The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-03-23
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streets whenever a warm

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day comes?
y Why the Christian people. Of FAIR
mont with its small coIored popula-
ton, tolerate this human offal Of the
colored race to exist here. without some
solved problem to that class Of col
ored people which hustles daily for
visible means Of support is an uu-
bread. In most towns and cities per
sons who have no known way OF get
ting their bread and that lounge around
have 10 account for themselves but
here they. do not. The churches here
giye money forthe DARK lands abroad
and leave the darkness at home UNI
touched.
You have "a class of colored people
here that floats In a1id out, and many
Of them happen upon the scene a little
ahead of election day. They claim !
to be colored Sports" and many OF
as the 'tKid,," "Bad Eyes" Shadow"
and /" Slippery jim. They drop INTO
Fdirmont and find It dead easy to
get their, punk, so they in. many cases
are followed by their worthless %nud.
dy." They are then gotten In line by.
some OF these who hang around here
all the time and who claim To, be
9noIiti clans" among their race, when at
lie same time they could not tell the
difference between free trade protec-
tive tariff and Coal Run. All they
want is to "get theirs" Investigation:
however, will show that most all Of
those who claim to be leaders" came
10 Fairmont from the same town.
The writer remembers few Of the
faces Of these colored politicians
that doomed upon the scene just ahead
Of the last election and who shortly
thereafter disappeared from the city.
Many Of those that came here to work
on the road .improveme nts have formed
an acquaintance With some OF these
t'leaders'.. OF the race and the result
Il that they, are still here. One Of these
was engaged In conversation by the
writer some time ago and he drew
from him the fact that he was a Fair:
mont "polftfcian" too. Using his own
language he said: They tell me mig.
GERS get rich here on election day.
From this fact alone, MI. Editor one
can see that X, does not take the! col
ofed Sport" long to meet the members
Of 1.-THE jack pot gang.
i On the anniversary of their freedom
you Sl can see in the parade through
your streets the very traitors to that
rarty-the Republican party-that is.
tte source from which every. civil priv
ilege they have today has come. They
would the next day after the anniyers
sarys sell the Republi can party to that
party which is antagonistic to their
very freed ION and the rights they en-
Joy today. s:i$
4 Ifs these colored "politicians'Afwere
not 20 Ishi ftlessi and had the mental ca
racity to take a serious yretrosp ectiye'
survey OF the Wilson administrations
they would gflnd fout that IL has gone!
the limit in Il its despicabIe Machtas,
yyeiIan treatmantso Of the colored mani:
They would also find out that the
Democratic 10 party has e1iminat ted the
colored man, as, % poll ttcal factor from
the party. Let me lay stress upon
thia.s Mr. Editor, and e state that he
10 not . spolitica entity within the fold
totSthe Democrats after he has been
used to get that part In power.
These worth Hess stra giersI are made
th6l6nbt ects of this art cle bee uses they
doS not repre- ent the standard ot the
cnl6fo race: beeatse when tliey are
;bSd IL eftects Tie write toos bec4tse