The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-10-16
COLOBED BULLDOZERs.
How Chesterfield County Darkies became
Indignant over bigger Democrats
Daughter.

indignant over "A "Nieser bthotiat
Daughter.
An exhibition Of the zeal Of one
class of our colored population
against another, far surprising The
venom Of Northern fire eaters against
The Southern people in their charges OF
alleged ill.iIeatment Of the cOl0rtd race,
has recently been shown in Chesterfield
county.
More than month ago the school
trustees OF Midlothian District, in Ches-
terrified cOunty--ss did ali the trustees in
all the dislric' selected the regular
school teachers, white teachers for white
schools and colOred teachers for cOlored
schools.
Among the teachers elected for the
cOl0rcd schools was n cOlored girl by the
name of Watkins She was bright. in
,eliigent. educated and OF good cnarac.
ter She went around among the col.
Ored people who lived in the district
where her school was situated and OBJ.
tanned from them signatures 20 apeiitiCn
TO the Board e School Trustees asking
her appointment.
The signatures were freely given, and
the Board recognizing the col0red peo-
pies wish gave her the school
But wonder came 10 light. Just as
the school tenn began it was discovered
that Watkins, the father OF this cOlOred
teacher, had voted the Democratic ticket
Indignation among the colOred people
! knew no bounds. NO cOlOTed children
shall 90 to school TO Democratic mig
gers daughter" said leader rampant.
Several mass meetings were held. and
the ignorant darkies bounded on by
mean leaders, asked the school trustees
20 remove the in0iIensive competent
teacher
They made two charges against her
First, She IS TOO proud 10 associate
with us colOred people Second, Her
father is Democrat.
4 prominent gentleman, not member
of the Board of School Trustees, said "a
them IF cOlored Democrat can edu-
cate his daughter so that she is compe-
tent teacher and instill instincts in her
mind which raise her above the common
rabble, it would be = good idea for some
more Of you negroes TO become Demo
Gratis"
The trustees refused TO remove the
teacher, and more meetings were held OF
an iniammatory nature, resulting in the
fact that none Of the negroes sent thei;
children TO school The daughter OF q
Democratic negro had at her school only
two scholars.
Not content with this, the house in
which the coloIed teacher boarded was
burned down. There is evidence to show
that it did not catch fire accidentally.
Cornelius Mimms, q yellow negro poll
tician of Chesterfield who occupies the
double salared position of member OF
the Board of Supervisors and teacher Of
one of the public schools, came over
Sunday night and led another mass meet
ing Of al The negro people in the neigh
bOrhood OF the colOred girls school. lie
urged that the charge OF forging the
names oil the men who signed the girls
petition be made to the County Court at
The next term Anything TO get rid Of
her." was his wish, and like sheep the
ignorant darkies followed him in decid-
ing on tacit resolution % that effect
The curious feature OF this persecution
lies in the fact that while the white peO-
pie are wrongfully accused Of placing
the negro at a disadvantage the biierest
enemy a negro has is another negro.