Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-10-29
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Virginia Republican Leaders into endors
ing supposed legitimate scheme to find
homes in the State for Southern Negroes
and then to make it appear that there
was scheme to Africanize the State fol
political purposes whole despicabl,
plot laid bare.-The National Republican
Leaders seem to be involved.
FAULKNER DID NOT KEEP FAITH
with his tool and is given away. Docu
mentary evidence that is indisputabl Il
shows the Senator up in bad light. The
New York Worlds sensation of 1890 now
being used as a Democratic Campaign
Document. exploded-How the plot wal
worked. Faulkner's own friends de
ceiYed in dastsrdly manner. For somt
years favorite cry of the Democrrtit
papers and leaders has been the charge
of negro colonization of West Va.
" Africanizipg the State. &c,-"ex
posures " in the n. Y. World with which
every county was flooded. 1t wa,
charged that Elkins. Quay and others
were at the head of the scheme. Now
by the affidavit and letters of D. Nc D
Lindsey the Hon. Charles James Faux.
ner was at the foxy trick. 1t was a mean
low, treacherous game.
From the sworn statement and the &C
companying correspondence it is con
clusively proven that the colonization
scheme, the history of which has beef
outlined above. never had any actual ex
istence. and that the startling exposure
of a Republican scheme to Africanize
West Virginia was the fulfillment of an
ingenius plan to entrap Republicans int
endorsing an apparently legitimate i'm
scheme, and to afterward pub.
llsh their endorsements. together with
shrew6 ly worded letters written by the
adventurer hired to carry out the plot
and place the victims in false light be-
fore the country. Col. Phil Thompson
the secretary of the national COMPRESSION
al committee. seems to have had a hand
in it. That D. McD Lindsey. the tool Sc
lected to carry out the plan, and who
makes these disclosures, was to work
a similar plan in Connecticut and Indiana
is probable. If the national leaders weie
involved, they did not concern them
selves about West Virginia. Senator
Faulkner took personal charge of TIM
end of the job, and it was he who en-
ployed Lindsey to come to West Virginia
as secretary of the Southern Emigration
Company. practice the deception and fur
nish the correspondence for the New
York World sensation.
Mr.. Faulkner wrote no letters himself
He was too shrewd for that. He knew
that the man he was employing to scanda
lie others was not to be trusted with
letters. All his negotiations with Lind
sey were conducted verbally and through
his private secretary and Col Phil ThomL.
son. But Lindsey was also smart. and
he kept copies OF the letters he wrote to
Senator Faulkner. They tell an inter
esting story, and when taken together
give an insight into the real character OF
the conspiracy against the Republican
leaders whom he sought to destroy.
Lindsey's letters show where he ba:
been promised money and government
position for a friend,--how he followed
Faulkner and begged him to keep his
promises, --hotc he secured letters from
at Faulkner's solicitation,
that the Senator had not kept faith with
him, and he did not consider himself
bound to keep further faith with the
Senator. This is repeated in three or
four letters, with variations. Again.
Lindsey reminds the Senator that he 1.-THE
SENATOR told him copy OF the paper
an expose of the colonial
ton" scheme had been placed in the
hands of every West Virginia miner and
had proved ten strike. a dead shot. -
etc. In another he acknowledges the re-
ceipt of the 5000 the price for his services.
In another he reminds Mr.. Faulkner that
he had hired him Lindsey and his tool.
]. B. Whitehead, to practice a base de-
ceptlon on the people of the State--to
grossly deceive his friends and constitu-
snts. The whole collection of letters. in
,luding the one signed by Colonel Thomp-
son, per G. (Grigsbyl, forms story of
ole of the most interruptions political
acts that ever disgraced any campaign,
all in the interest of Senator Faulkner s
re election 20 the United States senate
and in the desperate effort to save West
to the solid South. This was to
be accomplished by the preparation of "a
despicabie fraud for the purpose of Gre
atlng race prejudice, raising false issue
and helping along Senator Faulkner S
force bill' and negro domination"
1t is rich reading--how Faulkner sent
1ribs of money .--didn't want 1t known,
were made and broken
Faulkner got mad refused to answer
ters,-pnshed it off on Brice and Cor
man said he wouldn't be bulldozed -
You know, too, that every letter sand or
to have been written by me
10 Whitehead while he was in West VIr-
ginia was submitted to you. and that in
one instance material change was made
at your suggestion. You also know that
Whitehead did not go to West Virginia
to look for homes or employment for ne
groes, or with any such object present or
in view. You know as well
as l, and others do, that he was sent
there to practice deception upon your
people, your constituents--your friends,
men who had placed confidence in your
honor and integrity, and elected you to
the high and honorable position you now
o ;cupy and that you was party to the
act, and paid part of his expenses and
promised to pay the balance
Mr.. Eikins testifies that Lindsey called
on him upon the subjec of bringing ne
gToes into w. Va. where he claimed they
could get better wages, and asked for as
sistance. Mr.. Elkins replied that he was
a Southern man and didn't approve of
negro emigration except where they
wapta1 RI M 20 tho chap oe ro.;l a.a,