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-4 nriirnrni77 n urn u D n 0 I TRlAl HE A WHITE U,'ftH i W Dr a. atr-nrr wicm.s.- nr tup ... . .-r- . . - . "lint, ttw.uii di a iicuKu jumilc ur inc I' .-all A i tV:' k. HIS n 10 I The Negro Magistrates Are Run ning Mad- of : TV r..' : m nr-b-. i: th an : Sir. f,r,. t.i ' w at. C.;m h :. p.rt; tin r.;nn'! that n- i t. ti"-r.. Ti.rT ci--::.a t" white Women Run Down and Arrested by Negro Constables and Tried Before Negro Justices of the Peace Negroes Are Not Safe From the Money-Hungry Gang. A few days ago The Charlotte Ob-j.-rver sent its correspondent, Mr. H. E. r i'.ryant, to the eastern part of the it ire to Investigate the io!itical con-H-..ns in that section and report to the result of his personal t!;, paper ii:v! -stigation and observation. Here is of his letters. Kvery white man .,; woman should read it. v. hern, Sept. 6 Newbern is cursed i negro magistrates. As Wilming is in the hands of an incompetent ent polic force, so Newbern is in hands f incompetent ami insolent o magistrates. Craven county is in plorable condition. There are in the ty about Democrats and 2,SD0 lblicans; of the latter number are but white men. So the oes can do as they please as far as hers count. In this town there are gro justices of the peace. Four of :, Douglass, Chapman, Green and in, are very acme. i w-y isee,. out all the time to pick up every , thi.ro Case IN O UJ1V passes Ipot at least a dozen trials in me It docs not differ about the color lie parties in question m me kwu justices of the peace are after the y- negro magistrates nae i-coj.. I.r anything. There is no telling the best citizen of the town may Irested. is a case that ought to kindle 1, Xr.w -i nger or any mans no.ni. v or more Mrs. (Jeo. S. C.askill, of own, hyfi had a lJ-year-old color- phan si:! for a nurse. 1 ne go. nd of Mrs. Gaskills baby, and iby was fond ot her. An uncie anu Int of the girl, without consulting tent to the clerk of the court ami ;r bound to them. They at once t$ Mr. Ga.-sk.iirs to see about the f-Mis. Caskill was at nome, uui iBkill was up street at his drug iThe colored girl heard ht-r uncic 'to Mrs. Caskill. became alarm- ifled to the drug store, where Mr. svas. When Mrs. Caskill ca;!ed Jbe was not to be found. The f negroes, consisting oi me ttie aunt and three others, de- Uhe girl. Mrs. Uaskill stated m girl had run away .um le found in the house, but ine idid not believe U-r siaiemeni. re imoudent to her in tneir Sand even started in the house search. ... , In f"':r,'l ;rl. 1 jineantime Ur. (.askill nan w the clerk or the court, ne f.it he could do nothing for the Jflce. .he paid her off and told her that s mirht go. The negroes again isee Mrs. Gaskll! And charged A abduction. J. E. O'Hara, a awyer of this place, went to see Skill. Tiiey had some hot words, rhich U'Hara advised the par (gWear out a-warrant for Mrs. ,for abduction. The warrant was iy W. H. Green, a negro barber rfloinff business In a settlement iv. -at hir w Vr. ; tli f kn..t: rn'Utp. t th- t.. f!' h' 'ri-lum.ls Five Points, tne mosi uis the dirtiest, filthiest part of He tries his eases in his her shop, a room about juxi is where Mrs. Gaskin was io The warrant was put in the the negro constable, Maniey. to Mrx. C.akill and rtiid the It frightened her out of her 1!" t. w i l ? ' COT Mi 4 ran awav and hid. The could not find her. Mr. Gas I to the trial instead of hi wife. t Mr. I,. I'lilre J w a i 1 th- j:e that i- Mr V, Moore, an attorney or mi? airesented Mrs. Gaskill. He " . Rut lamination ror nis cueu--. jui ice ot me peace urnmuurn istable Stanley go and bring kill into his court, whereupon re got up and made a threai- nit.g t !iingHi town u peech. saying among timer hat the white people of the uld not bear such treatment. there would be blood shed. nothing else saved Mrs. Gas- !! sail Th a.n .niinnocpnt white woman, from !' : i i ar d.