The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-08-13
Taking Back a hlander and Making an
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There has been negro camp meeting 90
Ing on in this Htste, and lot OF people who
thrive on "suspicion" jumped to The conclu.
hion that the terrible Republicans were
.'colonizpg' the Rtate. Haven't thess timid
souls discovered that the States which have
the largest negro population invariably Riye
the laisrst Democratic me- orities.-Regisler,
Au9u,. II. -5 .r
The conclusion was Bumped 10" in the
Register Of Saturday lsst, in an exclusive
from Berkeley Syringe, snd very circum.
s!antial kind OF Exclusive" and conclu.
s,on it was. This is what it sold:
There il Just and widespread indignation
In this county over the revelations Il the
past twenly.iour houra. For several days an
unusual number OF negroes have been COM
ing from the East on tie Baltimore & Ohio
road, stopping, 1t is a.certaineo, at various
email stations In West Virginia. Little OF
no heed WAS given this until esterdny, when
two car loads Of the E.hiopians, said to be
from Washington, passed blr John'a Run in
charge ofCououctor Cook, on board the Chi.
csgo express, bound for West Virginia sta
tons. An investigation followed, and the
startling discovery that THESE negroes were
the advance guard Ct Numerals TO be i'm
ported into this Stale by the Republicans
was made. It is believed that already three
bundled Of these imported voters are In the
Btals and hundreds more nre to follow. 1t
10 by such foul means Is these that an attempt
will be made to wrest the Little Mountain
State from the Democratic column. Demo
cratic Central Committees should be on the
watch out to prevent these Wholesale frauds.
The Register Jumped to" its conclusion
in big black type headlines to this effect j:
"'AsslsrKD' VorERs. IMPORTING CoIoRED
MEN 1NTo THE STATE. The RADICAL Con.
RUpTloN PLAN. Two Can LOADS CT NEGROES,
THE ADVANCE GUARD OF THE REPUBLICAN
HIELERs, ARRIVE IN WEST VIRGINIA.
Who made the investigation" and the
startling diecovery"? and who furnished
the Register with its remarkable exclusive"
which it now admits is without any iounda-
ton. sat
II the Republicans are trying to cary
West Virginia by "tte foul means" ct q
colored camp meeting it is right to say 20,
but the public mind ought not to be ruth
leesly torn up at time when grave -ques-
lions Of public policy are to be considered
and decided.
It is ecandalouely true that "the States
which have the largest negro population
invariably give the largest Democratic ma.
jorities;;" but that is point which the Re.
publicsns have been pressing, and the
Democrats call it waving the bloody
ehirt." II it were not for the Democratic
msjorities in States (which have the larg-
est negro population" the Democratic par
ty would hardly think it worth while 10
put Presidential ticket in the field. It is
not pretended that the Southern negroes
are Democrats; but it is fact that they
swell the electoral vote Of the States re.
ferred to, that they have practical
ly no voice in the 4. selection
Of presidential electors, and that the Dem.
ocratic party profits by the existence Of
body Of citizens whom it has distranchised.
That party has never elected a President
in that way, because 1t has been steadily
kept down by the votes Of States in viii. b
the suffrage is not sham and fraud.
We are much indebted to the Register
for calling attention to the most disgrace.
full and dangerous practice in American
nolftica. 80 ~. s.J ~ sT>s'