Show I The Chicago I Chronicle Is J a very bitter Democratic sheet but it Insists that there should bo n reduction In Southern Congressmen to correspond with the decrease In votes through the disfranchlsement of the negroes It says The representation of those Slates Is based upon the suppressed as well as upon the unsuppressed vote i It is I a full representation ot the citizenship citi-zenship one lm1C of which is i silenced I There can be no doubt that a recognition recogni-tion by the National Govornrnent of the situation In those States and a reduction reduc-tion of the reprepcntatlon would be a I desirable thing for the whiles for the I I blacks and for the country at large L We do not care so much about the J Congressmen as we do about the electoral elec-toral votes because It la f easy to see that If some time a President should I e be ostensibly elected by the votes of 1 States that would only represent per 1 haps but onefourth or onellfth oC the voters of the United States the result would be something most serious r That result was dreaded nIl through I the late campaign One very prominent I promi-nent citizen of the State of Kentucky I Bhue the election made this remark I tremble to think what would have happened had the election of President dtiMnded on the Vole of the State of Kintucky1 |