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THE CAUCASIAN J 1 Vol. X; II. RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA, AUGUST 9, 1900. No. 36 FORGE, FRAUD, INTIMIDATION m k: I'm TAHRY AMKXD- :'T AM) ELECT DEM neifATIC TICKET. LETTERS FROM EVERT SECTION OF THE STATE r io That The Method Used The Simmons Machine rate1 tlie Will of the I'rojile. Ilj 'jsr w i gira on'.y a Jaw o! the .tit rr received at this office, seat in by kfcod men, showing how the l)m ora ic aiichli) won their recent vu t iry (T). Tn y will not ba able t; on live it and answer it before the poplv mnch before the bar of j 'I rt iCtJ MEAUKOUT COUNTY. I'ttT from A mora: Thy In timidated so many negroos, and tnHlM trum take thlr names oft iht b k, a l others they could tint ar' IT. thy refused to h t vote, and some they n fused to reg ister. H H Thompson scared t't-m oil with th threat tat he Thompson) on uld h vethm all n the p i)teiillary If they voted, but iiiht inn ey wo iia taice meir namcH i If tho hooks, he would not bother tlii tn This had the efTut of cau I "i; them to take thrlr names off i lie book. Letter from Latham: "We had lis voter reentered In our pr clnct ami they con n uid for our State tick et only iS vote, the balance of the US were frightened awav from the poll, put In jail, and v trs thrown lit ufter b.irg cast, for being in wrong box. We hid no Ju!go it 'Uctlon at the poll, 15 o- mre special election constables were on the outside of the bull pun to In timidate vo'ers all day. letter from Washington : The agents and appointors of the Dem ocratic party had stolen everything insight on the 2nd election day They refused to register In the county 400 that were entitled to register; they Intimidated 250, who after registering, scratched their names off the books. They made tho voters In many places put their names In the boxe. and in other precincts they put t.e tickets In the "fcrongbox purposely, and in the count threw them out The vote cast, If counted correctly, would have defeated them In this county. While they have committed the fraud and announced the results there Is a want of enthusiasm." BURKE COUNTY. into a little place where no one could except over the top of it, turned their backs and toasted the ticket. I asked tht m to give me the ticket, bat they refused to do so. The thing was one of the greatest frauds thai was ever done here. There were 77 Demociats and 97 Populists. If Ood don't save the State we are lost. CRAVEN COUNTY. Letter from Vancboro: The poll holders would not allow us rearer than 50 feet from ballot box with onr sheet to keep tally. They al'owed democrat to pass in and oot of the builJing where they voted all day, and they al no issued tickets In the same buildirg where they vot d. Isawtb-mput my tlrket in the wrong box One of the poll hol ders ral'ed the other one's attention to it. They al'o allowed democrat to nans w - - in thre while trey were counting They hurriedly read out the result' which were as follows: Against the amendment 111, and every man on the enclosed polling book voted aga nsttbe amendment, excipt two or three. Eve ry man who voted against the amend ment will be willing to swear to it. The remainder of the ticket ran in propor tion, except our representative, who only got one. Letter from Tuscarora: There was wholesale fraud plentifully carried on. letter from James City :The poll holders refused to tell which box to put the tickets In or to put them In the box unless the voters designate which box they wanted them put in by laying their tickets on the box as an Indication. The poll holders would occasionally change position of boxes which kept those who could not read confused, and resulted In the ticket going In the wrong box. It took from two to twenty minutes to vote a voter. Af ter the voter who was forced to en ter one way and depart another in side the bull pen, voted, the judge would not call out "next" and so the far e continued all through the day. Men were In line in the hot broiling sun for two hours at a time. Home items of interest in the way elections were held in '.'raven county. 1st, Four n-gro poll-holders appoint ed by do no, rats instead of good white men recommended. 2nd, Registrars in Brian and Thur man precincts were not residents of said precincte. 3rd, Only one poll-holder at Thur man precinct, to w't, Haywood Tuck er, from Newberne. No 8 township, a clerk fr. in Newberne, and four bailiffs from Newberne. 4th, The management of the A. & N. C. It. K sent a special train down to Thurman with the Naval Reserves to escort those who pretended to hold the election, t y Newberne. These Ke6erves insulting two ladies on their way to the polls from the train. 