Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-02-01

70 VOt5. NOW WDaL aDOUt Tue pOlltlCa VI
these negroes Seventy. three witnesses
had been called on this point, and ali
agreed that over SO per cent. were Repub-
licans.
One man had testified that there were
two Democrats among them, another had
said there
WAS ONLY ONE
nsgto Democrat J. B Kramer, a Rspub-
lican campaign speaker. said: 81 found no
Democratic negroes in my canvass" Mr
Z. : OOre said he was acquainted with the
regr0ss at Simmons Greek, and they were
all Republicans. Mr. B 9th, mine boss
for Jahn Cooper, E q , said the negroes at
Mil Creek were all Republicans, with one
exception. Mt Hathaway said the negroes
who voted a. Perry Bottom were Rspubli-
cans. The managers Of all the miaes
W 70 Republican,
Last csme John Cooper, the greatest r.
publican in Mercer county. He said he
hed made an aotive canvass ard found all
the negcoes Republican. He had hea;d Of
two DemOcra.ic negroes. Mr. Hewitt, the
Mercer couaiy member Of the Republican
State Ceatral Committee, ssid that he I'M
derstood tina.
ALL THE NEGROES
we're Republicans Did any one want bet
ter evidence than shsl2
NegIots were all Republicans.
They associated with Republicans.
They were protected by republicans aud
were voted by Republicans. The proof Of
their politics was complete.
In conclusion, be wished to say that he
could rot understand why all the appeals
which General Goff and hrs pleadeIs have
made had bsen to the Democratic side VI
the house. Why was it assumed that the
40 Republican members Of the assembly
would
VOTE sOLIDLY
for GOff under any Circumstance? Was
il impO sihie hat they should investigate
these questions fcr themselves and arrive
q. an hOaest conclusion? II they did 80
be firmly believed th,J there would bs
more toan one Republican vote to seat
A. B. Fleming
To The Republican members hs could
say that they would not be doing M act
OF frieUdship 60 Gen Cot TO couple his
name with an Cffice secured by ths vote Of
Virginia asgroes His fame should be tco
dear TO them 20 have it 90 dawn in history
with the name and fame Of man who
vas the hensioiaEy % great Outrage
Tie fiisn3s OF Gen. Goff owed il to him
tbA, he should not share the shame OF his
fraudulency, Rutherford B. Hayes
At the conclusion of Senator FiOura0y's
address. Mr p. W. Morris of Richie, the
gentleman who b. the grace of the Assem-
by consumed thirty minutes more than
his sllotted three hours IN g vain effort TO
talk himself to death, jumped to his feet
and began q stun speech, IN which lie
claimed 10 he
PROPoUNDING THREE QUESTIONS
to the Senator. When Nj. Morris had
talked about ten minutes he sat down,
leaving az indefinite impression on the
minds of the Assembly hat be wished
Mr. FiouTnOy to answer something. That
gentleman retOrted gracefully ia n nea,
piece of Iidicule sgailst the minority re-
port. and the statesman from Richie
via. ly concluded ihA; 1t wss b st II pro
woke no further ssllits from that quarter.
Mr.. Morris had occnpied for,J five
minutes instead Of the thirty s!lowed bin,
sni made great p-etense CT taking oOSn
th Tins eud i,uri5g it no. Sore Re-
pnbl.can memb.r with ordinary good
sense suggested so Mr. Nori5 that his
time hsd been extended yesterday, and
the statesman subsided.
Mr.. Kee then announced that Senator
Prics would speak in his time, and the
Senator immediately began his address
He said that be had approached the case
determined to make mp his mind on the
law and the evidence. He hsd spent
EIGHT AFTER NIGHT
soiug carefully ever the dopnsi,ions aud
ativlnx at conclusions thereon. Like
MS coleague from Hampshire ne believed
that this case hing1d en- the two
counties, aud in rsgard TO them
he honestly thou hit that no two
men whose minds were frse fIon
prfiudics could differ. Ire minority re-
port depended il positions which seemed
to him entirely untensb'e. The evidence
showed that Mercer and Mcdowell co1n-
ties were almost uDinhabited a few years
ago. Compared with the present popula-
tion, one witness says it WAS a woodland
county aud scarcely tied. There were
about fifteen negroes in the county In
1888. and only one ia Mcdowell up to
1857. At the present time there were over
y 600 negroes in these counties. what
did the testimony show in rsgsrd to thenr
Were they employed as skilled mechanicsY
No; With the exception OF less thsn
score. They were lsborers in the mines
and coke overs.
Where did they come from when they
came into Mercer and Mcdowell? They
did not come from West Virginia. The
e1uptrv surrounding those mines was
mountain aud woodland. Ii could not be
entered from West Virginia except ny do
ipq horseback journey, and the negroes did
not travel that Gay. They did not have
hOrs,s.
Judge MsxSell-They had each mule,
though
MI P.ice-No. the kepubliCSl I party hes
not yei gwen The negro his mule.
Tnese negroes came from Nuelnis, ano
what dii they CONS for? Did any one
be,itsts for an answer to that question ?
an knew that they came there for employ
ment il The nll laeJ. WEen cid they 80 TO
work? D;i
THEY LIE AB0uF
in tbsir cabins months before they sought
the employment they came into West Nir,
ginia to gel. No, they would have starved
in a month without their work. Iney
sought employment Immediately. Their
names appeared on the pay rolls ana the
date Of that appearance ves sueotsntisiiy
the date of their errivsl in West Virginia
The distinguished Senator from Ritcnle
has declared tina. there WAS no evidence to
show that they were no; in the State be-
fore November, 1887, or before theif
psme, appeared on the pay rolls. Nc
lbere wss not. Why wasn't there? Why
wasn't there p.OOf that these negroes had
heen in the State before Novenb Der, lss'f
If thew were there it was due the digolty
ana high character Of the Court that sueh
evidence should be brought in. II 1t was
obta;naS'e why had not Gen. G5tt aud the
nine oEnsrs We yere his friends, pro-
duced their pay rolls to Show toSt tossS
men were in West Virginia. It would
have been
THE BEST THING
in 'be world for them 10 have shown that
every negro voter in Mercer and Mcdowell