4 10 42 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Student Name Megan Brooks Summary White men continue to disenfranchise black men while the white newspaper defends the “law abiding” white opinion. Item Type Article Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP19040102&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Voting Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound The Petersburg. Va., Index-Appeal discussed “The Suffrage Problem” in its issue of December 29th and said:   “Since the fateful era of reconstruction of the Union by the restoration of the seceded States, the South has had many difficult and trying questions to deal with, but none that was more perplexing than the suffrage question, the crux of which was to solve it in such a way as to eliminate the illiterate and visions element of the “Negro” vote without violating the Constitution”   It continued:   “The tank was rendered all the more difficult because  there was  an utter lack of cooperation with the whites on the part of educated and respectable “Negroes”, who persisted in making common cause with ignorance and vice, thus obstructing  the work of suffrage reform on one hand and the mental and moral improvement of the “Negro” race on the other.”   What else were they to do? What else would you have done? They could not separate the issue without endangering the cause for which they contended. They stood ready to support the intelligent, law abiding white men against the ignorant and the vicious applied to black and white men, but the white men of Virginia would not have it so. White men defended ignorance and vice existing in white men and attacked not only ignorance and vice among “colored” men, but education and virtuous among the same class of people.   The intelligent, industrious, self-respecting colored people of this state have always stood ready to support any legitimate purification of the ballot, so long as that purification was not based upon race, color, politics or religion.   It then stated the conditions as they now exist, showing that the South asked to be let alone  and even this favor has not tended to simplify the situation. It said:   “Since the birth of those preposterous notions, a generation has passed away, and time has softened much of the rancor and resentment that issued from the war between the States, and the North now sees the situation with a clearer and a more correct apprehension of the difficulties which encompass the race question in the South, particularly with respect to suffrage and citizenship, and there is an apparent willingness to let men who stand nearest to the burdens to do the lifting. Undoubtedly that simplifies matters, but it does not solve the problem fully and satisfactorily.”   Then followed this strong, empathetic but true language:   ‘Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina, and, in fact, all the Southern States have passed suffrage laws directed against “Negro” suffrage, but in nearly every instance the laws have acted as boomerangs, and resulted in disenfranchising almost as many whites as Negroes. That has been almost universally true of the invention of paying taxes for any considerable time in advance as a qualification to vote. In Virginia, where the plan has just been adopted, we have ,most impressive evidence of its effect in a greatly reduced white electorate, and we now find ourselves very much in the fix of the people of New York, who imported English sparrows to destroy caterpillars, and who later were anxiously looking for some larger breed of caterpillars to destroy the English sparrows. The threat of disenfranchisement does not seem to have terrors enough to compel the white voter to part from his 1$ or $1.50 as the case may be. Indeed, many white citizens otherwise eligible to vote, eagerly embrace this convenient avenue of escape and soliciting candidates. The plan restricts suffrage, beyond the doubt, and also restricts the white electorate pari passu with suffrage” Location Upper Left Quadrant Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Failure of Southern Election Methods Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <i>Richmond Planet</i> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1904-01-02 Title A name given to the resource Failure of Southern Election Methods Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Student Name Cord Fox Summary White political leaders target the black community with educational requirement to vote. Item Type Article Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP18950105.1.2&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Voting Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound Educational Qualification Argued The Petersburg, Va., Index Appeal says admirable things sometimes, and seems to be actuated by principles of right, equity and justice. In its issue of the 27th ult., it says: “The Baltimore Sun of last Tuesday printed a lengthy article, sent from the city on the subject of ballot reform in Virginia, in which it is assumed that the proposed constitutional convention in this state will consider the feasibility of an educational test for voting as a means of ballot reform in Virginia and for the preservation of certain sections of the state from Negro domination. The “Sun” editorially approves the suggestion as possibly the last thing that could be done under the circumstances. Just why so radical and sweeping a measure of the political disqualification should be enacted at this time is not clear to the understanding of persons who consider such matters from other viewpoints than that of party expediency. The application of such a test a quarter a century ago or more, when the Negro was first admitted to citizenship, would have been proper enough but the average Negro is not now what he was twenty-five years ago. It is not true that he is steeped in barbarism and ignorance, but, on the contrary, he