5th, Not one-half th-i votes counted as cast. The whole election was a gross piece of robbery. CATAWBA COUNTY Letter from Morganton : Burke county has been carried by fraud. No doubt of that. Out of ' 180 ne groes In Morganton township only 32 were allowed to vote. Most of them applied for registration and were sworn, and their names placed ou a sneet, but not copied on the registration books before the elec tion. The Democrats appointed one Democrat at each of the polling places, here. They then removed these men and appointed two other Incompetent men over the protest of Populists and Republicans. These men, knowing their inability refused to serve. We urged the board to appoint men who were competent, they ri fused, and the eUctlon was held exclusively by Democratic registrars, Judges and clerks. Another letter from Morganton: Tq Democrats pot. up th-ir bnl' pens in Burke and stolo the vr-tes o our people. Wf wonid have carried the county foor r We hundred injrt ty with a fair letioo. TIbjKTIK COUNTY. Letter from ITickory : In South Hick ory precinct, we polled and voted about 300 votes and when the count was made we only received credit for 237. Some how, tbe votes were changed before going into the boxes. We were denied a poll-holder and clerk. The general verdict is. that we would have carried the county by 400 majority, had we got ten our votes counted. Men will swear they voted, or handed in enough vo'es to have carried th county. It will be settled in tbe courts. Lotter from Newton: At the election in Newton precinct yester day we were cheated out of seventy eight votes. They gave tho Repub licans a man that seldom ever vo es at all, and never vots a full Republican ticket. So they had, yon may say, the Judges and all the clerks. The clerks were all young men. We asked to have a showing, but were refused. CII THAM COUNTY. them. At Blue Sand BUI, (Cedar f reek town' hip,) one John Evans, a judg.' absolutely defrauded us out of ao it 115 totes. Iaawthisman Evans t-u.-ting one ticket in a box, saw him fold it and put it in. Others saw it several times. He charges position of boxes about every five or ten minutes. I saw him take a negroe's ticket out of bis hands and do the .voting himself, and send the negro out. These facts are abundant. I have been informed tnat Flea Hill township has suffered the same fate. Fopulit majority expected three fifty. 1 be democrats were at Flea Hill armed with shot guns. ,etter from Dial : "We appointed a good, reliable man to examine the reg istration book at Newton's Precinct on challenge day, who ssked the registrar to let him see the registration book, but Mr. Neill Clark, the Registrar, paid no attention to him. and did not show him the book, although he stayed there all day. On election day, I asked Mr Clark to let me look at the tickets, af ter be had taken them out of the box, and called the names, but he refused to do it, and eontinued to call out the tickets and throw them down. It was impossib e for me to get where I could see the'name on the ticket, before he would throw it down. He was jammed up against the wall and I was standing in front of him, and it was impossible for me to read the names on the tickets in that position. There were 133 color ed voters that voted, and 20 white f op ulists that voted, and one white Repub lican that voted. Total 154 that voted the Fusion ticket, and there were on'y two tickets in the wrong boxes. There were about 20 white voters that did no' go to the election, which left only 127 to vote the democratic ticket. Our ma jority should be at least 25, but the democrats claim a majority of 26 on an average." Letter from edar Creek : The elec tion is over, and reports say we are de feated overwhelm ngly, but is there no way to remedy some of the wholesale ballot-b x stuffing and intimidation carried on by the enemy? Never in all my life saw anything to compare with it. It is all that is damnable to a repub lican form of government A' this precinct, ( edr Creek.) the registration seemed perfectly fair unti. eifction day, but when the polls open ed that morning, the registrar cried out that the registration b.iok had r.een stolen irom him. It was subsequently louna torn up, about three hundred yards from the voting place, i here vere only four men present when h claimed to have missed the book, and all of them were democrats They were all white men and teir names are well known. The evidence against two of them is pretty stmng. They cla m it was taken by the Fopuusts. b it as the precinct gives a Popcl'Sl maiority of ove' 100, it is plain to see who stole the book CHOWAN COUNTY. Letter from Clam: We request ed our board of election to give us a good white man to represent us at the polls, but they gave us Ignorant negroes instead, who immediately resigned, then they put on one mere Democrat. The people did not know who the man was until on the morning of election, so you can easily tee how they claim 400 majority. On Monday, Mr. W. J. Leary, our county chairman, had