Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-10
|AIkEGRO|ON new I[AWIRACINGz IN THE MUD|
CAESAR PERKINS APPEARS TO.
LIKE THE NEW CONSTITUTION.
HIS ADVICE TO THE. NEGROES.
The Black Orator OF Buckingham
Tells Them They Do Not Deserve
n Vote without Education and
7 Propcrty-DcleEntes Elected.

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BUCKINGHAM, VA, September -
(SpeciaL) County Court was In session
here to-day, and tomorrow there Will
be special grand Jury summoned TO IN
vesttgate very grave charge against
citizen of this county.
The Democratic County Committee was
called in session by Chairman Ellis, and
it was decided that each district commit
tee should urge upon the voters the i'm
portance OF registering under the new
law. Hon. e. w. Hubbard and Judge A.
s. Hall made addresses to a crowd assem-
BLEED on the court-green, in which they
told of the Importance and OF what a duty
1t was for each citizen to offer to regis
ter. The people had not taken much in
terest heretofore in the matter, and some
seemed to think If they only told one
of the registrars to put their name down
that they would be registered The regis
tration begins to-day in each district or
the county. Hon. II. D. Flood was ex-
pected here yesterday, but he did not
come.
The Republicans held mass-meeting
the county in the congressional conven-
ton, which meets at Buchanan on the
26th Here Is list of the delegates, and
a Democrat remarked that 1t contained
nearly all the white Republicans of the
county: Colonel James Lyons County
.chairman), r. II. Spencer, w. +. Nc
Craw, Colonel r. T. HUBBARD, L. B. Lee
suer, Gordon Gentry, I. M. Oslin, Ralph.
Eldridge j. W. Wood, R. S. Smith, and
NJ. S. Staples.
h Chairman Spencer, in addressing the
meeting. said the new suffrage law would
disfrancilise nearly as many white men as
black, and that Mr.. Flood, one Of the
trainers of the Constitution, was now
the nominee of his party for Congress. He
asked how many young white men could
pay as much as 81 State tax or give a
sat,sfac Glory explanation Of any clause in
the Constitution to a Democratic Board.
Mr. William Lancaster, of Cumberland
was called on, and responded briefly,
saying that If Mr.. Yost were nominated
he would stand good chance OF being
elected.
Mr. T. w. Wood, in his address,. alluded
to his party as the ''Grand White Repub-
licanparty," sayinghe thought there would
be only about 70 colored voters registered
in the county, and that the charge would
be no more made that his was the negro
party.
Colonel James Lyons also spoke.
Later in the day Caesar Perkins made g.
speech, and abiding to Mr.. Woods state
ment that this (the Republican, is the
white mans party, he said he did not
think any man should be allowed to vote
unless he helped to support the govern
ment
"When these white folks fall out" said
he II am going to the side I like best
He said the white people made this Con-
stitulion, they had made all others. and
they would continue to make them. Ad-
dressing himself to his colored brethren,
he said: you negroes buy land; own
something on which to pay 81 in State
taxes; list those horses high" The col
ored man and his boy who went into war
could vote but mighty few went into the
war He was glad there was a war, or
else he would be slave now. Asked by
a bystander (who interrupted him), how
much he got for making this speech. he
seemed to become angered, and said he
was glad the white men who came there
to sell their votes could vote no more.
Men, said he, register white and col
ored The registration boards are com
posed of honest men, and I believe any
man who is entitled to register Will be
allowed to do 80: and If the negroes, af-
ter being furnished with school advan-
tages had not acquired enough knowledge
to enable them to vote, it was their own
fault The Congressional Committee had
| decided not to make any nomination. but
word came from President Roosevelt that
| it must be done, and it is to be done
| Concluding abruptly, Caesar Perkins said
Nov, with these remarks, if you are
not satisfied, I am. -