has made wonderful progress in learning and in accumulation of wealth, and if the democratic party were wise enough to give him the proper encouragement, he would speedily solve the so-called Negro problem by dividing his vote between the two parties of the country.” The above is unquestionably true and so is what follows. Here it is: “Unfortunately the democratic party to an overflowing extent in the south, is a ring-governed party, and the very life of the ring depends on keeping the Negro in opposition and then howling about safety of our civilization.” Thank God! There is at least one white citizen in the South who votes the Democratic ticket and see this. And again: “Negro domination at the ballot box does not mean the elevation to power of illiterate men, for in the nature of things, it is one of the inevitable conditions that the office-holder must be able to read and write. In days of carpet-bagism, when the Negro had absolute control at the ballot-box, white men were put in all places of honor, emolument and responsibility, and our civilization perished not. The same was true under the Mahone regime. The above has been our contention right along. He speaks truly when he says: “But the condition operates not only against the negro, but also against the unlettered white man who has never felt the degrading influences of slavery, and who never had the advantage of free schools in the days of his youth and poverty. There are thousands of such men in this state – upright men, good citizens, and many of them considerable taxpayers. These men may be required to take up arms, and to fight and die in defense of the government. They are also assessed and taxed for the support of the government. Is there no reciprocal obligation on the part of the government further than to govern these men and to tax them? Is it right that they should fight in defense of the government, be taxed in support of the government, and yet have no voice in the control of that government?” The questions propounded are to the point and admit of no evasion. But how well this editor returns to the charge: “The correspondent of the “Sun” says that this argument sounds demagogic. If this is demagogic then Mr. Jefferson and all of his compeers who signed the declaration of independence and who aided in the establishment of this great republic, were demagogues. That great chart of liberty- the declaration of independence- which forms the cornerstone of this government of ours, lays it down as a cardinal principle that governments of desire, their powers from the [illegible]. The imputation of demagogism cannot stand in the light of such high precedents as these, and the attempt to deny suffrage to men, who have not forfeited that right by crime, merely because they have not such a smattering of learning as will enable them to read and write after a fashion, is nothing less than usurpation and exercise of arbitrary power. The right of the governed to a voice in the government, through the ballot-box is an inherent right acquired [illegible].” Was there ever anything more grandly put? Could language be handled more readily to maintain a position than this? He argues his case from a truly American standpoint, discards the subterfuges of language and refuses to dodge the issue behind a flow of rhetoric. How well he places the capstone upon his argument may ne seen when he says: “Revolutions do not go backward and the time has long since passed for the enactment of educational tests for voting in Virginia. A far more important need is the passage of a law that will secure honest voting, or rather an honest count of the vote in this state. That is the kind of ballot reform we want in Virginia.” So may it be. When the thousands of Virginians rise up, and speak out in defense of right with the same facility as has done this distinguished Virginian, a new star will have arisen in the commonwealth, and emblazoned above it in letter of magnificent splendor will be the one word, - Prosperity. The Petersburg, Va., Index-Appeal under date of Dec. 29th says: Among the educated colored men of the north T. T. Fortune, the editor of the New York Age, holds high rank. In the Age of the 27th inst., in commenting upon lynch-law in Texas, Fortune writes: "There are plenty of tough white men and tough black men in Texas. It is a toss as to which are the tougher, and the conditions would be vastly better if the toughs of both sorts were fewer; but there are more decent, self-respecting and self-reliant men of both races in Texas than there are toughs. Are we to spend all our time and attention and sympathy on the toughs and leave the honest people unmentioned? My head and my heart are not built that way; they are very evenly balanced forces, and enable me to denounce wrong wherever I find it and to commend right wherever I find it, as light is given me to see. " There are "tough" men of both race in every state in the union, and there will be doubtless as long as the world lasts. But the "tough" element among the Southern whites has never dominated the majority of the whites, but on the contrary has been kept under subjection. That this is true can be proven by the personnel of the Southern representation in congress and by the character of the men who administer the affairs of the several State governments. Our fair-minded contemporary makes a statement and submits proof in support of the same. Let us see. Because the personnel of the Southern representation in congress is satisfactory is no evidence that the tough element at home is not in the majority. It is but a practical demonstration of the so oft expressed opinion that intelligence will rule, ard will exercise its power even though it be in the minority, so far as numbers are concerned. When this intelligence is backed by money its rule is doubly certain and reasonably permanent. When a community or section condones crime to the extent of making no sincere effort to