an appoint ment to speak in the county. Be was met there by a crowd of un- unpnncipled Democrats (all armed) who would not allow him to speak. At another place in the county the vo ing place of my precinct, the owner of the place left home and left a note telling Mr. Leary that he could not speak on his place, and that the Democrats had given him $5 to do this. DUPLIN COUNTY. PEOPLE'S PARTY CANDIDATE FOR VICE-PRESIDENT. HON. CHARLES A. TOWNL for Democrats. One other box where we lead by 27, 25 were thrown out ind sent returns in three majority for us. One man, as reliable as the coun ty affords, saw the Democratic poll holder putting votes In box by wholesole and says he will swear it before any court. We have 112 men who will swear they voted for Brown for Commissioner, yet he only got 93. At the same box they were keen to stuff. At Hillsborn precinct amendment 213, anti 16 majority, yet we have 112 men who swear they voted our ticket. EDGECOMBE COUNTY. Telegram from Rocky Mount : Negro George Merritt did not appear this morning. Registrar called a democrat to take his place A lawyer carried a lot of democratic tickets in room at opening of polls. Letter from Rocky Mount: It is with much regret that I inform you that the election in Nash coun ty has proven to be a farce and ro guery. I have never seen anything so bold as this stuffing the ballot- boxes and stealing the people's votes and counting them for the Democrats. They claim a majority where we are entitled to a majority of from eight hundred to one thou sand. WARREN COUNTY. rinertoo slipped off and telephoned from Alliance, 2 l-'J miles off. tie bad had a pretty stiff argument with one of the boys down stains. I here were no Tb whle thine was a faree. The registrar, as he went bad done any crime. Ha said bo. I ; told him I wobM net go In tbt rnard j bona. I raw it was a mob of low characters who had no regard for the law, as tho town authorities &4 not athrnpt to keen otder or airos any of them, and I had so one to help me, acd I lft. Tkro woro a few of tho lBtelHgoat men of the town who advised them o lt me alone, but they paid no attention to them." Null McKas, letter fromOrsdv. R-Wo Co.! We held onr election on tbe 2 id of August It was one rf the most un fair thinrs I er saw. They had a lawvr from Lumbrton, one Cbas McNeill, and deputy sheriff, wh challenged svnty-tbr tf our ne gro vnter. who woa'd ba votd the Fusion ticket. He (MtNoitl) would ik each one, if he could ex plain the laws of tbe last leeislatnre. or if b eon Id repeat tbe Cnitutior of the United 8a, or if he kew the laws of Ncrtb Cro'ia Ofeours' he would answer ro,T and was told to pass on out, ard if one of our mer would start tn trn in to s anvthirr about it. be would be mt bv one of these yc ry impertinent marstialls and told to get haek. Weli.tbsreis one thing u"r I wish to rail vour attention to. it is in regard to their registrar. BtoM one neorro that if he register d him he would have tbe deputy take hm up then and tbere. Tho negr said he was afraid to register, for ho di not want to sro to iil. He treated others in the came manner " A letter from Piko, Robeson (?o , The registrar, like all other regis trars in this section absolutely re fused to register a large number rf qualified voters. The election was neld in a two story bouse, an tbe negro who represented us could not n'ace his own tickets in the boxes KXaiV TKItO CAT. negroes tt ere. We sent other parties a far bs Grantsboro, who met the peo ple coming home in buggies They all sh id that there was no tr uble at all, and they counted out, a d shut up the court house and left at 12 o'clock." A prominent man from the Eastern part of the State, dated August 5th, writing to Hon. Marion Butler in pare 6ays I am giad to see there is one North In tn open the polls had a gun in his band MARTIN COUNTY. Letter from Willlsmston: The Democrats carry this county bv from snven to eight hundred not by votes, but by their Infamou election law, rx'cned by tbelr ras caiityand disrputaniA heelers a Carolinian that has the grit to ca'l his poll holders. We have been accus- soul his own. I glory iu your spunk! No man will ever dare say Marion But ler is a coward after this. It is a shame to think of the condi tion of our dear old Mother, the land of the free? 