The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1870-08-11


other States? Why not creep out Of your
shell, gentlemen and sec how tho great big
world around you has been moving forward
Why will your Grand old Democratic
party" stand grinDing defiance through It's
skeleton teeth against manifest destihy?---
All your fulminations against the 18th
Amendment viii amount TO Just aboutas
much as tho Popc's bull against tie comet.
Tho trouble is. tho negroes wont vote the
Democratic ticket. That's where it hurts.
Next comes the Sumner Social Equality
bill !" as the Democratic speakers call it.
This is the joke in the speech, as tits oftho
platform. That bill never proposed $50
cial" equality and these men know they do
not state tho truth when they say so; il
received il 1 remember right, but three
votes in that body yet these gentlemen talk
about holding tho Republican party re-
sponsiblc for something which not ouly has
no existence but tho proposal Of which was
rejected by that party. What prcpos.
ferrous argument, to accuse any party Of
producing social equality by legislation
Could any law, even if passed, mako Dir,
Jacob The social equal Of one Of the MUIR
dcros midnight kn Klux who vote the
Democratic ticket, and whose highest am
bi!ion isto guszIc bad whisky and "whollop
a niggcrp Eat this is about tho last
chance the Democracy will have to make
capital 0utof negro equality; after the fall
elections the negro question will BIO dead
aud so will tho Democratic party.
have nut forthesc Democratic friends
to crack on this negro suffrage question
when they fro tho next gun. Let US have
no wriggliug or dodging. Yea profess to
represent your party. Now will you go
back on them on this question ofnegro suf-
fragc? fl remember right you had some
twenty-fuur or more straight Democrats in
the last House Of Delegates. Upon tho
passage ofthe Act amending the charter Of
the Martinsburg md Potomac Rail Road
Company ut the last session of the Legis-
lature, all these Democrats except o mere
handful voted for the net.
The last section Of this law provides that
llmale persons, residing in Berkely coun-
ty, whether white or 6L,cE, except minors,
paupcrs, persons of pnsonpd mind,
or under conviction Of felony shall
be allowed to vote on the question Of
subscription to said road. This was tho
Grst law passed by our Legislature author
izing negro suffrage in this State, and
was carried by the vote Of the Democratic
members ofths Legislature, as the Journal
Of the House will show.
When the Flick Amendment came up
in that body all these Democrats but four
voted for IL, and therefore voted to strike
oat tho word WHIrE out ofour Coustitu-
ton and thus permit the negro to vote be-
foro the Fifteenth Amendment had been
adopted and declared law. They assert
ed their good sense and their manhood in
doing 50. Do you iudurse these votes or
not, Mr.. Jacob? Answer or forever after
hold your peace about negro suffrage and
negro equality. Ifyou answer, yes, you
must swallow your Nfourdeld speech, and
in the same operation lisgorge tho Demo-
cratic platform. II you answer, no, you
must place yourself in direct antagonisn
to the almost unanimously expressed opin-
ion and action Of tue chosen and most git
ted representatives Of your party. Take
which horn Of the dilemma you please, but
you must take ono or tho other. No one
on your ticket (not oven the supple candi-
date for Secretary Of Stato) is sufficiently
dexterious to ride, at the same time two such
spirited nags as the young and old DEM
ocracy have trottcd out on the race course
this season.
THE pIsrnANcutsgD.
Is the Democratic candidate and his