mete punishment, it becomes responsible for the crime itself and is “share-holder” in the atrocity. Some communities are more liberal than others. It is the business element, the wealthy, the capitalist, who see the suppression of crime the increase of their possessions, and in the multiplication of it the withering of their brightest prospects, and the diminution of their incomes. A minority of intelligence can and does control a majority of ignorance,- by fair means if it can; by deceptive means if it must. The Index Appeal says: There are also “tough” negroes, but they do not count for much except in the way of crime, and the great body of the race is quiet, peaceable, well content to work for its daily bread; and it is moreover, a most important, in fact it might be said indispensable quantity in Southern agricultural development. Well, said, sir. No one condemns the tough element of our population more than we. It does the race incalculable harm and should and must be sent to the rear. We will be forward in working reform and meteing punishment, and are willing to meet half-way liberal-minded white citizens who have set themselves to the performance of a similar task on their side of the line. But the Index-Appeal does not do us full justice when it says: Fortune doubtless is familiar with the tax statistics of the south, and probably he knows that in Virginia the whites pay more than 95 per cent. Of the whole amount collected for the support of the state government. The exact figures under the assessment of 1891, were as follows: whites, $2,836,620; negroes $103,565. The amount expended by the state for educational purposes is $997,929. Appropriated in the ratio of school attendance, the white free schools get $586,564; the negro free schools, 309,364- or three times the amount of taxes paid by the negro. When to this sum is added the amounts paid on account of the negroes for criminal expenses, normal schools and asylums, the whole foots up to $608,383- or six times the sum paid in by the blacks for the support of the government. The above is dangerous ground. Inasmuch as the constitution and laws of this country are designed to discountenance class legislation or divisions upon a basis of possessions it is entirely of question [illegible]. To insist upon this point, is to advocate the abolition of the public school system. Why should a man [illegible]. Here comes a delicate question and the argument which you used in advocacy of the rights of the illiterate comes into play. In case of war, sir, these same negroes and poor white men are liable to and will be called upon to assist in repelling a foreign invader and protecting the property of the man who is alleged to be education his children. It is a well-known axiom among labor leaders that as labor is the creator of all wealth, then all wealth belongs to labor. This is a fundamental principal, sir, of socialism, but from a stand point of ethics, it is no less true. It is hardly necessary for us to state that the Negro constitutes the labor of the south. The inference is apparent. For 250 years this has been true in the Southland. It should not be at all astounding, sir, that we charge that the prosperity which the south enjoys is based upon our unrequited toil and that one hundred years of free education and an exemption from taxation besides will hardly foot the bill. But why discuss this point? The land upon which we live is stolen ground. The fields which we cultivate belong to another. The air we breath was given by the Creator free of charge, and the sun which gives life to our being and to the vegetation upon which we feed and animals which do our bidding comes from Him. Those who acknowledge allegiance to Him and those who do not, those who pay taxes and those who do not are the recipients of these favors. If these blessings come to us from an unseen hand, why should we deny to our brother a full enjoyment of them or be any less beneficent than the Father who watches over us all. And right here comes the doctrine of the fatherhood of God, and the brotherhood of man. “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,” is a golden rule and to deny to us education or a full enjoyment of its facilities would be a violation of this divine injunction. The brother-in-black demands and insists upon the same treatment accorded any other citizen of a similar condition and laboring under the same retarding influences. Discard the color qualification, which we cannot help, and we will stand shoulder to should to the white man of similar opportunities and equal possessions. Lynch-law must go! Location Upper Left Quadrant Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 18950105-Educational Qualification Argued-Fox Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <i>Richmond Planet</i> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1895-01-05 Title A name given to the resource Educational Qualification Argued Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Student Name Rose Williams Summary The Democratic Party of Virginia” holds an “unconstitutional ‘Constitutional’ Convention” to discuss how blacks are the “‘hindering cause’ in the way of a pure election”. Item Type Article Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP19031031.1.4&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Voting Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound Eating Their Own Cookings. The Democratic party of Virginia made the Negro an issue and spent over a half million dollars of the state’s funds for the purpose of holding an unconstitutional “Constitutional” Convention for the special benefit of the colored brother, alleging that he was the “hindering cause” in the way of a pure election. It alleged that if he were “wiped out” as a voting factor, “peace would reign in Warsaw” and dishonesty in elections be a thing of the past. We repeatedly asserted that this was a vain hope. The ballot box suffer