The Washington herald., 1921-10-16
COL. H.W.ANDERSON
SAYS NECRO-RULE
DEMOCRATIC BOCIE
Senator Trinkle Asserts
Question Is Vital in
Virginia.
SWANSON TO SPEAK
Will Take Stump in State
Campaign Late This
= Month.
SWANSON TO SPEAK
Especial 70 rhe w..hinrtOu Hsrald. !

NAhASAAAhOANNt 49, W. AOs-ANCPAyH
ing to the charge by Senator E. Lee
Trinkle, Democratic nominee for
governor, that the Republicans are
seeking to let down the election
bars in Virginia, which would result
in negro rule in the black belts"
Col. Henry W. Anderson. RepubIi-
can guberDatOrial nominee, 1charac-
terizes the statement as only a skeI-
eton to brighten the voters anent
the race question. He says II Is
dragged out a little earlier than
usual and then he explains that the
Republican platform, which calls
for election-law reforms, are in
tended to remedy present evils, so
that they will not prevent voting
by competent and qualified persons
and yet protect State and local
governments from any danger OF
control by ignorant or incompetent
people.
In his address at Chesterfield
court, Senator Trinkle said he did
not bring up the point to raise the
race question, but he regarded IT as
q IhOSN VITAL anu udHBCEOuS pAOpO-
sitIon, which the State must reckon
with sooner or later. He said Col.
Andersons party claims to have
eliminated the negro, but at the
same time sop is held out to the
negro voter and, if successful, would
undo the good Of the suffrage ar
ticle of the state constitution.
Harrison Springs Surprise.
One of the surprises of the cam
paign this week was a statement
given out by the Republican State
headquarters which purported 70
have come from Fairfax Harrison,
president of the Southern Railway
system, in which Democratic voters
of the State are urged to bolt that
party and vote for Col. Anderson in
son takes the stand that voters who
participated in the primary are not
bound by It,
Senator Trinkle, while in Rich
mond, where he made his headquar-
tiers for a number of speech-making
trips this week, gave out a state
ment in which he said he was sure
of a big majority for the Demo-
cratic ticket and at the same time
Representative c. B. Slemp, who
represents the Ninth district, has
declared that the G. o. P. has a
| fighting chance.
Senator Claude A. Swanson had a
conference with Senator Trinkle IN
| Richmond, following which it was
stated that the Senator will take
the stump late this month. He is
expected to make sveral speeches.
Senator Swanson is credited with
predicting a majority for the Demo-
Gratis of at least $4,000.
The Bedford County committee
has thrown something of a bomb
into the camp of the primary sup
| porters for the committee, by a
vote of IS to 2 in favor of abolish
! ing the primary and return to the
convention plan of nomination. The
restitution was offered by o. a.
Thomas, business manager of the
| Virginia Farmers Cooperative and
Educational Union. He was sitting
with the committee under authority
of an absent member. The resolu-
ton provoked a lengthy discussion
but the vote showed the members of
| AAS NcAAAAAANNCN u OC ONeT-
whelmingly in favor of resembling
the primary plan. 1t was predicted
| last spring that the Bedford County
committee would take such an &C.
ton at its first meeting but 1t was
generally believed that the predic-
ton would not be fulfilled.
Negro Out for Congress.
Negroes of the Fifth district have
placed a Nominee in the field for
Congress, a condition that will
strengthen the vote of the Demo-
cratic nominee, ]. VI. Hooker for
practically all of the strength for
the negro candidate, ]. P. Wilson,
| will be drawn from the Republican
nominee. T. S. Felts. This is the
first time the Fifth district has had
the name of a negro on its ticket
for Congress in thirty~years
In his speech at Chesterfield this
week Senator Trinkle charged Col.
Anderson with change of view
with respect to the Virginia State
constitutional law. quoting from an
address made by him in Richmond
in 1908 when he was introducing
Judge William H. Taft to a Rich
mona auclence- At that time, Sem
ator Trinkle says. Col. Anderson
paid the following tribute to the
constitution: THE Neasons urged
for DEMONSTRATION Of 1902 was that
the adjustment of the problems
which that instrument sought to
settle would leave the people of the
State free to divide upon economic
questions and thus increase the in
huence of Virginia in national af-
fars, and promote the political and
industrial progress of our .peopre.
The adoption of this constitution
was the last step in the work of
forty years, which has placed the
institutions of the - State upon a
sound basis, has secured the SUI
premacy of intelligence In our gov
eminent and has opened to the peo-
pie of all races and all classes an
opportunity to reap and enjoy the
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