Certainly there is greater danger that Congress. yielding to the exigencies of some political demand. may exercise in the future the power sought to be conferred upon it and take charge of elections than there is that such power will ever be needed in order to insure the election of Senators. While this substitute must be obnoxious to every Democrat In the form in which it is offered. owing to the unfortunate conditions of the Southern States. it is necessarily more fraught with danger to them. While it may be true that immigration to some of the Southern States has reduced the gravity of the negro problem. yet it can not be true that this change has made Senators from those States deaf to the appeals of their brethren from less fortunate States. and it is only by a Democratic vote that this substitute can be adopted. Even admitting that the substitute is needed to make the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments more effective. does that furnish a reason for Democrats voting for the substitute? These amendments we have accepted. and under them have wrought out constitutions which have been stamped with the approval of the highest court in the land.
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