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SIXTEEN PAGES. The News and Observer. VOL. XLVIII. NO. T>. Leads all Wopth(Qap©JmaDaili®smM©ws andOipeulatien TO SEE THE ECLIPSE OH MAY ZBTH Distinguished Scientists to ViewltFrom Wadesboro A SITE ALREADY SELECTED Will Bring Two Telescopes Specially Prepared For the Occasion. WADESBORO ON UP GRADE EVERY WAY The Pee Dee Baptist Institute and the Mc- Gregor School Are Educational Lights That Cheer Many Localaties. (Staff Correspondence.) Wadesboro, N. C., April 7.—The subject of interest at Wadesboro now is the com ing of several distinguished parties of scientists to view from this point the eclipse of the sun on the 28th of May. These parties come, not only from vari ous parts of the United States, but from foreign countries also. Thus far it is known that delegations will come from the Smithsonian Institute of Washington, the Naval Observatory, Princeton University, the British Royal Astronomical Association of Londcm, Charleston Military college, and State Normal School of Westchester, Pa. Prof. C. G. Abbott, of the Smithsonian Institute, came here last Friday and left Tuesday night. While lierp he secured a site from Capt. J. M. Little, on a knoli near his residence in the southern part of the town. He laid off the grounds and made other preparations. Prof. Abbott and party will bring with them two telescopes. One of these tele scopes is a huge affair and speeialy pre pared for this occasion. It will be 13.*) feet iu length, with a 12 inch object glass, and will make a photograph of the sun IT. inches in diameter. The telescope will lie in n horizontal position and objects will be reflected into it from a large mir- - ror. The other telescope is 38 feet long and will be mounted. Other scientific in struments will be provided and Wadesboro will then have a full fledged observatory, j These instruments will be put in place about the first of May. From then until the event, of the eclipse, daily observa tions will be taken and everything thor oughly tested and adjusted. The observations taken by the Prince ton delegation will be under the direc tions of Prof. C. A. Young of that institu tion. He has secured a site on Carr's Mountain, a high point northwest of the town. The State Normal School party from Westchester. Pa., will he in charge of the principal, Prof. G. M. PhilllpsytiThe other locations have not yet been chosen. The question naturally arises: Why did these eminent scientist select Wades boro rather than any other point to do this important work? In selecting fa vorable place three conditions are neces sary: Ist, it must be high and the view unobstructed; 2nd, it must be near the centre of totality: 3rd, and most import ant of all, there must be the greatest pos sible assurance that the weather will be fair. In the first place, no one who has visit ed Wadesboro will doubt that it is high enough to see the sun before it is up in many other places of the same longitude— much less at eight, o'clock a. rn., about which timv the total eclipse occurs, here. The exact moment has been figured out for Wadesboro. Totality lasts 1 minute and 40 seconds. In the second place the town is calcu lated to be only about four miles north es the centre of totality, which is a streak fifty-five miles wide extending from New Orleans to Norfolk. Thirdly, the only way to judge so far ahead what the weather is likely to be is to consult the record of the weather on that, day for the past number of years. The record of the Weather Bureau show's that during the last twelve years there has been only one cloudy day on the 28th of May at Wadesboro. This is a record that is unexcelled. The probability of fair weather is considered three times as favorable for Wadesboro on May 28th as for either * Monroe or Rockingham, both otherwise equally as favorable towns. This is why the wise men of the east, as well as our sages of the Western hemisphere are so suddenly becoming in terested in Wadesboro. Accommodation: have already been engaged at the hotel.-, by many of these parties. The Smithson - fans and Princetonians will stop at the National —the Englishmen have secured quarters at the Klomlyke hotel. A number of these parties will be here for nearly a month, and as the day ap proaches their number will increase. Op the 28th we may exp« ct a big crowd. Von Hermann will be closely consulted, and if his predictions shall be unfavorable we may look for a scattering of spectators to points supposed to be more favorable. It will be too bad if Wadesboro shall go back on her record, and all this expense aud pains to secure a good photograph of the eclipse prove futile. Hilly Wadesboro is on the up grade in more senses than one. Business is good. The silk mils are doubling their capacity. New' buildings are goiug up. There arc plans on foot for enlarging the well pay ing cotton mills. The Pee Dee Baptist Institute, under the management^of Prof. W. .1. Ferrell, has over one hundred students, and is loing good work. Their new brick struc ture is one of . the largest, handsomest ■and most convenient academy buildings in the State. I am told that there has been an effort ! on the part of a neighboring South Caro lina