The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-15
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understand that by not voting themselves,
they helped to kill forty negro votes,
they would be proud Of the sacrifce.
SENATOR DANIEL AGAIN,

SENATOR DANIEL AGAIN.
Senator Daniel replied to Mr.. Gordon
By giving a history of the steps by which
| universal manhood suffrage was won, and
paid beautiful tribute to the soldiers
| Q: the Valley and the Southwest who
went through long and bloody war TO
| protect the rights and the slave property
| Of their Eastern brethren. He ridiculed
DR.. McIlwaines statement that eminent
professors had written in approval OF
| his straight property qualification plan
| by ying that class of clustered phil
csophers knew less about public opinion
and practical politics than the man IN
| the moon, for he did look down on ali
the people and knew what was coins,
on. He dissected the soldier descendant
exemption from the property qualiflca-
| ticn by doubling its constitutionality, and
declared it was, hanging. trembling en-
pre- or trembling thread.
| AS to the sons of a mother who owned
| $500 worth of property being allowed 10
vote, he illustrated its practical working
! t:y showing that a mother having ten or
| less sons who voted because of her pos
session of $500, might lie down and die
and those ten sons would be Immediately
disfranchised. What sort Of shifting
| electorate would you call that?" he asked
| c~ the attentive audience. He called at
| tention to the Glass plan, which allowed
/
| ties to be allowed by the Legislature TO
| have a property qualification similar to
| the one the amendment proposed to fas-
| ten on the whole State. He said that
! would not satisfy them. They were sick
with the disease of negro suffrage and
the medicine would cure them, but they
would not take it unless their healty
and well brothers of the Valley and the
| mountains, who did not need or want
| the medicine, were compelled to also
take the nauseous, drastic dose for ali
! future time. eff they cannot make US
| take this medicine and get sick. they re-
fuse to take it themselves and get well
! is the inevitable deduction" he exclaimed
with warmth.
Senator Daniel closed in an eloquent
plea for the noble. humble but faithful
and patriotic white man, who fought for
| his country in every hour of trial or peril
and held the balance of public safety
equally poised between liberty. conserva-
tisn and justice when we desert them
we are gone,'' lie exclaimed.
There was great applause when the elo-
uuent and able advocate concluded his
speech.
Mr.. WATSON's SPEECH.
Mr. Watson followed Senator Daniel,
and in advocating the amendment de-
clared that before he would so home to
| his people and tell them he had nothing
| to offer them but a temporary subterfuge
| to operate for only one day he would of
fer a resolution in the convention, recit-
| ing that the convention was unable, inca
pable or unwilling to enact an efficient
suffrage law. and therefore, let the pres
| emit one stand
DR.. McIlwaine made a vigorous speech
| in defense OF his nositionf for q STRAIGHT
| property qualifications, and asserted that
lit was the only honest way out OF the
| difficulty. He charged that .he advocates
! of the temporary understanding clause
/ had expressly claimed thrt its superiority
4 over the permanent understanding plan
was that it would not require but one
great big fraud and then they would try
/ to he honest.
Mr.. Glass strongly denied this. but the
1 speaker insisted that he had said SO III
i so many words at a previous conference,
and that he CDR. McIlwaine) had jocu-
| larly threatened to report him to the
i church in Lynch burg.
i There was great laughter, applause and
i confusion at this incident. Mr.. Glass
i .proved by Mr.. Thorn that he was not
! guilty. but the Doctcr# stuck to his text,
bringing rounds of laughter and applause
i bv- saving. as he pcirtsd tt Senator pa-
/ niel: ,.'I am not a. clustered monk. as
i have been Gales by you. sir. but do
] know that Mr.. Class can make more rash
statements thar any man in Virginia,
here ard er5ycSder in the Senate too
/ Time was extended until $40 for him to
conclu &c. He mad a strong. impressive
4 and highly Interesting argument in op-
4 positio- to the nj t on to reconsider
At 6:15 the f-isnde ofsthe motion to re-
4 consider made a desperate effort to reach
4 a vote NJ c mt std n motion to i-urn
4su-til tc-dav. The Gordon amendment
4 leaders pressed the motion Opponents OF
4 adjournment demanded and secur q a roll
call. The motion to adj ourn Prevailed by
asvote of AZ to ~, and at 6:2o clock things