Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-09-20
VIRGINIA NOW Is
BATTLE-GROUND
OF TWO PARTIES
C. O. P. Hopes to Break Into
South at State
Election.
By WALLACE BAssFoRD.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. 2O.-In
Virginia there is a State election this
fall to elect Governor and various other
State officers, and a vacancy is to be
filled in the Fifth congressional district.
The national Republican committee
thinks 1t sees a chance to break into the
South and has elaborated a skilful cam
paign backed with abundant funds. The
State organization has set its coon trap
to catch the voters coming and going.
When the Republicans held their recent
convention in Richmond they loudly pro-
claimed that the party Is to be a white
mans party, and refused to admit ne
,9roes to the hall. This to catch white
votes. They soothed the feelings Of the
negroes by citing a State law forbidding
mixed assemblages. The law is an old
one and never has been enforced In such
cases in the past.
But inside the convention It was differ
ent. The platform adopted on which the
Republicans make their campaign pledges
the party to the removal Of all Virginia
laws restricting negro suffrage. In the
event of the success Of this movement, a
NUMBER of counties in the State would be
controlled by the negro vote, and in
close election they would control the re-
cults in the entire State.
ATTACK NATIONAL
ADMINISTRATION.
The Democrats of the State are waking
mp and getting in fighting shape. They
have put up a strong State ticket headed
by State Senator TTinkle, and have Sc
lleet-d H. D. Flood, one Of the Virginia
Congressman, resourceful and energetic
organizer, as chairman Of the State com
.nittee. J. Murray Hooker was nominated
for the congressional vacancy. The con-
'vention which nominated Mr.. Hooker
went after the national Republican ad-
fmiristration with a sharp stick. In the
Resolutions adopted is found the follow
ing:
mot in fifty years has that party so
signally failed to demonstrate its ancient
and exploded claim to be the party OF
prosperity as today, nor has there been
a time when unemployment was so ex-
tensive and alarming as now. 1t is con-
cedcd that the number Of men clamoring
for work has increased more than 100
per cent since the inauguration Of Re
publican President and the assumption
of legislative power by his party.
$50 striking have been the blunders of
this Congress that the Senate itself has
halted the program of legislation al
ready approved by the House Of Repre-
sentatives lest such legislation should
arouse the resentment Of an indignant
and outraged people.
"When the Democratic party is IN the
minority in both Senate and House it
has proved the safeguard of the country
in preventing the dangerous and vicious
legislation proposed by the interests
which the party in control is impelled to
reward by legislative favorS."
President Harding's emergency tariff
bill. which was advertised as being de-
signed to protect the farmer in the price
Of his wheat, does not seem to function
up to specifications. It went into opera
ton in May and wheat, instead Of going
up, went down very decidedly. Perhaps
IT was not designed to affect the farmers
wheat as much as the farmers vote.
Comptroller Crissinger, the Presidents
personal appointee has made a speech at
the New York State bankers convention,
a-Which he says the American farmers
are in the same pickle as the Cuban
sugar growers: he thinks they profteered
In grain, cotton and livestock until it
turned their heads and that they then
speculated in lands until the bottom
fell out Of the land market, and now
they have difficulty meeting the interest
payments on their mortgages on the high
priced lands left on their hands. on
which they can only raise loW-priced
crops.