The age-herald., 1901-08-21
A RlaokheIt Man of Note.

A Blackbet Man of Note'
 Capt. Charles T. Pollard of Montgomery is visiting his venerable mother, Mrs. Pol lard. in Arlington avenue.
 Captain Pollard is one of the most noted and most highly esteemed men or the Blackbelt. His father, the late Hon. Charles T. Pollard, was a slave-owner of large fortune, who materially aided In the building of the Mobile and Montgomery Railway, now a division of the Louisville and Nashville system, and until the line between the State Capital and the States only seaport was merged into the Louis- ville and Nashville, fifteen or twenty years ago, one of the locomotives bore his honored name, according to the cus- tom then prevailing of naming locomo- tives instead of numbering them. And in honor of this same Southerner of distinc- tion, the old county seat of Escambia was named Pollard. The town was the center of considerable military activity during the war between the states.
 Captain Pollard who is now in Blrming- ham, distinguished himself as Confeder- ate officer He was desperately wounded in battle, and still bears painful evidence of his wounds.
 This brave man was one of the deter mined band of brave men who, lmmeoi- ately after the period of Congressional re- construction of the South, resolved that the Blackbelt should be freed of negro rule, and who, at the peril of their lives, successfully carried out that resolution. I'M. 1x.l. liberty to the hazard of the die, but actu- ally jeopardized their lives in practical politics.
 In 1877, three years after the State Democracy under the leadership of George Smith Houston had finally driven the Re- publicans from State control, Captain Pollard was elected sheriff of Montgomery County, being the first Democrat and na- tive to be elected to office in that county after the troubles that followed the civil war. There were fourteen thousand votes cast, the negroes all voting, and the eiec- ton was managed by Republicans. In the fourteen thousand Captain Pollard's majority was three votes-a remarkable fact in Alabama political history!
 Since he was elected sheriff in the troublous times of four and twenty years ago, Captain Pollard has been several times elected to high office in the Capital county. and the people there have yet further honors for him. He is man of rare culture and refinement and charm of manner.
 Passing of the Negro From Politics.
 .'The sense of our home people is that the new constitution is great and worthy document. a decided improvement upon the present constitution. and that it must be ratified" Captain Pollard said yesterday.
 "Will all the counties hold fair elections finder the new constitution?" was asked him.
 ''The best people, the honest and up- right men, are determined that there shall be fair elections,'' answered Captain Pollard.
 .The avowed and predominant will of the white people in our section IS Tn favor of perfect fairness and honesty Tn all elections, and they will carry out their will. The negro is virtually eiimin- ated, though there will be, in fact, sev- eral hundred negroes who will be regis tered in Montgomery.
 Tn effect, In practical substance, con tests for public office hereafter will be between white men, without regard to the negro, and the world will see that the results of such contests will be honestly and honorably arrived at and declared
 But do you not apprehend that in some of the counties men who have personal political interests to advance will regis ter the negro vote?" was asked.
 Not at all." Captain Pollard replied. 'I foresee no trouble of that nature. No white men will dare, in the face of public opinion and the new constitution, to at tempt the registration of negroes gen erally Our Blacl1bel people already feel a sense of security never before felt We feel that the negro Is actually passing from us as a political quantity, and for the first time in thirty-five years we are beginning to breathe easy so far as the negro is concerned"