The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-08-21
and remarked drily:
II was naturally proud Of the high es.i
TEEN Of my Republican friends. and ana
sorry that lost It 80 suddenly when be..
came the nominee OF my party for ConsA
Dcals Ylth snnra,..

gross. 456ta5ils ~ II
Deals with Suffrage.
Mr.. Stuart doalt with the suffrage CUES,
non clearly and In detail, He reviewed thai
history OF the sunra &c laws OF yirrinia an
1he Virginia Constitution OF 1850 Virgins
ina. lhs., every white man twenty-one years oldI
s,ao be entitled to vote. This Repub-.
tuition. and while giving tho ballot ia iso.
goo negroes attempted to take It from 15O.-l
wv wv wht ne men. Tho Federal Congress ems
the right OF suffrage to the negroes and
providing that It should not be abridged by;
me state. Under this amendment negro,
well as for other sections OF Virginia. About,
forty OF 100 counties in Virginia had negro
and constables No white man. Demaerat
OF Republican. In Virginia could approve
such conditions. He assumed that the
own race which ever marked him would
condemn most earnestly action which put
n n - haif the state under negro control.
II ut was wrong to giyo the negro the right
OF sunragc.it was right to use every means
known to q superior race to take It from
members OF the Constitutional Convention
voted against the suffrage article 6isfran-
salsing &, the negro the Republican party
isfact fon and proclaimed itself the white
mans party. He ventured to assert that not q !.
Whies man In Virginia would publicly
negro. and that neither his opponent nor his
opponents supporters would dare take af
position whichkmight be remotely construed
as being In that direction. But for the ff-ls
tenth amendment the convention would
have rewritten the old Democratic consti-2
tuition. That amendment made 1T necessary u
to abandon the purpose ofscurtailing neEros
suffrage or to write tests for suffrage seems +
ms, me, TO- 10 near alike on both Tho con-
voters or who were to registerSin tho next &
three years tests that would admit pract- !,
catly every white man. while excluding tho
great mass OF the negroes. a soldier or9thO IS
son OF q soldier was permitted to vote. The
clause was adopted. ..thot
purpose of which was to slit the white men IS
into one pile and the negro into another..ssI
Under these provisions practically averyf
w mn.e man mar VINO VINO appned and who made sny
was registered.
How to Keep Him Out. Il ny
Having put the negro out Of politics the
question gu. y was how to keep him out; Some
twas not thought right to continue linden
nitely. the power OF deciding whether q man 3
had the intelligence necessary to vote In
board might become partisan or corrupt.
me purpose was to apply q color. ties. and
voters who registered Mt tho list OF January.F
1904. The non-taxpaying and Ailliterato whll4
the permanent list through the fund er-s,
standing clause, and three years. notice
was given the young man to come OF ago
cational test. In tho interest OF white il
supremacy in Virginia. necessary for our.}
ciyillsatlon. he voted for the suffrage pro:
TO say that mass-rneeting Of citizens
Of his county. q men OF both parties 5. with-
proved the Constitution ana requested hin 4
to vote to proc lain 1t. Just as was done inA
Scott county, then represented by the late.s I
loved and lamented James B. Richmond. ii
Tho negro electorate had been reduced To Il
o point where It cast but 5000 votes In the \;
last national election out Of possible vote \
OF 10000 while the white vote was hardly {
reduced anywhere except by failure to pay
capita ton tax. AS the case stands. tho y
white man can secure his Syote whenever he &
| Ia sufficiently, Interested to pay q small SUM i
Into the school fund to get It. Tho capita.s
ton tax Is not new II always has heensF
auires its payment as a condition of the I
right to vote. Sgs 5sa fasssgI
Mr. stuart said he IS \ and Away. has n
trage. But ono thing remains to be done +
to ,hnish the work Of the Vlr inlaS consti. !,
.utlonal to- Y 70 Aeuro The
Yirglnia may impose ne. condi tlon on whit
suffrage. Tho Democratic party has been
tainly would vote 70 Il its repeal. He asked
his opponent to say whether or not he IL
N,s Not Sectional Problem.
The suffrage question Ia not ga sectional
one. even In Virginia. Republicans had
claimed that tho suffrage clause was IN
1.-The interest of Eastern Virginia. Twenty s
years ago In mcdowell county. w Va I. iusts
across the border there was hardly ,as
negro. Tho opening of Ereat coal dapoa!tsas
had brought there nearly 10. 900 negroes, with
a voting sstrensth Of 1000, There can be
found to-day negro policemen and constasESf
/ bles dragging wnlto men to trial bstore q
negro magistrate; negro deputy sherlfts and
lpolitical bosses, and negro jprors IT avery d,
court to sit In 8jud glnent on white men.
He closed ny putting Il 20 the men Of the H
mount aims, who love their own race and
have risen grandly to every trial OF their
manhood You'd you tea up the constt-azj
Tuition which establishes and will SHainta aim
white supremacy. on $eyesy inch OF Virginia
soil Z Would you flirtS ON your viii
brethren OF tho EEaat or endure for your
selves the horrors aud the perila OF ciy.It-
zatlon through wh Itch West ~ trg lnla In nov III
passing rat her than rtse up llka Aths yssA 81
| YOU are and arc 80 be and comp ~ M m
Itrlfllng acond itions inposed On your sufrexN
in the intsrast OF Will civ ton, whtah w
Eis the truItage of The sssd - Ens ny yonAss
II forefa thsra IN b.ood tears karbt
Il ye eternal powers nat ANeklntee NJ
Is oE ~ FREQ peopl ksss