-aggad into that dirty dive for tnul. She was bound over to court. Tli- case was dismissed by the solicitor rhoui his ever drawing up a bill. Some time during the spring a Ger- nan, by the name of Habiseht. ana nis swf,pt through their minds! What vic lfe. came here to live. They came di- u,ries yet to be won! A white man rect from New York. Mr. Habiseht be- ( and hi9 wife! bending low to a friMle rnn to work for Mr. William Calligan, headed magistrate forced to hear the bar keeper and a Republican. He be- j ia5Ming froth of a frizzled-headed law i irvte ansry with Habiseht and his wife, yer! dragged into a frtMled-headed tried to drive them from hie sa- court bv a frizzle-headed constable 1 m. They live in the saloon building. ! WBat trlendid victories were thelra! me time In May he went to nrw l'e-.iglass, a negro magistrate of the town, ad swore oat a peace warrant acainst Mra. Habiseht. Stanley, the f-iro conatabie. waa sent to arrest hr. Il brought her before Douglas and ' short and disgraceful order she was -".:nd over to keep the peace under a ? '".1 that she could not give. Before " dTUiVrardly aware of it, she waa on T-e wav to Jail. Thra ahe was a poor. i. c Wi woman, being ecorted to Jail 7r flr no cauae in the world that she M'uld sae. by a nesrro constable. Some If White rentlainan met the nroceseion hd waa aetoniahed. Ha investigated le mattar, went on the woman's bond pd had her turned loose. JEvery day eome white pereoa ie ar reted and tried here in this tewn by f-groee. It seams to be flae fun for the natabla aad maalstratea. Hut ttiia sannot last always. Tae assjro is ridlag too fast. Ha tan t staaC prsspertty. Ia asy latter tomorrow I will give tan names aad skstsfcs ef ki skaaae ters of tae eaadldates far tae swuaty arises in Cravsm. It fa a mtr art Here is the affida vit of Mrs. Habicht, one of the ladies re feired to in Mr Bry-j ant's letter, showing! how hp vvn; r rrp;tFri iwvv one Ud3 i.l I CSICU by the negro consta ble and tried by the negro magistrate. State of North Carolina, Craven County. Mrs. Louis R. Habicht. a white lady formerly of Ruitalo, N. Y., being duly sworn deposes and says that on il.iv i.f M.iv 1v.ii; oV.. i ...i i. li.rro ..iumtfiliV 1 T . . : , j . ..'luiih, uu tis l eace arrant sworn out oy a white man, a Republican, and tried by a ne gro magistrate, Fred Douglass, of 'raven countv and reuuired to give bond justified in the sum of one hun dred ami tiftv dollars, to keep the peace. If bond not given, immediately to go to jail. Was informed by the magistrate that the constable was waiting outside with horse and buggy to f-:irrv out tVi iiiiti'munt of tlio i. inrt I'.uitl!' :l vlmnfot- in tho nitv I li,l nnt i know any one to stand my bond. 1 was I taken into custodv by the constable,! but brore being taken to jail, a gentle-: i man. .Mr. J. 11. .Matthews, came to my i relief and got a gentleman, Mr. Kafer,!:l" olner Jl,wtlt' ,n s:i1" tov.nsmp. i-ro- a business man in this city to stand myi vi",'1- thal n" cause sha" be more than J(1I1(j j mice reit!o(d. Providi d further: Thai MRS. EOU1S U HAlilCHT ; sm h motion to remove shall be made Sworn to and 'subscribed 'before me : f'foi'e evidence is introduced." this 8th day of Sept. lS'.ts. ' 1 have looked in Vrtili for some provi- S. U. STREET, j sion in this law enabling a while per- Notary I'ublic. i ; The following is an account of the ar-j rest anil trial of Mrs Cask-ill t h.- ot l.er i lady referred in Mr. Rrvant's letter, I wliich was m inted in the Newbern I Pirate to w nam u snail oe iransierreu. Chroiii'-le the ilav after direst amltTiie party filing the affidavit has noth- trial: A CAUCASIAN LADY Dragged Before an African Magis trate by an African Constable and Piostcuted by an African Attorney in an African Barber Shop. Negro contstable, negro lawyer, negro magistrate. negro loafers. A pure minded Caucasian lady of refinement and delicacy, charged by a. negro law yer and l is negro clients with abduct ing and h-arboring a little negro jflrl, and oniy so charged because she had so resented the officious impertinence in her own home of the negro lawyer and negro clients this frail lady of re finement was summoned to appear be fore that nejrro court in Five Points yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock. The husband of the lady was also warrant ed. He appeared, but his wife did not. Thank God for that! "Law and or der, and 'respect for the court' could not, under the peculiar conditions and circumstances drag this white woman of refined sensibilities into this negro barber-shop before the crowd of ne gro loafers and negro magistrate. "We could bring her if we chose to," flippantly observed the negro lawyer. "Suppose jou make the effort,' sig nificantly remarked one of the four white men in the b.n ber-shop. Rlood was pumping fast and hot through the veins of four Caucasians. The negro lawyer made no reply. There is no need to enter into the' grimy details of the case, or to elabor ate the proposition that the defendants were entirely guitk-ss of the brazen, brutal charge. Tlve defendants, through counsel waived examination, and were each placed bv the intelligent