'Tis free, if you vote with me.' LENOIR COUNTY'. torn ed to frauds in our elect lore here all the time, but this is the first time they rnsde no attempt to conceal it, and frankly a4mlt It. SCOTLAND COUNTY. "I staved at the polls all day a upper Williamson precinct, Scotland Letter from Lagrange: I was at eounty, and until tho constitutional f rren county : democratic majority was Letter Torn Iterti county : The elec tion ha resulted in this county in tbe enfire !npiireion of the colored and wii;e republican vote, so far as f can learn. The registrar and poll holders 111 ttie Koxob I precinct each had epa re roojus. and the 01 e who received tbe tickets kept a double barrel gun by his side during the entire day. Guns were stored in a warehouse on the op posite side of the street. On yesterday a colored man was shot three time, the hall passing through hii face, and ttie man, a deuiocnt, who shot him,- was bn tight before the 41 ay or and fined one cent and the co.t by a democratic mayor Ol the 177 co-operation tickets oted. only forty were counted against th amendment, and tbe list taken by myself Wds sent in by Mr. Norfleet, Re publican Chairman. CLEVELAND COUNTY. letter from Shelby : Almost ev- ry opportunity for corruptlou and fraud found in the pres nt election law was taken advantage of in this county. The boxes at nearly every precinct in tho county were roped off and only one entered at a time, and every man who intended to ute ojr ticket and could not read wan not assisted while those who voted the other ticket were ass is ted. The result at my own precinct w.j that oui of about sixty who voted our ticket only 15 were ac counted for. ihe same is true of oth er prvcincts. at many places the voting was done In dark rooms. At one precinct the voter found one bx open when he went to vote must have been tampering with the ballot . Intimidation and bri bery reported to on a large scale. Litter from Erl. Cleveland Co. W 6ld our election yes.erday, and they bad tb nr Dolioe and locked themselves off in tbe back of a store room and would noi let our men in to See if the voting was dona richr Oar challenger thav wonlJ nat lt in hen the voting was over they wont Letter from Pitts boro: We fear the Democrats have stolen this county. Th re has been m re rascality and ac tual stealing in this election thaa has been In t-very election since the war. We hive evidence enough to send some o the penitenti r. The labels on the boxes were n ten with a pen, some nstaces w-th a pencil 'hat could hird ly be read b, a college bred man. Ex- on federate s Idiers were refused to have tneir ba lojs de osited Great out age! Old ana young men wept at tbe polls when they found out they were being disfranchised. In one precinct we had 237 men to go in and try to vore our tioket, but only 55 were counted for us. I c Mild go on and give instance after instance of rascality, frand, and corruption The greatest rascality was done at John W. At water's voting p ace, and with bis consent. He was actually run away from his voting place on a count of the rascality being com- mitted. We expect to have an indigna tion meeting. Under a fair oonnt we would have cabled the county by five hundred majority. CUMBERLAND COUKTY. Letter from Buckhorn : 1 he regis tration b ok at Cedar Creek precinct was stolen yciterday morning, August 2nd I am sure it was a scheme of the registrar, one of the judges and elec tion constable They were at the pre cinct at day-break The books were stolen then I arrived at the voting p aee about fifteen minutes before time to ooen the noils Tbe judge tried to carry off the boxes, and said he would hoi 1 an election, but the nourishing of an S. & W. in his face changed him An o'd negro found the registration book about three hundred yards from the polling p'ace torn to pieces. There was 291 registered vo'era here, 00 bal ance, i231) Populists and Republicans Ve held an election. A large number of voters heard at their homes of the book being stolen and never came out, so it was a light votd. -ri.f had the ballot boxes on a re volving table, but the people changed Letter from Joford: '-We find that there has been more or less intimidation, etc.. tn every precinct in the county. Negroes were de nied registration in the start npon this ground, when they wo aid take the oath, the registrar would ask the voter his age, and he would sy, 'I am 48 jeara old:' then the registrar would take up tbe old registra ion book and tell him that he bad given ia his age wrong and that if he insis ed on registering Telegr Fraudulent about 800. Letter from Warrenton : We are so indignant at the course pursued by the democrats in stealing our votes that we are at a loss to know how to express ourselves. Our ticket was certai nly car ried in Warren by a big majority, but the democrats would not allow these ballots to be placed in the boxes, and we were counted out. Everybody ad mits that this was a big fraud, and re ally there has been no election held. It was a complete robbery and every honest man knows it. It is the opinion of many that our tickets were substitu ted at the ballot boxes by democratic tickets, and that our tickets never en terea the boxes at an except only a few. This was, of course, done by th party at the ballot box who disgraced themselves, their position, our county and her good people. RANDOLPH COUNTY. Letter from Randleman : The great est frauds ever