town to entice Mr. Ferrell away. | Though lie was offered double the salary lie now receives he declined, refusing to desert the people who have stood by him so faithfuly in building up this excellent school. Here is one teacher who does not teach for the sake of money. How many preachers have their work so close at heart? The old and well established McGregor school is prosperous. It is well patron ized and doing as good work as ever. Prof. 1). A. McGregor, who bps all these years labored so faithfully and earnest ly in the management of this school, is still adding to that host,,of students who i rise up to call him blessed. H. A. CHAPPELL. Views and Interviews. Mr. C. Ed Taylor, editor of the South port Standard, who has been attending the Epworth League, returned home yes terday. He is Register of Deeds of Brunswick as well as editor or' the Stand ard. Speaking of his town lie said: “Southport has had numerous railroad plans of late years that have not mate rialized. Recently a syndicate conposed cf Philadelphia capitalists have pur chased the water frontage which U vcy desirable. They have invested a large sum of money and the investment will be valueless until it. is utilized as a railroad terminus. “Col. Albert E. Boon, president of .be Black Diamond syndicate, has droppel his scheme of making Port Royal, S. c . the terminus of the system and tins s led -.1 Southport as the best point. It is on the direct line from the coal field to the sea coast, and is the midway point South i t Hatteras. If it is made a coaling station there will be no need of vessels going 200 to 300 miles out of their way to g **. coal. Cape Fear is a natural land fall made by seamen wb<» take their beatings by the lightship before crossing the oc-tn. Therefore it would be an ideal coaling station. “The prospect lor the future of Smith port is greater than ever before. There is considerable improvement. Not u. va cant house in the place and there is de mand for more. It is likely that i*r ;«. v ill be established two and perhaps Hirer* batteries when the troops return item war.” Iredell county can always be relied upon to send the best, representatives in the Legislature year in and year out of any county in North Carolina. The first time 1 knew anything personally about the Legislature, Iredell was ropr» sented by W. D. Turner in the Senate and Augustus Leazar and John B. Holman in the House. It lias been sending such able and honest men ever since, and its representatives have always had influence. Even when the Fusionists were in control, it was an Iredell Democrat, Mr. J. A. Hartness, who introduced the fellow-servant act. This year Iredell is one of the first coun ties to nominate its legislative ticket, and in keeping with its record, it has nominated particularly strong candidates, j Mr. Chas. H. Armfielil is the nominee for the Senate. He is a son of the late Judge It. F. Armfleld, and he is a man of brains and character. As private secre tary to Governor Scales, he made many friends all over the State who will be glad to see him a leader in what is destined to an historic Legislature. For the House, Mr. A. D. Watts and Dr. T. , J. Stephenson were named. Mr. Watts is the editor of the Statesville Mascot, one of the best weekly papers of this generation. It is true blue in its Democ racy—‘tall wool and a yard wide.” He stands for reform and the day after ‘the. election in 18!tf5 Mr. Watts put the picture of Bryau at the mast head of his editorial columns and lias kept it standing there during all these four years. He is a Bryan man right. Dr. Stephenson Is one of the first men of Southern Iredell, a gentleman of culture, influence and use- | fulness. In these gentlemen Iredell sets a good example to all the counties to nominate its best men. “1 am in favor of making Dewey King of Hawaii,” said Mr. W. C. Newlanil, of Caldwell, who is in Raleigh to attend a 1 meeting of the executive board of the penitentiary. So far two of the members of tlu* last State Senate have been renominated — Senator Speight, of Edgecombe, and Sen ator Travis, of Halifax. This will make Dr. Speight’s third or fourth term, and Mr. -Travis’s second. They represent two counties where Ihe militant Democracy is of the most aggressive type. Dr. j Speight was first, a member of the State I Senate that organized the Railroad Com mission, and was a member of the Senate that changed it to the Corporation Com mission. Mr. Travis was one of the most useful and level-headed men in the last Senate, and as chairman of the executive t committee of Halifax county has done great service for his party. Growing Young. (Boston Journal.) President Eliot's sixty-sixth birth day reminds me of a story he told a good many years ago at a alumni dinner in a form something' like this; “i cannot acknowledge that as the years go by 1 am growing old. I have evidence to the contrary. When 1 was a tutor at Cambridge a few* years after my graduation I learned tlial the students spoke of me habitually as “Old Eliot.