court under a one hundred dollar justified bond. The) crowd of negroes looked on in awe and silenc. What dreams of splendid pow- on rervrkeil in their rnr milft have hui there is retribution everywhere. Its in heaven in the skies in earth in all things. The wkite men of North Carolina mast stop these things. Newbern Chroni cle. The man who sincerely belieTee in white supremacy throughout the Stats, ia Craves as well as in Buncombe, In New Haaover aa well as In Catawba, and who resdiaee that the present ad- mi Bwtrati on, in State and counties, isjolina in the following wort's: not oaly degrading but dlaaatroua to! '"With a return of the remncr to . ,. . ,, iU rower In North Caro'ina, I think It the peae- and prosperity of all the P-,0 prpJ.t tt.t T.-ur wi!; h- ple, oi ail races, anfl wks wis Uac.tt 9 fy have beer ;n South chaace it, will vote the P-wocratfs i ticket. whether he has heretofore aXfl iated witk aay other party cr aot. Ts iatrae ts siais and amp!e. Tt Is wVtsa1 enprcaaaey aad hocsst. ecask!e1 sramsat, or. fehe sentlaustloa f Ike D iVjoSes. er kf4aa trader wauei ! Hag wtll ywa rsts. Wkts etsm. Scene of the Trial in a Negro Barber Shop After the Case Had Been Transferred by "Justice" Douglass. THERE IS NO ESCAPE. For White People From Negro Magis trate's Courts. ! 1 have h"anl several nf th" Repubn- :,.an fusion negro domination defenders declaring when driven to the wall on the negro magistrate question that even if there are negro magistrates in Eastern North Carolina and even ir there are one hundred and fifteen or them in four counties there are also while magistrates in those counties, and that if a wiiite person is summon ed before one of these negro magis trates, he or she can have the case re n oved and seer. re a hearing before a while magistrate. I have heard this so often that 1 concluded to look up the " l'o.L niiu hi ill-- oio.c lime ascertain if the law was actually pro teeting the white people in these negro ridden counties. I find in the lirst Vol. of the Code at page 2U. the following embraced in section 907 : "In all proceedings and trials both criminal ami civil before justices of the peace. The justice before whom the writ of summons is returnable. Shall upon affidavit made by either party to '- RCtion, that he is unable to obtain J,1?! 'JV ,je , 'V-L, , -J- (HUEU J I hi H E residing in lhe K:,m townsh:p, or to the justice ot " '-."""."" o. . ..-. M. v , . T" renioe a cause irom a negro magistrate to a white magistrate, ln- i"'f Kives the magistrate befoi e whom the writ or summons IS "''turna hi- tne rignt to select tne mag- ng in the world to do with the selec tion of the other magistrate, but must appear before whomsoever the negro magistrate selects and it is well known that in those eastern counties, the ne gro magistrates almost invariably make removals to each other. I luring a recent visit to Newbern, I was told of several instances where white women had been summoned by negro constables before negro magis trates. Oniy a short while ago a white woman was summoned before Fred. Douglass, a negro Justice of the peace. She was brought into the negro magls- trate's court in the custody of a negro constable and the attorney appearing against her was a negro. When the case came up for trial her attorney f! d in affidavit in accordance with the law above quoted. When the ngro jus tice Douglass promptly transferred th case to W. H. Green, another negro magistrate who is a negro barber, the case being: tried in his barber shop. I would like to hear one of the Rp-Pop-fusion negro domination defender wax eloquent in defining some legal method by which this poor white wo men could hare by affidavit or other wise secured a hearing before a Justice of the peace of her own color. This Is only one of many eases of the kind NO TRUTH IN IT Gen. W. R. Cox Answers the Republican Poster He Says He Made No Such Statement. My attention haa been called to the aa contained in the quoted extract. In following card, which, I am informed, the noteI corridor. the interviewer was t, being circulated by the Republican fatm; to me th? contentg of M artl. State Committee, , o(? Jn The At,anta constitution in re- "READ AND TAKE WARNING! pBrd to the deplorable political condi "Gen. W. R. Cox. Secretary of the tion in North Carolina. In preparing United States Senate, in an interview the irterview, after leaving me, whteh published in The Washington rst, 1 the above purports to be an extract, Septemb-r 2. ISIS, srtves away the secret ' together with