The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1905-07-21
WIZARDS Position on Jim Crow Law

fredericksburg Free Lance, July 49,
Ii was noteworthy that during hi.
entire speech here on Tuesday night
Northumberland Willard did mol
once refer 10 the INSTRUMENTATION
the Culpeper Exponent placed upon
his attitude toward the Jim Crow
Car Bill i'm rece It lengthy editorial,
which was generally circulated
Throughout the State, and i'm pdrsuing
this course he not only acted wisely,
but was entirely right. Mr.. Willard
has nothing 10 defend i'm reference 10
his attitude on the Jim Crow bill He
has never opposed IT, On the contra
ny, il received his vote and support.
and the very authority which our con-
temporary invOkes TO bolster up its
insinuatiOns proves the falsity Of them
Here IS the account, so far as il re-
lates to Mr.. Willard's antagOnisms to
the bill, as published in the Dispatch
at the time, and this is the account of
proceedings upon which the Expo
nent relies.
"Mr Willard spoke Of the import
ance of the railway communication
with Washington for his section. Hell
said after hai / fight his.peOple had |
secured capital to build a road from
the south side Of the Potomac to run |
through Alexandra and Fairfax |
counties. He thought the Epps bill /
would act as prOhibitive act on this |
road, and he therefore offered an
amendment that nothing i'm the act
shall apply to roads operating exclu-
slvely i'm the counties Of Alexandria
and Fairfax, or i'm the counties of Al
eXandria and Fairfax and the District
Of Columbia.
The Willard amendment was voted
down I'm committee to 5.
Nothing short of desire 10 do an
injustice could have animated such
"a wilful miscOnstructiOn Of the Dis .
patch's report, because there is moth
ing I'm the report that any fair and I'M !
prejudiced mind could cOnstrue into !
opposition on the part Of Mr.. Willard :
10 the measure, and there is sufficient Z
IN the report TO suggest To anyone
who really wanted the truth 10 in
quire of the people Of the counties of !
Fairfax and Alexandria whether or
not Mr.. Willard was engaged in ex- y
plotting his individual views and look
ing after his own interests or repre- p,
senting the interest and wishes Of his Il
II our esteemed con- !,
temporary had gone To this trouble In
u would have found that the people @
Mr.. Willard represented were unani- ~
nous in the opinion that If the cleo IN
iric road, which was i'm course of con "
'tructiOn through Alexandria and NJ
rairfaX counties, was not exempted to
nom Tie operation Of the proposed
aw, the road would never be built II
ma the county seat of Fairfax county n
would continue without railroad IA
'lllties. In all fairness. weaskwheth-
y II was the duty of the representa- OF
I've OF these people in the Legislature IN
o oiier the amendment he did. as his trn
desired. OF 10 misrepre- tr,
ent them and advocate in the begin Ia
ing the measure as introduced Sir ~,
v lizard had absolutely no personal IN,
interest IN the road. and he has not lSN
oW, but II was through Mr.. Wizards TO-
generosity that the railway was finally ri,
nabled 10 reach Fairfax 4. "A. for is,
hOrlly after the passage Of the bin ~
e sent the road, through the citizens m
Fairfax, check for So. 900. I'M re- ser
urn Tor This ne has received notbino &C..
Hshe way OF a pecuniary interest In Coz
ne road not even pass over the iuL
pad Tor himself and family. II is ~,
eeuiess, therefore, for us to repeat
nat Mr' Willard does not have To- de-
"N MS record on the Jim Crow law D." ~ ~.