The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-05-24


neptesentatiVes OF the Race Define Their
Position In the Mum oipal Campaign.
The oolored people OF this city as,,mh,.d T..
night In msse-meeting at Davis Wsm ro i .s
purpose OF deciding what stand the Son,d ,s sae
IN r mhancipa election on Thursday Of next week'
who was made chairman, and BY a Re-. - WHVe r
Sr % Z: j: Foreman was made Secretary. w.
j. Riley p hSSs;e h SNi K r. Jones wash sherman
pointed as committee on resolutions ana 1 ~.
p WSeress sol wy n, the majority report
city, Va. have assembled In y. roanoke
purpose Oh comforting together as To fhe heat
tS Goo OF preserving o9r serespeot as citizens Of
snts iTunicipality and members Of the great Re-
pu9ncsn party OF the nation. to the principals OF
IsS Sisn we 1eTrSy uneqIivocaly rearm our a.
can party pure and simple whose principles are
eternslly the same. Therefore. be it Resolved
'ns' we R1otest IN the most emphatic manner,
L. asalhst the Introduction OF that most in.
s sI snu dangerous enemy into the rank and
NE oi INC party, namely, the reform Republican
Wh3tses os''ef known further South the lilly
81 Against the growing disposition on the part
rioSts snd oers OF the party to disregard the
same party on the ground Of color or previous
Thirdly. Against all rules and r.,n,.,,or.
when have for their purpose the segreSatIon Of
any part OF the Republican party 10 the detri-
men. ana injury of any other part OF the same
pn at on tnc ground OF color, holding as we do
tnat II any preferment must be given il should
DE given 70 those members of tho party who can
answer the demand, loyalty ,intelligencc and com.
petence rather than 10 those whose onIy onaiia
cation ie white skin f'A
Fo1rthly. Against the dlctation OF any man or
eet VI nen VINO are enemies to the principles of
true Republication, it is therefore in order for
us 10 record and we de do hereby record our dis.
already prevailing In certain sections OF orr COM
mon country to the injury OF the G. o. p, and we
view WIN alarm the attempt to introduce them
aWoag ,ne members OF the party in Roanoke
city and to emphasize our disapproval we recon-
mend to all AfroAmerican citizens OF Roanoke
har !ua a tnoy support such OF the candidates as
proaching city election whose conduct In the
past, ohicial and otherwise, have rendered them
worthy OF our confidence and support
X. II. JONES,
WASH SHERMAN.
The following Is the minority report:
Resolved, That in consideration OF the cond,
tod which confronts us It is to the best Interest
Oh me negroes OF Roanoke to refrain from any
municipal election. j. RILEY DINGBs,
CHARLES PARKER,
Speeches were made by Rev. X. II. Jones, Rev.
field, j. Riley Dingee, Dr. Burreii and Others.
inc general tone OF the meeting was OF an indie
pendent nature, the speakers advocating indie.
strict party lines. They claim that they are not
pound TO support any ticket which they had no
nana making. The general idea was that they
their ticket and they would not support it, mi
vote Tor whom they considered to be the best
men regardless OF party.
some or the colored preachers announced that
they were advocating this plan in The pulpit
Inc majority report of, the committee was
aaopseo' although the minority report received \
number of votes. Some of the colored men de-
clared that they would not vote at ALL The meet
ing was composed largely of the most Ell bstantial
representatives OF the city. Some of them de-
clarcd openly that they wond support the fol-
lowing ticket and urged others to do the same
Boehm; commemorative attorney. j. w Hart.
we'll; city sergeant, 7. II Tillett; treasurer CIV.
Thomas; constable, W. w. Rule.