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RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA, AUGUST 16, 1900.
No 37.
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.-ON COUNTY.
.mH: "Doubtless joa
tint, of the wholesale
t in tliln county. At the
t' rro, i,cxingtou,Tho-
A Mint's Creek precincts
this county, by honest
... at least 800, yet the
t liH-vt', claim the county
Take Tyro for instance
r;iti', gave our ticket at
straight, yet in th
iy ir.'ive nit oi, wmch Is
Imlt the votes we know
If the vote couM be
!, we would ctrry not
r.ou n t y , hut thisHenato-
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i.WIK COUNTY.
,t;(rt; "m MiM-ksville: "We cannot
pi to I it ; 1 1 ) y submit to this revolu-
n brin,-' i nhitut hy force, fraud, and
niilit "ii, mid th sooner the Situ
i, tow ! nr "eliminated" tlie bct
v. rx ii- h free people at all
iird-
( TVBA COUNTY.
Liti. r from Newton: They have
nplv stolen this county. At Mal-
N-wtMii, Houth Hickory and
vcr tn-v transferred over loo
m. Tli' .lection is a whole fraud.
UUKKE COUNTY.
he night of election the claim th.
some of them were shot at from am-
-nan on meir way borne. The?
ran-ed "cain." ant foe th a,r,
aod telegraphed for blood hound-
tuoiney say), but the whole thing
'"iuM, a we mot it waa a put
up job among themselves, for fier
the sheriff came we heard no more
about it. Home of their employee!
voted with ns aud bare been die
misled, consequently are out of
work. Bo not think any of our
people are getting weak. Thev are
stronger than ever.
With a f a r eleetion we could hate
can I'd the State by a large majori
ty. Is there no protection from
these devils who curse honest m- n
r r voting what they call the "nig
gr tic kt" and then they steal the
ticket?
At on of the precincts In our
fou ty they ran off the men who
hd our tickets: at other places they
were so badly treated that they
walked off without voting. They
had wineheaUrs in the postoffic and
loaded them in the preasnceof some
of onr citizen..
FORHYTH COUNTY.
Letter from Winston-Salem : We
had no election here. We should
have had between 7,500 and 7,800
votes cast here, when in fact we
had little over 5,300. On the day
flection nearly every negro voter In
Sabun, Winston, Middle Fork and
Old Town were challenged, and
rn st of tnem were forced io stand
asid and a largo number of the
challenges were -never tried or
counted. In Winston as a Republi
can voted the boxes were Immedi
ately changed so that no Republi
can who could read and write c uld
show or tell another how to vote.
In Vienna township, every ticket
was handed to the judges and some
were put In the wrong box and
thrown out.
PKRSON COUNTY.
would not deposit their ticket. they could not be seen at all and the tickets j mm - mm. mm Of- nnflAAM AAllAla"lf IMniAMAMT tkfVt7 tu every Wy attlUs
would then take them, but at night j were handed to the Judge ttuxugb tb iTU L PtP t F aALIPKIILI lallllUlV I U II 1 1 S U A I J I TT-i-tU
tney.were nearly al! fuoud iu the 1 window. There were about l of o I 1 1 ft- I SW I hi. WS vnilll WWSW WWWSVl iiimimjiih
wrong box, and thrown out. The truth j who voted the straight ticket, but the ' ,
u we bad sro blsctioi: in this county machine only gave us credit for 65.
m.. i . . . . .
ue ufraofnu voiea m-ir own way.j PASQUOTANK COUNTY.
but refused to let the other side vote.
and put their tickets in the wrong box
Great many men, seeing bow the elec
tion was being conducted did not at
tempt to vote at all, and others, when
the judges refused to take their tick
ets, walked out of the bouse and car
ried their tickets with them.
"If our government 19 going to per
mit uch tbinga to go on in the future,
there it no use to hold elections at all.
There is no use to upset the people
every two years just to go through a
farce."
PERSON COUNTY.
Letter from Marqus: The election
In this county was a farce. The Dem
ocratic poll holders met at some of
the precincts before sunrise, and
threw out such men as they want
ed, before the Republican pollhold
ers got there, so yon see they car-
Letter from Elizabeth City; The',
Democrats committed frauds in ;
this county as elsewhere In the
State. In several precincts of the !
The Simmons Democratic Machine Forever Doomed in That County.
