The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-11-01
FINE SPEECHES
IN CLAY WARD ri !.
.Nessrs. Cameron n. and
T,hon.the Orators.
SUFFRAGE QUESTION.
They Discussed it With Characteritics
Ability.
WHITE SUPREMACY THE ISSUE.
The Audience Was Asked to Stand by Their
Cwn Flesh and Blood and to Help Libe-
rate the White People from the
Bond of Negro Suffrage.
Political Notes and
. Gossip.
WHITE SUPREMACY THE ISSUE

Gossip.
Decidedly one of the most successful
Democratic rallies of the campaign was
held at BelvGere Hall last night, the ora
tors being Hon. Alfred P. Thorn, OF Nor
folk, and Ex-Governor William E. Cam
eron, of Petersburg.
The hall was well filed with enthus-
astic voters, and they heard an interest
ing subject discussed, for both the dis
tinguished leaders devoted their time al
most exclusively TO handling the suffrage
question, which they did with character
fistic ability and with wonderful effect
upon their hearers.
Chairman Ellyson. CITY Chairman
Doherty and several other prominent par
| ty leaders escorted the. popular orators
| into the hall at SIS o'clock to the en-
| livening strains Of Dixie, rendered by
| Iardella's band, and the party was ac-
corded a most fattering reception by the
audience.
Delegate John Garland Pollard presided
and introduced his distinguished col
| leagues to the assemblage. Governor
Cameron spoke first and for nearly an
hour he held his hearers with wonderful
ease, ana often threw them lltO perfect
/ spasms of applause. He declared that the
issue was white supremacy, and said it
| was the DUTY of all white men to join
! hands and uphold the Constitutional Con-
| vention in its work of disfranchising the
| negro without taking the right of suffrage
from a single white man in the State.
ALL WHITE MEN TO VOTE.
Col Cameron and Mr.. Thorn both dis
| tinctly set forth that no white man would
! lose his right to vote under the new Con-
| :;titution, and asked their hearers if they
! were willing to leave the settlement of
! the great problem of the hour to the
| party which hat foisted negro suffrage
upon the Sout th.--or. wtet herft ne woulG-
I trust their own flesh and blood to per-
! form that high mission.
/ They made eloquent appeals to their
hearers to stand by the white mans
| party, and declared that the line between
! that and the party OF the black man mad
never been 50 sharply drawn before.
The speeches stirred Clay Ward and the
I old banner end of the city will be heard
/ from on election day
PROMINENT MEN PRESENT.
Some of the prominent Democratic Lead
/ ers on the stage and in the audience
| were: Hon. J. Taylor Ellyson, Congress-
| man Lamb, Messrs. Jefferson Wallace.
! Cunningham Hall, f. D. Price, B. o.
James, Isaac Digs, Fl. i. Carter. u.
!
| Bargamin, John Bowers, DR.. George Ross,
| Colonel George Wayne Anderson, Hon.
| Julian Bryant, w. j. kimbrough. u. c..
! Richardson John B. Miner, John A. Cur
| tbs, Hon. G.. NJ. Wallace, Jr., ana Hon.
| E. Il. Montague. of Hampton.
| Chairman Doherty called the meeting
! to order at $50 o'clock, and introduced
Delegate j. Garland Pollard. who pre-
sided and presented the distinguished
speakers Of the evening. Mir. Pollard
| briefly but eloquent1y called attention to
! the Importance OF the impending struggle.
and said no men in Virginia were more
capable of discussing fthe issues than
| those who would address the meeting
presently.
SPEECH OF MR.. CAMERON.
Mr. Pollard introduced Ex-Governor
Cameron first. and he came forward
| amid wave of applause. which broke
out afresh at frequent intervals during
| the delivery of his magnificent address.
! He said He did not come to discuss
| ticket needed 10 ercouliums. They scared
so high above those of the other party
| that he was spared the making of any
! comparisons. He went Immediately into
an able discussion of the suffrage ques-
ton, and said the war was now upon the
Democrat is of Virginia and they must
meet the issue and win.
Governor Cameron graphically de-
| scribed the manner in which the negroes
were enfranchised and declared that the
suffrage Was the great issue OF the hour.
: He quoted a prominent negro who re-
| Gently said that the greatest crime of the
! age was the dragging of his ignorant
race into politics unprepared for the
| struggle. White supremacy was the is
sue, and he contended that it was best
for the negro himself that he should be
| disfranchised and removed from the
| arens of politics as a factor, where a
| cruel fate awaited him.
! BY FORCE AND FRAUD.
Outrageous force and fraud had fosted
negro suffrage upon the people OF the
| South, and it was only by the force of
bitter necessity that the white people
| had Yielded to it for a moment. History
| had shown that in every struggle where
the Anglo-Saxon people had met an in-
| ferior race, that race had gone down in
igneIcinious defeat.
..And vet, he said, "some speakers
are warning the white people to beware
Of the Democratic party, and, fellow,
citizens, Il say to you it makes my blood
| boil. @ If Anderson and Daniel and Goodef
and others like them are not to be
| trusted to preserve your suffrage. then
upon whom will you call to perform this
high mission?
"Col IToge says he will be elected
continued the speaker .4rllis is the only
time L shall mention his name. But
want to say he has a great habit OF
starting for places and not getting there.
| prolonged applause.)
In discussing the suffrage further. Gov
Cameron said: 1--WE mean to preserSe
| this white column as soiidly as it existed
prior to 1SG1, and to strike from the poll
books every negro we possibly can with
out running counter to this infamous Fif-
/ teenth amendment
may be made to so ithout hitting the
hone Of. the Fifteenth amendment
URGEECANCER0US MATTER,
stIt is In our hands ass much as It is In
yours to take care Of thsswhite people of:
]! this State. and we propose to purge he