? . cratic party btrt above aiM propose to stand by that determina- . * $ton we made through the trying years of the reconstruction period and have kept through all the years inviolable to tye tl white supremacy and the Caucasian control of our section aridif|t . eow in this hour when our party associates will subject, us to ?tc like dangers, I repeat;r & Lord God of Hosts be with us.yet. m Lestwe forget, Lrest we forget." g As aboyLimd even .after I grew to manhood I have seenpfi ' Sections conducted "beneath the bayonets:) of United States! if troops, by United States Marshals, and Federal supervisors! If and returning'boards. I experienced the nightmare and horro^i of those days, Be that as it may, Mr Speaker, we of the South fj shall go on in the future as we have in the past in spite 5of re- ' construction and its infamous results, in spite of the Federal * ?-- ?11 + 1*/^ fnfiivo ac Ttro llflVf* in t.IlP S election laW, W B S IlClii UU <111 tli^/ 1UVU1V IVD II u uw I V . w past devoted to oar principles of local self government and the c supremacy of the Anglo-Saxon race.5' t WARNING IN 1833. t John C. Calhoun. On States Rights. K. 1 He said in part, "The general'government guarantees a" ^ Republican form of government to the States, a power which ikereaffcer, if not rigidly restricted to the objects intended by the Constitution, is destined to be a pretext to interfere with our poli- ^ tic&l affairs, and Domestic Institution in a manner infinitely r nore dangerous, than any other power which has ever been j exercised on ttie part 01 tne general guycmmcuw "To this it requires no stretch of imagination to see the danger which must one day come, if not vigorously watched. At the rapid rate with which this Government is advancing in power, a time will conjevand that not far distant, when petitions will be received from the quarter to which I 4'allude" for i '"protection", and unless opposed by united and firm resistance its ultimate effect will be to drive the white population from < the Atlantic States. J WHAT THE LEGISLATURE OF SOUTH CAROLINA WANTED AND ADOPTED 1 t ; ? ] BcstMioas Adopted by the Legislature of South Carolioa in 1911 in Begard to the Election 1 of United States Senate by a Vote of the People. t SECTION 1. That it is the sense of the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina that the Constitution of the United States relative to the election of United States Senators be so amended as to provide for their election by a direct vote of the people of each State. c SECTION 2. That a copy of this resolution be furnished each member of Congress from South Carolina. In the House, j. Columbia, S. 0., January 24th, 1911. n REVIVAL OF NEGRO INFLUENCE d The Columbia Sine Oi .Inn* 13?:'?, 1912, Editorially Says: 11 <4 The'n<J/i*.in<'ition of a l!epubb?*an candidate by negro votes | w at Chicago and ihc obligations that it will entail upon the Re- d nuhlican part-v will serve to wen the Democrats, and especially s< those of the border States that the race question lias been revived J S as a source of political danger. " j v? " The exhaltation of the negro at Chicago will cause the I at white Democrats everywhere to close up their ranks. The at- e: tempts to enact force bills have not been forgotten." n: XSIXJXXIXIXIIIIXXIIXXIIXIIXXXXXXXXIXXIXIIIXIIIIIIIX; -* ^ -* A. a A-A A. A A. A..A.A A. A..A. AJLA * rD C' r A h ? ^B^BL ^HH ^BBHKSm kHK Jjj^V .w^^F IB ' wm H w^B-'B' *1B ') Bj ](n| __'. j^B 'H '? '^^BP^B ' .-'^B WK^^Kfr % Bi |H HI B ?,M <'>2^B*t-l^Bi^B ' J^B > ?^^BF " < ^B ? >^H j^^k>v .^^KH . f JR9K .^BHB. ' ^HBBF *flHBBP /*^BB .';' V*p **^ '-. >v / . : 'V?? vr*^ ; f 'V^f . *v ' ' vO i / '. ^ v / . :? f i South Carolina's Position. In its article of adoptipn of the Federal Constitution the tate of.South Carolina, specifjcallj used this language r r Where%8 it is e^ential to ffee presefyatio no fthe ;jig^ts re$jj&;ine frpedoiii of the^pp^ under le oj^i?