In an 4t an4 tl ft-ffecrar hJ
hlasif . rtj-l im rrnurrMNl
an ruTDrf 4 th Wba b
tu th- rvunt mil mhww, dVoyteg
th right of any qualifiol ntef mmm
Ing the cnt a cotWWI fbr In lb
elect loo law, hi fr ntm
county they had only Democratic ! QnB ThOUS3d White lit DCSliYed Of Ihtll lOtCS h The Dca3CfatiC ClQIlSSing BOIItl .nwnuxanytM owt-mrhta.
judges of election Having ap- wa that It w Moo br4. om of
pointed eoch jK-pobiicn, M they Five HDDdttd Qualified Voters Refused Registration A Graphie Story ol Oercecuticithri.,ih,.tdj,.i1,
??:?Zr:Zwv nmm-m CoBoti Still Populist, Alter the Gigantic Steal, by 650 Uajo.it,. Z'Z:'!.
filled
on the day ot election by '.
TT'TfVlTlWIB OF THE MACHINE GIVEN. ! the day or the year given, wen- de-
entire wuuoj iu idhdiuiois auu
boxes. The bull pn system was Tho YlsUt Wtul $trlctly jjetweea
Inaugurated here and carried out 1n white Men The Invasion ot
the most partisan and anscrupu-1 Armed ltexl Shlrt Revolution.
Ions manner. At these precincts arr and Will Ie Coiuleinnenl.
The Populist majority In Samp
son county by Democratic count wai
where there were no Republican
judtre?, the friends of the Illiterate j
nen. the noor fellows deooslted fourtwn hundred a Kln
tied the eloction jusl as they wan j taeir ballots on the boxea or in the!one thusand in the ist two years.
The fight iu HamjiHon was N'tween
w ouuo" wrontr box and thev were thrown
tute Democratic tickets for Fusion , WT0n8 na tney weJft thrown
tickets after the latter were handed out and not counted. The- mam
them. They had a man In Woodb- moth fraud of the county was corn
dale township who was not a citl- in it ted at the Gth ward precinct
etter from Morgan ton : There
ro about 1(H) colore 1 voters in
g township, most of whom were
V n tji stored and sworn, and l
th othcrrt saw their names writ
in what they supposed was the
zlntrstion book, but woro after
Is changed to another book, and
the name of these voters were
t out except 31 I examined
s.b.,okion challenge day and
and their names not there. I
utiont'd th registrar, why it
as that their nmos did not ap-
r on the book, and he Bald he
mid answer no questions They
re not allowed to vote, although
Hy went and tendered their bal-
Its. They wero told that their
ameswere not on tho registration
Mtk. Tho registrar of this precinct
rag mimed j. a. 1'erry, ana ne
n il iu ano her township, and hi
pilly liv- il thoro at the time, and
lo f reside there, and he registered
nil voted here. Thoy appointed a
udge that could neither read no
mu and who refused to serve,
nd itiHtead of appoint ng one of
lit Republicans that we tendered
wy appointed noon In the place
i the judge resigned at all, so the
cctl'iu was held by one Democrat
iutk'e, the registrar and a Dem
cruti.j clerk. The registrar did not
Utend to the registration books
bimaclf, but received snd deposited
a ticket?, and the cle k checked
lie registration book. There were
nany tickets dep sited in tho wrong
os, all of wh ch were Fusion tick
M.
At the box on the other side of
h cMurt house there were two
fntccratlc Judares who would not
How a single Populist or RepuMi
an aifut the polls only while vo-
titii?. Ou- tickets were handed to
he jmlget or registrar, and I am
nformed Democratic tickets w re
ubsti uttd and ours cast as de.
' I'onu'ist or Repnbllca i was
I'tv nt when th counting was be-
iun (1r tlnishel. I was prosnt al
ur l x part of the timf when the
uuntir.g was done, and was th on
T on, a lowed H the room, bo wa
aot sl owed t. take any part. When
a ticket was scratched, they would
lot show tt 1 1 me. lots of ticket
r.. in the wrong box. al
hich were ours not a single Dni
"era.!,, ticket In the wrong box. .
At Llnvllle township, aboat 8 or
'"coored vo'en Wote al. owed to
vote ut , f 50. Some went up and
wmdt-red their billots, wh ch wer
tak.-n from them, destroyed, cursed
an l told to get nu . Five men reg
'sterfd and vo'ed the Democratic
'Ickft at Upper Creek th a', lived In
a.ther county and did no, move in
intll the Saturday following the
Jetton. Thiols only a small part
of tho tul' altty and fraud practiced
'i this county.
ROBESON COUNTY.
