Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1910-06-16

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the white men of his section more pow
er and influence in the affairs of the
State"
Is not this the very reverse of what
the Times declares we said? Having
treated us so unfairly, the Times at
tempts to protect itself by requesting
the Republican to answer a few plain
questions. We will not only answer but
put down those questions as you wrote
them, Mr.. Times. They are:
docs it know of any way of depriv-
ing the negro population of representa-
tion?"
Why come to us or any other Republi-
can for a solution of this question? Why
not ask it of Mr.. Stuart and his Demo
cratic associates? They devised a
scheme of legislative apportionment
by which thousands Of enfranchised
white men have been robbed of their
fair share of representation. If Mr..
Stuart and his Democratic co-workers
could do this, they surely could devise
some lawful plan for depriving the hun
dred thousand disfranchised negroes in
Eastern Virginia of any representation.
docs it think that the negro, being
necessarily represented, should have his
vote restored to him?"
Our answer to this question is: He
never had vote that was fairly count
ed. The negro has been made falsely
basis Of representation, as is proved by
the fact that the representation is not
on population, but is apportioned to suit
the whims and further the interests of
the Democratic ofice-holder's trust,
which the Times knows has Virginia
bound hand and foot
Would it restore his vote to him if
it could?"
Yes, to those who have intelligence.
property and character, but we would
not restore valuable asset to the Dem
ocratic party by enfranchising the ig-
norant and vicious negro, because. upon
the authority Of the editor of the Roam
oke Times, we know that for MANY
years the Democrats stole the ignorant
negro vote of the eastern part of the
State and counted it against the white
voters of the mountain section. Even
to help our Roanoke contemporary in
its persistent effort to project the negro
as an issue in the politics of the Ninth
district we would not consent to this.
The Roanoke Times asks US three
more questions, the sum of which is,
did not the Republican members of the
Constitutional Convention and the Taze-
well Republican fight till the last against
taking the vote from the negro, and
would not they, if the constitution had
been submitted to the people. have
fought its adoption because of 1.-THE
clause that DISTINGUISHED the negroes
and has disfranchised no white men,"
We will answer no to this question.
with emphatic sincerity. The Republi-
cans in the convention and the Tazewell
Republican fought the entire suffrage
scheme of the Democrats, because they
believed, and have since found out,
that it was constructed not to eliminate
the negro and to make the white race
supreme, but to establish and perpetu-
ate Democratic oligarchy that has
ruled the Commonwealth ever since the
internal outrage was fastened upon the
people by the most wanton duplicity
that has ever been practiced by any po-
litical party. There is no clause in the
constitution that ''has disfranchised the
negroes and has disfranchised no white
men," This the Roanoke Times must
know, and this every honest, intelligent
man, white or negro, must and does
know. Your suffrage laws are double
barreled damnsble blunderbuss, which
you pretended to be firing at the ne
groes, but with which you have killed
the votes of two white men for every
negro vote you destroyed. This ia so in
Tazewell county and every county of
the Ninth district, and the same applies
to every white county in the State.