| Show DISFRANCHISE THE NEGROES Avowed Purpose of South Carolina Democrats Suffrage Clause of tho Nev Constitution Consti-tution Requires Educational rnd Property Qualifications Which Will Exclude a Majority of the Negroes Massachusetts Democrats Will Hold a Convention Today h h the h I z New York Oct IA special to thoj YorlLl fiom Columbia S Coo says Fives I Ol Caw tIe six negro delegates to the South wiiiniiNL11 Constitutional convention to disfranchise the iiiipicH Norm imOroPoses tnrou 1t Jol ed 111 all address to the > v the iVorIi The ad 0 dress says amoT < y V l other things Time fiovotitii f v con vell tlon called 111 SouthJlIstHutiOllal M ° < j Carolina Is III sea slon It has been cot wlUalled for the inmr pose ot dealing wlt lem Those who haU tile neglu proJ > advocated Its assemblage have bceite ad1Voatcl1 I explicit In their declaration of the puilX6 compllshed tho disfranchises10 i ° e ac imt or the and the elimination negro entirely not from a partlclpat ot kiln 1 f IOII III elections for he line not since 86 hall any show at nil In any of the i held In the State but In view n flections unltln fl or the possibility of the negro the conservative Democratic iJt > with and thus ousting from the lila 1g factloll now In control of tho govemnimmit co those cnl The chief obstacle In the way of e the accom pllshlng what Is desired la I 11th and Fodc > 15th amendments of the stitutlon This difficulty IJ Mrai ton there will be plain sailing I removed Tho Hon Ben II TlllmanJ the head and front of the irtlf who Is has not been at all politic or 0ovemmment cal as to his Intentions He poerltl that his object Is to dlsfrarC hus said chlse as many negroes as he can wi J thout dls white franchising a single m pout for crime I an except QUALIFICATIONS OF mG Columbia S C Oct l U ECTORS of the suffrage committee oil he report stltutlonal convention was1 the Con waie made tonight It proc at last the registration of qua f Ides for ten The qualincatlons Ilillfied vo given In the following scctA electors garded as practically dlsquilJln 1 re majority of the negroes on eon l1cr0ti1e the educational and IJIopelcnln ot mcnls ro The person applying f < JfW for 1J tre lion must bo able to real Ka any apclion In this Oins lte must show that he V ou nolce or taxes on J300 worth ollnca looklll In ys Stalp provided that at iniiYs atffe of III 110111 iranonunderlhls ConstP to January 1 1S98 all i10 IS It itepub voting ago who can nbcr like him thpConstitution fir 10 IIC trail nTim C explain it when read t wwlntiuttun rHrTrBluW V register ant1 buccmpcl utorll separate sepa-rate record of very fatp person thus reglstpied Ct by the rcglll Irallon officer bnl b4 flied one copy t and one in the with HIP Clerk t ui office of the u tarj of State on or before Jnnu 1 189J and such per dur11 g his lifetime a son shall ret > m dunl quallllpd elf I UIII iSf c ° nvcted of some dIRquah lug ciVov The cerII cate of the Clerk of r I Court or the Secretary of State I J ui lJe sutllclenl evidence to cstabllstJO 10 right of said class of citIt j 11ster and exercise exer-cise thOl e Lond T d 1 Times and the Chronl e tKf morn ig give leading places In their forelg columns to eye clal telegrams rega piimg the South Carolina CohallluliC1111 convention The Chronlclertln a leUer on this subject sub-ject says y A very serious p Jilem has suddenly sud-denly leaped to the fil1 In the troubled trou-bled politics of the Uied Slates The negro question may fmpielely overshadow over-shadow time currencf and the tariff Issues In the Pre entlal election fight 1 |
