West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1908-10-22
SEEING THINGS
DIFFERENTLY

Iho wheeling lntclligCnCer one day
last week, contained an editorial
criticism of Louis BENNETT because
that gentleman declared he was 20.
ing TO be elected Governor of West
Virginia 10y the votes of awhite men.
Here snys the mtclligonccr. lis
the bold, unblushing expression of the
bourbon democracy" That IL is
bold and unbushing" That II is
deny. and certainly no friend of Mr..
liennotts would wish To deny. for
they like candidate who speaks
boldly, and they would not have him
blush over a matter which contains
nothing that should cause any mem
Der OF the Anglo Saxon race to blush.
Louis Bennett stands sQuarely and
straight upon the platform builded by
che Charleston convention. not be.
cause IL Is his duty to do so as a
candidate. hut because he believes IL
right as a man.
Now mark the difference between
Louis Rennctt and the paltry rag that
thus Crlticisos him A few weeks
ago. when the Intelligenccr was Cd.
posing the candidate of It's party. sim
ply because IL was defeated In it's
desire TO beat him I'm convention, II
printed an editorial ON the situation
IN Mcdowell county. the last para.
graph of which Is as follows:
a very large proportion of the vote
In Mcdowell county Is cOlored Nc
Nuwell rs the extreme southern coun-
~ of the state. II lies practically
In the lap of Old Virginia. whose ter.
ritory surrounds IL on three sides.
It's sole industry is coal mining and
its mining interests are dominated
10y ono concern of which Isaac r.
ID lA a
Mr.. Swisher's majority In Mcdowell.
therefore, becomes the question. how
many colorcd voters from Old Vir-
Einia aud North Carolina can be
brought into Mcdowell county on
election day, and how often and at
now many different places can they
/ be yotcd2 Mcdowell county is
unique In West Virginia. II Is posi-.
bly, the only county I'm which the col.
ored population IL in a large major
ity. and II Is certainly the only one
I'm which white men. more disreputa-
bic by far than the poor and ignor-
ant men whom they use and mislcad,
have organized the negroes into club
with which they expect TO dictate 10
the Republicans I'm every other coun.
ty In the state This club held over
the head OF Congressman James A
Hughes, caused him to swing the en-.
tire pOstoiHcc and federal official brig
ade i'm the Fifth Congressional Dis
trict FOR G. w Swishcr This club
held over the heads OF the United
states Senators has done more than
any other one thing to bring~them
into line for G. w. Swlsher AwThe.
question IS now. viii this nfiTySss
controlling many thousand ns$S
votes be- able TO overcome the wf1l
of the decent voters OF West Virginia?
II so. then The time has come for
The serious consideration OF these
blanks I'm the Democratic platform
which make for white sovereignty In
West Virginia"
The lntclligencer was willing 10 go
against the negro. to consider" his
Acknowledgement when he was being
used a. q club" with which TO force
the dominance OF the faction of the
Republican party 10 which IL did not
happen az the moment 10 belong, but
when II is proposed to disfranchiso
the negro for the purpose OF Keeping
him from being used as n club to
dominate the affairs of the state. and
disfrauchise thousands OF white men
IN another party the consideration OF
the matter becomes "Bourbonism,"
and ia iit only for donunciation.
LOUIS lienHett ana the Democratic
party believe the negro should be dis
irdnchlsod IN West Virginia because
hc is not fitted by character. train
ing and instinct to properly exercise
The franchise; because. as the Intel.
ligenccr said. I'm one OF its few spasms
of virtue. lac can be voted often"
aud AT many different places" TO de-
feat the will Of the legal voters Of
the state Not for factiOnal Sou
ccss, not for party dominance. but for
The safety Of the republic and the
pcrpetuation Of rs institutions do
Louis Bennett and the Democrats
who stand with him demand that the
electorate Of the state be purified by
the elimination Of It's degraded. cor
ruptiOn-breeding membership.
These are reasons that the InteIIi.
gcncer and the halfbaked political
creatures that run II can neither ap-
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