Richmond planet., 1896-10-17
THEY RALLIED
Only In One, Two, Three
Order.
WOMEN IN MAJORITY.
Five SepeI ate IlatfOIms
Discussed.
WOMEN IN MAJORIT'

night with music by the 1st National
Band advertising political meeting
TO be held at the True RefOrmers' hall,
Rev. w w. Browne being the chief
orator.
The spv.kin WAS advertised to be-
gin at s 80 O'Clock. but at that hour
the number that had assembled could
have been easily packed in a room
12x2O and those that did come, came
in the one, two and three order until
about $50 or 800 legal voters had as
nembled together with an unusual
number of boys that had followed the
strains of the music.
III one, no familiar with the politics
of Virginia had had an opportunity to
attend that meeting they would have
1ui;.ekly come to the conclusion that
woman suffrage was practiced in this
state as in the state OF Kansas
All in all judging from the number
OF legal voters present after two weeks
advertisements il can be said without
the least hesitat on that the leader
has lost his hold OH the masses that he
thought he had
There were seated upon the rostrum
some of the cl. rgy of the ty, EN-
Postmaster Russell. w Z. Burrell
who presided over the meeting, the
Reformer's reporter and others.
At8:55 Rev. W w. Browne march
&c upon the rostrum followed by the
above named w p. burreI called
the meeting TO order the band played
HMy Country 'tis of Thee" after
which Reverend J. + Jones, ID ID, led
in prayer The band layed, The
Star Spangltd Fanner," alter which
w. p. Burrell arose 10 introduce the
speaker of the evening. In lntroduc-
ing the speaker, he said he was intro
ducin0 a man who had never made an
effort and fail d, a man who had new
or put his head and hand to thing
but what IL was GROW ned wlth succ' SS,s
man who had done something ana wal
still doing more than any colored mar
in the south He said, "He is worth J
.of your following, and IL you will only
follow as he leads, he will bring yoI
on equality with any race upon thu
globe. =
Amid tremendous applause the Kew
w w Browne arose and said:
"I have been & citizen of the state o
Virginia for % years and never befor'
have / raised my voice in politics eth
.-er one way or the other. becam'
,disgusted with politics in the state o
Alabama, when / saw democrats ou
vote 600 republicans
If he has never opened his mouth
IN nolitics he must have done grea
amount of writing this spring when n
in league with the iieutentants OF tn
Vov-hatan Club helped TO defeat tn
1 - legal voters of Jackson Ward
80 ssid that he became disguste
he tired from politics when he sal
and r. II ia Alabama; but it strife
that sle' e should have become NOR
me that Ibis own actions
olsguste9 a. NiAeF, That az my 1000
he salo Im >my shelter we're nt
at stake / would
say at this time" % that he mer
How can these thin aife long ga
toned be at stake with %Ene Reiorn
ary as President of the a ssasr mt
ers' Bank, and So 900 per hs n.s6
that enormous "Grrb' thai . sb;ns
is paid? If those are the onI SGons
that trouble hi n, hls own con. ~, IL
ought to tell him that he is
safe side. i
He said again, "That the peop
should study the platform of each par
ty before they cast their votes.
How can they study the platform
when he undertakes to explain hve a
one time, and in the course OF tw'
hours? Would it not have been Let
trif he had have taken the two dom
inant parties platforms and discusses
them before an audience OF voters II
he could be lucky enough to get them
instead of conglOmerating their mIhu
with the so-called platforms OF nve
thereby causing them to leave IN
meeting without being instructed 9
they should have been.
There was one thing that was sal
by Mr.. Burrell in introducing u
speaker that was true. He said he WI
introducing man who had done som
thing and was still doing something
We admit that he started in the pal
OF good man, but when he made tn
Graf" he did the only thing tn
caused him to rise to greatness, al
we are of the opinion that when
Burrell said he had done somethIn
this ia what he was referring to, al
when he said he was still doing som
thing he meant that he was still dra
ing on that "Grab, but if he wants
do some thing that will cause him
rise to true greatness, let him say
the Grand United Order of True Il
formers, II grabbed and you consel
ed that should have my grab, b
my conscience worries me so mac
II am compelled to relinquish my ella
upon it.
We were greatly surprised at be
told at the hall that John mitchell,
was to speak, when the hand bills t.
were distributed announced the spe
er mentioned.
It must have been thought that
name would draw larger crowd Il
the ones on the bills, but the pee
were not on to the racket, for t
knew we'll that 5he so-called All
Waddill bosses we're engineering
meeting. but if they think
thew can carry the 3rd District by
norinp the so-called illiterate voter
we'll and good, but when the day
reckoning comes, VIII ch IS the or'
November. it will be found out
the illiterate voters are the DalanC
power in this district.
lHessaid that there was corruPto
the party, and we agree with MIN ,
will say that SO long as eneso y
mon of intelligence Cd allow TN
saIves to be used as tools by W
man for the sake OF few dollars
thereby lower themselves and
east a stigma upon their race
nothing but the death or such
will erase.
ii the politics or the party
been conducted upon party primer
eour nominee, Judge /. L. Lewis W
represent the people of this distri
the 55th Congress, but as 1t
stands, it is almost as impossit
II is for a camel to pass throug
eye of a needle.
But the days of grace have p'
and all that remains for as to do
prepare ourselves for defeat whi
snre to come to us on November
Some OF the committee made II
fha dnor that the me