The total negro population is 8,294,274, and white women outnumber both negro males and females by nearly half a million.  In two states only, South Carolina and Mississippi, are there more negro than white women, and in these states there are more negro men than white men.  In South Carolina, voters must read, own and pay taxes on $300 worth of property.  In Mississippi, voters must read the Constitution.  The other four states of the “black belt”—­Georgia, Florida, Alabama and Louisiana—­impose an educational test.  Women voters would be compelled to submit to the same qualifications.  In the other nine states white women exceed the total negro population.  Woman suffrage in the South would so vastly increase the white vote that it would guarantee white supremacy if it otherwise stood in danger of overthrow.  If a sly dread of female supremacy is troubling the doubter he may find comfort in the rather astonishing fact that white males over 21 are considerably in excess of white females over 21 in all except Maryland and North Carolina; negro females over 21 exceed negro males in Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia, but the restrictions in these states of property ownership represented by tax receipts, education and various other tests, would fall more heavily upon women than men, and thus admit fewer women than men to the vote.  If the South really wants White Supremacy, it will urge the enfranchisement of women.  The following table offers insuperable proof: 

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|               |Per Cent. of|        white      |      negroes
|               | Negroes in | 21 Years and Over | 21 Years and Over
|    states     | Population |                   |
|               |  All Ages  |   Male  |  Female |   Male  |  Female
+---------------+------------+---------+---------+---------+

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|Delaware ......|     15.4   |  52,804 |  50,160 |   9,050 |   8,281
|Maryland ......|     17.9   | 303,561 | 309,897 |  63,963 |  63,899
|Dist.  Columbia.|     28.5   |  75,765 |  81,622 |  27,621 |  34,449
|Virginia ......|     32.6   | 363,659 | 353,516 | 159,593 | 164,844
|North Carolina.|     31.6   | 357,611 | 358,583 | 146,752 | 159,236
|South Carolina |     55.2   | 165,769 | 162,623 | 169,155 | 181,264
|Georgia .......|     45.1   | 353,569 | 343,187 | 266,814 | 269,937
|Florida .......|     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
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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: