Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-09-28
| FLOOD LAMBAsTES
|EPUBL|CANS At SALSDl
'eats Expose Of Andcrson's
-hange of Front on ,Vir-
ginia Constitution.


~ OF the militant Democracy. of
iiescx, here today. scoring, the
cht attitude of Colonel Henry
ANDERSON, toward the Virginia
tuition, as compared with the
uDlicnn nominees attitude for
after that documents adop-
hSrcSSinan Flood said that il was
II low years ago that Colonel
erSon had occasion TO champion
very constitution which he now
pProVcs, making "A speech con-
ing that instrument. Touching
:ational matters, MIR. Flood re.
cd some OF the errors into which
Republicans, In their effort To
st control OF Virginia from the
iocrats, have fallen, and which
are uttcrins On the stump. MIR.
ID said. In part:
Now Cnils for Change.
'ionei An\rson. in his platform
anus complete revision of the
'titution OF Virginia. This con
ties tho paramount Issue OF this
paign. for it means the repcal
removal from the Constitution
laws those provisions on the
chise which make the electorate
irGihia. as nearly AZ possible un-
the Constitution OF the United
es. white electorate.
'ionel Anderson would sweep
the Constitution OF 1909. which
framed b. The white people OF
;inia, and substitute in It's place
franchise provisions OF the Under
Constitution. which were born
paired Of the white pcopI. Of this
and which were framed by the
corrupt ana proG!.atc set OF
who over appeared In the public
OF our state. If this proposition
he Republicans were carried, II
Id mean that over onc-fourth OF
counties and masistcrial districts
his state would again be in the
rol of negro voters and would
IN have negro district and county
fcrs. negroes filling our Icgisia-
halls and other officers In Rich
|id.
"convcntion" Conniitution.
he Republican candidate for Gov
or complains that our Constitu-
\ was proclaimed BY the convcn-
b and not submitted TO the people
ratification or rejection. | was "A
'nbcr or that convention and voted
It's submission To the people, but
Constitution was proclaimed and
scd nineteen years ago, and dur
that time has been appro ed and
fled by the best citizenship in the
m"n and women OF Vir-
la. Ana not one OF the opponents
this Constitution has been able to
any court in the land to inter
. with IT.
,oionci Anderson vas one Of the
n who heartily approved OF this
'stitution and. presumably. of it's
elimination by the convention.
ix years after the Constitution
proclaimed, this Republican can
stc for Governor gave the fol-
ing approval OF IT: The adoption
hat Constitution was the last step
he work OF forty years. which has
ced the institutions Of this State
n sound basis, has assured the
rcmacy OF Intelligence in our gov
mcnt. and has opened to the poo
OF al! races and all classes an
ortunity to reap and enjoy the
ards Of good citizenship.
II has been asserted by tho Re-
,iican candidate for Governor that
GINA stands forty-third in the
OF fortycigh states in the mat
OF schools" said MIR Flood. This
iement is presumably based upon
report OF DIR. Ayrcs, OF tho Rus
sage Foundation. published in
D and widely quoted In the press.
Even II casual reading OF this re-
t Will show that IL is not fact
t Virginia is ranked forty-third
)Hg the states. for the report
III places her forticth. and this
ort was based upon the session
l916-l7 and allowed no credit for
tremendous progress made in re-
t years. II this remarkable prog
; had been taken into considera-
Dr. Ayrcs would have given a
Y much higher rank. He ranks
itana rrst among the forty eight
tes in the matter Of schools, and
his system shows that the pcople
hat State receive educational re-
Is equal To only four-iifths OF the
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