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Show , SAM JOXtS 1 ItWS. The Sensational Preacher iwd to (lie Federal Miction Kill. Washington, July . Uev. Sam Jones, tho Georgia evangelist, is on-losed on-losed to the federal i-l.-ctioti liill. lie was in lite cilv last niijht on his w:iv from Xorfolk'to Wheeling, w here he is billed to address a campineoting. This is what ho said to a reporter of the, Washington Tost: "I talk to between 2.000,000 and 3.0tN).(HHi people a year, and liae done so for three j ears. My engagements aiv lixod for n year ahead. Then! is a deal of w ickeilness iu this world. The politicians poli-ticians are eorruplit.g the country faster 1 lian the preachers can make it pood. Politics, municipal and national. are corrupt. cor-rupt. These folks linn w ho think Ihev can do anything with a Federal dec-, dec-, tion bill, are mistaken. 'A free ballot and a fair count' in the south means negro douoinination. and the south won't have it. The election law w ill be a dead letter like t ho fifteenth amendment. amend-ment. It would tako half million soldiers to enforce it; a reir'uut'iit iu 'ery county. A negro is killed in '.!( south once in a w hile killed with lead. l'j in Indiana they kill whin voters with silver. V ou buy voters up north with money. In the south one pets killed oiicn in awhile. It is cheaper, but UK) are purchaeil iu the north w here one i.s killed in the south, anil the juirt-liiisimj of votes is as dangerous to the republic as the killing of voters." . |