West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1908-10-22
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because III was Tor the right. but be-
cause IL was against the man whom
the machine had nominated for COVER
nor on personal grounds. While rev.
cling In that spasm of virtue 1t print
ed the following
From time to time. the cheerful
Information has been sent out from
the Swlsherite headquarters. that
their candidates were running espec-
tally well in Mcdowell county. One
especially enthusiastic follower of the
wigwam convention nominee predicts
that the Swisher ticket will have
10000 majority in Mcdowell. and
few estimates nave placed the figures
below 5000. As there have been
only about 5000 Republican voters in
Mcdowell county heretofore. the ques-
ton has naturally arisen, how this
could be? In another column OF the
lntelligencer today. appears an inter.
esting account of some recent proceed
ings i'm Mcdowell county. which
throws lurid light on the situation.
"A very large proportion of the vote
In Mcdowell county is colored Nc
Dowell IL the extreme southern coun-
ty of the state. 1t lies practically i'm
the lap of old Virginia. whose terri
tory surrounds ii on three sides. It's
sole Industry is coal mining and its
mining interests are dominated by
one concern OF which Isaac II. Mann
Is the head. The question of Mr.
Swisner's majority i'm Mcdowell there
fore becomes the question. how many
colored voters from Old Virginia and
North Carolina can be brought into
Mcdowell county on election day, and
how often and at how many different
places can they be voted? Mcdowell
county Is unique In West Virginia IL
is possibly the only county In which
the negro population is in a large ma
jority. and 1t is certainly the only
county in which white men, more
disreputable by far than the poor and
Ignorant men whom they use and mis-
lead. have organized the negro vote
into club, with which they expect
TO dictate TO the Republicans In every
other county in the state. This club
held over the head OF Congressman
James A. Hughes. caused him to
swing the entire postoffice and federal
official brigade in the Fifth congress
sional district for c. w. Swisher. This
club held over the United States Sen
ators has done more than any other
one thing TO bring them into line for
G. w. Swisher. The question is now.
thousand negro votes or reporting
those votes as its leaders choose, be
able TO overcome the will of the de-
cent voters OF West Virginia? II so,
then the time has come for the Sc
rious consideration OF those planks in
the Democratic platform which make
for white sovereignty in the state of
West Virginia"
Then. having sold its friends and
Joined with the machine. the Intelli-
gencer. few days ago printed the
following:
"a expect to be elected governor
Of West Virginia by the white voters
Of the state"
The above was one of the suppos-
ed impressive sentences uttered by
Hon. Louis Bennett in his address at
Bluefeld; and the Democratic news
papers, notably the Wheeling Regis
ter. gleefully informs us that the eff
feet was electrical. The cheering and
hand clapping continue several min
yates"
Here is the bold, unblushing express
sion of the Bourbon Democracy. that
learns nothing and forgets nothing;
and OF which Louis Bennett Is a true
type The son OF an old Virginia
aristocrat, whose fortune was early
invested I'm wild land, on when his de-
scendants have sat down waiting for
the enterprise and energy OF others to
develop II and make IL valuable. Mr..
Bennett represents nothing else so
well as the views and expressions OF
the dominant element that plunged
into civil war, and nearly destroyed
the Union.
"The great lesson of the equal
rights of man, which mas been writ
ten I'm letters of fire and blood in the
American Constitution, means moth
ing to Louis Bennett and to men like
him He expects TO be elected COVER
nor Of West Virginia by the votes OF
white men"-and white men alone.
II matters not how ignorant. corrupt
or degraded that white man vote may
he, Il will be welcomed by Louis
Bennett: and Il matters not how
worthy and honorable may be the
man of color who offers his ballot,
Louis Bennett does not want II. IL
would be hard at this late day TO find
anywhere save in the rawlings OF TIL
man or Vardaman an mediation of
race hatred and OF race discrimina-
ton equal to this. The man who ut
tiers II. is not, and cannot be, i'm sym.
pathy with the great movements that
have developed and built up West
Virginia. movement that recog-
nizes only one thing, the individual
worth Of men and their capacity for
service; a movement that does not
measure men by their ancestors or
their inherited wealth, but by what
they are themselves, and what they
have done i'm the world.
"This utterance shows how entire