Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-11-13
White Republicans Dropping
ColOred Ones-Sad Effect of the
Tidal Wave.

A meeting of the "White Republicans
of the Twentieth Ward,' as the call read,
was held Monday night at Hartzell;s Hall,
Pennsylvania avenue. Baltimore. There
was good attendance, and, as stated, du-
ring the meeting, the audience embraced
persons from several other wards. The
object Of the meeting seemed to be the
| formation Of a white voters party, as tile
proceedings show, and in the organization
of which colored voters are to be left out
Gin the cool" We make some extracts
from the ''Suns' report:
George M. Smith said there was not a
nan i'll the room but who was satisfied
with the Republican party. They wanted
| u put the patty Oh Il sure footing. The
| object Of the meeting, as he understood it,,
VAS that they, us the white element of the
| twentieth Ward and as God had made
| them, the predominant party-Were going
to make the nominations. Applause. II
that don't suit their cnlored friends, let
then vote with the Democratic party
| What the Republican party loses by their
not voting with them, they would gain in
those who are standing back on account Of
the negroes. There were six hundred and
| seventy registered colured voters in the
| Twentieth ward, yet at the late Council
election the total Republican vote was only
seven hundred and eighty-nine. He had
pleaded and prayed laughter with the ne
| groes to come out and vote, but they would
not come. The object was to establish a
white Republican party. If the colored
| voters-he would not call hem colored Re-
| publicans, for he had seen evidences that
! they we're not such--deSired il, they could
| choose between the white Republican NOM
! lnee aud the Irish Democrats. Applause |
John G. Stitcher said what they proposed
| to do could not be done IN day. He en-
| dorsed what M. Smith had said in regard
to the negro vote. Mr.. So: lleN aaid lie
had sailed under three parties already-the
| Wing, Known 0thing and the Republican
and he was willing to go anywhere except
in the Democratic party. He could not go
there. [Applausel They might not sue
coed at first, but they would in the end
| They had stood defeat with the s'niggers''
IN front, for they always would be i'll the
lead. [Applause.l Had the meeting been
called for Republicans generally, q white
man could scarcely have gotten his nose
inside the door, and he could not have
| ed laying the ''nigger" Oh the shelf Moth
ing but the lock Of the negro vote had de-
| feated Mr.. Freeman, the Republican cali
| publican candidate for Councilman in the
| Twentieth ward
A speaker. whose name was not learned
by the reporter. said ne had fought the
freedom of the ''darkies, 4" and was not III
| favor of their being prescribed because
they We're negroes.
Mr.. Smith replied that they did not want
to prescribe any one: they wished simply
to say that the white men proposed to make
their own nominations.
Some one proposed that the organization
be called the Grant Republican Party,
bat that did not seem to take well, and the
matter Of christening the organization was
referred to the committee above, who ale
TO report a name to be voted on.
Charles I. Allenbaugli. who had just ar
| rived, wanted to know the object of the
meeting, and being Informed by the secre-
tary, wanted to know If a negro came &c
the door would he be admitted He WAS
| answered in the negative by several. lie
said the ''riggers'' had killed the party and
ruined it. At the Congressional election
the negroes had done nothing for Cox
They stood Oh the corners and smiled while
the white men done the work.
Jerome Airey made motion that a CON-
mittee lie appointed to wait on Collector
Boott and demand tat he dismiss the col
ored men i'll the custom house and appoint
| white men III their places.
The president, Mr. CoWan, thought the
time had not yet arrived for such action
as that, and MIR. Airey withdrew his mo.
ton.
Resolutions were finally adopted taking
the control Of nominations into the hands
OF the White members of the Republican
party. -