North Carolina Newspapers

T THE SOUTH'S . REPRESENTA- TION IN CONGRESS. r gt7 . J " By Hon. John T. Raulston. The 8th of November, 1904, has come and gone and the result of the national election held on that day seems to have been fan unparalleled rebuke to the Democratic' party for the inconsistent and hypocritical po - ritions which it -has assumed from time to time on the many national questions which have j heretofore con- Vonted the American people. Just prior to- that date many of the caders . of that party devoted them- -elves largely to making forecasts of by what handsome : majorities thev would carry this and that! northern, eastern or western Stae, an cf now that creat statesman, President Iras carried every State in Roosevelt, the Union except a few that are always in the !emocratic columns, ; without regard to who is candidate,-what are the is- sues.,or what questions orprinciples are to be determined; which victory for the Republicans has virtually tak- -n the Democratic parity dff the-po- litical calendar of the United States of America; and that these great elec- tion foretellers are now about to for- publican candidates . swept the coun ter lose their reputation as orocrnos- trv like a cvclone-says: ' We favor ticators, they arc endeavori ig to save such Congressional action as shall dc themselves by explaining what caus- terminc whether by special discri.mi- rd the landslide, and i those who arc rot engaged in this work s eem to be husy instructing the victors as to what u their duty in reference tq rcprescn- ation from the South. .It rae that the best explanatio caused the great victory of Roosevelt, would be, fthat Occurs to n of what President eompara- tsvely, all the voters were for him, but ;t is not my purpose to discuss that in this article. It is to the crowd that -icicuu iu uc oj,vvcii iiuui liicii us iu what the majority party should do in reference to carrying out tile provis- ions of the-Constitutioii of the United States in reference to j repTdsentation a Congress, that I propose o here I rive attention. 1 ! I and - ad-I mitted that the Democratic 'party has I i:i the past from time to time stood for and advocated policies and riieas- have violated the Federal Constitu tes, which have been absolutely in- tion as above referred to. "The wick- :onsistent to each other; Vudh as: The Expansion of our National Do minion, j In 1803, when Thomas Jefferson, the jreat leader and founder of tr e Demo cratic party, was President, j we ac- quirea tne territory 01 .Louisiana, a territory of almost 1,000,006 square miles in t:he west. Under MonroVs administration we added to our do- ninion Florida. In 1845, sdon after he election of Polk of Tennessee,we acquired the territory from ! Mexico vhich now constitutes four dr five of ur Western States. All this territory :vas acquired under Democratic ad- ninistration, and expansion was a yood thing so long as there jwas no Republican party to stand fo r it, but when it found favor witty the DRcpubli- can party, although it had been a pet policy formerly with the, De nocratic cept the form of application herein party, it thenrall at once became an after set forth." . ? . .. . atrocious crime against humaiiity and an outrageous sin against God. They forced the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio pf 16 to 1, on us as a paramount 'issue in 1896 and 1000, and denounced the erold' standard as heresy; in 1904 they run their candidate on a gold " Telegram." Just prior 'to the recent national election they pretended to be leaf fully alarmed for fear that j if President Roosevelt should happen !to be lelected he might not adhere to the Constitu tion of the United States, a id nQw some of the same fellows- SQern to be as much alarmed ' for fear t lat the Roosevelt administration will ladhere to the express and unmistakable man dates of that constitution. But with all their inconsistencies; I think it right to give the devil his du;s, they are consistent in one wayas :o their position on the representatio 1 ques tion. That is, some of the leaders in Tennessee are, in this way: When it comes to the appointment o sentauves in tne lennessee Leeisla cux, jr oiiout iui one jjemocrat to count for two Republica is, and "thus violate the express termJ of the State Constitution, and some tof the Same wise and benevolent statesmen seem to think it to be j the uty of violate States, .Congress -to in the same way the: Constitution of the United so as to allow one Democrat in Mis sissippi to count for seven Rconhli- cans in Ohio in the determination of representation. j. . :--The Constitution -nt ! t,- t V4 . mc unitea .trfpi Arf t