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Show IF THEY SHOULD HAVE TO WOflK. Some malcontents are trying to get up a race issue convention in Atlanta, Georgia. They wrote to the Governor of Virginia to send delegates. He flatly declined. On the other hand he writes that he sees no race issue in his State, still less a good reason for creating one by untimely and pestiferous agitation. He says: "The relations between the two races in this State are peaceful and friendly. No trouble exists that I am aware of. No negro who is industrious and law-abiding and contributes to the welfare of his community can make complaint of either the laws or the sentiments of the Virginia people." Vhen the Governor of a great State in the South writes in that way it looks as though the race question was being settled, and that the class of politicians in that region, who have grown and kept fat ever since tle war shouting "race issue" and "negro domination" and all that humbug, are liable before long to' have to go out and earn an honest living. |