I. tier from Roxboro : ' There were
grofs frauds perpetrated at four pre
cinc s in this county. There was by far
the moHt dishonest and unfair election
held in this county lint Thursday that
han ever been known here. The four
precJncts were east and west Roxboro,
Chub Lake and Woodsdale. In east
Roxboro, we had no representative at
all, but the registrar and judges were
all bitter democrats and we lost uu that
side between 50 and 100 votes In west
Roxboro, they gave us a negro judge,
and they ran it rough shod over him
At this precinct, they only gave Cole
man for the Senate four votes, when he
received, or should have received, 150,
as the balance of the ticket received
about that number. At Woodsdale,
they made a man a judge of election
who lived in the btateof Virginia, who
could not register and vote here him
self, and the precinct went ab jut forty
democratic. This precinct was stolen
outright. The same was done at Chub
Lak. Long's majority over Coleman
in the county was 825, and Bradsher's
over Reade, 545. Mr Long, himself, is
not satisfied with the ount in several
of these orecincts. and many other
democrats are disgusUd at such rascal
ity. Our Register of Deeds was only
defeated by nine votes, and this was
du solely to an outrageous unfairness,
when he should have been ele ted by at
least 200 majority, and a democratic
judge tout me tnis nimsen."
WARREN COUNTY.
zen of this State. lie registered
aod voted in Virginia.
Neither of the poll holders were
sworn In, so you see they just car
ried things as they as they wanted
to.
MOORE COUNTY.
Letter from Carthage : The red
shirts at Aberdeen Intimidated very
many voters the day before elec
tion. In Bensalem township, our
candidate for the legislature, one
report says 59 majority, another 68
majority. The canvasser reports
; that firo red shirters came Friday
night and took away his returns by
force. He brought the tally sheet
with him and left it In the hands
"It seems that they have stolen more
than they cau conceal. Fraud in every
township in Warren county. Day by
day.it is leaking out."
MONTGOMERY COUNTY '
"The election in our county is a
where about 400 Republicans regis
tered and only 67 Democrats. Two
hundred of the former were pre
vented from voting by- delays in
challenging and other fraudulent
methods. Even after disfranchis
ing 200 legally qualified and regis
tered voters of our party, we ought
to have had a majority in said pre-;
cinct of at leabt 130, yet the Demo
white men with the ratio more than
two to one in favor of the Popu
lists, and the increased majority this
year was caused by the shameful
conduct of the Democrats by wear
ing red shirts and importing all the
red shirt cut-throats and tramps in
adjoining counties to invade our
county for the purpose of terrorizing
our people and driving them tVom
their honest convictions.
The leaders of the Democratic
crats counted themselves in by 75 j party in Samjinon county and epoc
majorlty. - , ially in Clinton, encouraged and
The mayor and entire police force t protected this howling mob to the
of Elizabeth City, together with aidisgustof al, dewnt people in the
lot of loafers and clerks from the !ou nd to theJr ute rout
atnroa nrro cinfAnfralixl At t.nlR
of the Democratic Register of Deeds ! , . , . . . repudiation at the polls.
office. He w.as directed to fetch the I Pce for. the sole purpose of in- ' -
nled n'gb4ratiun. Nearly all were
asked if they had listed and paid
their poll tax and if not, they were
disqualified, when the constitutional
requirements to vot? In the eleetion
law makes no such requirement. In
many townnhlpH men were solemnly
asked ujoii their th alout th ir
private family affair. How he and
his wife got along together and oth
er foolish and absurd -questions and
In many infancies if he win not liv
ing with his wife, or bad not ten
divorced, or domestic trouble of
any kind, he was promptly disfran
chised. In Hall's township, a uqdte
man was disfranchised Ucauxo lie
plowed half a day without a plow
point. After they had denied sev
eral hundred in the county of regis
tration in the way I have stated
alove, they drove many from the
polls by intimidation and threats,
and by requiring them to take sol
emn oaths about trivial and irrele
vant matters and threatening them
j with criminal prosecution for iierju-
ry if they made an incorrect stato-
oo th l.W of th hcp. ThU tvsr,-
he exvtMi tlm ! J. 1. Kerr toiUtrar, wh-o hU JrUtry could a
Clinton via Wilmington In nler to'loogrr U hlddm. refurt UKtlft-
cau- ik-lay, and cuncquetitly for
about 10 day then wa u regMmr
or registration lokln the township.
