Morning journal and courier., 1884-02-26
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. COLOR IN POLITICS. The Disturbing Race Issue
 In Virginia. WHAT A CONGRESSMAN KNOWS Of The Political Riot At
 DanViIIe. ALLIES FOR OsMAN DIGNA. The Arabs Rallying To His
 Standard.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

Race Issues I'm enthusiastically Drawn
 By The Virgtnta Bourbons-The Story
 Co0gressman Wise Told Senator Sher-
 mans Committee.
 WASHINGTON Feb. 25.-When the con- mittee investiging the Danville riots met this morning Senator Sherman denied the truth of paragraph that had appeared in the Richmond State to the effect that colored people congregated about the room, but Sherman's orders were stringent not to ad- init any who could not show summons. His instructions were to admit the first crowd, but only in such numbers as could conveniently be accommodated. The first witness was Congressman John S. Wise. He stated the issue of the V1rginian cam paigns, beginning with that of 1881. The true issues were the public debt and the elesmosynary institutions of the State. The Funder party sought to perpetuate the race issue. The Readjusters would have been fools to have sought to keep alive the race issue, depending as they did upon the colored vote in part for suc- cess. He filed the Richmond State of June 18th, 1881, as specimen of the issue the Funders sought to make. He also filed a circular which he picked up in Carroll coun. ty, a county having but sixty-three colored voters against 2,5O0 whites. It set forth that whites who voted for the Readjuster ticket voted for repudiation, mixed schools. etc. He filed speech of ex Senator John- son, of Virginia, delivered in Newborn in 1881. Governor Cameron had said they would carry the war into Africa. Johnson replied he would carry Africa into the war. He filed an editorial from the Norfolk Land mark.
 Senator Vance entered his protest against the further progress of the course of the in- vestigation. MT. Wise was making party speech.
 MT. Lapham said if the papers were to il- lustrate the condition of affairs they were proper.
 MT. Wise said he proposed to show that the whites had brought on the emeute at Danville for political purposes, having de- spaired otherwise to win their contest.
 Continuing, MT. Wise submitted further papers designed to show that the Funders set forth that their opponents were seeking to make the negroes the social equals of the whites. and that the Readjusters in their utterances declared that the only issue was the debt question. Cameron, the Resdjuster candidate for Governor, was elected by a majority of white votes. Governor Cameron in his 4essage repudiated the idea of mixed schools In the next canvass in which Mas sey and witness were opposing candidates at large for Congress- the same effort was made by the Funders to keep alive the race issue.
 Witness referred to the military and po- litical record of his family and the fact that he himself had fought and bled in the late war for the State of Virginia, had been paid 8 tribute and promoted for gallantry before ha oF military and Vef hA had haan abused and maligned there on account of his politics by certain people he had fought shoulder to shoulder with. He stated that the most inflammable part of Virginia was the city of Danville. t'And yet that is 8 Republican city, 7" remarked MT. Vance. ''Yes, sir, replied witness land whenever it is not Republican at the polls I will show you tho mug zles of lots of white mems guns" Referring to the riot at Dangille, witness said that he met MT. Jennings at Danville beIore the election, and that MT. Jennings stated that he was Readjuster at heart, and had his sympa- te open his mouth on the subject and could not speak his sentiments. Witness offered in this testimony advertisements of mer- chants of Danville, showing that many of them dealt especially in shotguns and pistols, and that some of them made fire arms the most prominent part of their trade just prior to the election in last
 
 s'Is sthere not social ostracism among the blacks of Virginia against the blacks who vote the bourbon ticket?" q have heard more of that here than I ever did in the State," replied the witness. Don't you bslieve that the assurances of the whites at DanviIls after the riot that the blacks would not be molested at the polls if tkey wanted to vote were sufficient to warrant them ln voting?" "Well," smilingly replied the witness, q should think it very like the assurances a hawk would offer 8 covey of quail after it had dis patched one of their number and was flying in the air above with the quail dangling in it's talons'' ''Do you think 1t unfair, according to our notion of politics, '' asked MT. Vance, ''that the minority should endeavor to bring out their voters to the polls?'' Witness said he recognized that principle. but the bourbon party of Virginis had never made an appeal otherwise than by denunciation of the whites. The effort was made to band the whites against the blacks with pistols and blades at their breasts. He thought the campaign was not fair, not civilized, not human and unworthy of the nineteenth century.
 J. B. Ranstor, collector of internal revenue, and Messrs. Watkins and Potter (colored were next examined, but nothing important was developed and the hearing was adjourn ed until to naorrow morning.
 The Committee Against the Shipping.
 WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.-By vote of to 8 the House Committee on Shipping to day determined to report adversely the free ship