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...| 41.0 | 124,311 | 105,662 | 89,659 | 72,998 |Kentucky ......| 11.4 | 527,661 | 506,299 | 75,694 | 73,413 |Tennessee .....| 21.7 | 433,431 | 419,646 | 119,142 | 122,707 |Alabama .......| 42.5 | 298,943 | 284,116 | 213,923 | 217,676 |Mississippi ...| 56.2 | 192,741 | 180,787 | 233,701 | 231,901 |Arkansas ......| 28.1 | 284,301 | 248,964 | 111,365 | 102,917 |Louisiana .....| 43.1 | 240,001 | 222,473 | 174,211 | 172,711 |Texas .........| 17.7 | 835,962 | 722,063 | 166,393 | 161,959 |Missouri ......| 4.8 | 919,480 | 874,997 | 52,921 | 48,057 |Oklahoma ......| 8.3 | 393,377 | 311,266 | 36,841 | 30,208 |West Virginia .| 5.3 | 315,498 | 270,298 | 22,757 | 14,667 ==================================================================== Speaking of the probable enforcement of the National Constitution against the "Grandfather clause" in Southern constitutions, Walter E. Clark, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, said: "In North Carolina such a decision would readmit to the polls 125,000 negro votes. What preparation have we made to meet such a possible result? I know of but one remedy. The census shows that the white population of North Carolina is seventy per cent. and the colored population thirty per cent. It follows that the white adult women of North Carolina are more in numbers than the negro men and negro women combined. _The votes of 260,000 white women can be relied on to stand solid against any measure or any man who proposes to question Anglo-Saxon supremacy._ "I am not intimating that the admission of the white women to the polls will secure democratic supremacy (they will not impair it), nor that it will prejudice the republican element. The equal suffrage movement has never proceeded on party lines and the women would scorn to be admitted unless they were as free in their choice of party measures and candidates as the men. But what I am saying is that if the negroes are readmitted by a decision of the Federal Court to suffrage, the 260,000 votes of the white women of the State will be one solid obstacle to any measure that would impair either for them or their children the continuance of white supremacy." III. WOMEN DO NOT WANT TO VOTE AND HENCE IT IS UNFAIR TO THRUST THE VOTE UPON THEM BY FEDERAL AMENDMENT. We have two classes of voters in the United States, young men who automatically become voters at twenty
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