s of voting age less than 6 per cent. The returns in these
counties are found in the following table:

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| Per Cent. | | For | Against | |
| Illiteracy | County | Suffrage | Suffrage | |
| Voting Age | | Amendment| Amendment| |
| Males | | | | |
|------------+--------+----------+----------+-------------------|
| 5.5 | Brooke | 1,041 | 907 | Carried |
| 5.8 | Morgan | 443 | 1,098 | 2-1/2 to 1 against|
| 4.7 | Ohio | 4,513 | 6,014 | 1-1/3 to 1 against|
| 5.3 | Wood | 3,260 | 3,960 | 1-1/4 to 1 against|
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The returns from the five counties having the highest per cent. of
illiteracy are as follows:

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| Per Cent | | For | Against | |
| Illiteracy | County | Suffrage | Suffrage | |
| Voting Age | | Amendment| Amendment| |
| Males | | | | |
|------------+--------+----------+----------+------------------|
| 26.2 |Lincoln | 466 | 3,213 |7 to 1 against |
| 26.4 |Boone | 678 | 1,828 |3 lacking 6 votes |
| | | | | to 1 against |
| 27.7 |Logan | 856 | 2,774 |3-1/4 to 1 against|
| 28.2 |Mingo | 712 | 2,609 |3-2/3 to 1 against|
| 29.7 |McDowell| 1,436 | 4,832 |3-1/3 to 1 against|
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In the first group the negro vote is under 5 per cent. of the whole.
In the second this is also true of Boone and Lincoln counties. The
number of negro males of voting age is nearly 6 per cent. in Logan
county, 11.2 per cent. in Mingo county and 34.1 per cent. in McDowell
county.

It is a matter of interest to observe that the counties giving the
largest majority against were Clay, 6 to 1; Grant, 7 to 1; Hardy,
7-2/3 to 1; Lincoln, 7 to 1; Raleigh, 5 to 1, and that in none of
these is the negro male population of voting age in excess of 5 per
cent. White illiteracy is high, the lowest in this group being that
found in Grant county, 13.3 per cent.

Had there been an honest ele