* A few nights ago. oil 1 lit* other hand. I met a group ol stti dents in the street, and when 1 had passed them J heard one say to the others: 'I wonder where Charlie has been so late’.” Me is indeed lost who is lost to shame. RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA, SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 8, 1900. DAYS OF NEGRO RULE AT AH END FOREVER The Last Cliffy Holding Office in the East. WHITE MEN MAKE A VOW Solemnly Pledged to the Adoption of the Amendment. A CUNNING TAX COLLECTOR’S SCHEME Mr. Pearsall Talks Interestingly of the Con ditions in His Section. The Newbern Fair This Year to be a Great One. An Increase in Cotton Acreage. The first delegate to arrive to at tend tin* St;He convention is Mr. I*. M. l’earsall, of Newbern. Mr. Pearsall was seen at the Vac borough last night and asked as to the conditions in his section of the State—and most especially in Craven, .Jones and other counties which he visits in the practice of law. “The farmers are a little behind in their work/’ he said, “owing to the rather hud weather this spring, but they are now hard at work, prepar ing for an unusually large crop. I notice that there is a Spirit of de termination among the people, more decidedly marked than usual, and a greater absence of the calamity howl, such as inflicted our country a few years ago. The farmers in Jones and ('raven will probably not increase their tobacco acreage, but will plant more cotton. 'This increase in tin* cot ton acreage will not he more than was planted a few years ago, for after the low prices of cotton, the acreage was decreased and the tobacco acre age was increased. The cotton acre age this year will be about as it was formerly. Our truck around Newbern is not so far advanced as usual, owing to the cold and backward spring, out its condition is good with prospects for a splendid yield. One of the most beautiful siglils one can behold is our truck fields at about this time of the year. The lands are perfectly level and cultivated as beautifully as a flower garden. A ride through these fields of thousands of acres presents a scene of beauty surpassed by not lung I have ever seen. And by the way, these fields will hi* in a state of perfection along this line at our State Fair and they, to my mind, win he our greatest at t ruction.*’ “And what are the prospects for your Fair?” I asked Mr. Pearsull. “Well, you know we Newbern peo ple always say this will be our great est Fair, i think we can truthfully say so this time. Heretofore it lias been held in February, when the weather was damp, cold and generally disagreeable; but even under such conditions it lias been successful. And this fact causes us to assert that this year i1 is hound to he a greater suc cess. You know it will lie held a whole week, beginning the Kith of April, opening on Faster Monday. 'The racing will he unusually line. 'They tell me that mid winter is not the best time for horse racing. “Col, John S. Cmiingliam. of North Carolina, will open our Fair.' “What about polities in Craven county?” “Well, we helil a right lively eon venlion down there the other day and ode that our people took a good deal of interest in. but we were then, and now are. united. All resolutions in the, convention were passed unani mously. We are going- to carry ( raven comity this year. Every man ami every faction in the good old county of Craven is solemnly pledged to that end, and I declare to you that we. the white manhood of that county, will redeem our pledge thus solemnly made.” He was asked what he thought, of the suggestion made that the negroes do not intend to vote in this election. “Any one who thinks the negro will not vote, is decidedly mistaken. The negro is the most cunning creature on earth and especially so when it. comes to polities. He just simply is fooling us when we think he does not intend to vote. Why don’t you know that down in one of our eastern coun ties just before lhe first of last "March, the tax collector hired two or three negro preachers to announce from the pulpit that if the negroes did not pay their poll tax by March Ist, they could not vote in this elec tion. This was a negro section, and on the following day the tax collector had to gel the assistance of two dep uties to write receipts, there being so negroes around to pay their taxes. They have no idea of not vot ing. as they now feel. Os couse we can’t tell wliat changes will take place between now and the election.” “Von say your people are interest ed in the election?” “They surely are. More than I have ever known them, and they just simply are determined to carry this election. There will conic up to the convention next week from Jones, be noir. ( raven and Carteret counties large and enthusiastic delegations, doubtless twice as many as ever came before. This shows, as T have al ready said, that our people are in tensely interested in the contest, (raven county, perhaps, was the worst negro ridden county in the State. and I now declare to you 'flint the last negro who ever was in offi cial position in this section of North t arolina is now holding Ids last office. Our people an* exceedingly fair and .just to the ne gro. In my 20 years of the practice of law, where a great many negroes have had trials in civil and criminal courts, I have never yet known of a ease where a. negro’s rights were prejudi ced because of his race. Indeed the doubt, if