other interviews for the Car-..r.. ixmUiana ani vl'ssias -ppi iOok!ca the '.'ralisatioD of a larje per cn of t.e ignorant and purcta--ble Tc"te.' "Gas. "nx is the autaor of tae eels b":ea telrgTrn: "Hols' Res'esoa and se tee Ptats.' The laajraage esilsye4 aad 4a ca- "T' of ' 1rerriswr. ad r,t rwr i I snefa stasasit that occur in the negro ridden sections of the east. The claim that there are still white j magistrates in the Eastern counties is true, but they are as a rule hold over from former Democratic control and as fast as their terms expire in tir.viiship where the negroes have a majority, negroes are being elected in their places. J Negro domination in many sections j of Eastern North Carolina, as bad as it is, as far reaching as it is. and as hu- , miliating as it is. is not half as bad nor j half as humiliating as it will be unless , lie white mri in the State join hands to check it. Complete negro domina tion in many counties is an iinj Hiding crisis that must b reckoned with, must be considered, must be met. F. 1'.. A REN DELE. White Men and Womei , Read This Affidavit. State of North Carolina, Craven coun ty: Edith Anderson being duly swoiti doth say: That she is a white w in. that a few weeks ago a warrant was sworn out against her by a negro wo man before Frederick Douglass, a ne gro justice of the peace who before his election as Justice had been disbarred from practicing as a United States Rension Agent and indicted for fraud ulent practices; that one J. P. Stanly, the negro constable of the city of New bern procured the swearing out of said warrant for the purpose of making costs for hints. -If and said Douglass, as affiant is informed and believes; that affiant was arrested under said war rant by said negro constable, and brought before said negro justice for trial and made affidavit for removal of the cause; that the said Douglass removed the cause to one W. H. Green, a negro justice of the peace for trial, and affiant was carried to the office of said Green; that his office was in his barber shop which is in the negro set tlement of Newbern known as the "Five Points;" that said barber shop is patronized exclusively by negroes and is very small and filthy, and hair from the heads of the negro patrons of the shop was scattered over the floor; that affiant was tried by said negro justice with said negro constable act ing as officer of the court and was prosecuted by a negro lawyer named Raphael O'Hara and ordered to give a justified bond in the sum of $250 and was ordered to give the bona without being permitted to sro down town to find a surity; that affiant after being held in custody of said negro constable for a long time succeeded in giving the bond and was released; that fourteen negro witnesses were summoned against her on the charge of a simple misdemeanor; that after the justice had ordered her to give the bond for her appearance at court, a proposition was iria.de to affiant to release her and and not require her appearance at court if she would pay the costs of the constable. Justice of the Peace and fouteen negro witnesses and the negro lawyer fee. BDITH ANDERSON. Sworn ta and subscribed before me, thia th day of September, 189S. S. R. STREET. N. P. Fori. the reporter evidently fell into th error of confounding what was a!''T, in r' '"Ind with what was said re. I n not fmi'.ar with the Section laws of the States referred to, ' -:t did k-. he Constitution of North Caro'ina expressly forbids the rr's-'ti;re fr-irTi pr-os ne any law d's rarch'atng any indinrftial cr clasa of ff-ni af1 ti should the LegtsJa re d'i t rio - it wsnld b arerpated by ear Cat!tutlom. ' V . COX. THE 1 0 V MAN (Concluded from page 2.) tempt to take advantage of his unfor tunate ignoiance and who would gl id y keep him in ignorance alvas that they may the more readily play upon his credulity and deceive mm to his own undoing. The Democratis party lias always been the friend of the illiterate volet: it has attempted to enlighten him be- cause its methods are those that appeal to enlightenment and intelligence. His enemies are the fusion ..emagogues who have turned over tne poor man s school to the negro and the spoilsman. and who meet his questions foi light with lies cunningly devised to play upon his fears and make him vote against his own best interests. The cry that the Democratic paity would take away their right to vole is the same "bosry man" that the U -publicans have regularly used to make the negroes solid for the Radical ticket for many years. The Re-pop-li-cans are beside them selves if they insult the intelligence of the unlettered white men of .orth Car- olina, expecting to rally them by the same false appeal that thev employ to solidify the negro vote. The hom-st white man who had no opportunity in his youth to go to school is as good and true to his race as the liest Greek scholar in the State, and will not b fluenced to vof for his own undoing the lie that scares the negroes. m by FRANCIS D MINSTXN A"d the. Lettrr to the Nccro tfr.orge H White What Mr. Winston iid on he Mibject In His Qepent Sp.