a C l " I' .,.,V. 2 P ovules: I Vd among the several States accord- 1 - . . - r X wi:tuve numbers! count- I ing the- whole number - of persons in each State, excluding; Indians not tax- ed. But when the right to vote at any I election for the choice of electors for I President and Vice-President of the United States, representatives in Con- j gress, the executive and judicial offi cers in the State, or the. members of the legislature thereof, is ! denied to I any of the male : inhabitants of such a State, being 21; years of age and 'a' citizen of the UnitedStates, or in; any way abridged except for participation in rebellion or other crime, the basis I of representation therein shall be re- duced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens, shall hear to the whole number of male citizens 21 years of age in such State' Now I notice in the discussions of this question. in the South by the peo' I pie who are hostile toward the Rcpub I lican party, and who have no syrhpa- thy for the Norths they represent that if representation is reduced on the ground of the abridgement of the right to vote that it will effect the north- ern States more than the South. If thjs is true why ; should they be so aroused? The Republican; platform on whieJi Mr. Roo'sevelt and the Rc nation the elective franchise in any State has been unconstitutionally lim- itcd, and if such is the case, we de mand tnat representation in congress and in the electoral college shall be proportionally reduced as directed by the Constitution'of the United States Now if any Of the southern States have unconstitutionally denied any of the citizens of the United States and the citizens of their State the right to LAti List iiiv; cittuvc uaiicuiov., n. would be perfectly unreasonable to de mand - the right to send represcnta lives to Congress and electors to the electoral college to represent a class of people who were denied the right to choose such representatives. The Republican national platform says nothing about the reduction of repre mentation from the South unless they ed flee when no one pursueth." " But a number of southern States arc guilty. . : j ;;- t.:j . Louisiana has amended "her consti tution so as to read as follows: Sec 3. " lie (the voter), s.hall be able to read and write, and shall dem- nstrate his ability ;to do so when he applies for registration, by making under oath, administered by the rcg- istration officer or his deputy, written application therefor, in the English language or his mother tongue, which application shall contain the essential facts necessary to show that he is en- titled to register and vote,- and shall be entirely written, ; dated and signed by him, in the presence of the rcgis- tration officer or his deputy, without assistance or suggestion from any per- son, or memorandum ; whatever, cx- Sec. 5. " No male person who was on January .the 1st, 1S67, or at any date prior thereto, under the consti- tution of statutes of any State of the United- States, wherein he then rc- sided, and no son or grandson of any such person not less than 21 j'cars of age at the date of the adoption of this constitution, and no male person of foreign birth, who was naturalized prior to the 1st day j of January, 1SS5, shall be denied the j right to register and vote in this State by reason of his failure to possess the educational or property -qualifications prescribed by this constitution.. Provided he shall have resided in this State for five years next preceding the date dt which he shall apply for registration and shall have registered in accordance with the terms of this article, prior to' September, 1, 189S, and no person shall be entitled to register under this sec tion after said date." V ' The amendment to lie constitution of the State of .North Carolina is very similar to - that above referred to ex cept' where the Louisiana excepts from the application f of the educational qualification all those who were legal voters prior to the 1st day of January, 1867, and their ",sons and grandsons the North Carolina I constitution uses instead of " sons and ' grandsons V " all lineal descendants." : - These amnd1rnelits, were , framed for the avowed purpose of depriving col ored citizens 'of their 'constitutional- right to vote as they are made to ap- 1 ply to persons and their posterity who were not qualified, to vote prior to January 1st, 1867 : : : 1 v ! Mississippi has amended , her 'con s tit ution as follows: : Sec. 244. On and after the 1st day of; January, 1892, every elector shall, in additipri to-the foregoing "qualifications, shall be able to read any section of theT cohstitu tion of the State, orhe shall be able to understand the same when- read to him nr friv a't-McnnaWp - intprnrptft- nirn, ,or give a reaSOnaDie lnterprcia tion thereof.0' Mississippi has thus v aDriagea tne rignt OI ner Citizens IO VOte Until in IOOO there were JOnlv ?d. . . . 