lie Mjtity txmrd then appointed jor U th-lr ow1d. Th
another and after oMi-ldermblel-Uy, 'Jod nl mgWrr ho n-Awd to
tie reslgiHsl, and iIkti another wa
appiiutoi uh'i was a practicing Jli-
slcian with many sk-k Aver teot;
and Of euuMe it wu undemtotal h'
wah to nlgn. The iN-iiMiiTst
and loHlllstii ofthe tow llhip lln-n ! "iuUd hiitmntiydil tle nrk
tvcomniended anther who 1 signal the rrturn. Yet thU
deunwrat ate! u ho, prouiise.1 to serve j "tultlned gang .f ciwr.t canvar
as registrar, and he came to Clintmi I nlI to throw out the entire
to receive his appointment, bat the
oard nfusel t appoint him, Itut
aptN)inted another man who thev ! vrt
new lefore hand, wikiUI resign.
Finally the last day of registration
tuine and no nglstnr and les than
ne third of the qualified voters In
the township ngitcnd. Kvery In
telligent man in the town-hip and
tally 'sheet before the board, and lo I timidating, bulldozing and dlsfran-! With a fair registration and hon- raent in an' articular. Hundreds
it proved to have been stolen also,
while the board was in session up
stairs."
PENDER COUNTY.
Letter fpom Grit : 'In my township
there were about 50 refused registra
tion, on the ground that their age did
not tally with the old registration
book. I learn that they have disfran
chised about 1200 legal voters in our
county."
ROCKINGHAM COUNTY. -Letter
from Reidsville: At sever
al places in this county the regis
trar and both judges were Demo
crats, and nearly all of our votes
were found in the wrong box. At
three precincts in this town, both
judges were Democrats and nearly
all our votes were found in the
wrong box. The boxes were shift
ed not only at the&e precincts, but
at nearly all the precincts In the
county. At Iron Works precinct
our candidate for sheriff was credi
ted with receiv ng 64 votes in the
first box; S8 was voted for him in
the wrong box and thrown out. I
just offer this as a sample.
WILKES COUNTY".
Cutting lllO rwepUOllCaus WUO wert) rri ttiuut oninun nuum nave gsrc
as much entitled to vote as any j Populist by not less than 2500 ma-
citizen in the world
were registerea on strips of iwper
and 'these stritw were afterwards
SELLING AND BUYING.
In Politics -Bot Dangerous The Worlds I the OOUUty by 1100 majority aCCOrd
jority. After all the stealing they destroyisl by the registrar and their
could possibly do on the day and j names never carried to the registra
night of election, we then tarried i tion books at all.
Utter from St. Pauls: The
"lection farce is over and all th
devilment done. We had tue mean
nt mi et damnable fraudulent af
'air mortal man cou d conceive
Tbey refused to regUter at least 25
n "ur legal voters on the thlo pre-
xt of their not having a bonatide
Hence. Some o! them were born
and raised in the town6hip atd
l ive never been oat o! the State,
0i (lection day thoy, challenged 32
" 'i voters who were registered a)l
srn'. i heir roaeon for challeng
'Qf? was thtir age did not tally
with the old resist rati n book
iruK men live in the township.
vwn t Htr own homes and are good
'u.ns. une man leaned on th
r !i aud was ordend away, and
"uen ne refused to go, tney tele
Pho. el to' he p t three or fou
places; a d soon they were omlng
u on wnis, in hck8 and in bug
ana when they anlved every
0lri was as quiet as a funeral
hey had wiochester rifles stared is
Uouse te&r th polls P.s'ola wen
md la nearly all the Democrat 1.
Po-k s.
between ten and eleven o'clock on
Letter from Wllkesboro : I desire
to call . your attention to some ot
the most dastardly frauds ever com
mitted by the Democrats in this
county. All the evidence points
directly to the premeditation of
each and every point. Some are as
follows, to wit :
At one of the precincts, the Dem
ocrats put up little ball-thread ropes
mhinh (hav fhimaolvca put nr hari
fraud. The democrats in Hill to wnship done At the same after much
threw out enough votes to count their Der8UadIne and begging by the Ro
majority more than the number of publican judge, they (Democrats)
votes given in the township. This seems assured him that no harm would
to be the case everywhere." come out of it. In this case they
unBWnnvi.v a&reGd w .finish counting, herore
uftBwUi,i . night, which they did, and on ac
T.ttr frm Sanfnp.l ; W rarril COUnt OI Cutting Ol TOpeS, tOUn
I... n 1 t- hl K T-
- - I anf na oaa Ir. naa hoAn AflCATTAn
. j. .1 ! I , I uuuvuui ,
n.e, Kv iu ur.. WW. .... and duly credited that a Democrat
anjunngiiKeicin my nie. i ue aemo stnffod a box with thirty tickets;
crats wre shooting cannons and guns that box was largely Republican.
all night before the election, in wes' This box was thrown out-. Another
Sanford the registrar and democratic precinct was thrown out on account
judge had a pistol lying on the desk of having all the votes counted De
tiMi. th hntn. and m east Sanford fore sundown : tnis DOX J.UU ttepuD
ih ha aa .innr.koor.pr r.ni of t,h Ditcau. Alter mis was aone, a. u.
