provisions known colloquially as “Jim Crow legislation” which was designed to take away suffrage from African-Americans and of Republicans, who tended to be relatively illiterate. The two tools placed into the Constitution that were used to accomplish this end were the poll tax, and the literacy test.   

           This Constitution created the State Corporation Commission, and Stuart became one of its commissioners. Using this position Stuart began to attack the railroads, particularly freight rates and tax issues, in favor of the farming class.