In North Carolina,
whose election will occur on August 2, there will be elected a Governor and
other State House officers and the people will vote on the amendment passed by
the legislature and designed to virtually eliminate the black race from State
politics. In the proposed amendment there are qualifications which will
disfranchise a large majority of the blacks, and a "grandfather
clause" which will except the whites from the operation of the law. It is
practically a copy of the Louisiana elective franchise law, the
constitutionality of which has been questioned. In the last election Fusionists
carried the State by a plurality of 17,937, in a total vote of 339,990.
North Carolina is
once more a white man's State, and the work of its second redemption will be
completed next August.
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