J -" I n r u- o.I,taI
worst lellows in "own, with a red-shirt rQ"r f " aT 1 UZ
UOUCUlatOU 0UA TTCStO UUAW ClVVtUU
The entire matter is the besest of
;r vs villk county. raud8
Letter from Knapp of Reeds: "I wis tuu.Mi
wish to inform you what a dishonest Letter from Wi'ke-boro : "We have
election we h d here in Granville coun- t,een sbimefully outraged in this coun
ty. In Wilkins, we bad from m to 200 ty by the work of the Election Board,
voters who voted against the amend- wno disfranchised about 760 voters of
ment. There were only 105 votes coun- a8 good citizeas the ouaty has, for
ted against the amendment. It was the n0 caU8e whatever. The democrats se
same way with the balance of our tick- eo their men : drilled them in everr
et All the judges of the election at parti0uUr to do just what was done in
wilKins were aemocxaw. we asseu oe verv i6tant which furnishes the pre
b ard of election to appoint a Populist, text for their crimes. It was - the work
butinsWd of that they appointed a 0 their own machine; it wastheirown
negro, and he was not at the voting I dog8 that kiUed tne sheep, and thr
piace iu iiiuc, ou mcji avf"1-" 1 uounds tnat are to eat tne mutton
oorat, which was not according to law. They can be traced by the wool in their
It was the same way in otner precincts. tM5th in every instance
One of the judges at witains was seen
tAkinc some tickets out of the ballot
b xes We should have the majority in
this county, but we were cjuntedout.
HERTFORD COUNTY.
Curse Should be Condemned.
The Labor Advocate.
The man who sells his vote for a
drink of bug juice or a ten dollar
bill, ceases to be a man, he is simp
ly a commodity on the market and
does not deserve to be permitted
the society of human being, he sim
ply ought to be locked up in a cage
and marked ''for sale to the highest
bidder." He doesn't deserve the re
spect of his family, for he is jeopar
dizing their interests, he is sup
posed to take caee of them
and vote for their betterment
and fail to do so he is working them
an injury. He is no good to the
world for ho-does not set an exam
pie good for his fellow citizens to
follow, and ne works.injury to the
community by sustaining some
scheme injurious to the communi
ty, for the person or persons who
buy votes do not do it to further
honest principles and wise laws for
the good of all. Consequently such
a man is better out of the world
than in it. These reflections also
apply to the fellow that sells out
for a thousand, or more or less.
The man that buys a vote, well
ing to their own count
This
them.
majority
I All of this fraud and deviltry was
I rf nn avail Tho muni V IMYW stronir.
was appalling to i er Populist every day. Some other
They did not exiiect it.
They hoped by their stealing on theinext ncheme was larceny and it le-
plan must be resorted to. Their
day and night of election, together
with their fraudulent registration,
to carry the county. They decided
that this big majority must be re
duced by the Canvassing Board on
Saturday, and here in the court
house of the county, a venerable
temple of justice, and in the broad
! open day time in the presence of
several hundred good people of the
county, there was perpetrated the-)
blackest and "most damnable outrage
ever witnessed in a civilized coun
try before. The highway robber
who sits by the road-sidefipr his un
suspecting victim, otfhe chicken
thief who crouches in the hen house
in the night time, or meaner still,
the sheep thief who walks off with
an innocent crying lamb on his
back, any of these, in the estimation
of good people in a Christian com
munity, would be regarded as hon
orable men and gentlemen compared
he's about as fit a candidate for aj to the measly gang that called them
ue th eouot. but It w prtaraptly U
ken apandrooipleted by ulhrr Hectt
ta rata w ho ftlgrw! the rHuro ami
make thU count are lad triable ooder
the election law and thocod for fall
ure to wrform their duti-i, but their
refusing to do mi dUl r4 Invalidate
the n-turn, oh4ltut-j were ap
township with 21 3 ote lni4y !
cau -4 the Popullstn had a ntajf1ty of
ThU Lrtuir ua tu
VoKTH 1.1NT
low nh ii-
Th U township by actual rou nt wt
l'o4itit by three majority, and tie-l'opull-t
poll txNik In wbUb w re
corded the name of each PopulUt v.-
o ... . . ,
staixls the trouble in Lisbon town
ship. It was a contain Hi Me con
spiracy between the ele-tion loan!
and the cliairmati of the Denmcratlv
jmrty of this "ounty ami tlicee n-git-trars.