witnessed in this town ship at an election, were enacted here Bizzell Mill precinct. New Hone township, and saw Messrs Benj. Moxlngo and L. A. Ivey (known as Tank lvey) poll holders, and saw tbem steal votfS oat of the ballot boxes and destroy them. This I savr and will swear to. HALIFAX COUNTY. Letter from Weld on: I larn rom good authority that the Hall ax poll holders counted 350 more votes than they bad registered. Letter from Halifax: Tbe regis tration bo k here shows tbe num ber of white votes to be 180, and number of colored 3o9; tow vote 539. The vote coanttd heie was 940, the vote cast for as was 345. They counted out of this, for our side 40 votes, and the 361 came by the way of Simmons machine PARNETT COUNTY. amendment box was counted. There were about fifty votes east against it, as near as I can tell. I bave re corded vote of 26 against it. but when tbev counted out, there were none at all for us. or aga;nt the amendment. 1 saw amendment box counter pass Ik Ut iNllMI Georgetown, Ky.. Ang . 1. Format 8srtary of Stato Calab Power, oa trial for alUgcd complicity ia tho sWtinc of Gbl, braa his third day in the wltn bcx -hia moraieg. Bo was suVictd to a r:gd cro xamiuatiou retarding tn orftai- ntlon of tbe mountaineer army i Ha said that Taylor anl dtsaaoif! were tb primary spirits ia gattisg tt up. The military companies wrt brought along, ha said, brcauao they I had some discipline aad caald b i more easily controlled Moreover,! bo said, thy weie already srcad. The wltneu stt be had urgd QjTcrnor Tav!r wuil the oat. si board was sitting to call out toe miitarv companies and to nd thr bulk of tbe moanwln people home. and had cured a partial promise from t G Trno tn don Th.s was t t dou ia otdr iftt tb might ho'd possession of tb 8tew offlcs until the Hjpreme C art o tLe UntrdH ates bad pad 00 th-uu-ri's of th case. Tbe witoe c o trad :c ted the statement of Benkrr John A. Black, whosw r tha P -w ere, iu difUsmg too mnnoutioiw xcursion to Frankfort, rfrred to it as a mob. ELECTION ANALYSIS. DEMOCRATIC MAJORITIES IN MANY RUCK COUNTIES EXCEED THEIR TOTAL white voting rorr- LIT I IN. Regrnes Either Toted Tfca D:a ocratic Ticket er Here Counted as Oaieg So. The- FitlonUU Mswt tin-mi fialti In Whit OmniK NotwithlMridliig th furious C'miiMtlgn of TltHr 0iMitetila nnd )utrTou Inrllng. (AshevllIeOaaette.) An analyst of tb majorities aa return! (official acd eetlmaUd) ta therountUe or thU 8tat ia the lctlon just pa4 prove mm lntrvtlng fart. Unleee tbe ma jority tn the State on toe final Powers aays Black ao I coaot amount to more than4A.no a , - - : . I ...l 1 .-II Cll . reierrea 10 , oui iai n 101a oiec ni unless the return from th coai a 10 xmp 11 he wouM do all he from degenerating into an orgamza tinn of that character. George F. Weaver, the witness who, in testifyicg ginst former Secretary rf State I wers, claimed to bail from Colorado and who as serted that he saw a gun protruding from tbe window of the office of the Secretary of State at the time (ije bel was assassinated, was arrestid today on a warrant charging him with perjury, sworn out by the at torneys for the defense, who declare they have learnt d tht Wver we not in Frankfort tbe day of tbe as sassination, and that he visite Frankfort last Saturday night for the flist time. POLITICS IN CHARLESTON, 8.C. ltaio-a Men Taking mm Artlte Inl Moarr Will 1U M-t. Columbia, 8. C Aiigut 4. There it exceptional interest being taken in politics in Charleston this year. For the fir!t time in years buitir men are taking an active pari. Besides htral mat'ers that attract attention, it is un derstood that Charleston will give her vote to Governor Mcweeney; in fact, ttis believed be will be stronger there than in any othfr county, and money tsniavipgan imnonani nan in iim t an Ayeok Statf tieket ycr tr 8tar j campaign Money talVs in all Vfc ikn .,ataesina .HATilil K 1'' yterday. Besides other inexcusable and that he would be indicted at deeds' the J adges purposely allowed the the next terra of the court, etc pun to 5 down w,th nine or ten men Tnas hundreds were driven away colored, standing at the rope insisting by this means. On August 1st, our on their ballots being received men chairman sent tickets by ex. ress against whom no charges could be from Rosehill, N. C, to Warsaw, made. and the exnress acrent nt Warsaw did not deliver the tickets until 12 PAMLICO c OUNTY . 1.1 at a I ociocxontne nay 01 ine eiecuon A prominent man. writing from Psm after most or the voting was over ifco county, gives the situation there 15V tnis means our people were a -1 as follows prived of the opportunity to vote. Davidson County. Letter From Thomasville : The Democrats have stolen the entire ballot at this precinct. We have kept a record and have at least 400 voters who are willing to swear that Saturday n:gnt about u,30, 1 was in front of the Botel C , with Dr Abbot and M. B. A. D. Ward and Lf wis Dan iels came running acros to the tele graph office, the first, (summons' la partner.) bareneaiea. 