Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-07-22
How Will The
Ninth Answer?

4 '~S .ac~atuS ohN hShHSihS dtdtuuc
towards the Southern people, the Re
dubiican party, in few OF the Con-
gressional Districts Of this section, is
asking that Representatives be elected
who viii vote In Congress to uphold
the present administration. How viii
Southern men answer that appeal
Southern White men. we meane How
viii It be with the electorate of the
Niuth District OF this state? Hon.
Campbell Slemp is a candidate Tor the
House OF Representatives upon the
same ticket, and the same platform
with Mr.. Roosevelt. Think not that
the doughty Ninth District Congress
man will refuse to follow the lead az
his party should il CONTROL the next
Congress and determine by caucus de-
cree to reduce the Congressional repre-
has shown by his acts OF record that
when so directed by party manda.e-
erstwhile Confederate officer though he
be-he will vote for a negro politician
against white Confederate soldier
who fought under the Stars and Bars.
and who afterwards went limping
through life, mangled, becrutched,
one-legged veteran, as a result OF his
devotion to the cause OF his mother
commonwealth. III Colonel Slemp can
thus vote against a crippled Confed-
crate hero-in favor OF negro-what
are the considerations to prevent him
from voting to cripple Virginia In her
representative and ELECTORAL strength.
should the Republican party, having
the power. undertake 20 redeem the
anu-Southern plank In it's national
platform, and adopt caucus resolu-
ton 10 that effectl
BY both the Tazewell and Chicago
platforms, the Republican candidate
for Congress in the Ninth District,
stands with Roosevelt and for all the
policies which Roosevelt represents.
Mr.. Wysor. upon the contrary, MS.
sumes position not only against Col.
Slemp, but against Mr.. Roosevelt and
the racial vices OF Rooseveltism. No
vote OF his was ever cast to give off,
cial preference 10 n negro over white
man. The Republican party. just after
the war. deliberately attempted by
Congressional enactment. To so arrange
conditions in the South that the negro
ex-slave would be the civic ruler OF the
white man. "On March End, 1867 4"
says the Hon. A. c. Brixt On, In the
history OF the Fifteenth Amendment.
"the famous reconstruction act was
passed over the Presidential veto, rele-
eating the Southern States 20 the con.
dition OF military districts, fixing negro
suffrage upon them, and DISTINGUISHING
a large number Of their white men >"
That act was plainly unconstitutional,
but its enactment constituted fact
which will stand as an imperishable in
dictment of the Republican party for an
undertaking whose infamous atrocity
Is unparalleled in the history OF Ameri-
can politics. Wysor, we say, stands
against that party, and as the nominee
OF an organization that fought recon-
struction legislation at its every foul
step and In its every foul tendency.
How will 1t be, we ask again. with
yous white voters OF the Ninth-be you
Republicans or Democrats-who have
tho divinely-impressed seal OF Caucas-
ian race supremacy reflected In the color
OF your skin, the strnightness OF your
hair, the superiority OF your mind, and
the loftiness Of your soul?-to say moth
ing Of the majesty and grandeur OF the
civilization which your fathers have
builded for you-how will il be with
you IN choosing between Republicanism
and Democracy In this campaign? 1t
IL for the White men OF the Ninth TO
assert selection between Slemp, the
Roosevelt II 'pub,icln; a I'd Wysor, the
loyal son Of the Southwest m )untaine +,
who today Is holding aloft the banns
OF his race as we'll as OF his part
Will 1t be said-can 1t be truthfully
said-that when confronted by such
candidates and such conditions, the
white vote Of the Southwest will be so
cast as to elect Republican Congress
man and endorse Theodore Roosevelt?
We would admonish the white Repub-
lican suffraist to hesitate long and con-
slider Well ere casting ballot that
would contribute to such result. Be.
fore doing 50, he should take counsel
earnestly OF the best promptings OF his
heart and mind and conscience, and
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