and tally sheet manipulator must have something to do and with the Negro out of the way, they would at once begin work on the “brother in white.” When there are no white men’s chickens to raise from the roost, the colored brother must of necessity pay his respects to the colored brother’s barn-yard in the neighborhood. This is the amusing phase of the situation. Even the dishonest colored man now realizes that he is not able to “hold a light” for the white thieves now infesting this neighborhood and he knows too that the colored race as such is unquestionably one of the most honest types of mankind on the face of the globe. Are elections honest now? Do white men rob white men? Here is a report of political meetings held Thursday, October 23rd, 1903 in Henrico county. It speaks for itself: “The speaking itself was of a pretty lively sort. On the Todd side, a hot fire was poured at the State Committee and at the newspapers of the city. The Chairman Ruffin made a claim, clear argument for his contention that the State Committee had no jurisdiction, and that the state did right in finding Bauer guilty. Mr. St. George Coalter followed in a speech in which he brought some sensational charges against the Brauer side and in which he incidentally belabored the papers. Mr. Todd himself followed and what he said about the State committee was pretty lively and brisk to say the least. He practically charged that the committee had been bought up with whiskey. He said he had been ‘gold-bricked’ and ‘sand bagged’ by the honorable gentlemen of the committee.”… Location Upper Left Quadrant Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context October Summaries Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <i>Richmond Planet</i> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1903-10-31 Title A name given to the resource Eating Their Own Cookings Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Student Name Elias Sturim Summary Mitchell condemns the Richmond Times Dispatch for inconsistencies, and says that it has "dropped to the advocacy of a national wrong." Item Type Article Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP18991118&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Voting Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound THE RICHMOND, Va., TIMES is nothing, if it is not inconsistent. From platitudes upon the final triumph of great principles, it has dropped to the advocacy of a national wrong. It would disfranchise the citizen of color. It would legalize anarchy and commission crime. If not this, then what does its utterance mean? Under the caption “BOOKER WASHINGTON’S Mistake” it says in the issue of the 14th inst: “A bill is pending before the Georgia Legislatures, called the Hardwick bill, which aims at disfranchising a large majority of the Negro voters of the State under some sort of pretexts concerning education and “lineal descent” whatever that can mean for a Negro. There was a large meeting of what are called “representative Negroes” held in Atlanta last week, and a memorial was signed by them to the Georgia Legislature praying that body not to pass the bill. Booker Washington, the Negro who is at the head of the Negro industrial school at Tuskegee, Alabama, took part in the meeting and made himself very active in it. Location Upper Left Quadrant Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Disenfranchisement In Georgia Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <i>Richmond Planet</i> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1899-11-18 Title A name given to the resource Disenfranchisement In Georgia Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Student Name Megan Brooks Summary Maryland disenfranchises 30,000 “Negroes” through literacy tests. Item Type Article Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP19040102&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Voting Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound New Disfranchisement bill ready for Maryland   Baltimore, Dec 23.- Attorney General Brian has drawn up a bill for submission to the legislature which will disenfranchise some 30,000 “negro” voters in this state. This action is in line with the issue raised by Senator Gorman and the Democratic managers in the recent state campaign. At the legislature will be overwhelmingly Democratic, the bill, which is for a constitutional amendment, will be passed.   It provides that before any person shall be entitled to vote he shall be entitled to vote he shall be able to read and to write at dictation any  section of the constitution of Maryland, or shall have paid for the two preceding years state and county  or city taxes, unless he was entitled to vote in one of the states of the union on january 1, 1867, or at some date prior thereto, or unless he is legitimate, lineal descendant of some person who was entitled to vote at the time. No property or educational qualification shall be required of persons entitled to vote prior to 1867.   The bill is based on the “grandfather” “clause” in North Carolina Election law. Location Upper Left Quadrant Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Cut out 30,000 “Negroes” Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <i>Richmond Planet</i> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1904-01-02 Title A name given to the resource Cut out 30,000 “Negroes” Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Student Name Cord Fox Summary Votes for a primary election in Henrico County, Virginia, are publicly being sold without challenges to the lawfulness of the act. Item Type Article Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP18950406.1.2&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Voting Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound It has been alleged that the colored vote was purchaseable, and that principle formed no part in the transaction so far as latter-day politics its concerned. We