Show HOW IT WOULD WORK The Governor of North Carolina an nouiices i that the negro problem has been solved In his State His statement state-ment is that this solution has been found in the disfranchisement of the negro and the recognition by both races of the essential supremacy of the white race Very well if both races in North Carolina are agreed on that there ought not to be any dispute of the further proposition that the representation represen-tation of North Carolina ought to be cut down in the lower branch of Congress by the full strength of the negro population for if negioes are not fit to vote in that State they are not fit to be represented especially by an Interest that is not their own but which is in many respects hostile to them North Carolina has in the present i Congress ten Representatives of whom at least three and perhaps four come from the negro enumeration The white population of that State is 12G3G03 the negro 624469 being l practically prac-tically twothirds white and onethird negro Under a fair apportionment therefore based on the Constitutional rule North Carolina Is entitled to no more than seven Representatives and the additional three should be given up they are a fraud upon the States wlmo observe the law In their suffrage and Representative regulations |