1 ney sent on dispatch, and when they came back it. Abbot sa a to Lewis, "wnatnew have you?" Lewis replied, "The R they voted against the amendment, turning Board are shut up in the court house, surrounded by a mob or 120 to 200 hundred negroes, led by Sheriff Wal- and they have only given as 253 Li-mer trom Islington : mere is mnch evidence, and it is accumula ting every hour, that we were de frauded out of about 600 votes m Lexingtoa, and Tnomasville town ships. The fraud was committed, it is believed, in depositing the ballot?, dropping the Republican ticket, and putting the LKmo-ratic ticket in ltt place. Taey had 47 armed 1 facers armed with clubs on election day. The poll holders thev gave us here and at Thomasville were awful char ctr8. The people in the county are m a statement of excitement, and lace Booker and a doxen wmte men and they have telephoned for Nava Reserves to go to their assistance, Dr Abbot said, Lewis, you know that Is a 1 e, for there wa not a negro on te ground when we left there." Daniels said, '"That is t-t'e te ephone message got, hey needed help " T be a aval Ke-erves were caliea out by the Governor. Bell struck 33, and they assembled at their armory, teams were provided tnat; wouta convey but the t aptain said. "My men must a'l go together. They searched around and got a Mow tug, (five miles an pour It is 60 miles around, 17 by uirt roaa. box counter, and he called it out for Aycoek. This I can testify to. If there were no frand and stealing done here, I don't know what to eaU it. Thev voted four that had come from Suth Carolina and bad not been in the State long enough. Tbey voted one old negro and his ote was counted, and ours were not One negro was all that voted of that color n . LENOIR COUNTY. Letter from La Grange: Toe elee Hon in this eounty last Thursday, I believe, was the most gigantio bare- Pa SkA Tafhl Aa VwASl 11 bTA ihtt StSVI 1 1 - . m at- - I a Cs) veva gsinna x v r a auvwu a taicr aivuii Letter from Godwin : There nev- t, ... .u mn.t t i Lce mw a W0W ui' - w a-'- erha8Hb ThrfraU?'&nd 6Ven farce that ever disgraced North Car open handed stealing at -every pre- u The boxft, ere laed tbf cinctin the history of the county. eenterof ft brick gtore, ropes were iij u.Buujru ..u i""tw y " extended out in front to make them registration book in Cedar Creek afty feet. Several came to me and township, where we would have had , ' thmt iht- Tri.A a large majority.w NASH COUNTY. Letter from Stanhope : The form of election which was held In Jack son township, Nash county, is a follows : Only one poll-holder, and he a Democrat. There were three constabU s who were armed with sticks and clnbs. Aftr the polls closed, I went iu the bull pen and b-fore the count started I was ordered out. The registrar said. "We will have this to ourselves." Under the rale in Jackson township the State has gone D mocratlc, as it is by count and not by ballot. account of the word challenge being marked after their names. There were numbers turned off in this wax. not one had heen notified of the chal lenge. I asked the constable's per mission to see the poll holders to a' the Democrats wregomg in and out as they saw fit. He finally gave me permission. I went in. found tb two men handling onr tickets. I remarked, Prentiss Wooten and Lee are no poll holders." The only response was -next." A voter came to me and stated that be saw Lee patting the tickets in his hip pock et ; another came a few ml nates la ter and told me that h saw Wooten Letter Irom Nashville gives more I take a fel ow's ticket and pat one evidence of frand, and in concla-lor all in one box and dropped his sion, says: "It is Just like yu said I band behind him. I went back to it would be. The Democrats are al-lthe polls, got behind Lee, his pock ways abusing you because yon let lets were full or something, l couta the people know what they are do-J not see what Wooten had It ft, no Ing I and thousands of others are I one was voting then. I told tn stronger for you than we ever were I Populist poll holder the reports dn before " I fldently. He said be could not help wit w-rkvr ronxjTv I it, that he had objected. Lee re '" ' - marked that he must go and get a Letter from Lucama : There was I drink, and never came back. After- a red shirt gang organized here in I wards I went and -mated the reports order to sare the people from the I to the poll holders and demanded a polls- Tnere are fifty in the town-1 fair, honest election. They stated paiguti, but It begins to look as u more money will be ued in the pre-ent cam paign thn for many years pat. The candidate wbo thinks be will make the campaign on tbe assessment fixed by tbe executive committee is laboring under a false