And to complete their
dirty work, they took advantage of
by showing a msjorlty of three ote
for the roptill-t. yet the Itefitorrat
ic count in thU tow n-hip i fhmi
0l to 111 uajortty ftr the leime
crat. It wi lone in thU way: Tin
lxe were ruil off and the -int
was made bv the Ilefiinrratl' Judge
. t a .
meir own w rong ana noi oniy mu-n . f ..ij,,,,, M tl0 n. tmy fu the
the 148 voters they had denKI the! , . . r . .t ... . .if
privihife of voting, but threw out j hv WHIi WM HfnilD(W 9nA
anl refusel to crunt the W vots u
w lin II R iruiiv"" i'j w- mm w- 4
pnirly registered! an.l pro-rly v.. ; . t .,,-.,1,1 .,--u
tl, thereby throwing tt the entire j 4i. ckijs ,,M ill(inv .,r ti ,kk.,,
votecf thi- township, con-Ming of I Wiwn-Int lor M. w ll!..
warmer climate as it is possible to
get. He entices as it is possible to
get. IIe entices a brother human
being into committing a crime
against civilization of the world.
In selling his vote a man lowers the
standard of morality and debases
himself and by his act setting a bad
example for his fellow being. But
in buying a vote, the persn that
does it, seeks to degrade, - and lays
the foundation for the overthrow
of all that is good and noble, mak
on
selves the Canvassing Board of
Sampson county and polluted the
county's court house on Saturday,
August 5th. After taking a sol
emn oath to do their duty before
God and man and to administer jus
tice to all parties, they proceeded,
while their breath was still hot on
the Book, to throw out Lisbon town
ship with 247 qualified voters; Tur
key township with 228 qualified
voters; Herring's township with 21 3
lng the world not a desirable habi- i qualified voters; Honeycutts town
tation to live in, or life worth liv-Lip wjth 400 qualified voters, ma
ing- ! king a grand total of one thousand
and eighty-eight qualified votes
stolen bv a sampson, county Demo-
Danger in Over-Confidence.
The only danger that confr u s the 1 c t.anvasping board !n one day,
uemocrais 10-uay 111 aor.n tanunis is i
JACKSON COUNTY.
Letter from Speedwell : ' 'The cacdi-
Le'ter from Winton : "The democrat-
dates in Jackson county are defeated
in a shameful and mt6t disgraceful
manner. The democrats disfranchised
100 Indian voters to begin with. There
ic registrar refus-d to register Jour or were66 republicans disfranchised be
flve hundred opposition vo'ers. They cause they had not listed their poll tax
circulated tne report, inai iney naa There were over oq iuegfti votes cast in
wer . a Z I -
one nunarea rvincuesier nneo 111 everjr the county, making over 175. It is sim
town in tne county, ana mey aia nave p, an outrage
. tavo shinned to some of the towns to 1
confirm their rumors. At Harrellsville BERTIE COUNTY.
a few days before the election, a crowd)! Lefer from Powellsville : "The box-
of democrats jumped" on 'Evar.s, the es were placed in such a -positi- n that
most active Populist in Harrellsville, J we COuld not deposit our tickets, but
and gave him a beating as he was pass- j Da(j to pas them through a small win
ing through the town.
"At Ahoskie, thedaj. Aycock sp ke were placed h'gh up in the window atttl
there, his mob undertook , to destroy two of them were placed low dowp jhe
one Percey RaynoV, who knocked a hind ths above named two, so we could
democrat down for insulting him. j not even se the o'her two so as to tell
rhe Judges would tak-. the tickets of one from the other, and ss the other
every democrat and- put them . in the two were off from the window we could
right box, but refused to take the op- not diitlnguish one from the other as
nosition tickets at all, and when tlfey they were not labeled, as the law re-
would nf ue to vote bec'ause the judges quires. In Township No. . I, the boxea
the danger of over-conn tene.
The Democracy knows that the reg
istration bo.)ks show a majority cf 30,
000 to 50,000 for the amendment. Is
there.not danger that . thi6 gratifying
knowledge will lull the party into puch
a sense of security as will make men
feel that hard and incessant work is
unnecessary.