there is one. is always given to him. This by reason of his help lessness. I nave noticed two or three eases of this kind this spring. W c are just to him, according to him all .just and proper rights, hut the days of his control and dominatiohi are past and gone forever.” SUPERINTENDENT PUBLIC INSTRUCTION A Suggestion that It Be Left to the Teachers’ Assembly. To the Editor: Much has been written recently in the interests of various per sons for the position of Superintendent of Public Instruction. This is written in the interest of the children of North Caro lina. In* an item that is going the rounds, it is stated that since the United States has taken charge of Porto Rico that sk -000,000, is being spent annually on the island in tlie interest of education; em ploying two thousand teachers and having an attendance of eighty thousand pupil,s. If half this sum is spent for buildings, apparatus and officers* salaries, it still leaves fl.OuO per annum, per teacher. Con trast this with the average salary paid a teacher in North Carolina and you will see the difference in the efforts that are being put forth to educate the children the island that our country has father ed and the children in our own native State. One is fostered by the United States Government, the other by our State Government. Let us ;jsk ourselves the question: What will be the status of the two countries fifty years from now? then ask: Are we deing our duty in this particular toward the children of Norm Carolina—our own children? The answer should put us to thinking. This is a s rious question and its proper answer may mean much to North Carolina ned cause us to consider well the subject of this article. The office of Superintendent of Public Instruction is of more importance to the youth ol cur State and through them to us, than any office that will be filled tit ":t.e coming election and should have care ful consideration frem the lest and most practical thinkers in the State. A majority of the children are depen dent upon the public schools for their education and as the Superintendent of Public Instruction is at the head of the public school system, his influence will he felt in every public school in the State, which brings him in touch with our chil dren; therefore the necessity of having the most practical up-to-date man possi ble fuir the place should be apparent to every one interested in the education of the masses. He should be a man who would put his best efforts—his life into the work. One who realizes its import ance and magnitude and has the execu tive ability to put. his plans into operation. A man who can look into the future and see the possibilities of the now unpolish ed minds of the boys and girls of North Carolina, and who can unfold to them the beauties and possibilities of an education and kindle in their breasts a desire for and determination to possess one. The last Leislature recognized the val ue of an educated citizenship and as a result, offered us the amendment, that we may place our State government in the hands of an educated people. They real ized that North Carolina's position among the States of the Union will be determin <d bj the education of her citizens, hence the necessity of placing a premium—the right of suffrage- as an incentive for our people to elevate themselves in this par ticular. If education is of as much importance as this, we should be exceedingly careful in selecting the head of that department. Who is best qualified to make this selec tion with an eye single to the best inter ests of the children of North Carolina? Surely net a purely political convention; but rather a body in which the best meth ods of educating the people are studied and taught instead of politics. Then leave this selection to the Teachers’ Assembly and let them name the man for Superin tendent of Public InstructUmi at their meeting in June. No harm can come to the ticket on account of this place being left open until then. This would be a graceful act on the part of the State convention, a tribute to the teachers and a just recognition < f their qualification in asking them to name the man to fill this important .place. Their familiarity with the methods and work of the educators of (lie State, especially fit them for making the selection, as alt will admit that he should come from their ranks The man who would be unwilling to take his chances before the Teachers' Assembly for Superintendent of Public Instruction, may think more of getting the office than he does of the children of the State. We need no such man as that to direct our public schools. That the teachers would make the selection with a view only to fitness and qualification goes without saying: for there are no more loyal peo ple to the best interests of the State than those who are engaged in educa tional work. If thought desirable the State convention could restrict the selec tion to the men of the Teachers' Assem bly who are ACTIVELY engaged in edu cational work in the State. In this way the office can be lifted out of and above parti san politics and ihe Democratic party take another advance siep in the cause of education and in the interest of the half million children who are dependent on the public schools for their education. T. B. PARKER. Hillsboro. N. C.. April t). At the age of ?1 a man has more ideals than ideas. "HEART FOR IT BUI STOMACH WIT" Ihe Way Republicans Feel Abjut Amendment. THE NEGRO A CAT’S PAW Republican Leaders See Amendment Would Put Them Out of a Job. EDUCATION NOT PARAMOUNT REASON Why North Carolira Voters Should Support the Constitutional Amendment. In cidentally Will Help the Amendment. Mr. Butler says the Democrats prom ised not to curtail Hit* suffrage and quotes Chairman Simmons and others to that effect. So did Mr.* Lincoln and the Republican party declare in isoo that shivery was not to be touch ed, should Lincoln be elected. But when, in the midst of a bloody Will*, Mr. Lincoln decided that the cause of it all must he removed, he did not Hesitate to do violence to his word and that of his party in convention assembled. Conditions had changed. So at the opening- of the campaign two years ago, no one contemplated an amendment to the constitution; but as the campaign progressed it be came more and more clear that the old State must do something which would prevent the repetition of such condi tions as were revealed. The campaign became a revolution. Thousands of men broke party lines because the question at issue was racial, not polit ical although accompauied by political results. When the night-mare was over, every Democrat. Republican, and I’opulist who had voted for white su premacy, and many who had not, served notice on the Democrats that something must be done to prevent the repetition of the suffering of the while people in Eastern North Caro lina. The good of the State demanded the Constitutional Amendment; the people demanded it: and in August next the people will ratify it with an overwhelming ratification. For thirty years we have wrestled with this prob lem. We must la* done with it. for fear we become narrow sis a people. While the problem remains we cannot develop the other ideas of govern ment. It is Ihe sword of Damocles hanging over every movement of eco nomics, industry and political life in the State and the South. While it remains neither the Republieans nor the Democrats are likely ever to pro duce si gresit political leswler. The Re publicans have produced none in thir ty years in the South and the Demo crats lisive done better only heesuise the partv lacked leaders from the North. THE REPUBLICANS SUDDEN AND GREAT SOLICITUDE FOR THE WHITE MAN. The Republicans exhibit great anxie ty about the possibilities of disfran chising some white men. Pritchard suui Butler shed crocodile tears over this part of thifir forebodings. One would think 1o hear them talk that tin* Republican party is the speeisil emissary for the salvation of the white mail. This is so sudden! Tilsit psirty didn’t seem quite so solicitous for tin* white man in I,*>(>(>-US 74, during a psirt of which time fully forty thou sand of the most intelligent white men in tin* State were disfranchised men of t lie greatest intelligence and loftiest character while the recently emancipated slaves, armed with the ballot, rushed the stati* head-long to ruin. Bad sis was tin* war of *i»l-’t>.*», it was nothing beside the devastation sind ruin of the years from ’ts7-*72. For four years the North tried to conquer iis and sit. last succeeded in over whelming us by force, hut did not crush OUR SPIRIT. It was si brave enemy that, fought in the open, and it honored bravery. But when the war laid ended blind Republican partisan ship. led by carpet baggers of the Tourgee stripe, in order to break the spirit of brave men, disfranchised thousands of white men and turned over flic State of our fathers to he robbed and mined. Was the Republi can then the party of tlie white man? Is it the friend of the white nisin in the South today? No. it cures nothing for the white man or for the State. It is only intent on getting office for the few who live on the spoliation of the State. Butler, who in his more decent days uanied It is paper the Cau casian. implying that he stood for the while man now, despairing of again being able to win by dividing the v* bite vote, comes out for the .suprem acy of the negro race. IF Til E REPUBLICAN PARTV HAD LISTENED TO REASON. It I had had the ear of the few lead ers of the Republican party who dic tate its policy I should have advised it to keep hands off in this matter. The white men of the State are determin ed by the help of Bod. to settle this question. They want to lit* free. In the nature of tilings there can he no great Democratic or great Re publican leaders or promulgation of principles so long as the menace of tin* race question hangs over us. \\c cannot go before our people and SEC 1 ION ONE—Pages I to 8. PRICE FIVE CENTS discuss the principles of government as they arise. We dare not divide. Wlien tin* Republican party (great parly as it is) is so fortunate as to win an election in the South the disas ter that overtakes it is no less than that which befalls the State. 