Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-09-27

Plan a Glganllc Co'onlza-
ton Scheme.
KENTUCKY AND WEST VIRGINIA
Negroes TO Re Imported 10y Whulc-
sale. 0stensibly to Work on
Railroad, HUT Really to
Vote for Mck,nIcy.
Headquarters. National Democratic
Committee. Uhicngo. IN, Sept. 10, 1900.
Managers of w. j. Hryan's eastern
campaign believe that they have dis
covered a republican plot To capture
Kentucky and Nest Virginia by a
wholesale plan involving the removal
into those states from contiguous
commemorative OF thousands OF NC
grces, ostensihlN Ia work on railroads
and other important works, bat in
reality to vote for Mckinley. Already
the democratic national leaders are
taking steps To thwart this plot, and
the party workers in he two states
most affected have been warned
Ex-Governor William u. Stone, of
Missouri, is the authority for the
Statement that the repuhIicans are
endeavoring by unfair methods TO
seize West Virginia. When seem al
Manhattan Beach today he declined 10
tell whence his Information was OH
tanned, further than to SAY that "a
United States senator had made the
discovery
My informant, Mr. Stone said IFS
United States senator who is known
throughout the country as an tlp,.is III
man lie wnS ut the station OF the
Pennsylvania railroad In Washington
one day last week when he noticed a
passenger train in tlis train shed
which had for its occupants only ne
grGes. From their Appearance he
Judged that they were going ON a long
journey, and he engaged several OF
them in conversation. Al the tiine hc
did not suspect any wrong doing. but
was impelrd TO make his inquiries
only by curiosity
The men to whom he talked said
that the negroes there were several
hundred OF them were going 10 West
Nir2inln, No one could give he ex-
act destination of he parity but all
agreed that they were going Ia work
on a railroad. None of then, knew by
what railroad they were going to he
employed. by pursuing his Inquiries
the senator learned that the men eS-
pected to he In West Virginia for
three months; that would keep thenl
until after election day. Further
more, every one of them, he was told.
had received pay for August. though
during the month they had not done
stroke of work
My informant learned that this
was only one instaIlment, and that i'm
all 5000 negroes would be sent TO West
Virginia TO work on II railroad.
NJ present we know nothing of tho
plan to carry Kentucky by inerodrlc-
ing tioaters ether than that such n
plan is contemplated. III is easy
enough for our opponents 10 do these
1h1hgs. 1T only takes money and II
deprecated idea OF right and wrong.
party that cam wiring S6UG.o0o out OF
one city can afford to spend 100000 n
month for three months to Keep MP an
amy OF 5000 illegal VOTERS and would
be at no trouble TO find among it's
leaders mcn nnscrupulous enough to
do tho work.
Mckinley carried Nest S;r., inia IN
1896 by over 1000 Mr.. Stone said
that according TO figures received BIZ
the democratic national Feeders tbr
s'a,e wonl" be carried by MIR. l,ry-
an by almost rs great majority. un-
less the colonization plan worked as
we'll us its planners hoped.
The census OF 1900 lis expected to
shcw population for the Omitted
States OF from 75.00O,OO0 to 10000. 900.
me yearly current cost of holding the
rhlllpplncs therefore amounts TO
nearly or quite 81 per Individual. III
aaceorolngly amounts to $40 per wear
for each average fnmily. 10 The
large majority of families in the
united States this sum is neariy or
quite equal to what the heads there
OF nre able to earn in week.
The taxes which go to meet this
most costly enterprise are collected
from the people I'm Indirect and ,nob-
serHable ways. but they are taken.
nevertheless, from the pockets of the
people, and not according to ability
to pay, but according to the cons,lil,l5-
ton mainly Of the neccssuries of life.
They are paid none the less certaini,
even though indirectly, and they re-
duce by so much the earnings of the
laborer which go to mis- support and
enjoyment
Suppose this system of taxation
were changed to n direct systnm ,nI