Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1901-10-09
Rally to Your Duty, Democrats


terval Of time; each and every pre-
oinct in the county is the place, for
the people 10 carry into effect the
decision made by them in giving the
Red Fox Of MIddlesex the nomins-
ton for the proud position of Cover
nor of Virginia
We here quote an able editorial
from the esteemed Richmond Dis
patch, in which note Of warning is
sounded to the Virginia people
Under the heading What Are We
Thinking About" the Roanoke
Times utters some warnings and pre-
sents an argument for more vigor-
Gus Democratic canvass, which We
could wish TO see echoed and re-echo-
ed drought the length and breadth
Of the commonwealth.
In prefaciug the declaration that it
believes that the danger threaten
ing through the candidacy of John
Hampton Hoge for the governorship
Of Virginia embodies the worst cal
amity that could befall rs" our Roa-
noke contemporary express the opin-
ion that if there ever was a time that
the white people of the State should
get together, act as a unit for their
own safety and take care as to the
paths they follow, now Is that time.
Then our contemporary summar-
ICES the charges against the Demo
Gratis and the appeals to the negroes
that are being made by Colonel Hoge
and affirms its conviction that "no
more awful fate could overtake this
old State than the election of a
Republican Governor and his control
by the negroes who would have to
elect him if be we're elected" The
white people, exclaims the Times,
might as we'll put this in their pipes
and smoke it,"
Verify, aye, verify. What indeed
arc We thinking about that we are
not taking the case with all the SER
iousness in which the Times pictures
it. We fear, as has been intimated in
another quarter, that the people are
trusting too much to the guarantee
Of continued supremacy that will be
afforded by the suffrage clause of the
new Constitution. We do not doubt
for moment that the convention in
discharge of the paramount duty for
which it is assembled, will, as far as
possible, restrict the negro vote and
eliminate it from politics as a disturb
ing element. But that is thing of
the future at beat. The coming cleo
ton will take place under the suf-
frage laws. What of the period be-
tween the 1st of January next and
the date at which it will be possible
to put the new orders into operation?
If by any misfortune the Republi-
cans should succeed in November in
electing their candidate-in getting
even a small measure Of insolent as
sertion from the negro cohorts,
what might we not expect in the
line of exciting disorder from a man
whose brother, according to our Stu
art correspondent, proclaimed from
the stump that "lf he Hampton
Hoge) was elected Governor Of Vir-
ginia the work of the Constitutional
Convention would never be ratified"
because, "the militia will be called
out and the present organic law en-
forced?"
With such man in the guberna-
torial chair and backed by and DOM
mated by the element that ensured
AAo OlCObiOH, hudI HOulO USCOLu6 OF
confidence in Virginia securities?
What would become of the conf
dence in Virginia as field for invest
ment of outside capital, that has been
steadily growing ever since the Dem
ocrats became regnant in the State?
Granting that the work of the Con-
stitutional Convention would;prevent
the Republicans from having at the
worst more than a brief season of au-
thority, that season would be long
enough to jeopardize the highest po-
litical and economical interests.
Woe, therefore, to Virginia, the day
when there is break, be it ever so
short, in the continuity of white.
e. Demooratic-supremacy in the
State. So, therefore, every consider