The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-10-24

1t will be remembered that during
the Congressional cam mpaign OF 1890. the
Democratic press Of the country teemed
with exposures" OF m alleged desper-
ate Republican scheme to "Africanize"
West Virginia, connecticut aud Indiana.
These exposures" were first published
in the New, York World Of October 4, of
that year, and were dished up in the
most sensational style Of that notorious
ly sensational newspaper. They pur-
ported to give the details OF scheme,
in which Senator Matt Quay, Hon. ].
n. Huston, General Clarkson, Mr..
Dudley and others were the leaders, to
colonize negro voters in the three states
named, and were supported by docu-
mentary evidence in tho shape OF cor
respondence passing between the gen
,lemen concerned and one D. Med.
Lindsey, Of North Carolina, who was
represented as an agent for southern
emigration company. The World, in it's
article making the sensational disclos-
ures, stated that Lindsey, as secretary OF
the emigration company, had had con-
siderable experience with colonization
methods.
Additional interest was attached to
the story in this state by the fact that
leading West Virginia Republicans
were represented as being interested IN
tho scheme, which the Democrats de-
nouuced as nefarious plot to supplant
tho white labor OF the state with south
prn negroes for political purposes.
Among those alleged to be involved
were Hons. g. W. Atkinson and Chas.
h. Smith, then members OF Congress,
Col. Jas. L. Mclean, Hon, S. B. Elklns
and others, and letters written by some
Of them endorsing Lindsey's supposed
efforts to find homes for industrious
coored people in West Virginia, were
published to show that they we're deep
in the "netarious plot"
THE LETTERS,
There was nothing at alI damaging in
these letters, since, as will hereinafter
appear, they were simply encouraging
an immigration movement which had
been represented to them to be per-
fectly legitimate, and since Lindsey was
posing as disinterested phiIanthro-
pist, aiding industrious colored people
to find homes in states where they
would be secure in the enjoyment OF
their civil rights. The letters, however,
taken with other correspondence, fur
nished by Lindsey and arranged for a
purpose that will appear further on,
helped to fill out the Worlds sensational
story, which was made to serve as an
effective campaign document in 1880.
and is being circulated by the million
in this campaign OF 1902, while every
Democratic campaign orator is howling
its contents from the stump.
The Register recently reprinted this
story, with sensational headlines, de-
signed to catch the eye OF voters and
startle them with an intimation OF the
awful disclosures to follow, and that
publication, in the form OF campaign
document, printed in the Register office,
is flooding the mails and finding its
way into tho home Of every working
man, informing him that the Republic
cans arc scheming to drive him from
the West Virginia mine and workshop,
and put in his place negroes from the
South in order to make the state safely
and surely Republican. The document
is lurid affair and is no doubt doing
effective work for tho Democracy. Here
are the startling headlines that lead the
seven columns Of disclosures" it con-
tains:
TO AFRIcANIzE WEST VIRGINIA.