The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-10-22


shops, our intelligent and industrious
working men, or compel them to work
at reduced wages, and at the same time
reduce themselves to the level of the
black man of the South. This is the
inducement held out to the working
men of this State by the Republican
leaders, who are willing to Africanize
the State in order that they may be
kept in power.
We ask that the voters of this State
read carefully every line the following
letters of Quay, Atkinson, Smith, Nc
Lean, Edwards, Lindsey and White
head, this self-constituted board of en-
igration for West Virginia, and then
decide for themselves whether they
will be u party to this nefarious scheme
by casting their votes for party head
ed by such leaders. Whether they will
be party to displacing our honest and
industrious workingmen OF this State
by the Negro of the South. Whether
they will be party to bringing among
us a class of citizens who will add
nothing to our financial or social well
fare. Whether they will be party to
bringing amongst us a class of citizens
to be used for political purposes and to
control the elections in this State
against the expressed will of the
people.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3.-The WORLD
Is able to lay before its readers a yery
curious and even startling story of po-
litical intrigue, supported by docu-
mentary evidence that cannot be dis
credited, having for its object the col
onization of negro voters for the pur-
pose of giving a false color to the suf-
frages of three sovereign States-Indi-
ana, Connecticut and West Virginia
so that they might be lodged and
thereafter safely kept in the Republic
can column. The scheme, appropri-
ately enough, has for its chief sponsor
Matthew Stanley Quay, the chairman
of the Republican National Commit
tee, and recognized now as the most
corrupt person in his practices, influ-
ences and suggestions, in the whole
range of American politics.
The man in whose fertile brain the
plan originated, and who has acted as
the recognized agent of the Republic
can National Committee in carrying
out its details. is Daniel Med. Lind
sey, North Carolina Republican, a
party worker familiar through long
and varied experience with colonial
ton methods.
This scheme testifies at once to the
ingenuity of Quay and his agent, and
to the supreme contempt in which
Quay holds the lawful and beneficent
purposes of the institutions of his
country. 1t likewise explains in a
large measure Quay's action in forcing
on his party a postponement of the
Force bill, which to many of his
former associates and party friends,
has been the most ineXplicable of ali
his public performances. To their
minds the measure was one which, be-
cause of its arbitrary and inquisitorial
character, and the tremendous power
and advantage it would give TO the
party, would strike him with great
force and favor. But to their unspeak-
able establishment and chagrin he ac-
tually led in the movement to lay the
bill aside, and thereby deprive the
party of the benefit of the Ubiquitous
measure at the approaching Congress
sional elections. They labored with
him long and earnestly. They even
threatened him. They told him in
| the bluntest fashion that the postpone
ment of the Force bill until the next
session of Congress at his instance,
would not only cost him his place at
the head of the National Committee,
but his whole influence with his party
besides. He refused to yield an inch,
however, and held on in the course he
had taken and sent the Force bill
over, as he had planned to do.
WHY QUAY WAS so SERENE.
1t now appears that Quay's serenity
under the terrible ordeal of party crit
icism and arrangement through which