The Washington herald., 1921-10-30
Big GUNS BOOM
FOR FINAL DRIVE
In OLD DOMINION
Race Question Forced to
Front Again By Both
Parties.
TRICKERY CHARGED
Anderson Says Foes Unfair
In Naming Judges of
Election.
TRICKERY CHARGED
Especial to IN. Washington Herald

RICHMOND, Va, Oct. 29.-The
coming week. the last of the cam
paign in Virginia, will hear big
guns sounding all over the State
he~greatest activity that has been
experienceddn a gubernatorial cam
paign in the State for more than
three decades. From all indications
the campaign of the Republicans
will be for naught as far as this
election is concerned, for E. Lee
Trinkle will be swept into the Of
flee with a majority as large as is
usually the case in the State. The
Republicans admit their campaign
ing started too late; that 1t should
have antedated the primary. in
which many more votes were
pledged to the Democratic ticket
than the Republicans could hope to
poll under most favorable condi-
tions.
The outstanding features of the
campaign during the past week
came when Henry W. Anderson, Re-
publican nominee for governor. in
his Lynchhurg speech, issued a
challenge to Senator Trinkle to
meet him in joint debate to discuss
primarily the race issue. and his
announcement in the same speech
that he had given instructions to
resort to the mandamus in an effort
to rid the State of negro election
judges. placed there to represent the
minority party at the polls. He
charged that there are thirty-two
such precincts. four of which are
in Charlottesville and the remainder
in the tidewater section Of the
State.
Charges Party TrickePy.
Later the Republican State COM
mittee gave out a statement charg-
ing Senator Trfnkle with misrepre-
senting the Republicans in his state
ments concerning the race issue
The committee told Senator Trinkle
that the position of the Republican
party on the race question Is clear
ly set forth in its Norfolk conven-
tion platform The challenge was
for daily joint discussion at places
and time mutually agreed upon.
Meanwhile will you join me in
requesting the removal of the negro
Judge appointed by Democratic
electoral boards at Charlottesville
and other points in the State to
represent the Republican party
over its protest and the substitution
Of representative Republicans in
their places to pass upon the rights
of the white people Of Virginia to
vote" the challenge concludes.
In his Luxembourg speech Mr.. An
derson charged that in the Paul
Harrison Congressional contest in
the Seventh district It was shown by
. h.
negro election judges who offici-
ated in that election November.
1920 voted the Democratic ticket
and that the negro Judge who Off
ciated at the precinct at which
many University of Virginia profess
sors and their wives voted was IL
literate and could not read.
Anderson at DanviIIe.
That politics make strange bed
fellows and that times have changed
in Virginia when the present read
ing of the negro out Of the party is
compared with the way the negro
was utilized forty years ago and
even up to the days of the 1902
State constitution, came tc light
when Mr.. Anderson made his ad-
dress at Danville this week. The
ence by ]. B. Stovall, long a Repub-
lican leader in Danville. In the ad-
dress the candidate repeated his
speech made at other places of the
claim that the G. o. P. has rid itself
Of the negro, but he was probably
unaware that the man who had
presented him to the audience, when
a member of the general assembly
years ago, is charged with having
voted for motion made by a negro
member Of the house of delegates
to reconsider a bill, which, il it
had been enacted into a law would
have given negroes equal rights and
privileges in all public conveyances,
hotels. theaters and public places.
Mr.. Stovall is also said to have
voted for the reconsideration of a
defeated bill which was designed to
require negroes on petit juries in
the courts of the State
The charge that the Republicans