Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-10-08


the will of the white people of West Vir-
ginia
That is the plan i'm "a nutshell aud it
is an iufamy that is not surpassed In
the calendar Of political villaiuy.
And GEORGE W. ATKINSON openly ad
yocates as a good thing for the state
this hcrdiug in upon us of a degraded
and fearfuny ignorant population who
will not only reverse the will of the white
people Of the State at the polls and turn
our government over TO the un>crupu-
lous managers of the minority party.
but will bring into competition with the
white laborcrs who are now developing
our mines and building our railroads
q class of the cheapest and most de-
graded labor in the land. The Chinese
themselves could hardly be worse neigh
bors % American workiugmeu than
these ignorant negroes from the 'black
belt" OF the south, which QUAY's South
Carolina agent LINDSEY. proposes to
ship here by the thousand.
Here is Mr. ArKINsoN'> Interview in
the h,tcUgcpccr. Mr.. ATKINSON is cor
nercd, and unlike the head of the colo
nization scheme, QUAY, he makes the
mistake of trying to explain 10 away:
An HteUiJencsr representative yesterday
called on Hon c. W. Atkinson, az his Of
flee on Chapline street, i'm regard 20 the
New York World alleged expose of Chair
man Quav's scheme. as 10 calls 10 ITO colo
nize West Virginia with true-olue ne
grocs The REGISTER Of this city repro
duced the article and commented on 10 IN
characteristic way Mr.. Atkinson said
that he had only glanced over the article In
a hurried manner. but had seen enough of
it TO see what the REGISTER was driving at.
he admitted that he had been in cousulta-
ticn with different parties at different
times in regard TO encouraging good meu,
especially coal miners, 20 come 10 West
Virginia and assist iu developing our Won
derful mineral resources. He was sur
prised that the REGISTER should put up
howl over that kind of work on the part OF
any entcrprising citizen. and characterize
10 a, "a scheme 90 "d,fc1t tC irW oft mo poo
ne in fls elections" How 90 can be said
that 20 encourage reliable workiugmeu 20
come 10 West Virginia. tiru ufdrs bffOrc Ou
election. is iOb 40 defeat the Will OF the
people in the elections is startling piece
of information 10 any one who has a thim-
bleful of brains
That is the way Mr.. ATKINSON begins
an explanation Of his share in the pro-
posed piece of political rascality, which .
veriGcs the charges made, and renders
further proof unnecessary. OF course .
QUAY and ATKINSON and the others
engineering this scheme desire that
these degraded Southern negroes shall .
become permanent citizens" and .
legal voters.
That is the point.
They propose that these undesirable .
citizens shall come here 90 stoU and .
vote the Republican ticket bliud.y, that
these practical barbarians shall live /
side by side with us, and uSurp the
places of intelligent white workiugmen
Of West Virginia.
BY this plan of making them perma-
nent voters OF West Virginia, the Re
publican managers are enabled 20 steal
The suite from me ,chuc people and pet
remain ,rid,ip the palc Of ne ld'r which |
is a novelty for them.
Mr.. ATKINSON continues:
81 have nothing TO conceal in inducing a
good class of citizens TO come 20 our state.
Heaven save the mark. What kind of
good class Of citizens" are those which
can be transported in carload lots? He
goes ON:
.IfI could spare the time, would induce
several thousand straightforward working
men no come among us within the next
twelve months. 10 aid in digging the duSSy
diamonds from the bowels OF our state
that would. i'm a "A very few wears, make
West Virginia the leading mining state nm
the Union When an emigrant agent ass
me 10 assist him in finding homes anu EN-
plOvmeut for the class of men referred To-
within the limits of West Virginia, most
certainly will DO So 20 the very best OF my
ability: and when the REGISTER states
that am. when do, engaged M Scheile
% run iu a lot OF illegal voters Tor the pur-
nose of voting them illegally, 10 states what
Ii knows 90 be false maliciously false
This will not work. Mr.. ATKINSON.
The REGISTER is charging you with an
intention 90 do nothing which You do
not acknowledge ia your interview.
These imported blacks will be legal
voters Of West Virginia when the cleo
ton of iSos comes around. Ii would
be better for the material prosperity of
West Virginia and its white working pop
ulatiou if this legal prccautiou were not /
taken. if QUAY would run his black .
voters into the state the the day before
election aud take them out the day az /
ter.
But Mr.. ATKINSON persists Suspi- .
cionsly I'm hammeriug on this point. add .
ing;
representative smith, Senator Quay
myself and others, when We were consider .
ING the proposition made 20 us 70 hnl MONIES
for eolored people from North Care Ina and
he Southern States distinctly announced
and repeat il here that we would not con
slider aiY proposition that did not mp.V pr
mansuf citizenship on the part OF att "N"
ircrc o. come. anu III dltcI l-0l .e-u~ ~ti7
ms and become legal citizens, thev should
hose M vote the Republican ticket, we
certainly would not object
From this. we take It, that there
,ras proposition advanced at this con-
sultation with QUAY and his coloniz'ns
agent that did not "imply permanent
citizenship" etc.
Does not this slip Of Mr.. ATKINSON
Of itself alone make the rascality OF this
scheme sufficiently clear? Much QUAY
cares about the prosperity of West Nir-
ginia which Mr.. ATKINSON claims to
have at heart. And strange that Mr..