The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1909-04-01
THREE.
CANDIDATES. OF COLOR HAVE
s QUALiFTED- in KENTUCKY 81
Negroes Are Alive to- the situation
!; = In the Blue Grass State and Have
ut announced ~ Themselves. Tor RE-
y! !? 5 spen.ssibie County Positions. s
(Ryll Horace D. Slater. !

e.. Il. Inf s. (Byts Horace D. Slater. ~:
Itopkinsvtlle,T KY. March 18th -
Here in Christian county, Kentucky,
resides a population of some so 900
more than half of which;fs composed
';of members of the Negro race. Of
the total number Of voters. OF course
more than half OF them are I coforgd
men. This being true, Christian
county is one of the, Republican
sutrongholds of the state. and can al
ways be- safely relied upon to sand
up comfortable majorities for the
Republican ticket In state elections.
The county is safely Republican, and
q Republican nomination lis .eauiya-
lent to election: l.. &. * .i;.. - LIZ.
Only once, has the contrary Fact
+ been true. I'm the county, election }tof
the year 1905, the colored voters be.
came dissatisfied with what Was
termed the Court EIp uaa $R ia 4 4 ana
placed q nene lie 90 IT. httorilays
and a. Democratic, sheriff r. 5f6d &C.,
The county attorney Mr.. John: ii.
Duffy, was elected by the narrow,
very narrow margin Of one, vote. The
sheriff, Mr.. David Smith served for
a short time, possibly 49, months
when he failed to renew his bends5at
the proper time, and the: county
Judge, Charles o. Prowse, aARebub-
lican, appointed Republican to the
b17Y -.
The time has again come for the
Republican primary, and up till "a
few days ago, the woods we're full of
candidates. Saturday, March 9th,
was qualification, day, and out Of the
melee: three candidates Of color have
Qualified - T.. .
80 one, Rev. James l.. AJlensworth.
has for three successive terms, won
the nomination and election. for coro-
<ner Of the county. He has, the dis
tinction of being the only Negro
county officer in the whole state, and
the records SO far have. not, shown
another Negro in the country hold
Ing such an elective Office, 3 At no
time since his first election has he
had any opposition in the primary,
nor. have the Democrats placed an
opposition candidate on their ticket.
Rev. A1lensworth has made a good
coroner, and according to the unan-
tmous opinion Of both white and coll
ored people, Is said to have made
the best coroner the county has ever
had. He owns some valuable real
estate and Is the pastor oR/one OF the
largest Baptist churches In the
county. 4 ..'>
Mr.. T. H. Moore is a candidate
for reelection for magistrate Of the
second district, and has no opposl-
ton. While this is an almost solid
Negro district, Mr.. Moore is the flrst
colored man who has ever been q
mem Der of the fiscal court and held g.
magistrates office in this county. He
will be reelected, for the Democrats
have no voice in this district. ~
The one candidate for considera-
ton at the primary that will be
likely to give some trouble is Mr.. E.
s. Foreman, q prominent coIored
teacher Of the county who has an
nounced for representative. That he
will receive the nomination is an
assured fact. He has only one op-
ponent, a Mr.. Brown, young law
yer from one OF the smaller towns
In the county. The Negro vote alone
will give him the nomination. and IL
he is shrewd enough and can play
long politics during the heat Of cam
paign, he can compel enough white
votes to insure his election, The
Negro vote cast sO1idly for any can
didate on the Republican ticket is
strong enough to make election
sure, added of course to the white
votes
A Negro representative in the Ken
lucky legislature Is one new thing
1t can not yet be determined just
| what the attitude of the white Re
publicans Of the county is towards
Mr.. Foreman's candidacy. If In order
not to have Negro represent the
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