103 VOteS cast for President in the tate and ttiv n camV time e-lect- otaie, ana-mey at tne same time eicu ed S ConffrefismpnanH had to votes in the electoral college. The total vote of. Ohio for the same year was 1,040,- 073, and Ohio had only 21 Congress men. The average' .vote for the re spective congressional districts in Ohio was' 49,527. Divide" the total of Mississippi, 59,103, by 8," the number cf Congressmen, and you have for each -congressional: die trict 7,387. That is, it takes seven times as many voters in the State of Ohio to be en titled to a Congressman and tO a VOte . , , - . . - - . . ' . in the electoral colleere as it does in T. - ix3i33JiJiJi. Tf ..-o tt,nf tl,a wnKmf c ucv.ui a iu me inai. ui'- -v-"""' Of any fair minded man OUld rebel againt such injustice. Our. COnstl- tUtlOU g VCS to Our law-makers a pOSl- :-.v,i :;xi-- . A in c m.ijiuuic ims uwuttj mm o h itasuuduic dnu iigiii- i vx-t men who are sworn to SUOOOrt this .port this constitution to ; evade the express mandates Of the' Same JUSt in .order . . - . - number Of Other States, may COUnt for seren 111 tile State Of OniOr 1 be- .. . . f i . - 1ICVC 111 equality Deiorc-xnc liivv, an u let the results' be what thev mav. let's do right. If it effects the North let's w , . -r r " .1 , t -t . JIHVC 11. H 11 CilCtlS 111U JUUl" At J. come. 111 the State election ill Tennessee . . ' . it lb ariausrcu lor one lliuuliiui. . . r..t.i: T., vote iu tuiuu ior two i.cjuuni.iii3. j.h the national election they want one vote in Mississippi to equal seven in Ohio. If they arc not careful they will get mixed on their ratio. Irt 1096 and 1900 it was 16 to 1 as to money; in 1904 it was 16 to 1 as to negroes, and now it is 7 to I as to representa- tivc capacity. The people in the South are now vcry much elated over theprospect of rrcsidcnt Roosevelt recognizing the South during his new administration by appointments; We Tcnncsseeans arc much interested in this oh account of our anxiety for the Hon. H. Clay Evans to be retained in the President's official family, and we think the President would make no mistake to give to the Hon. Walter P. Brownlow a" nice appointment, and then we have in Tennessee such stalwart young men as Robt. S. Sharp, of Chattanooga, jesse jvi. j.uncton, or vvincncsicr, anu 1 -m r . . . . f 1 1 rr ' 1. ' - fl liawara oanarora, 01 tvnoxviuc, any r- r e ' r t r -t of whom would lul a place ot trust with honor to themselves and with credit tothe administration. We hope the. time will soon come when the people of the South will realize that it is not best .to have a solid South. The Yellow Jacket for 1905. Ac our rrpHrrc wrl! t-nnf fl YeU low Jacket, for the past four months, has not been up to its usual standard in the way of reading matter, this is'duc to the fact that the editor has been looking after; the enlargement of the Yellow Jacket pjant, and the erec tion of new machincr'. More new buildings containing: upwards of one thousand five . hundred lect of floor space"" have been added since .Septem ber steam power I and heating facili ties put in, and a large Hoe perfect ing r press and stereotyping plant set up amU-put iii readiness. We have personally superintended this entire job; and it is needless to say that we have been too tired to write much in the meantime. But thank oroodness we lave at last got this heavy, tfresome job completed. We are. now able to take a few days rest and then settle down to our desk once more in earn-. est. beginning witn tne in ew i ear- it is our purpose to fill the Yellow Jacket so luii 01 stings and not tnings tnat the Chamberlain movement which.rec-every-issue will be a political camp- ogniies that the American economic meeting; within itself. - . Don't imagine for a blessed minute that because the.; nation went worlds without end for Roosevelt that there is nothing left for the.. Yellow Jacket to tackle. Democratic devilment, and jassackery : are byno' means eradi- caCed . ftom - the body politic. . Why, whole; counties of devil-raising- Demo- crats in Missouri have threatened tp secede from that State because it went Republican this year. .We will give you a; full; write-up ,rof those fellows tttth'e'yerijtuf4.J:And there "are' others. Besides all over the land can he 'found little scrubby-tailed Demo- cratic f pollticiaahd; editors who are ' A Rh vavuiiiwwvvwuhii may llHVf full dollar's worth J searched the whole