(ioh o/ a^geperal :^e^iijneht;"'tliat':' the fright >f: pretime, a|^;pjaces' of holding 'me elections fore ver ipjppar&hly atanex1 to the doth eclare that tbei&me ouglit. tb .remain to all .ppstefi.tf .4 peretual ancTfundaiUental right in'the *r$nee of the (xeneraliGdyepnmeat,. exceptilii^ses ^ip^the isa^atures of the States shall refuse or neglect to perforin and j^Sjl iheaame accoHing to the fe'nor of said Cdnstitutipci, to SF THE HON THOMAS U. StSSOH OF MISSISSIPPIr*HO ** Wwm AGAINST THE ADOPTJON OF THE BBfSlOW AMENDMEN1 He said in part 4'Let us examine a moment gentlemen and ee what the Bristow amendment does. If adopted Congress an apoint officers to take charge of the registration bdoks oi he State, and determine who may register and who may not egister under the State laws. Congress can appoint officers o hold the election and allow those to vote whom these officers n their discretion should decide has the right. These -Federal officers of election will count the votes, and make certificates oi lection. Every Congressman and every Senator veho ..holds the certificate of election will hold it at the hands of those Federal )fficers. IF THE STATE ELECTION SHOULD HAPPEN )N THE SAME DAY UNDER THE STATE CONSTITU (TON THEN THE FEDERAL OFFICERS COULD HOLI N THEIR HANDS THE ELECTION MACHINERY ANI ACTUALLY CONTROL OUR STATE ELECTIONS. I recall how the people of the South prayed when Mr Lodg< }f Massachusetts introduced the Force bill, I recollect as a youn| nan how we listened night and day at the telegraph office fo: news of the result. I recall how a Senator from my own State Who has passed away, Senator George, spoke a part of three lays against the bill, and I recollect how they telegraphec Sen. Stewart the wires were quivering and vibrating with inteli^ence, that Senator was on his way to the Capitol although he eft a sick bed at his home to come, and when Senator Slewart mder the .influence of Governor Foote's daughter, that gooc Mississippi woman who nursed him in his sickness, and wh< lurried on a special train from the west to Washington ; anc hat Great Republican when he reached the Senate cast his vote igainst the Force bill and killed it I recollect the rejoicing J1 over the South." May Be Dragged Into It. ~ ' . ! 1 T 1 -T? J C TDe Baltimore ana rnnaaeipina Jtiecoru iecu sc^iai Southern States may reject the Bristow Amendment, because f the fear of the federal supervision of Elections Clauses?Litrary Digest. However if three fourth of the States in the Jnion ratify it, the States objecting will be dragged into the less regardless. Senator Joseph F. Johnston, of Alabama says: Mr Presieiit: I will vote against the Bristow Amendment. I have witessed elections in my State where armed United State** Troops ere assembled at the polls, and where U. S. Supervision and eputy marshals were potential with results, I never want to ?e ir acrnin. If w<? are now to surrender our rights to choose enators free from Federal Control, in order to obtain a direct Dte by the ])eople. T shall prefer no change to be made. Sentors. who really want this resolution adopted may be able to vplain their course but it will require the multiplication of lany words. ^ ^ i?l strict andl, flJlMlrj , yr'!"w'; IMfcw B9BHH M&dlk MbH 'J:1E 1 B rank B^BB HB AHH w BgMg BH| Jfc _ 'Bj,..K^a If:, IB - Pi V m -'W j1 vv H vfl -mum nr x ...; fl gg? BH ^BL * H '/:n jILil^B - Si *& - Hbb i^B^B 'BB-'Bi < w fc> -S b| j|j y^B HH hwB 'B^Bt wIHpj :. ?!! v-^b impmrj .rJTTt fjf;;^:g ? :;-^u,i- fvu- lO'j'i.' ^BiggB ? ~ r-LRl' TTTTTTTrTTTTXXXXIIIIXXXlzxxzz.Xixxiixzx4*fU*dl****AlJui _ V i ( .1 ; is: :,- . . .- '.." 1 7 ~ * ' J '" '1 '' J -::- '~- ' '<(.<>1 C ?.j I Hon Ed yf Saunders of Virginia, says: M "I would like to ask ray friends on the other side of the House B and for that matter some of ray friends on this side, why is it B that they reiterate the assertion that they have no apprehension .