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 Title:  The Louisiana Amendment the Same as Ours!  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: The pending amendment in this State is a copy of the Suffrage Amendment in Louisiana except the property clause. The Constitutional Convention of Louisiana adopted the amendment in 1898. It went into effect soon after. There has been the fullest possible opportunity to study the question in all its detail. The city elections last year were held under the provisions of the new constitution. This year the State election was held under it. No word of complaint has been heard. No white man has stated that his right to vote was denied. No test has been made of the question in the courts. So we take it that the working of the amendment in Louisiana will be its working in this State. It has stood a practical test there. In order that the people of the State might have the fullest information on this subject, Hon. Josephus Daniels, editor of the News and Observer, has been to the State of Louisiana and made a study of the question in all its bearings. He was specially active in seeking information as to whether white people are disfranchised. His letters from the South are interesting reading. He interviewed men of every shade of political opinion. He did not confine his investigation to the towns. The County Parishes—our townships-were visited and people themselves sounded on the subject. Attention is invited to some of the leading points taken from his articles. In the light of experience the people of Louisiana declare unanimously that their amendment was the only possible solution of the suffrage question, and the amendment is regarded as an entirely satisfactory solution of it.
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