Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1894-02-03
WHAT CONSTITUTES TRUE De
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The Richmond, Va, DAILY
IN It's issue OF January goth Pre-
to reply to the charges of it's q
atty to the Democratic Part Il
says:
eve have had il whispered TO ue "A
il is thought by some that the af
by the Times Of the subject OF
tions proceeds from q eisloya
ssu.. asked, lie the Tin
Republican p
And again
"The suggestion is a. 81
any one who knows tie al
rules the Times, and it sh
suit to every true and hon
as it involves the idea tn =
tions are an exclusive preros e
Republican or Populist part =,
not be advocated by soun, d
GRAFT"
The above is indeed the y
conclusion. Our contempora q,
sents an unanswerable state 1i
the case and 1t has been Sc
to us that the most thlcA-as,---sssd
Democrat laying a claim to intels-
gence could not see it in that ligh J.
1t adds
Nothing could better chow the t. !
gled web into which our practical poll :
clans have led us than this argument, >
for,dod -, tho fOrno ~
mands, but which increases their pow
err"
The following statements are sell
evident
"The case is very plain. II this is !
government which finds its just powers
in the consent OF the governed, and III
method of ascertaining that consent /
| through the ballot-box, the utmost car
should be taken that the will and COD
sent OF the people should be fairly anS
| certainly ascertained.
| IL the ballot-box does not give q tru
and certain expression of the popula
will-but only expresses the will of fhos
in charge OF it-what is the use of tn
| trouble and expense of an election
| Why argue, or speak. or write VIII
| try TO persuade and plead with the pee
ole Why discuss any principle-fre
| trade or protection-free silver or n
gold standard 1t is only necessary 4
persuade" the three or four p-
hold the keys to the ballot-bo-
thing is DONE"
The TnfHS doae ~~t =
lsays:
s'Some how or other the
of the election frauds vh
nounced are practiced ia $40 con
has put it into the minds OF -
thoughtless persons that the Times
advocating the cause OF the Negro 4
against the white people.
This idea, too, is absurd
or course il is. They are so blin'
ed with prejudice that they canne
and will not see. Wronging the N
gro leads TO the injury of the whi'
man. To save the one you mus
protect the other. The idea is RICH
lly contained in the following
! "The Times believes that no where
. earth is the Negro more generously al
J. Justly treated than In Virginia-saye
8 voting. And that the consequences
the perversion, if not subversion, Of II
: in the matter of the Negroes vote nj.
g not oeen to the injury of the Negro
one 1.-THE of what it has been to I
g white people"
d OF course the TIMES forgot abo
a the wholesale lynchings which ha
i taken place in this state, or it &C
Il cIuded that It's open condemnati
h OF them had been sufficiently po
\ tive to let the world know that Il
> constituted one of the evils fri
e which the Negro suffers. 1t says :
;. eve have not felt and do not feel Ii
i, the injury the Negro has suffered OF III
demands the effort we are making
l. honest elections. 1t is the injuries
whites are themselves enduring which
mands of the white people honest q
W tions for their own political and mo
is salvation"
We have understood all along
he above to be its position. No
g. minded man could have made a n
er take. It was not that Il loved
Il machine members of it's Pan 4
bu: -'>~---
nd tn. ,..~......
h its interests were drifting als,- s.
VS. a halt ere disaster followed s.
ZEN wake of corruption: The eta