The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-09-14
HOW THEY VOTED.
The Virginia Negroes POlled "GOff and
Protection" Ballots.


The position occupied by the Re
publican members of the committee,
as the facts shown above developed,
has grown less and less tenable The
proofs of fraud have been so over
whelming that even they have been
compelled to admit their force. On
one point, however, they have laid
great stress, and that is the ques-
tion Of the political complexion
of the voter. They have not had the
courage even to pretend in the com
mittee whatever they may give out
for irresponsible party organs TO
publish that many of these colored
voters were legal. They have been
compelled to confess their fraudu-
lency. and what have they done then
for, let no one think that the emf
nent Republican statesmen who rep
resent Gen. Golf on the committee
would so far forget their duty to
their lord and master, as to vote to
throw out a Republican ballot. They
have taken the high ground that
there wasn't proof that these color
ed voters were Republicans, or, in
fact, were anything, and therefore
no vote should be deducted from
either candidate Mr.. little Bat
Tit Mouse Morris, as he has been
appropriately dubbed, underwent all
the pain of labor, in an article pre-
pared for the Wheeling Intelligencer,
in order to show that the political
complexion of these votes was not
sufficiently established. Shades OF
the dead but not departed Mr., Golf!
What sight! The representatives
Of the God and morality party grave
ly admitting that some five hundred
illegal votes were cart by negroes
imported by Republican politicians
in Mercer county; but declaring that
the political complexion of their
votes was not sufficiently establish
ed to justify them in taking any step
to correct the fraud.
DRIVEN TO COVER.
This is the last hole into which
the men who started out proclaiming
that there was no fraud have been
been driven. Wherever we hear OF
a race war in the South there is nc
doubt then that every negro shot is
Republican. Wherever the negro
population exceeds the white there
is no doubt that every negro is a
Republican, and if the election re-
turns don't show it, there has been
grave outrage. But when it appears
that about five hundred negroes have
voted fraudulently it Immediately
becomes grave question what their
politics is and no action ought to
be taken in the matter. This is Mr.
Tittle-Bat Tit Mouse Morris posi-.
ton Would Gen. Golf, who claims
he wants nothing that is not due him
take an office gained by such con
tention as that?
| 1t is q maxim of the Hon. VIM
Malone that theVirginia negro wears
his political complexion on his face
How about the five hundred negroes
who voted in Mercer county last fall,
But there is complete proof of the
political utilization of every mar
whose vote was disallowcd by the
committee When the committee be
gan its labors it was agreed, with
the consent of General Goff's attor
neys and the minority of the com
mittee, that when voter was proven
to be Democrat or Republican
it would be assumed that he voted
for the candidate of his party. 81
in the Mercer county cases it has
only been necessary to prove the Re
publicanism of the negro voters, an6
that has been done in each Of thu
135 cases in which votes were thrown
out.
PROOF OF POLITICS COMPLETE.
There was general proof for al
cases, besides the special proof il
each case. The members of thu
Mercer county Republican Execu
tive Com mittee swore that there wa!
only one Democratic negro in tn,
county. He was an old man named
Pleas Robinson. They further swor'
that they listed all the other negroes
in the county as Republicans, ant
they were part of the Republican or
ganization. This is good Republi
can proof, and yet Mr.. Title Bat Tit
Mouse Morris is not convinced thai
these fraudulent votes were cast fal
Goff, and shed tears Of bitter sadness
because they were taken from him