The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-01-11
VIRGINIA TOPICS.

The Nelson Times is glad to hear from
President Goode that there will be no
understanding clause or grandfather
clause in the suffrage ordinance. OF
the party pledge it says:
We know that the politician and many
others say that the Democratic PARTY WAS
committed in tho Norfolk Convention to
disfranchse, wholesale, the negro, and
not to disfranchise any whife man. Two
wrongs never did nor ever will make one
right. If the Norfolk Convention made a
mistake in making the pledge, the Constt-
tutional Convention should not make a
bIunder in the wholesale disfranchise-
ment Of the colored man.
We grant you that the Fifteenth Amend
ment to the Federal Constitution was
mistake, or worse than mistake. If you
please, but we will not admit that there
is not colored man in Virginia VINO
should not be entitled to vote.
The Blackstone Courier says that the
debates in the Constitutional Convention
have emphasized the rfactsrthate q new
Constitution is sadly needed. But the
Courier thinks that there is an organized
effort to bring the action OF the conven-
ton to naught. We quote:
The oft repeated statement is again
being made i'll the press Of the State that
these who ha 5e ever oppo ;e.i 4 new Con-
stitution for the State are still using
their best endeavors towards this end.
with a bright hope of success. This is
only what is to be expected, because the
class who have generally opposed it are
those who will not be benefited by
change. They care not for the good of
the State, but for their own selfish pur-
poses.
Some Of these doubtless have seats in
the convention, and are using their efforts
in trying to talk to death every PROPOSE
ton that is brought forward. AS DR..
Barnes says, they talk. talk, talk" If
they had one-tenth Of the action that
they have of talk the State would be
ten times better off,
Taking the cue from some Of the
Virginia newspapers says the Richmond
Times, 1--WE observe that some of the
outside papers are now ridiculing the
oratory of the Constitutional Convention
and saying that the convention is being
talked to DEATH" Notwithstanding the
danger of darlsening counsel by words,
We are inclined to agree with The Times
that there is a possibility of some good
results from all this talk and it Is better
t. deliberate than ''to jump at hasty
conclusions" It is a little tough on the
paper that assumed the task in the out
set OF printing all the sayings and doings
of the convention. VIC sometimes fancy
that the Dispatch gives tokens Of weari-
ness Of its Job. There is probably no
paper In the State that has more fire.
quentIy urged the convention to. buckle
down to practical work and to dispense.
with long speeches. A fellow feeling
makes us wondrous kind sometimes. and
it may be that the outside papers are
trying to help tho Dispatch out Of
narl place.--Danville Register.
The hearts of Virginians everywhere
are glad that Senator Daniel has decided
to remain in the Constitutional Conven-
ton. His voice and leadership in any
man can do. If his health does not fail
him he may be counted upon for his
full share of the work of the convention.
-Appomattox Times.
PEOPLE of Virginia are greatly disappoint-
ctl with the outcome of convention Work.
Six months and nothing absolutely ac-
comDlished is sorry reading. We DO not
foreet that much of conference has been
lad, nor that many long speeches have
teen delivered, but we cannot admit that
any real p1 ogress las been made. The
members actually seem to be further. and
further apart on ali important questions
as the days go by. This is particularly
true of the suffrage question. There
were two reports to begin with and now.
their name is legion Where it is to end;
the good Lord only knows.
God save the !'-Farrn-
ville Herald.
The Brunswick Gazette thinks that it.
is both painful and disheartening, the
spirit of opposition to the University
that has manifested itself in the Con-
stitutional Convention. It proceeds:
we had hoped that there at least we.
should witness no exhibition of the mar
row prejudices and local jealousies that
for years have cropped out In the Legis-
lature whenever the lime arrivedsto make
appropriations for the support Of the
educational institutions OF the State
The bare idea that it should be necessary
*8..to lobby with q Virginia Legislature
to secure the necessary approximations
to maintain her greatest institutions of