Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1899-11-18
DIsFRANUHIsBKEET IN esoReIA.

TIE Richmond, Va, TIMEs IL moth
ing. IL it is not inconsistent. From
platitudes upon the final triumph OF
great principles, It has dropped to the
advocacy Of national wrong. It
would disfranchise the citiz an OF color.
Is would legalize anarchy and COM
mission crime. II not this, then what
does its utteranees mean ? Under the
caption of "BoOKER WAsHINoroN's
Mistake" it says in the issue of the
14th inst:
"a bill Is pending before the Georgia |
Legislature, called the Hardwiek bill, |
which aims at DISTINGUISHING Q large |
msjority OF the Negro voters Of tbs
State under some sort OF prstexts con-
corning education and 'lineSl descent
whatever that cam mean for q Negro.
There was q large mt citing OF what are
called representative Negroes" held
in Atlsnta last week, and q memorial
was signed by them to the Georgia
Legislature PRAYING that body not 20
pass the bill.
Booker Washington. the Negro who
is at the head of the Negro industrial
school at ruskegee, Alabama, took part
in the meeting and made himself very
aCtlNC III ID
And sgain:
I'm the course OF the proceedings he
said:
There seem to be growing tenden-
cy in the direction OF friendship be-
tween the races in Georgia. bus 1 very
much fear that the passage of the
Hard wick bill would tend TO widen the
brea ch between the races, and thus
; hurt the work that some Of the more
conservative colored people have been
J trying TO do in bringing ABOUT proper
relations between the races"
Despite the fact that Prof. WAsHIEG-
TON Up ike the truth it Gays:
!. "Washington is totally wrong in his
e view of the matter, and he is not doing
: his race q service Co present such viewf
of i : as these. The vice in this meas
i, is NOT in it's disqualifying Negroes to
r vote, put in its doing 80 by indirect
r and unlawful means"
e Il continues:
'sThe fifteenth amendment to the
n Constitution of the United States for
! bids any State to deprive & Negro o
II hi. vote because he is Negro, and
this measure proposes to deprive Ne
I QEOeS
o Negroes, while processing TO do some
" thlne else for some other reason. Is il
10 a false pretense, and it is not easy t
r understand how good to the Sdy poll
IN tic can arise out of fraud in the organ
n ic law.
But Washington and the other Ne
ns qroes who attended this meeting pu
nd their objection to the measure upoI
ur the ground that the Negro should b
left in uncontrolled exercisesof the suf
&c frage, and in this they are RADICAL,
: wrong, and Washington is badly mis-
- taken when he thinks possession OF tn
- suffrage tends TO hRrmOnizing the rela
tions between the two races. On tn
. contrary, all the ills the South sude
from to-day arise out of the possess 10
= of the suffrage by the Negro"
1t concludes:
BIT "That is responsible for frauduleu
q, elections, machine rule and populisr
lis IN high places, which we could easil
dethrone il the whites alone voted an
our best and strongest men coul
therefore be induced TO take a part j
S. our politics. If the Negro were who'll
o~ disiran chised. all sourcs of friction be
tween the two races would be remove
ID the states would admit individual Ne
Tia themselves, and the Negro ,Qucstto
would never be heard of again.
1t has always been Q source of su
=, prise 30 us that any man, who hi
ss studied ethics and informed himse
he concerning the science of governmeI
= and the hist Dry OF nations could. mt al
10 the grievons blunder which our col
e. temporary seems constantly making.
Prof. WAsHIE eToN is right. He is
\ last interesting himself in the task
producing a better feeling betwee
the races outside of the domain
Tuskegse, Ala.
No All agitation which has for its pu
or pose the taking away or limiting Il
." privileges of any class of citizens mu
uS necessarily engender q bitter feeliI
I" on the part of the class OF CITIES
re- whose rights are thus affected. II
is common sense.
IN. Nothing has tended to solidify &
his colored vote so much as the char
He that. should the Democratic Party g
he cure the power it would repeal
Il. nullify the Fifteenth Amendments
"a N the Constitution of the United Statl
The TINES boldly announces that
is in favor of allowing white men or
me the right of franchise, and afterwar
lns incidentally permitting few color
n men to exercise the same prrvilel
vas What reason or excuse is there in 50
an. logic? Does color determine the ah
'ss- ity? II SO, why did GEoReE M. L
but (white), the son of Gen. FIrzHuaH L
his fail to pass the examination at the