The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-10-31
|BARkSDALE SIlRS
FULT Ton VOTERS
Halifax Senator Makes
Some Strong Hits.
HE SCORES OCL. HOGE
Col. Anderson and Capt. Lamb Also
Make Speeches.
BIG FIGHTS FOR STATE OFFICES
Much Will Depend, However, Upon the coul'
plexion OF the Legislature-senator
Keezeil for State Treasurer.
Folkes and Hoge May
Meet-Poiitical
Notes.
HE SCORES OCL. HOGE
BIG FIGHTS FOR STATE OFFICES

Notes
There were some "hip-hurrahH times
| down in Fulton last night at a great
mass-meeting of Democrats. before
! crowd: which was particularly and en-
Enthusiastically demonstrative Senator
william P. Barksdale delivered an .ld-
| dress fecked with fire directed against
| Colonel J. Hampton Hoge, against the
| reyilers Of the Constitutional Convention,
and against those who oppose proposed
| measures which will relieve the F1rglnla
/ electorate OF what he termed the dan
| ger of negro domination. incidentally,
! he paid his respects to President Roose-
| yeIt in connection with the famous Book
| er Washington dinner.
While Senator Barksdale was the prln-
| cipal speaker there were addresses ny
! Colonel George Wayne Anderson candi-
! date for the Senate, who filled the time
| allotted to 'Cyclone" Jim Marshall, who
! was unable to be present, ant pS Con-
sressman John Lamb, in which the I'VE
issues Of the day were reviewed and tne
, earnest and continuous support ol 'iie
| people asked The meeting was held IN
|
Mr.. jefferson Wallace, chairman OF the
meeting, introduced Senator Barksdaie
! as g. ..scrapper,' and in beginning the
!! Senator said:
| 81 don't claim to be a scrapper, put
| in this campaign more than in any other
:: the Republicans have raised the plach
| flag and I do feel like scrappins.
1--WE have never had a Democratic Pres
| ideut since James Buchanan he contln-
! ued. after touching lightly on his intro
! d,,ction, .sNe had q fake Democratic
| President, but that was all. he at
| tackled the Spansh-Amerlcan war as dii
| opera boufe in which Roosevelt had
pulled out as hero, pald a .rlpues :.
I General Joe Wheeler at Santiago, anu
+! charged that after gallantly winning the
rayal battle OF Santiago, Schley, through
q Republican administration, is being
| cheated of the glory due him because ne
is a Southern man and a Democrat.
THAT ANS-CONTINENTAL TIKI.
The Halifax Senator next touched upon
1,olone1 Hose. "Hoge,'' he said, was
n Democratic stump speaker as long as
he was respectable. and when he become
disreputable Of course he turned Repup-
lican When he made his famous trans-
continental trip on his way 10 ohil'd
Hoge got drunk and drunken until pF
the time he reached San FRANCISCO nc
didn't know a telegram from postage
stamp. And he must have gotten drunk
on the meanest whiskey in the Wor!d,
because it turned him from a Democrat
TO a Republican,.
Referring to the revocation Oh Coiolsi
Hoge's appointment as a consul to China.
the sneaker said: "I don't think man
whom Grover Cleveland kicked out OF
office is fit for chief executive OF TINS
commonwealth" Further he said, in re-
ferrins to the economy Of the Democratic
state administrations. when the Demo-
Gratis came in power In TINS state the
penitentiary. alone, was costing the state
something like $4,000 a year, ne sald'
.aud now, through the Democratic ad-
ministration, it is paving $4,000 a year
That is because it is full of Republicans.
Hoee's constituencies Mr.. Barksdale added
amid applause.
"Hose goes to sec President Theodore
Roosevelt sometimes, and RooseVelt lelS
him in just the same as IL he was d
niger. (Laughter0 On the other h@stil", @
there is no cleaner man III the politics
Of Virginia than Mr.. Montague. he is
absolutely pure; lie has never failed to
nlease his friends or to disappolnt ms
enemies.
Tn sneakiug of the menace to white
domination, particularly in what is known
as the "black belt senator Barksuale
stated that Roosevelt's action IN the
booker Washington case had stimulated
~.
eroes if he feels proud to have his chill
dren go to school with negro. want
it known lnat the people OF TINS STATE
do uot.n he SAID, and the crowd cheered.
COL. ANDERSON.
Previous to this address, which was con-
stantly interrupted by laughter and ap-
hlause. Colonel Anderson was the speak
er. '"The great central loea ol r,ep.u
l;canisro." he declared, sis the great CEN
+raI enover. In the convention at Roa-
nose there was a demonstration or the
+r,,tb of this in showing how tue Repupil-
o,ns aisreearu the Constitution OF the
s+afe r. was either this Or criminal g
norance when Robert W. Blair ABOUT -
wears old, was nominated as Lleu!e-s II IL
Governor, when the Constitution pro-
yided that no man under 81 coula W
elected legally to this position
Hs smoke Of the Republican as a negro
| Marty and along this line touched on the
black menace in this State Ne una
ourselves y he said, confronted by vote
of 1ae ODD which we desire to eliminate
from, tI,e electorate because they are hos
file to the people. Thirty years showed
the negro could not share IN the inter-
est and brawn of the Commonwealth ana
Demonstrated that this vote Is a menace
"a tI,e body poIitic It is not prejudice,
hut we have decided to disfranchise as far
ns the law allows It is impossible to
have a civic equality without having
social equality"
He went at some length into defense
of the Democratic administration in the
state, declaring that when the democrats
came in power the bonds of the Sta were
nra ct,cally unstable, while now they ase
within a few points of par. He also spoke
Of Hoge's trip across the continent. at the
end of which he was lost and found in.
rTaya =
..It is said the Democrats named VIII
lard for acknowledgements because of
his barrel the speaker said. Hosa
knows more about barrels than any man
on the Democratic ticket.
Congressman Lamb, in response to a.
reneral demand from the audience, spoke
& briefly on State and national issues, after
which the meeting adjourned.