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SUPPLEMENT. DOCKERY VOTING FOR NEGRO NOMINEES. Like a bound slave Dockery votes as his negro masters order, and so must all other Radicals do. The reason why is the Radical party has 105,000 negroes to only 20,000 white men in it. Of course the negroes rule it. in! t n N E E S DfiviocRftTiC WOMl MET 5 lU r m X1 s county v a DOCKERY'S TICKET IN 1884. At the election in Richmond county in 1884, Oliver H. Dockery, the present Republican candi date for Governor, voted as follows: To represent the public in the Legislature he voted for Harvev Quick, a neero lawver. asrainst John W. Sneed, one of the best white farmers of Richmond county. For Coroner, he voted for Felix Jacobs, a negro man, against Daniel Gay, a one-legged Confederate soldier." For Register of Deeds, he voted for one N. W. Harllee, a negro man, against Alexander L. Mc Donald, a white man competent to fill the office, and universally esteemed in the county for his courteous bearing. 7 m
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