earth for a specific - for Rheumatism somethine that I or &nr nhTsiclan itSl Jff? prescribins somethtog that 1 rye COUla COUlit on tint rmlv ; naainnallv hnf. "aio. vuor tne ravages or itnenmausm are - 'l After twenty years of search and Tnorfcimt I learned of the chemical I now employ. And I knew then that mj search and my efforts were weU rewarded. -.For the chemical gave me the basis of a, remedy --which in the cure of Rheu- mausm 18 Pracucally certain. it Iff ( You pay nothing - you nsK noinmg Crystalized Poison! Ton know . that hard water leaves a deposit of lime in the bottom of the tea-kettle in which it boils, and soft water does not.' That is because soft water is filtered and contains no lime, while hard water is not filtered and ia full of it. You can imagine that if that deposit were to settle In the joint of your knee it would be ex- J tremely painful. And if the deposit grew you comu nnaiiy no longer -endure tne torture or walking. , iet tw 13 tne way ttiat Bheumatism be- gms ana ends. Except that the deposit which fos Is not lime but crystalized poison! For your blood is always full of poison the rlson. you eat and drink and breathe into your and curry off this very poison. And the kidneys. cleanse-the -blood and send it back through the system - clean to, gather- more., poison which, they, in turn, win eliminate. J . IJut sometimes the kidneys fail. And some- times from some other cause the blood srets so gu -pg. J ful1 of -roison that they cannot absorb it all. accumulates and crystalizes. The blood carries f-!lO rrvRfillij nnil Ihnv inppnoea n cWa Then .when it can carry them no longer, it deposits mem in a joint on a bone any where. arm on a rumy day these are the outward pigns and unspeakable anguish of the sufferer! who t i tiii.- uuuntu i iiiiuuuis iu uiiui'fuew anil l V.Af .Hr.mM.l I . I . I . - A- - .. 11 -1 unattended for years these are the evidences of w!'at Itbeamattem, neglected, can do. I . ItllPnmntlKm 1nplll;lfR llimlioird i-Hntlm neuralgia, gout for all these are the results of i raeumauc poison jn xne uioou. ' - fflnlv ll,a f!w- hlnff 4- poison. But this is not enough. The FORMA TION of the noison must tn stnnnpd sn tliaf nature may have a chance to dissolve and ellmi- nate the crystals -which have - alreadv formed unless rnis is one there can be no cure no permanent relief. j everlastingly rearing up on their hind feet and squirting" some slanderous word at our President or other per- sonage of high character and integ rity. The. Yellow Jacket wilt give these bucks such a touching-up as they deserve. " Eli Tucker," who has been a writer on the Yellow Jacket since jts beginning, will fall into the work , at once with all his old time vigor. lis letters to uryan and Jrar ker will" appear sjiortly," and Willie Winkle's essay mill will be sharpened up and set to grinding. Another feat ure of the Yellow Jacket, which we de sire to improve for 1905, is the " Let- tcrs from the People" department. i . Wcin Wc morc space to this de- partment and shall be glad to have good, short political letters from all our readers. Ln' anticipation of these various improvement's, and as a re ward for the hard work we have done during the past few months fn getting ready to make a better and larger Yel low Jacket, we ask each and. every one of our readers to lake advantage 01 UUV u,dl Ullti inu Si uut a. iCW I r "i rr j ..i. r hours among "your neighbors' and friends for the exclusive purpose of sccing-just . howfljig' cJuK you can roll up for the Yellow Jacket. Two Million Majority of Stand Pat- " ' "; . -. ' ters. John Morley, in his address at the Chamber of Commerce banquet in - ' . . .. - . . New York, Tuesday night, told his hearers that he stillbclieyedt in tariff for revenue only. He has Jooked about here in this country for a few' days, and he has decided that his country. wrmifi h- r a- wf,n ff tn.Anv ;f :f hadn't been for Protection. But up- fW ot 2,000,000 majority of the peo- ! pie of this country beg leave to differ rom Mr. JVI or ley, and will continue to " stand pat " for Protection, and also stand against paternalism. Mr. Mor iey is' discounted in his own home by system is competent to combine the Free-Trade- principle" between the States with; the Protective system for the development ; of -its own. standard of life against lower standards in other -countries. :By the way, since-election the' Free Traders have perked -up for immediate Tariff revision, and if they get enough Republican co-operation; they may bring about agitation that will hurt business:- enough to make Tariff revision imperativerProtec- tionists wilt do well to avoid conspira- cy against busifiess. - Two millions-: majority: for Roosevelt -is a "stand pat" "majority Le'wiston, 'Me., Jour nal. ' A - - - of my remedy free I don't mean that Dr. Shoon's i?ilon . can turn bony joints into flesh 3raat!c Cure Impossible. But it will drive froix fSt?