A registered majority will not elect
Mr. Aycock and the State ticket, and
a registered majority will not make the
constitutional amendment a part of the
fundamental law It i9 only a voted
majority that makeresults.
To work, Democrats, to get out the
vote ! Raleigh News and Observer.
You see the Negro Organ admits they
did not have the registered voters, and
that their only chance was to steal
votes, and so they did. ,
To Change the Goebel Law.
Frankfort, Aug. 10. Beckham
will call an extra session of the leg
islature to meet tie last week in Au
gust to arneid the Goebel eleoiion
law toonform to the Democratic
State platform, providing for equal
party representation on boCrd of
dowtothe judges.; I wo ot the boxes-fe?00 m elecUon of offleer0.
. ;
' An txploration of the Hon. Adlsi
E Stevenson's political past disclo
4s th- fet that in 18V2 he was a
sound money man.- Bat the plat
for ua was for sound money that year
and Adlai is a great party man.
Washington Post .:
The Populist party includes Jmore
than twice as many white men as
the IVmocratic imrty in this county
and own more than twice the real
and personal property of the countyf
and poll more than twice as many
votes as the Democratic party, yet
the Populists were denied represen
tation oh the canvassing board and
in several of the townships were re
fused a judge of, election, but ap
pointed Democrats in their stead.
The registrars were all Democrats
and every scheme and subterfuge
was resorted to by the registrars to
prevent Populists and Republicans
from registering. Voters applying
for registration were asked all kinds
of foolish and absurd questions and 1
required to answer upon their oath.
Hundreds were denied registration
because they could not give their
exact age in days and months,
though they swore to their exact
age in years and had been voting
regularly more than a quarter of a
century. Others were denied regis
tration who swore to their exact
aee but could not - tell what year
gan in this way:
iioxeycittt'k TOWXSHU'.
This township, the old home of
Senator Butler, is a large and strong
Iv Pooullst townshin. On the last
-mf - a. a
day of registration it .could te easily.
seen by the Democrats that the
Populists would have a tremondous
majority iu the township. W. A
Baggett, the Democratic registrar, on
returning home in the evening of
the last day of registration, claims
that he was assaulted about dark in
a few hundred yards of his home by
a mob of men and made to surren
der the registration books. He
made no alarm and had no search
made for the parties, but came to
Clinton and reported the (act and
had it wired to the State papers that
the Populists had stolen the lxok,
claiming his liook showed a regis
tered majority of 27 votes for the
Democrats, while both Baggett, the
registrar, and John D. Kerr, who
sent out the libellous reiort, knew
that it was untrue.
- There was a legal election held in
this township. Each man taking an
oath that he was registered, and the
registrar, in the absence of the book,
certifvini? to the same tact., and
o
passed all that were projwrly regis
tenil to the wills, who voted. The
actual count after the polls closed
showed 29 Democrats and 241 Yo
uosts, and yet in the fw-e of this,
John Kerr wired to the State ipcrs
the vile slander uion the Populist
of Honeycutt's township that they
had stolen the regLst ration books as
the Denuierats had 27 majority in
the township. The canvassing
board, at Mr. Kerr's request, threw
out" the entire vote ol Houey
cott's because; they alleged that not
!allthe menin tbe township voted
on the day of election. The Popu
lists then agreed to give them every
man in the towhsbip whose name
was on the registration books and
count all not voting as Democrats
This they refused, and after having
ernien'the registration book from
their ow irTegistrar, committed the
double crime by throwing out the
entire vote of the township, thereby
stealing 241 Populist votes in one
precinct.
Their next crime w in
LISBON TOWyfeHlI'.
This is another r Populist rtrong
hold. The first registrar the Democrats-
appointed was given his in
struction how to proceed with the
dlrtv work of cheating the Populist
out of votes, and he was either
afraid to do it or he was too honest
to do It and after registering about
fifty voters resigned.
The "County Board of Elections
217 vote.
The cause of their cowardly and
niggardly conduct Is 'explained by
the fact that the Poiilit had
almut 215 majority in the township.
Their next steal was at
TL'UKEY TOWNSHIP.
This was also a Populist township
and the election passed off orderly
and quietly and the registrar mnd
judges declared that It wa a fair
election. Wheu the canvaing
board met Saturday the word was
given ami passed around by .1. D.
