Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-30
WHITE SUPREMACY
ISSUE ST|RS VOTERS
naturalization of Election
Laws" Takes Foreground
in Virginia Campaign.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
RICHMOND, october 30.-A frenZied
fiare-up of the antique white supremacy
issue agitated Virginia politics today,
with the general election only a few
DAYS of. Republican advocacy OF
liberalization of the election laws sud-
denly has taken the foreground among
the issues of the fight, with the battle
raging with great intensity in the rear
ranks of the electorate.
Democratic speakers are telling the
people that liberalization" as inter-
preted by the Republican candidate,
William Moseley Brown, means letting
down the bars to the colored vote, but
State Democratic headquarters, through
T. Mccall Frazier, campaign manager
for John Garland Pollard, the Demo-
cratic nominee, has fatty denied re-
sponsibility for the food of white
supremacy" literature that has engulfed
the State this week.
Anderson Cited Issue.
Henry w. Anderson, Republican, and
director of the Brown campaign, first
directed Statewide attention to the
white supremacy pamphlets by &C
cusinp John Garland Pollard OF re-
sponsibility for them in an open letter
read in a speech at Clarendon Monday
night. But while Mr.. Anderson was
reading the open letter, and long before
Mr.. Pollard had had opportunity to read
Mr.. Anderson'S letter, or answer II, the
Democrats had given out their dis
claimer.
The main item was pamphlet car
rying a picture of Representative oscar
De Priest and his wife, and carrying
q series Of newspaper quotations OF De
Priests remarks in various recent
speeches. These remarks, consloereo
highly inflammatory in the South, were
news to many readers of the pamphlet
because many Virginia newspapers de-
clined to print the original wire reports
for fear of interracial disturbances.
But several Democratic speakers, with
the exception of the three Democratic
nominees, Pollard, James H. Price, can
didate for lieutenant governor, ana
John r. Saunders, candidate for attor-
ney general, have had no hes1tancy In
broadcaSting the white supremacy
issue, particularly in the % counties
of Virginia which have majority OF
colored folk in their populations.
They are saying that If De Priest
Is not an issue, as claimed by the
Republicans, neither are John j.
Raskob and Al Smith issues. Their
attitude is that if Republican vote-get-
tiers want to keep on stirring up preju-
dice against the Roman Catholic ma
tional chairman, it is fair for the Demo-
Gratis to rouse the black belt with De
Priests fiery diatribes against the South.
No Ban on CoIOred Vote.
The Virginia election laws do not ban
colored men from voting, as many peo-
pie believe, but do provide that voters
must have paid their poll taxes for the
three successive years Immediately pre-
ceding the voting year. Thus it costs
every voter at lest So to vote. The
Democrats claim that this poll tax pre-
requisite keeps large horde of illiterate
voters, including colored voters, from
the polls, and they point to the fact
that Henry W.. Anderson, impresario of
the Republican aeampaign, favored the
repeal Of this provision when he was