Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1910-07-14

sussex and Greensville counties lin
the Black Beltl, with 1873 whites, are
given one member.
Dinwiddie Tin the Black Belt). with
o,5I4 whites il given one member.
frincess Anne county. with sos
whites, is given one member.
Prince George and Surry counties Tin
the Black BelO, with 6. Up white per-
sons, are given one member.
King and Queen and Essex counties.
with 1,5S2 whites, are given one mem
her.
Charlotte county lin the Black Belt
with 6. 1913 whites, is given a member.
Gloucester county. with 6,224 whites.
IS given a member.
Nuremberg county Tin the Black Belt
with 5,133 white persons, is given a
member.
Orange county, with 1852 whites, is
given a member.
Prince William county, with 8,24O
whites, is given member.
Mathews and Middlesex counties.
with 9.528 whites, is given a member
Southampton county, with g. 65
whites, is given a member.
Hanover county, with 9,6O6 whites,
is given a member.
Plttsylvania county and Danville CITY.
the home OF Claude A. Swanson), With
80, 6OI whites, are given three members
and IL Senators.
Rockingham county (the home of
Barney Keezle, the ringster of the VAL
ley) with white population of &c, S95
Is given two members and Senator.
Now let's see what this legislative
apportionment, so just and precious
that Mr.. Stuart helped to adopt it into
the Constitution, has done for the coun-
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gressional District.
Tazewell and Buchanan counties are
made into one legislative district, with
%, 489 white inhabitants, and are given
one member.
Scott county, with q, OCT white peo-
pie, IS given one member.
Wise and Dickinson counties are
combined and, with 25, 435 whites. are
given one member. Of this number
Dickinson has 7,747 whites and not a
single negro inhabitant.
Russell county (the home of Mr..
Stuart), with 1927 white people, is
given one member.
Lee county, with 1916 whites, is
given one member.
Smyth county, with Is, 951 whites, is
given one member.
Wythe county, with 1854 whites. is
given one member.
Pulaski county, with 1i,372 white
inhabitants, has one member.
Giles and Bland counties, combined.
with 10. lS9 whites, have one member.
Washington county and Bristol CITY.
are made into one house district, and.
with %, 991 white population are given
two members.
While member of the Constitutional
convention, Mr.. Stuart published an ad-
dress under the head; "White Men
Hear the Truth" In this address he
pledged that the poorest and most un-
educated white man could and would
vote under any of the suffrage laws
to be made. He asserted that the
white race is superior to the black and
that the Democrats were struggling to
write that principle in the organic law.
But MIR. Stuart gave his approval to
the iniquitous apportionment which
makes the politically dead negro in the
Eastern counties of the State the SUI
perlor of the white men of his own
county and Congressional District. bv
giving the negro three times as much
representation value as the white man
out here. This apportionment is un-
just, vicious and mendacious in every
particular. The white vote in the
Ninth District which has escaped the
death-traps which Mr.. Stuart helped TO
set has its value destroyed by the ap-
portionment which gives the disfran-
chised negroes larger value than is
given TO the enfranchised white men.
The Roanoke Times says that Mr..
Stuart loves the men of these noun
tains. This apportionment shows that
his love for them is of the kind that the
adder bestows with its sting, like the
love that is felt in the close embrace of
the cobra.