Evening star., 1901-08-30
HITS RIGHT AND LEFT
Delegate Summers Stirs Things Up
in Virginia Convention.
CONTINUES SPEECH OF YESTERDAY
He incidentally Takes Shot at
Ex-Governor Cameron.
HE DEPRECATES APPLAUSE
NTINUES SPEECH OF YESTERDAY
HE DEPRECATES APPLAUSE
Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.


RICHMOND, Va, August 3O.-Another
large crowd was in attendance upon the
constitutional convention today. The
western gallery was crowded with negroes,
not single white man being seen in the
gallery.
They came to hear a continuation Of the
speech of Col Summers of Washington
county, began on yesterday
Members of the convention expected to
hear a repetition of the speech Of yester-
day, and when Delegate Summers began
his remarks they busted themselves with
their correspondence and with reading the
papers, paying no attention to the utter
ances of the speaker The negro gallery,
however, was all attention and made feeble
efforts at applause. When laughter or ap-
plause greeted his remarks he would stop
and dramatically exclaim, stop that! This
is funeral of your liberties
The convention was called to order at
noon by President Goode, prayer being Of
fered by Delegate DunaWay of Lancaster.
Iho usual routine business was transacted.
Elghty-nine members answered to the roll
call.
Numerous petitions were presented pro-
testing against sectionalism appropria-
uOns, to regulate the liquor traffic and for
making terms of the courts eight instead
of four years.
Mr.. Summers Continues His Speech.
On motion of Mr. Gordon of Richmond
the convention resolved itself into COM
mittee of the whole. He was entitled to
the floor, but he yielded the floor to the
member from Washington (Mr. Summers),
who continued his speech of yesterday.
Col Summers desired to correct or modify
his remarks of yesterday" The subject he
would discuss today requires brave
man, and l am the man to do it, He in
tended to say that the negroes who had
appeared before the committee were intel
liSent and educated men.
Continuing his remarks, Col. Summers
said he had received little country paper
which condemned the convention, but it
there were any people who know little
about constitution making it was the little
and big editors. 81 want it to go from Dan
to Bersheba what l snail say, and let the
papers howl, for we are working seven
hours daily He followed this by eulogiz-
ing the convention for its intelligence, mod
Grafton and conservatism and modifying his
expressions of yesterday. I'm the course
of my remarks L shall ask you members of
the committee to hear me, and | want you
state turner's to hear me- A feeble at
tempt at applause in the negro gallery was
repressed by Col, Summers with: Don't,
don't. This is a funeral we are at. Yes.
funeral of your liberties"
Takes a Shot at Col. Cameron.
IL,
by way of leading up to the speech of Col.
Cameron, when 1 was a robust man and
was engaged In addressing acres of ne
groes, rallying the scalawags and desert
ers to elect William E. Cameron governor
of Virginia" If the negroes were sover-
eign then were they not sovereign today
He said that Cameron, after he be-
came governor, repudiated the confederate
soldier, for he ouSted the one-legged door
keeper of the house of delegates and gave
his place to the blackest and stinkinest
negro in eastern Virginia. g
Il have never gone back on a confeder-
ate soldier" and he would never forsake a
man who stood by him.
Judas lscariot, poor old man. has been
abused and condemned by the world and
yet there are worse men living In the
country today than Judas Iscariot" He
would be respectful, for he was the Ches-
tereheld of his bar. Referring to Mr. wv
sor's address, he characterized that gen
tieman as an innocent abroad"
Mr.. Wysor-"Some of the members sit
ing around me do not quite understand
you They think you said innocent fraud
Col. Summers-"No, sir; innocent abroad
Is what l said, but it don't make much
difference
There was only one democrat in the coun-
try who had ever kept a promise, and that
was a 'chuckle-headed fellow named
Grover Cleveland up In New York, and he
has been dead ever since he kept his prom
1se. He claimed that to disfranchise the
negro would drive thousands of them away
from the state. The black belt was rails
ing great cry against the negro, and that
section was noted for peanuts, big mos
quitoes and little politicians
Col. Summers spoke for over an hour
and a half.