Special favorite of the law comment in the validation of the public accommodations provision reaches less far than has been conventionally imagined. Bradley is preserving the availability of the statement concept. He is preserving it in a context where the republican administrations are making headway and are using Voting Rights theory that he has already provided. He is saying, in this context where you are already using 16th amendment exemption in federal amendment law, im keeping the state neglect law available. He is the one that first made it available in 1874. It was the klan lawyers that attacked his theory before the court in 1876. This was his first chance since then to be articulated and re articulate it he does. Its vital to see that. Newspapers see this. Newspaper coverage sees this concept of the state neglect in civil rights cases. Again, i give you an excerpt from the chicago tribune. Lots of coverage of the Supreme Court cases in the reconstruction era. The tribune the