1 liere fore, I would have advised tin* leaders of the party not to advocate a con tinuance of negro illiterate suit rage, hut holding aloof to have been ready to welcome those voters in the State who believe in Republican principles and would he attached to that party if, it would stand for ihe supremacy of Anglo-Saxon civilization. A party with 120,000 negro voters and thirty thousand white voters, is constrained to enact legislation demanded by its majority. In the legislation of 1807 negroes dictated to the Republican and Populist party and they (or it) dared not refuse. The negroes held the balance of power in the Legisla ture and although there were only eight or ten of them they soon made it known that tlie,v must he consulted. This year presented a great opportuni ty to the Republicans. They had been saying that they were as much op posed as the Democrats to negro rule and that the Democratic were the real negro party. The party had every thing to gain and nothing to lose by joining the Democrats for the amend ment. and making their light on na tional lines, where they have strength as they have absolutely’ none (in view of their record) on State issues. THE N EURO VOTE NOT POLITICAL, BI T ONE OF RACIAL ANTA GONISM. The vote of the negro is not a politi cal vote and has never been political. It is not sin individual vote. You. might teach him from every stump and school house and elnireh in the State for four Jong years that it is in the interest of this country to have the gold standard, for instance; yet two weeks before the election five Re publican leaders could meet in Ral eigh, declare for free silver and vote the negro solid for the new plat form, The negro vote is one of racial opposition, inlensi* in its unity and indivisible. There is an illiterate white vote, hut it is a thinking vote. It divides. That, which causes intelli gence everywhere to take different views of tilings political, operates with 1 lit* illiterate white voter and causes a division and diversity of views and action. The illiterate white vote is intelligent. It has behind it thousands of years of political wis dom. it is not,racial and clannish except as it is forced to he so for self preservation. On the other hand the negro vote is an inert mass, handled generally by irresponsible parties and dangerous in proportion to the lack of wisdom among those who essay to control it. If every negro in the South were this day able to read and write we should still need to meet this threatening menace to law. order and prosperity. The negro must not seek to control. The Republican party must not seek to control by means of him. For either to do so is to call down the wrath of civilization upon it self, If it he said that the negro does not control and rule because lie rare ly holds office, let it be answered that lie rules through those whom he elects as certainly as if he himself were elected. When Ids party is elect ed he regards himself as in the saddle and in all the Eastern pari of the our State becomes arrogant, vicious, .self assertive and unbearable. ‘•HEART FOR IT; BUT STOMACH AGAINST IT.” Many Republicans will vote for the amendment for reasons herein set forth. Others will not, They are *in favor of the law. hut an* opposed to the hill.” If it had been made differ ent; if it included all the negroes in the United States, if it were this way or that way, they would vote for it. In Issl Gov. Vance humorously indi cated the situation of such people when he told the committee that wait i*d on him in regard to the prohibi tion of the liquor traffic. Unit his “heart was for it. hut Ids stomach was against it:” so with these Republicans, their hearts art* for it, hut their stom achs are against it. Like the /log ve*» turns to his vomit and the sow to her wallow, so they fain would keep the stench of negro suffrage in Southern polities, because they do not hope for promotion from white men. The lead ers know full well that if their party should have an accession of respecta ble white men. they would soon he "statesmen without, their jobs.” LOSS OF POLL TAX BY THE AM ION DM ENT. Both Senator Pritchard and Senator Butler, as well as as chairman Holton seem to think that, there would be great loss of revenue from the failure of the disfranchised negroes to pay their poll tax. Let it he said that we lose this poll tax already. In one ol* the 'nrgest counties in the Stati* in 185 H) fully .’OO negroes failed to pay poll tax This was nearly half of those subject to that tax’. In that county that year all the poll-tax went, tu the schools. Net while the negroes paid only t-isih of the tax they got t-3d of flu* school money; yet half of 1ln»m dodged paving their pittance. These are the voters who will he retired by the amendment. Most of the jxdl lax delinquents in tin* State are negroes. Under the last election law they came up to the polls from the ends of the earth and tendered their votes, yet were listed for taxation nowhere. The better class of colored men will con tinue to pay their poll tax because they have acquired some property and intelligence, and they will generally vote. \s to the white poll tax. why tlu* w hite men will vote if lie cares to. All those over thirteen now will vote whether they can read and write or not. and it will hi* a great incentive to the 13 year old hoy to learn to rend and write if In* would vote, Bcsiih . ( Continued on Hwoml Fare.!