The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-07-18

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| improved and purified politics IN those
| States but the condition of the negro Is
| decidedly better. This is the testimony: nol
| OF politicians. out of planters ana business
| men. The validity of these and othet ASST
! ciated provisions of the Constitution u
! Mississippi we're reviewed by the supreme
| Court of the United States. in the ease VI
| Williams vs. Mississippi go United states
Supreme Court Reports 23>. and theS
were held by that court not to De- pS 'tie'I
| terms in conflict with the Fourteenth aiia
| Fifteenth Amendments to the eaeIdi eo'i-
| Stitution.
THE LOUISIANA PLAN.
The features of the Louisiana plan are
| embodied in Article 1871, Section /. ?. ).
| and j. the effect of which Is To eNciuoe
| from the electorate all citizens OF that
! State who are unable to READ ana WRITE
! except first the owners OF S5S OF laNaoie
| property upon which the taxes nave neen
! paid: and second men who were entitled
| to vote on the lst day OF January 1861
/ under the Constitution or statutes OF any
! State of the United States wherein tney
| then resided. and any son or grandson OF
any such person twenty-one years oil age
| at the adoption OF the Constitution. Inc
! Louisiana plan Is decidedly the best ii 1t
| does not infringe upon the limitations OF
| the Federal Constitution. for these suff!-
| Gent reasons
First: 1T will certainly eliminate the
| great mass OF the ignorant vote.
| Second: 1T Will certainly not operate
! to distranchise any of the white citizens OF
| the. State.
..JTDon the question OF constitutional va
| lidity with reference to the inaihltlon OF
| the Fifteenth Amendment TO the feaeral
/ Constitution, the Mississippi plan has TINS
, advantage It was long and ably debated
! in the convention, which adopted il, and
F., the weight of argument, as we'll as OF num-
! bers in that body, supported Its VaildltS'
but the Supreme Court OF the United
States has not yet passed upon IT.
NOTIFICATIONS PROPOSED
Some modification of the Louisiana plan
| can be. doubtless, made, which will cause
| the classes included in the exception under
! which uneducated voters are admitted 10
| suffrage 70 be made up less exclusively
! CT white citizens, and to render it safe from
| legal attack from any quarter
Il have an abiding faith that the ne"
| convention will find some solution of this
momentous question, which, without con-
| dict with the Federal Constitution, Will
| give the protection and relief which are
| so much to be desired
FOR VIRGINIA ALONE
The members Of that convention VIII
be charged with Responsibilities sucn aS
havo rarely been devolved upon the dele
| rates of anv people. They and our fellow
| -ountrymen of other States. and particu-
!arly our northern fellow-citizens. VIII.
T trust remember that this convention Will
b, intrusted with constitution Tor VIZ
einIa. for Virginia, with its varied popu-
atoms made up so largely of two dis
,inct races. as diverse as any God has
created. for Virginia, with its large col
ored popula ton. who, by reason of their
condition, characteristics and numbers.
are deserving of kindly and just consider
alton but who we know to be, as rule.
unit for the exercise of the right of suf-
frace-a dangerous and sometimes fatal
mower TO be entrusted to the vicious. the
weak and the ignorant; with the heritage
of the great race problems with which
her people and the people of the other
Southern States have TO deal. and which
| can only reach a satisfactor. settlement
bv the action of the people of those States
| whose duty and burden it is to make such
a settlement: with her great public-school
| system to be conserved, and made more
snd more efficient: her schools. acade-
mics, colleges and universities; her vast
and varied resources-agricultural mining.
manufacturing. and in fsherles-stlil All
in the youth of their growth and develop
ment; with her churches OF the Living
God. and her benefcent charities extend
,,r their blessed influences to white ana
black alike: and with her illustrtous
career and her grand ideals in the past
and the bright hopes and lofty ASPIRATIONS
for the future, which have animated ner
people even in the midst Oh their se'efesl
trials and struggles
And above all. let them be obe6ient
TO the dictates of right, and true to those
principles of regulated freedom ana o.
good government which have come down
to us from the fathers OF the Common
wealth and of the republic
God of Our fathers, known OF oid'
!
Beneath Whose awful hand we hold
Dominion over palm and pine,
Lord God Of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget-lest we forget
COMMITTEES NAMED
At the conclusion OF Col Anderson
committees:
On Memorials to Deceased Members
Thomas C. Elder. Rufus A. Ayers. r. I.
Barton. T.. L. Lewis r. G.. Bicktord. Il.
T. Hanckel, Roosevelt Page.
On Publications-H. W. Anderson, John
a Coke. Jr., and E. E. Montague
To Recommend Officers-T. s. Garnet
S. G. Graham, George L. Christian. W.
b McIlwaine and a. c. Gordon
The reports of Mr. Eugene C. Massie, as
Secretary and Treasurer. showed the ~
ISOLATION to be on a firm financial pass
and yearly growing In numoer anu ~
fuence. A number of new members We
recommded by the Committee on auii'''
sions and elected by the Assocta ton
The report OF the commi,tse Of Ls 1;-il,i-
ton and Law Reform. read oy Mr " WI" ,'i.s
3. smith. stated ,ha: the only TWO 70. o 's-s
recommended by the Association a. us la -
annual rlset:ng-one upon ss ~ - =.
so,,ris h;ns unp.osess;onai conduct OF lawyers
e and ,ha other upon the properly rights OF
mar women-both Of which had. with
.na faw amendments. been enacted by the
s Legislature