The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-10-23

said Mr.. Il. /. Moore had by his silence
endorsed the speech OF Pedigo, while he
had family Tepudiatcd that of Summers.
and that Mr. Moore had named j. iiamp-.
ton Eoge for Governor and wanted to
foist Pedigo's ideas upon the white peo-
pie of Virginia. He discussed the recon
struction period in the South, and showed
that Confederate soldiers and one-half
of the white people of Virginia were
disfranchised under military rule.
THAT FAMOUS DINNER.
Continuing Mr. Hunton said: I'VE
have considered them from Pedigo, the
lowest, through Summers and Moore, aud
the end is not yet. We find a few days
ago the President OF the United States
and Booker Washington dining together
in the White House on 'possum and sweet
potatoes. There was great applause at
this reference to the dinner, and it was
some time before the speaker could pro-
ceed.
In conclusion, Mr.. Hunton asked if the
white people Of Virginia were willing to
trust the Pedigps, the Moores, the Sum
meis and the Rooseyelts to run the gov.
eTnment of their State or would they
continue TO trust the people of their own
race lie assured his hearers, taking an
other moment. that no white man would
be disfranchised a result Of the con-
Vention's work, and counselled patience,
and thought all would end well for The
white people of Virginia.
MR.. GORDON SPEAKS.
Mr.. Richardson introduced Mr.. Gordon.
and he was received with much enthu-
siasm. The speaker said he could not un-
derstand how white people, remembering
their glorious traditions, could join the
mongre1 party. headed by. Summers, Pedl-
go ct ais. He said the Underwood Con-
vention was called by the negroes of
Virginia and that the Republican party
of to-day was the same one that had
foisted this monstrosity upon the white
people OF the State. He defined scala
wags and carpetbaggers, and declared
that the Republicans of to-day were 10
better than those who sat in the Under
wood Convention
He said, above all else, the present cor
Tenuon was called to right the great
wrongs committed in the Underwood
Convention, and that the noble body Of
men proposed to restore a white mars
government in deed and in word by com
pletely disfranchising the negro, without
taking the right of suffrage from single
white man in the State. He had no un-
kind feelings for the ola issue negro, hut
he declared with emphasis and amid
storm Of applause that the new negto
was d menace TO civilization and should
and would be removed from the politics
of the State as q factor He comni;-
mented President Mckinley, and said he
was the broadest and best leader lis
party hal ever given TO the country Tie
denounced anarchy, and said that among
other great issues must be met by the
white people. but that they could not
meet Their, successfully with the negro
on their backs.
AT ONE SINGLE BLOW.
II want TO strike him from the 2o!iti-
cal arena the speaker declared. .anI
at one fell swoop. and pace the white
people once and forever safely in control
OF thei" own d~stinies. "
Mr. Gordon, who is a member of the
Suffrage Committee. paid q tribute to his
colleague and sad they would speedily
accomplish the purpose for which they
were appointed, and that no white man
would lose his vote. He showed that the
record of the white people in Virginia
in past conventions had been to enlarge
The suffrage. so as to allow all white men
to vote. Yet the Republicans whose
PARTY had disfranchised one-half of the
white people. was tying TO create The i'm
preston that the convention now in ses-
sion would strike down Il part of its own
people. He said with the elimination of
the black vote, the white vote would puri-
fy itself, and Anglo-Saxon virtue would
assert itself in elections anG everywhere
He denounced the statement that any
suffrage plan pending contemplated prop
crty as qualification for voting.
a FOOLISH CLAIM.
Mr.. Gordon said there could be no more
foolish or fallacious proposition than that
the Democratic party would strike down
its poor members, for if they did. they
would not have a corporars guard of
votes left. He said nearly all the Repub-
lican leaders in Virginia We're sour-heart-.
ed. sore-headed, disgruntled Democrats
who had been disappointed office-seekers.