idea. Tbe regular aes- ment w;ll sink into insignificance com pare to tbe amount t hat each and every candidate will spend on the outide Tbe advisory board, it is said, has as sessed tbe candidates tbey indorsed at Jb ineetieg recently held, and will shortly call on the candidate for tbe long green. eastern countie published from Democratic soutrea give greatly exaggerated majorltle ia tho couniWe, the election Tbcreday, though a vlrtiry fur tbe I mocrat lc urganltatioB, was not by any means a white man's victory. This la proved from tho flgoivs Id the cruntle in which tie negro voting population exceeds th white vo ting popelatlm or In which th tegro vol U very large. Northampton county baa 1,800 hlto voters and 2 30 color d vo te r, yet Northampton la credited with a rraiiity of 1 203 for the Dcmoeratle ticket. (Vavea oouny. wi'n iwjwniw and 3,ijo u gro voters glv 1 U) Demoeratls ma jority. Hat still more arpr11ng Is the v-1 of Hall'ax, cf Itotma and of Mew Hanover. Halifax baa 2.2f white voter an 4,!l negro-. Here tbe lK-m-rratlc maj .rl-y It eal.l to be 3 Rob son, with nearly twice ss many n-gr e whi,nds In a report of Svj Demccratlc majority, wh -ch 1 much In ice of her whlU vctlng Torulatloo. New Haaarcr wi b 2 JfJO whlU and 3 200 eegro voters snds Iu a report of i,V"0 Democrat- .i tnalr,rttv axt K.a It.fiAm. t, m.A oniy .vi or p r negro voters regi- ered for thi election. Tb big ne gro county of Kdgeeomb returns an eetlma'ed Democratic majority of more than 3,0J(i. From other count te, which if th lUpoblicas (tarty In North Carol It a psswsis thnecgro vote should yield larg Republican msjorltie. tb returns of Thursday election shows th following DemocraUc malorltles: ship they refused to register. ROBESON COUNTY. 1 -it r D7:lVow.11a . I wan to the polls in my precinct, no Pop ulists met me there at all I fonud he tickets in the post office, and I took charge of them until about two o'clock. Up to this hour 44 voted, 40 colored and 4 whites. About this time a mob, of sevon in number, came to me and ordered me o leav that they did not do It, bat yoa al lowed others to come here and ao it, I said. When tbe counting took place onr tickets were mine wrong box and In somebody's pocket. In stead of getting about one hundred majority, as we uboa'd. they were ahead. I heard them Insulting oar speak ers, it hart me when they wrre not allowed to frpeak at tneir appoint ments. It made me mad when they came to me ana oraerea m rotten egged them, but when they town, l stood to tnem ana warn - - t h d,d on lMt A. JBW a J A ami VW tMA C Thursday, I swore within myself that I would not vote witn any par ty that would uphold sucn con temptible rascality. If the Democrat res?rt u reo i j ji j i ' Tt and at 1,30 a m, they got off. The rhey could steal here, where tn.e peo- Weth. we learn tht th got dowS pie are ail white, what could they about 20 miles below Newberne and rati lot do in other parts of the State ?" aground hard, and got off and went to . VTr, TT.T Oriental, thence they marched 12 miles UKANUK COUNTY. to Bayboro, which they reached late Letter from Hillsboro : The frand Sunday afteraoon. They have been in Orange Is so plain and palpable SSTwlgS that a Jury will give us a verdict luf fk VoirT iorxf Ed?WiS SIS! upon the evidence. ocrat, "I was there all the time ; every- Another letter from Hillsboro: body went in and out the court house The largest box In the county, 82 Hjj P18!?: ?LT vifn ZZZi r . thti , ii, L, with tbe Returning Board, wnen tney Democratic, two thirds of the bal- threw out three precincts and declared lots in the box wtre torn and badly tneir ticket elected, the boys cursed defaced and they counted every gome down stairs, and said they were a , one of them and sept In returns, 82 d--d set of highway robbers. John Bar- them off, and they returned the sec ond time, this timi sixteen in nnm ber. and I backed them off, they re crnited and returned again with 20 or more, and then tbe town Marshal' . ' . . w eame tomeand asxeo ' shirts, ahotgnns and Winchterrl- go with him, (during this time they fles tc Now mhat wlll tbey nol had poured-water on me, and wet attempt to do wben they have con -i3F?JFl& trol of everything. I dont tvlicve llJlu ru .7"',"' lnv man would be safe advocating ing he was gomg to tn ayor io h- DrinelDle of different party In getwarrantsfortbem. ana a wentiN rth c-roHna, i .hort. frts with him down towards tne aepor. n n he gtate wm be dead. Thrn the mob surrounded me and l.i mA n rMt ad (Sa fleet train and leave. I told them my horse was The k'ssing bug has invaded the near tbe place of voting and I was I City of Mex co going after bim- The ofieerandll Canadian vessel men predict a re went through the erowd after my yiTal of l etl ship budding. horse, tbe officer telling them tbMI tQ6 Santa Fe railroads opera- he would see tnat 1 lert town, anw 1 in