have repeatedly maintained that the corrupt practices which have obtained among the degraded portion of our population was due to the white men. A writer in the Richmond, Va. Daily Times of March 30th says: “Perhaps the most noticeable feature of the primary election in Henrico county Thursday was the open and unstinted use of money by friends of the different candidates. The purchase of votes to place at most of the precincts, or at least it was clearly understood among the bystanders that that such was the case, but at Hungary precinct was the most startling instance. At this precinct votes were purchased with the most utter and open disregard of appearances. Voters were plied with offers from friends of opposing candidates, and, when finally won by the largest offer of ready cash, were marched to the polls, their tickets handed them, and their votes cast without even an examination of their ballots. One block of four was publicly proclaimed to have been bought for $42, and this without one word of denial from the voters themselves, who were in easy hearing of all comments upon the purchase. One man, who, it was publicly announced, had been holding his vote at $25 rapidly approached the precinct and when asked by a dozen inquirers in loud tones how much he was to get for his vote, replied with a laugh, it was none of their business. He was seized upon by a canvasser, marched straight to the poll window, his ticket was handed him, and, without looking at it, he passed it to the judge. As soon as the ballot was received, he turned on his heel and quickly retraced his steps down the road, replying to a number of loud inquiries as to the price he received that they needn’t bother about him, he knew his business. Bystanders and officers of election alike expressed their disgust and condemnation of this shockingly demoralized state of affairs, and it was openly proposed to employ an auctioneer to sell a number of tardy voters to the highest bidder.” What have the Negro-haters to say of this? Is not “Blocks of Five” Dudley outdone. Continued wrong-doing must react upon the people practicing it. This is the Democratic primary, in which no colored man is allowed to vote. The demoralizing condition of affairs is but the logical outcome of the defrauding of colored men. Crime will operate upon the white man, when it finds there are no Negroes upon whim to practice. But another writer corroborates the demoralizing condition of affairs. He says: “The statement in your issue of March 30th as to the open bribery practiced at Hungary precinct during the recent primary but supplements and confirms reports of such bribery and buying votes at Shoemaker’s precinct. The writer of this heard it in the air and talked about as a matter of fact all around the polls when he was there to cast his vote. One instance was cited by a reliable gentleman, who had denounced a shameless hawker of his vote, when he was trying to get an advanced on the four and half dollars already offered for it. To say nothing of the morality of honesty of such doings, I want to ask as a party man, how far nominations thus brought may command our support at the polls? It is a question with some whether such corruption does not vitiate the primary and absolve the honest voter from support of its nominees, especially in cases where other and good candidates for election may offer. This is a practical question with a voter who has always voted the straight Democratic ticket, but is disposed to denounce a requirement to vote for a dishonest or incompetent candidate.” The solution of this question is the return to the bed-rock principles of a pure government and accord to all men equal rights before the law. There cannot be any caste in a free country which endangers the foundation of the republic itself. Location Upper Left Quadrant Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 18950406-Buying Voters-Fox Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <i>Richmond Planet</i> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1895-04-06 Title A name given to the resource Buying Voters Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Student Name Carlos Serrano Summary Men are convicted of electoral fraud in precincts in Henrico county, and receive a fine of $10 and one day in jail. Item Type Article Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP18940728&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Voting Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound The trial of the white men, charged man charged with Alexa in Smith pre Henry on Friday 20th inst, and resulted in the conviction of the accused. The evidence was conclusive and barring quibbles upon some technical law points, it was considered by even the defense that no other result could have been reached. By agreement a verdict of $10 fine and one day in jail was rented. The convicted criminals were James Holleran, William Wilson, BF Ashby, WP Woodson, and BW Brauer. This was due to the agitation by the Richmond, VA, Times in favor of honest elections. It was proven that there were more names up on the registration books of this Precinct then there were voted it was proven that dead man had been voted, and that the dishonest election officials who had begun by robbing colored men, when this element in politics have been removed practice upon white men as well. Capt. AB Guion,The Fearless console in the case has done his duty well, and despite adverse criticism, the loss of personal friends and the condemnation by party leaders performed unflinchingly a disagreeable task, and his efforts have been crowned with success. He is a Democrat, but will yet find as the years pass by that no grantor service could be performed then to place the political organization to which he belongs above the plane of the bummer, the, and the man who would not hesitate to commit murder to carry a point. The punishment secured is entirely inadequate