The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1910-06-09

by the leaders and threaten to
| show their resentment of the
means 10y which his defeat was ac-
complished.
| The United States District Court
in session here this week was res
ponsible for the assembling in this
city Of the three most influential and
prominent Negroes in Republican
circles in Fayette county. They we're
J. M. Ellis, member of the House of
| Delegates; j. S. Noel, member of the
I state Central committee, and Ander-
| son Rotten, fnenfbeR niof the Third
! District Congressional committee
and custodian of The .Fayette county
court house.
When approached on the subject
Of the threatened insurgency of the
| Negroes Of their county all were
extremely reticent, with the except
ION Of Mr.. Ellis who, when directly
questioned as to the primary in
which he Is reported to have received
the double Atross, expressed himself
only to the extent that he had en-
tered into no arrangement to
abrogate the agreement by which it
has been. possible. heretofore for a.
| Negro to be on the Republican ticket
| in Fayette as a candidate for the
House or Delegates.
! Mr.. Ellis most >emphatically denies
that he was a party to any such
| agreement and says that he has
| ample evidence to prove that the
tcontrary is the fact, but he did say
shat he entered the race only at the
solicitation Of the party leaders and
was considerably surprised that he
dad not make a better showing. }
From other sources, however,
though not quite as prominent as the
gentlemen above named yet equally
as reliable, it was learned that the
sentiment among the men Of color in
4 Fayette Is that Mr.. Ellis did not get
Ah Baaare- deal 1t lis / gen orally be-.
lssae "a tef assiias
jformed, that a job waB put Up 81
Ellis and that the party leaders are
now trying to square themselves
with the Negro voters by saying that
Ellis agreed to take chances with all
Legislative candidates, white and
black. 1t Is said that, contrary to
the report that the Negroes did not
show up at the polls, the normal
vote was cast but not counted &C
\ cording to the wish expressed by the
voters. In substantiation of this
| assertion it Is cited that at Rend-
Vile where twenty-six Negroes are
willing to make affidavit that they
voted for Ellis, he received, or
rather had counted for him, only
six. At Boomer where there are
over q hundred Negro voters re-
ported to be ready and anxious to
take oath to their support of the
gentlemen from Fayette", Mr.. Ellis,
according to the returns, did not get
a bakers dozen. From all over the
county, it Is said, come reports which
would convince any fair minded man
that the cards were marked in the
primary game few Weeks ago and
| that they were not dealt to Ellis.
Just why the party leaders mark
| ed Ellis for slaughter was not clear
to the gentleman giving the infor-
nation, but he surmised that 1t was
in furtherance Of opinion which has
been steadily growing among the
whites that Fayette should have an
all-White representation at the state
lcapitol. The statement Of mem bers
iof the primary committee that the
failure to state as has been the GUS
tom in the call that the Negro re-
ceiving the highest number Of votes
at the primary should be among the
nominees was an oversight, Is SCOT
| fed at by hundreds, who supported
ELLIS. They claim to have infor-
nation that Mr.. Ellis was approach
| ed before the meeting Of the prim-
| ary committee and the suggestion
made to him that he enter the race
without handicapping the whites.
This, they say, looks as If some one
was figuring on forgetting TO
| make the call as if it had been made
since the county convention at Thur
| mond in 1902, when Ellis was first
nominated.
| Asked If the meeting Of the Negro
leaders at Montgomery on the 18th
| inst. will amount to anything, The
Advocates informant answered In
| the affirmative. He said the feeling
In Fayette among the Negroes is
that since there has been breach
| Of established custom on the part OF
the whites, they no longer feel obi
gated to support the ticket, but will
exercise their judgment as to the
selection Of men to fill the offices
from that Of congressman to con-
stable. Many who hitherto have
| been staunch supporters Of Mr..
lGaineS will on accnunt Of the failirn