Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1908-10-29
PARTY ORGAN
VERY FOND OF
Dish OF CROW
CHAMELEON ACT OF THE INTEL.
LIGENCER is LUDIcROUS.

rev weeks ago the Wheeling In
telligencer was battling against the
Republican machine in this state, not
because it was for the right, but be-
cause it was against the man whom
the machine had nominated for COVER
nor on personal grounds. While rev.
cling in that spasm of virtue it print
ed the following:
Prom time TO time, the cheerful
information has been sent out from
the Swisherite 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 have 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
ecould be? In another column of the
Intelligencer today, appears an inter
esting account of some recent proceed
ings in Mcdowell county, which
throws a lurid light on the situation.
"A very large proportion OF the vote
in Mcdowell county is colored. Nc
Dowell is the extreme southern coun-
ty of the state. 1t lies practically in
the lap of old Virginia, whose terri
tory surrounds it on three sides. It's
sole industry is coal mining and its
mining interests are dominated by
one concern of which Isaac T. Mann
is the head The question OF Mr..
Swisner's majority in 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. 1t
is possibly the only county in which
the negro population Is in large ma
iority, and it 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 a 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
C. w. Swisher. The question Is now,
will this machine, controlling many
thousand negro votes or reporting
those votes as it's leaders choose, be
able to overcome the will OF the de-
cent voters of West Virginia? If 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"
sThen. having sold its friends and
Joined with the machine, the lntelli-
gencer, a few days ago printed the
following:
~ 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 Dy
Hon. Louis Bennett in his address at
Bluefield: and the Democratic news
papers. notably the Wheeling Regis
ter. gleefully informs us that "the Ell.
feet was electrical. The cheering ana
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 true
TYNE. The son of an old Virginia
aristocrat, whose fortune was early
invested in wild land, on which his De
scendants have sat down waiting LOT
the enterprise and energy OF others 10
devotion IL and make 1t valuable, MT.
bennett represents nothing else SO
we'll as the views and expressions OF
the dominant element that plunged
into civil war, and nearly destroyed
the Union.
"Tbe great lesson OF the equal
rights of man, which mas been writ
ten in letters of fire and blood in the
American Constitution, means noun
inc To Louis Bennett and to men ike
him He expects to be elected cover.
nor of West Virginia by the votes Oh
white men"-and white men alone.
n matters not how ignorant, corrupt
nv degraded that white man vote may
he II will be welcomed by Louis
Rennett: and it matters not now
worthy and honorable may be the
MN of color who offers mis- ballot
onis Rennett does not want II. II
would he hard at this late day TO mo
anywhere save in the rawlings OF TIL.
> man or Vardaman an incitaton Oh
race hatred and of race discriminaa'
49,, oc,,aI m this The man who Ut
ters II is not. and cannot be, in sym
natbv with the great movements tlal
have developed and built up West
V;,oinia-a movement that recog
nizes only one thing, the Individual
worth of men and their capacity fol
service; movement pnal uoes NO.