but it will do. It will be a warning to Democrats and 10 to clear are elections of the stains which have so long rested upon them. There are few persons who believed that a jury could have been obtained that would have rendered even such a nominal verdict we are pleased to find it as it is and we hope are the next batch of criminals are brought to trial that the situation will have improved sufficiently to guarantee their incarceration in the Virginia Penitentiary where hard work May tend to produce an atonement for their mauy sins... Location Upper Right Quadrant Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Ballot-Box Stuffers Convicted Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <i>Richmond Planet</i> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1894-07-28 Title A name given to the resource Ballot-Box Stuffers Convicted Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Student Name Emma Roberts Summary A meeting was held in New York to discuss suffrage, and the goal was to achieve "righteous liberty of political action without distinction or color. Item Type Article Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP19060217&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Voting Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound Awakening of the North Remarkable Speech of Hon. John E. Milholland. A Ringing Condemnation of Existing Conditions. Rev. Dixon and His “Clansman.” The Constitution League and its Mission. No Compromise With Wrong. New York, N.Y., Feb 5, 1906 The Constitution League held a mass meeting at Cooper Union Hall, New York City last Thursday evening with an attendance of 3,000 of which one fourth was white. The object of the meeting was to discuss the Suffrage Conditions in the South. Resolutions were passed demanding that Congress take steps toward constitutional representation and the restoration in all the states of chose conditions which shall insure a righteous liberty of political action without distinction or color or of race to the attainment of the highest individual aspiration and endeavor. Mr. John E. Milholland, presiding officer of the meeting, in his speech, said in part: Ladies and Gentlemen: A dashing brigand away off in Morocco decided one day that he needed a rich man in his business. So he kidnapped a certain gentleman of wealth and influence in the neighborhood, bore him off to the deserts and calmly declared that unless the terms of ransom were complied with promptly, he would return the unfortunate man’s body on the installment plan. (Laughter) With this announcement came other startling news. Though Greek by name and ancestry, the stolen one, it appeared, had been born right; he was a native of Philadelphia. True, he has left his birthplace a mere [...] and always lived abroad, but he was still an American citizen. Far Cry for Release Instantly went up a far cry for his release. It was quickly heard in Washington almost before articulate expression could be given elsewhere. The government machinery for relief was set in motion, Our navy baume busy and the chancelleries of Europe grew nervous. A big warship was dispatched to the scene, and the civilized and uncivilized world was made to understand that this IMperial Republic would endeavor to curb Mr. Raisuli man stealing activities through the search for him and his prey had to be carried into the heart of Darkest Africa. “We demand Perdicaris living or Raisuli dead,” was the grim alternative of out State Department, over which the late Republican National Convention in Chicago went wild with enthusiasm... Location Upper Left Quadrant Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 19060217-Awakening of the North-EmmaRoberts Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <i>Richmond Planet</i> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1906-02-17 Title A name given to the resource Awakening of the North Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Student Name Carlos Serrano Summary The Planet poses questions regarding the fairness of elections in the Richmond area. Item Type Article Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP18940210&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Voting Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound The Richmond, Va., Daily Times, a liberal Democratic journal has been faithfully endeavoring to lead the party with which it is identified back to the true principles of Democracy. It attacked that cancerous growth-dishonest elections and no surgeon has ever essayed to locate and advise as to the removal of the same with more precision and fidelity than has this champion of truth and justice. When the allegations was made that political rings controlled the state and that whereas when the Republican party was active Negroes were cheated, but since its retirement from the field outspoken and independent white men were cheated as well, the Chairman of the State Democratic Committee professed ignorance and the Richmond, Va., Dispatch was stone-blind. It was openly stated that the charges must be substantiated by facts. Well in the Daily Times on the 4th inst., these facts are produced. With what success the reader may judge from the editorial utterances of this journal. “The exposure we make this morning of what took place at Smithers’ store precinct, in Henrico county, as the election on November 7,1893, should make every citizen of Virginia pause and ask himself earnestly and seriously if he has any voice in his government at all as matters now stand. Three hundred and fifty voted were all that were cast at this precinct and yet the election officers recorded six hundred and eleven and that by the most open and barefaced methods of stuffing the ballot box. So bold had successful fraud made them that they neglected the most ordinary precautions of covering up their tracks. The copying of “blocks of five” from the registration book is perhaps the most open and