Kerr, the chief mogul and advisor
for he sheepish-looking outlay and
Turkey township, with its entire
vote of 228, was dumt?d on the
Itter heap. Luke Kennedy, the
Hjmocratic registrar, and brother of
he Populist candidate for the Sen
ate, J. T. Kennedy, In order to
hrow out tbe township and deftat
lis own brother, took the Holy
look and swore that there was in
timidation at the i)IU, but said he
was not intimidated, and when
asked who was, could not name a
single man or produce a single wit
ness; yet, upon this hearsay evidence
which is inadmissable in any court.
and evidence which would lie In
ompetent and insufficient, even if
out even Uing unfolded. Thl wa
done In the prcMence ufi Urg nutn
ler of PopulM voter and Iulit
candidates for office, w ho by thlsar-
ibitrary ruling of the Democratic reg
istrar and judge of election, cnfbmd
by DemoiTatic bailiffs, were cooi
elled to stand off and see tbe vote,
they ca.-t counted for men they did
not vote for, and counted for OHn
they would have died U-fore they
would vote for. T1e Democrat U
Judge counted all the loxe but the
township box, and the PopulM Judge
counted this box, which showed a
majority of three votrw for the Pop
ulist In North Clinton township,
and it wan so weirded on tbe tally
sheet Vn the count was made.
In the atmence. of the Populist
judge, the registrar and Democratic
judge changed this tally sheet after
it was tdgned, to ehow a iJemorratlc
majority vt about forty votes. This
was ilone to prevent too great a va
riance U-tween thelownnhlp box and
the other boxes, and to prevent their
rascality from Mng too noticeable.
sntTII CLINTON ToWJCPlfir.
When this township was reached
by the canvassing txrd they pwmed
it over without Invertigatlon, a It
was one of .1 lie two iXiiiurratlc tow n-
.1 am oitmluuftKla fhta lx.ar.1 threw
Hit Turkey township. . It was done -Ml- " the CKinty. The Populist
.llk.MHiin l.rna rwll ltl InVeHlln-
.1.1 tnu4.nM kl tt rn wt ra r ni '
...... tiont it wv at nrsi Teiuj.
erof the Populist candidate for the
K nate. It was au exixte hearing
and their conduct U without prece
dent iu North Carolina and wa
without authority of law or shad
ow of evidence.
through the apil of the counsel
for the 1'oj.ullst they flually agreed
to admit evidence. The Populfet
preferred chanhargt of fraud and
Irregularities in North Ointon tow d-
ship as follows:
The Caucasian is informed fmn j ,M rl'"
mnrr that Are or six wit- iiidiTe ofeelifn were no eworn on
v i '
au
Dses were pat on tne stand to eor
r borate the Demoeratio registrar
and every one of them awore that
l. Tv wa ro iO'Oil.l'kH " far t
m y c"nld s e.
They tjegan their ra-cality again
when they reached
HXRBI-'S'V'b TOW-HJF.
Thii was another stroivg Poiullst
township and tnat be disposed of.
The election te-d off quietly and
I he dav of election as rju!mt by
law. (TtM- Poilli-4 jeV was
sworn.)
2nd, Tbe counting u done by
the Democratic Judge of election, se
cretly and fraudulently, no rmi
ting any one to the face of the
tickets as tbey were being counted.
a is required by law,
(Continued on 2nd Pag
they were born. Others w ho swore ' then appointed another registrar. He
to the day and year Jn which they
w,ere barn and gave their exact age,
but referenceio the old registration
books did not correspond either in
registered a.iew and then he resign
ed, and instead of sending the book
and his resignation direct to H. E.
Falson, the chairman of the board,
NO MORE NEGRO HOVJL
Simmons,. Aycock and Ml Democrats PfocisBd ii Its Got to Stop
-Chairman Simmons, ofthe Democratic State Executive Com
mittee, was asked yesterday if the nejrro question is to an
issue in the presidential caninaiffn in this State.and replied that
the canipaijni would be uion the issues formulated at Kansas
Citv. His position is sensible, and his reply i in accordance
the nlMo-eof the Democratic party in the recent SUte cam
paign that if the amendment were adopted the nero question
would disappear from North Carolina polities. If we are to
continue to hear about 'nigger, domination' and - white inprana
cy: people will wonder why last week' election was held .and a
ofood many ot them will get very tired, not to say disgusted. The
The promise of Mr. Simmons, Mr. Aycock and all the other Dem
ocratic leaders was that with the successful close of the late
campaign this could come to an end.-Editonal in Charlotte
ObserYetfAug.! 0th, 1900,
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