Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-10-27
roraker.s Crusade.

Foraker's Crusade.
Judge FORAKER spoke in Virginia
last wear. lie knew, therefore, when
he began his canvass this year for Gov
amor of Ohio that the right of speech
was Just as free in Virginia as in Ohio
and the fact that he is now in this State
addressing both negroes and white men
is full proof that he knew that he was
falsiying the record when he said at
Portsmouth, Ohio, on the 3lst OF Au-
gust last what here follows;
"But these colored Republicans were
not allowed so TO vote. On the con-
trayy. by fraud, by violence, by MUIR
: der. by assassination, by bull-whips
and shot-guns, white leaguers and ku-
klux clans, by agencSe Of the most
upscrupulous and diabolical character,
by horrible barbarities such as were
practieed at Conshatta and Hamburg,
in the murder Of the Chishol,ns, in the
massacre n Danville, and in the assas-
sinstion of Print Matthews in
Copiah county, Mississippi, q sys-
tenn of terror was inaugurated
and practiced for the last ten
years preceding the election, by reason
OF which at the last election the colorcd
Republicans Of the South were wholly
deprived Of all practical benefit of their
right Of suffrage, and the forty votes
which ought to have represented them
and have been cast in the electoral col
lege as Republican votes were wrested
from them, not only in violation of their
right, but in violation of the right Of
every voter in the United States, and
cast rs Democratic votes, whereby to
elect Democratic President and install
q Democratic Administration" q
People of Virginia, note that you
are included amongst the criminals
who, "by fraud, by violence, by muir
der, by assassination" have kept the
South solid. "The massacre at Dan
vile " are the words which this SIAN
derer of our people employs to describe
the famous Danyille riot. Read the
paragraph We have quoted. and you
will see that Virginia is not excepted
from his denunciatioHs. 1t is "the
colored Republicans Of The South," in
GLIDING, Of course, this State, who are
spoken Of as having been cheated, muir
deted, and assassinated.
Mr.. FoRAKER's real character is
perhaps better manifested in the fol-
lowing declaration made in the same
Portsmouth speech. He said
"The Republican party would not
believe it possible that the white people
of the South, after having been treated
with such magnanimity and generosity,
would seek to interfere with the exer-
else of the rights that had been accord
cd to the colored people Of the South,
under such circumstances in common
with them. They therefore not only
gave them in common this right to vote,
but gave them also, as the result Of 1t,
an increased representation in the Con-
gress and the electoral college,"
The uniformed Buckeyes understood
FORAKER to say in that language that
the Republican party had not only
given to the whites and blacks "in
common" the right to vote, but had
also given them an increased repre-
sentation in Congress and the electoral
college. But the fact is that the thir-
teenth amendment, which could not
have become . part Of the Federal
Constitution if it had not been ratified
by some at least Of the southern States,
gave to the southern States the increased
representation spoken of. The South
had acquired the right to that increased
representation long before the negroes
were made voters. They were made
voters in 1870 by the ratification Of the
fifteenth amendment. The South was
made entitled to thirty-fve or more ad-
ditional congressman several years be-
fore. The Constitution, as it came
from the hands Of its trainers, provided
that the basis Of representation in Con-
gress should include " the whole mum.
Der Of free persons. The moment the
thirteenth amendment set the negro
free that moment the South became en-
titled to ;hirty-odd additional congress
men.
Wonder il Judge FORAKER viii
undertake to palm of that sort o
talk upon virginians IS IN INSTRUCTIVE
speechr What must be the wicked
ness aud malice of . man who Cal
thus, by setting . trap Of words, at
tempt to inveigls into the Republics
party his unsuspecting neighborss W.
cannot imagine that be will vsntur
to address such arguments 10 Viz
sinia audience.
virginians, stand firm. Resist tn
shock Of battle. 1t win soon DO over
Then you viii stand redeemed, rsgsn
Grated. and disenthralled. Then 20,
viii have shown that the waivers Of tn
bloody shirt can find no encourss yemen
In Virginia. Then you viii have strucl
one moro telling blow for putting dow,
al sectional strife and bitterness.
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