\^B that the time will ever come again when deputy marshals, or t B Federal Soldiers will attend the elections for members of thi? .>, JB body, they say that these things have passed away, never t6 return, and yet they insist upon retaining in the Federal (^>n? I stitution that provision upon which, and upon which alone,Jwst B the authority to order the interference--with the orderly conduct of elections in $,e State;" - ' ; f - "Wfi$r' then iifcst^pchi -tH&4N9teii tion of a' provision 'Mord* '? ing a power which it is stoutly insisted will never be exercise*!." ' A NEGRO TO RUN FOR U. S. SENATOR FROM MISS. 'I Washington, May 28.?For the first time in many years a B[ . negro occupied a seat on the floor of the House to-day. As a v |B result Southern Democrats were very much agitated. Under fi H! I the rules of the House the negro was entitled to tiie privilege Hn > of the floor. The man was John R. Lynch of Natches, Miss., H " who is now a paymaster in the army and who represented the BH ; Third Mississippi district in the House in the Forty-third, i Forty-fourth and Forty-seventh Congresses. He was also : SB 5 temporary chairman of tlie Republican National convention in I 1884, which nominated James G. Blaine for President. Rep^ I ? resentative Ben Humphries now represents the Third Missis-. BR sippi district, but he did not welcome his predecessor to-day. : fl| T 1 ' " ?Ar?niriri/] i ? UaIIOO O an L' ijyncil occupieu It sem auu. iciiiamcu ill ulic7 nuuot uuvuv uu : |H^B I hour. SB Lynch appeared at the Capitol shortly after the House con- jjH ) yened and presented himself at the main entrance to the cham- |H[ ) ber, asking admission. He was stopped by Doorkeeper Heart; BBI sell of Georgia. Lynch remained at the door while Heartsell 3 rushed in to Speaker Clark to ask what he should do under the MH I circumstances. The Speaker called Representative Sisson of r Mississippi to the rostrum and asked him if Mississippi had ever Hj , been represented in Congress by a negro named John R. Lynch, mm 3 Mr Sisson recalled the services of Lynch and the Speaker issu- fl 1 ed a pass authorizing Lynch to enter. M| While Lynch sat in the rear of the hall talking with several Bfl J old Kepubiican memDers it was noisea among wie i/emocravs , that the former Mississippi Congressman was in Washington HH I laying plans to run for the Uuited States Senate from > Missis- HH ) sippi just as soon as the constitutional amendment for the /ID I direct election of Senators is ratified by the States, It is the J contention of Southern Democrats that the ratification of the 9H \ amendment in the form that it has been passed by Congress HH will result in the enfranchisement of the negroes who have 9911 been disfranchised in the Southern States by the operation of the "grandfathers clause." There are more negroes in - Missis- raH ? is])pi than in any other Southern State, and if they should be HH i enfranchised it is expected by the Southern Democrats they, fl^H might easily elect the United States Senators from that State. HH The rumor of Lynch's purpose to avail himself of this o$- MB 4-^v O coot in flio TT nifar} ftptmfp PT'Pflfpd P.T- IflMR |JUI tUllltJ' LU Will CI 0^5<?.u HI VilV \JUi?U? vnmu ^ . ~ ^ - _ citement among the Southern members. 9Hh LETTER FROM J. G. ANDERSON, FATHER OF THE ROCK HILL PLAN Rock Hill, S. C. Wm Harry D. Caliioun, hi Dear Mr Calhoun :? ' I notice you are doing great work in Baru- HH well County persuading the farmers to cut their cotton acreage H8H this year, and I wish to thank you for your splendid work. If HH| r Lo/i n lmif dnz^n Cnlhouns. or even a less number in every BBS i. iiuv.1 ?.v liwAi. 7 county in the South, I would bet two to one that we would raise HH| the price of cotton to 15 cents within thirty days' with all ease^flBaj (Signed) J. G. Anderson. ? HH