Show SENATOR CARMACKS PROPOSITION Senator Carmacks proposition to re penl the Fifteenth Amendment to the U S Constltlllon Is timely not that the unendment should be repealed but that the questions growing out of it should he settled Many of the Southern States mve adopted amendments to their State Constitutions which while not avowedly disfranchising nerncc on account of race color or previous condition of servItude do In fact disfranchise them If this can be done lega lIythe U S I Supreme court will speak the final word I on this pointthen the amendment IB of no further I service and might as well be repealed If however those disfranchising disfran-chising Constitutions are pronounced invalid then there will ensue a period 01 turmoil In the South and of possible repression of f the t negro vote which will recall the old brutalities which Senator TlUman so graphically describes when he tells how they shot and coerced the negroes to keep them away from the V polls But In cither case whether the negro vole is repressed by alleged law or by force the man political question rem re-m lns Slull t the Southern4 States be allowed al-lowed to count the negro for Representative Represen-tative purposes while suppressing his vote To allow it is a plain Imposition upon the people I of the Xorth and cannot can-not be expected to stand For the cry basis of popular government Is that time electorate shall be equal with no special spe-cial favors to classes or sections |