Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-12-02
ny will oui, work" he said with hearty

ny will quit work. he said with hearty
gufraw.
Unlike some other noted humorists. Mr..
Wise always enjoys his own jokes and
like Blind Tom, the negro musician
prodigy, he always leads the applause
for himself, laughing heartily as the tick
ling sens<seion begins TO percolate TO the
surface.
Unfortunately for Captain Wise the
North is not us fanatical on the negro
question as it once was
Shades of ..UncIe Tom"
II feel as though ! were the ad!ninistra-
Tor of the estate of late Harriet Beecher
Stowe, he said Sunday, to a Washington
Post reporter
IT guess I'm the only friend the negro
has in the world" he continued. Il don't
know of any other white man who is
fighting for the cause OF the disfranchlsed
negroes in Virginia. II is strange that an
should espouse thei: cause, but my SYM
pathy is with the negroes. AFTER they
have been allowed freedom and have en-
1oyed citizenship for more than thirty
Years l cannot bear to see them reduced
by the means resorted 10 in Virginia.
THE speech which Jim Hayes. the col
ored lawyer. MADE In the federal court
along with the plea OF Robert Emmett.
IT was mastery. The man felt what he
said, and he and his associates VIII not
suits filed against judges of election who
refused to allow negroes to qualify Now
is the chance for a man like Oliver +.
Mol OF. o &C. ~ 30 1--WE
ideas, to make a name for himself. There
is more reason 10 refuse TO admit Viz
ginia members of congress than there
was to deny the Mormon Roberts admis-
sion. ! may find a man who has courage
enough 10 challenge the right of Virginia
election boards TO run elections as they
please. but J. doubt it.
An investigation of the methods AGoDt-
e6 - 3Es 81" : tlGsa q
showed clearly how The voters qualin-
cations We're Juggled With at Will. The
qualifications for a voter are about as
bad as can he imagined, but when the
law is interpreted by ignorant and incom-
petent judges. it is absolutely intolerable.
under the clause permitting a soldier to
vote. lie produced evidence OF ten years
OF hceiorable service in the Apache war
and Other, indian wars in the far west.
The board, consisting of a tramp, q car
penter and a city official, refused to allow
him 20 register because he hadn't been
IN the kind of war intended in the law.
This same board barred out a highly
educated negro, the secretary of an in
surance company. because il held that he
did net give the proper Interpretation of
clause of the constitution. None Of the
members Of the board was capable of III,
Outstanding the clause OF its iuterpreta-
perS could keep the negro from voting"
gen f-tct.are az !.
Captain Wise is portly parsonage with
face not Unlike the pictures OF MIR.
Pickwick as they appeared in the from
tisp;ece of old original volumes Of Pick
wick Papers. In his closing speech Satur-
day he referred to the fact that The Dis
patch had represented him as resembling
Dichcnss immortal creation and pleas
antiy accepted 1t as 4 compliment, as Mr..
Pickwics was gentleman or many anna
bic qualities
That the Captain is an original charac-
ter is quickly made apparent to any one
who comes In contact with him. he is
eloquent in word painting. quick in repair