-?TTtbat S DOison that eansp n,in i"?,.11" Wood : von KhoTii larpackage of Dr. Shoop's B.llImlZ ful1 d" to try. For 1 know that you and roni emv and friends will by your'goU wiSes ?hb good words, more than repay my toSJaf - you promise nothino you deposit nothi HIP A Certain' Cure I spent twenty years in exocrine r,f , felt satisfied that I PSntiR-forp T hibis dread disease a remedy i '!!'f for oniy c-iean out the- poison, but one wi V u ni stop its formation. v VVUeu would tHractifnn-w- tnen ueiore 1 made an I made an a.noincmZS'!:f even to put my name on itimS.?;0? 1 csts! And my failure, was wining to than 2.000 tests! per cent. - - " ""- -re but This German chemical is not tlr ni- 11 maae tne remedy possibl achievement which I dnht ?ible in :l i ? , r ! ; , uat bt not could- have made in no other wav. 1:1 'f Wen relief from the greatest torture 1 know? But I do not ask you to take rncnt of mine-I do not ask you to ujlii'vo I say until you have tried mv t t':, , f own home at my expense alWIu;'i-'"' ,'v,-f'"J 1 'our 1 I any misrepresentations? - Woul.r I j'o ' Vero not strnisrhtfnrwoivi " u I Could I AFFORD to do it if l'v-e' that my medicine will, help you? . 1 1 , - Simply Write Me The, offer i3 open to evervoue. orf rro But you must write ME for the freo Uv w tie-order. Ail druggists do not irv ,L IZ I.will then direct you to one that '.ic-;" i - wni pass it down to you from his f;toc-k n f.-o though your dollar laid beforo l iri -"'w f the order to-day. Address Dr. Shonn tA- c-i, Itacine, Wis. I will send you r-v b !, ".T-p. matism beside. It is frre. I Will !'!. "-rr1,,' 7" understand your case. What nioro car' ' convince you of my Interest of my in-criV SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. What the Editors of the Country are Saying About the Leading Topics of the Day. Paris is said to be eating more horse-meat of late. So has Port Ar thur. N. Y. World. The Monroe doctrine is said to be menaced in Hayti, but Uncle Sam would be pretty safe in offering Hayti to any nation that could govern it-Philadelphia- Enquirer. A passion for buying big guns in stead of willingness to pay its debts is calculated to get Venezuela into trou ble. Globe-Democrat. Col. Bryan says he has not changed his mind about the country since he entered-political life. The country does not seem to have changed its mind about Bryan, either; so honors are even. Washington Post. Undoubtedly Missouri will derive many advantages '.from the recent great Exposition, but the Republican majority the State has just given will really do it the greater good. Phila delphia Press. With the over-sea dependencies to draw upon 'there is no reason why some future overlord oftne Republic may not rival Trajan's Dacian tri umphs or " Pike Day " at the St. Louis7 Fair New York World. For explanations that don't explain and. for Democracy that is not dis tinguishable from Republicanism or plutocracy, the New York World is admitted to top of column, above and alongside, no other near and free no tice elsewhere position: Commoner. ' Congressman Crumpackers mail is filled with letters from irate Southern ers ' threatening to do all sorts of things to him if his Reapportionment bill becomes a law. Crumpacker s best way to get even would be to pD lish the letters. Philadelphia En quirer. . Gen. Lew Wallace is aroused be cause , the name of "New Mexico will go off the map if the Statehood bill passes. Just a-name " New -Mexico " isn't worth three whoops Jr." lem. They might call the State "An zonexico," if an ugly name is wanted. New York World. ' What, in the name of common sense is there in ;the lessons taught by tn recent election to warrant haste .1 proceeding to Tariff revision? It safe to assume that the mass of K publicans, both among the Naders4 the rank and file, are opposed to extraordinary session for the Purpblfi in question, and that no donsideia popular demand is back of lkeC paper talk in favor of it. MH Sentmer;. . that is the end of the paVn and "S? i?-nfl end of the suffering the end of l-hr eliln--5 I am willing that TmhMfenia t ice secretTay m a wonderful cl-cnlp-ii t f in Germany. . When I found Vh h 1 foal knew that I could make a iS-t?111 I that WOnlfl l nMit!.ii.. . .l l,zn -tic on-.a This -chemical was verv piiimv . too was high. In all it cost r, s t M (!Uty But that is $4.90 per pound for -V"''V PTni,i for the world's mnat minM -i-.,., ' v'1- Wnod?