| Show TO TEST DISFRANCHISEMENT Tho Initial step has been taken In a movement to bring before the United Slate Supreme court the question df tho legality of the measures adopted In I some of the Southern States for the political dlsfrartchJaement of the negro clllcii8 According to the account published pub-lished a case will b made In a Massachusetts Massa-chusetts court and carried up to the Supreme court 6f that State preliminary I prelimi-nary to Its being taken to tho Supreme court of the United States There can hardly be a doubt as to the Intention of the constitutional amendment amend-ment In North Carolina and the legal enactments In other States The purpose was to practically nullify In those States the fifteenth amendment of the United States Constitution Whether they technically violate that amendment amend-ment is another matter The claim of the authors of those lenSes has been that they do not conflict with the letter let-ter of the Constitution while avowedly itu Furthermore the defying 1 spirit they j claim that such a course Is absolutely necessary to the welfare of the States In which It has been adopted The Constitution Is being stretched In so many ways if not actually broken through In these days that It is best there should be an authoritative Judgment Judg-ment as to its binding effect In the cases now In doubt that respect for It may bo strengthened With State Legislatures and constitutional tutional conventions straining the constitutional con-stitutional limitations to the utmost 1 In one dlreclon and Congress and thin Administration assuming the right to I overstep Its limits in another It is high I time the supreme authoilty In determining deter-mining Its meaning aril defining the boundaries pf Its absolute boundarlef Js supremacy should put an end to misconception and evasions by a series of clearcut decisions deci-sions Cleveland Plain Dealer |