barefaced fraud that was ever attempted before under similar circumstances. By this method, a precinct which had never before given more than one hundred and seventy seven democratic votes in an honest election was made to give four hundred and ninety-eight Democratic votes. It could just as easily have been made to give one thousand if they had been needed.” And again “This thing could not have happened without the connivance of all the election officers at that precinct. It is, therefore, to be considered as of and belonging to our election system. A system which makes those who have exclusive control of the elections a board of partisans, all of one party, to hold their meetings in secret, keep no records and be accountable to no one, must of course work it way by degrees to elections like that held at Smith's. The Times has uncovered what was done at this precinct by its own unaided efforts. It was of course at a great disadvantage from having to pick up its information here and there and wherever it could find an item. It had no power to compel the attendance of witnesses to give evidence. If it had this power it had not the slightest doubt that it could show that a state of affairs similar to that at Smithers exists in almost every, if not every, Negro county.” What will the people of Virginia say to this? How do they like the situation? But the Daily Times propounds a few questions and answers them. Here they are: “The Dispatch has repeatedly taunted the Times with the question ‘Why do you not go with your allegations of fraud before the grand juries?’ We have now proved fraud. What does the Dis;atch think will b done? We can tell it. Nothing. It is very doubtful whether the grand Jury indicts any one. But if it does here will be no conviction. Men cannot be expected to be better than their laws. The Anderson-McCormick law was understood by the people to be intended to be a shelter for cheating in elections. It had demoralized a great part of the moral sense of the people and they look on at the frauds that are perpetrated in elections with a shrug of the shoulder and inward thanks that their election troubles are ended. But are they ended? Is it any relief to escape Negro rule to fall under the absolute and autocratic rule of a ring of election thieves and ballot-box stuffers? What is the use of any citizen voting again? His vote is not counted unless it suits the election officers to count it. What part then has the citizen in his government. None, absolutely none. He had just as well stay at home as go to the polls. The result is the same in either case.” Ah, the white men of Virginia, in order to protect themselves against fraud and thievery must protect us. Here is the practical demonstration of a principle which is as old as time and as unvarying as the Almighty. May the christian people rally and the masses see that it is absolutely essential to the life of free government that honesty be again enthroned... Location Lower Left Quadrant Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Are Our Elections Honest? Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <i>Richmond Planet</i> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1894-02-10 Title A name given to the resource Are Our Elections Honest? Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Student Name Cord Fox Summary The Attorney General of Virginia argues that it is lawful to present several types of ballots, though the law states that there should only be one. Item Type Article Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP18950216.1.2&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Voting Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound The discussion between the Daily Times and the Richmond Dispatch relative to fair elections has become decidedly interesting and the latter journal’s explanation of why the Walton Law was engrafted upon the Anderson-McCormick Electoral Boards Law decidedly amusing. All of this was done, it alleges, to protect the few thousand Negro-Democratic voters in the state from the prying eyes of their Republican associates. Secrecy is absolutely essential so far as the Negro is concerned although it is advised that the Democratic special constable be called in to mark his ballot for him. The fact that the Attorney General of Virginia rendered an opinion declaring that it was lawful for the Electoral Boards to have printed several kinds of ballots with the names of the candidates thereon disarranged is a telling indictment against that official and opens the way for severe criticism, as is also the action of the Secretary of the Commonwealth in sending circular upon the subject to the Electoral Board. The law provides that there shall be but one ballot, not several kinds of ballots. Thus the officials of the state have been guilty of practicing trickery upon the people of the state. This was done to ensure party supremacy and demonstrates conclusively to what depths into the mire of politics some sworn officials can be made to go. A voter unquestionably had the right to take any step he might see fit to mark his ballot, be it to count the number of names from the top, the length of the line or to “go it blind,” and trust to luck as to whether he would scratch out the proper names or not. The people of the country are watching the outcome. The Times has proven its case, and ballot-box thieves have been convicted as a result of its startling exposures. It is in favor of honesty. It condemns trickery. No right-thinking man can fail to endorse its course. No true Christina can hesitate in giving it abundant encouragement and support. Location Upper Left Quadrant Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 18950216-An Interesting Discussion-Fox Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <i>Richmond Planet</i> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1895-02-16 Title A name given to the resource An Interesting Discussion