California are to burn oil in I got on my norse, ana ,tad of coal LIS DaiS ZZVZA The Mexican Government has In- rrur " Tv. "" I aucnrated an ac iv. campa g- house ST saTeSr Tahim if 1 1 tU W Indians. That Tetter. Ed. Caccasiax: Did you read theBleigh letter in the CbarlotU Observer of Aug. 2odt Well, it was full of deception. E tier tha writer was deceived or be h6pod to deceive his readers. ' The little fellow contributed his might in th abate of Senator Bat ter. Be said he was tbe moet hated man in the State. That's true ao far as Democrats are concerned. They hat him because thy fr him. Tbey fear him because tbey have no equal for htm. The writer said many things that he gave as news which originated in nis o-va strained imagination. Qe will End that B Tier still live. His tefei' is only qial to tbe theft and oo'itKal triekery perpetrated by tb Demtcratie machine. You can't till a man wben you bave to reair to rotten egs. rd sbirtLm, "fracd and f 'r-e to defeat him. Fr he will lise again tbe third day. C. STOLEN IN BUBKL DrmorrsA Admit Tfca TWj Uwd rrmmd I TaaA Comatg. Aahevillc fiarctte. T. N. Haljburton. of Morganton, was in the city yesterday. He said tbe democrat ettabli.br d tbe "ball pen" system of vo ing in Burke county fr tbe first time, and tbey op-nly adoait that tbey bad to ate fraud to carry tbe election. Tbey fouad tbe bull po ystem unpopular and say themselves ther will not use it again. Tart of Borke went solidly for Mr. Bslybur ton, wbo was tbe Fnsi o candidate for tbe legislature, but In tbe rest of tbe eounty the election machinery used more fltgrant'j and they counted the vo'es as they pica ed and defeated him, while tbey admit using frand to doit. An Issue of Vertvclty Thn hed of tb household waa late getting home. He was very late. Ia was long past midnight Indeed, the little clock on the hall mantle had just struck 3 o'clock when he cam walking in. He had ben out with the boys, and his wife reproached him. -Why. it's early yet. It's not late." Just then the bed room clock sounded three. The wile looked at him with a grim rebuke. He caught her eye and Jerked oat this reply: WelL now, 11 you want to be levethat blamed dollar-and-svbalf clock before your dear husband, 1 faaee nothing to say." Anson 1C2T, lttafort 120n, IWtl 1545. Craven l&OO, Cleveland IMS. Duplin 727. Itocklegham 667, Hcot 1 and 1101, Hertford 9&o. Rirbmocd 1100. Cumb-tlaod 1400, Wilson 1300, Washlrgtou 400, Granville 710, Vance 500, Xaah Wi. While thus the Democrats made botmmne gains (according to their returns) la the negro counties In some of them havleg majorities that far exceed their total whit voting population, tb dts:loar Is quite as significant and I ate resting when a stuly la made of tt returns from tbe white countie. Madison county in 1898 gave 682 fusion ma jority. The fusion ticket wins there this year by 1M4. In Hay wnod coun'y, which waa mote than 800 Democratic two years ago, th J amendment was defeated by 260, ard some of the fusion and anti-ring ticket were elected. Tbe amend ment was defeat by 400 vo la bexokee, wbch was a DtBccrtle county two years ago McDowell county shows futio s gales. Hsrata county. Democratic two years sgo. I now fualoo, atd tb can is bow true of Clay, Alexander and Cald well, which makes a gain of 600 vote. Graham and I'-lk ebw fusion gain Yadkin mad a fu sion gala of 4"? vow and Wilfce sustains her 1000 Republican ma jenty and Alaancn, which gav tbe Democrat 37 In It ITS, is tow fusion by nearly that amount. riampson county doubles her 1838 foaioo majority, and It Is bow 1500. Th re is evidence In this, and In the returns from other western asd northern counties, that ths Fusion lata, In spite cf tbe furious cam paign of tneir opponents a a tn fraud and the onjoatd aenmlnatlow practlotd. agalaet tbem nder tb Simmons election law. yraged a succtesfal campaign la tb eoua les where viol tee did not prevent free speech as well as a free b lot. W believe that th fall rvtora will show that many hundred of of Democratic while Tutors went over to the opposition in the cam paign Just cIoshI. and this Is a eae for en ouagement as to ths resa tof the national campaign la North Carolina. The red shirt campaign la the n gro conutle of this Bute was as ottrsgevne proc:edIng, that should nullify the election la every on of thoe countl.. An honest oooat tn the reaalning counties, we te lle re, would enow a Democratic de eat tn this el-ctlon. Tbe etroagty oegro coun ties have yicldMd. accord ing to D jmocrt'C returns mad public, an alleged majority of near ly 40,000, a majo'l.y tnat prtve that all tbe n'roe regis terod la theae eouitle Voted the Dernocrat ie ticket or were counted to have so voted. Whichever happened, the Democratic party la North Carolina Is now forever debarred from about .ng ngro at Its political opponents. L-donls simply Amerieaar - i eboak fs'l of I