-ech'at Aho ki.-. There may be white men fcere today, honest men, who believe they can re main with the Populist party and not wind up in the Republican party. My friends, if you are here, do not delude yourselves with that idea. Other men as honest, as sincere, as strong as you. have tried that course and failed. I speak from a sad and bitter experience. In 1SS4 I voted with the Liberals in this State. I did not count on the cer tainty of drifting into the Reupublican the Populists who started a new party party. Such an idea was -epulsive to in order to reform political methods, n,einHUidHhaHVe re9enHedfUfnJm" and who used to cry out against 1 putation. and denounced it. Rut in . . . June. 1890, I found myself seeking the Kuie lf thev really meant it. And now nomination for Judge at the hands of no Ross Rule anywhere conies op as that party in the Second District a tne 1((SJS KuIe of tne populist and Re party composed of ninety per cent, of ... . . . . . ,K negroes. It was to them I was to look l,ub,iran 15osses rlht here in old NorUl for the nomination. Every delegate Carolina whose people for generations ir. the convention was a black man. I have boasted that although they were o?hk)nKi VTir SU?.rr 1 U?der" V"r they were free and independent stand that a letter, written by me then, , , , ,. , , , is in use by some parties in this cam- a,ld nad a splendid political manhood, paign. I have not seen it. I do not de- And it should eyer be remembered that ny writing such a letter. It may, and jt was these very Bosses who put upoB must be true, that I wrote such a let- ,u . . . v i . ter. because I was seeking a nomina- ,he 8tatute book an electlon tion at the hands of the Republican etl to 8ve potency to the rule of the party. No man. then or now, can gain Rosses. It is the law now that the any negro support without yiejding to airmen of the committees can get a them. Geo. H. White, a negro, was , . ,, 7 then, as he is now. the leader of the what tmy cal1 " offlcll ticket. The Republican party in the district. He chairman adopts a device and that de was solicitor. I wrote to him. and. I vice is to go on the official ticket. And 7ulTmorTtr naredfle7udgen " h 19 " GI in In August. 1!W feeling th .umlliation :l llst ,f l"e names to go on that ticket, of my position, as every white man in Now mark, he is not to All th" names Kastern North Carolina must do wrto lf ,,. noInn,.es f any convention; oh, be!ongs to that party, and recognizing . . ... the loss in self-reppi-ct to myself, as the n": nnt the n!1Im'f' ,,f the People s nro- orice of my Republicanism, and seeing inecs; but the names or the- persons to eeij aionue io promotion in that par- ty closed to every white man who did not bend to the negro. I declined the nomination and quit the party as I ad vise every self-respecting white man belonging to it to do, as a duty he owes to himself and his race. From that hmir T have labored to mend the wrong I did myself, my family and my race ni mat political connection. It . i -1 . I . .-1 . . r v.,,, ; . . . . .. 1 : . 1 e r ' 1.111' 1. 11 U L 11 " il n IJ I L III, 1 llli III you. my fellow citizens, not to en to the Republican party, because I was once ln ft- Here Mr. Winston addressed Prof, Philip K. Shaw. Populist-Republican candidate for Senator in the Firt din- trict. who was present and had been accorded a devision of time by Mr. Winston, and sid: "My friend, if you will hand aie the copy ef that letter, which you have I will read it to the audience, and then admit its genuineness or denounce it as a forgery." Prof. Shaw hesitati'nely asked Mr. Winston "what letter he was referring to." The answpr came like a flash: "The letter you now hold In your hand, the letter you boasted on the streets here last Saturday you rneanor and shall be fined and comrrdt would read and crush me with: the ted to prison aa long aa tbe court mar letter your negro masters In the Repub- ' ho e to order. Thi is the law h.i-h Mean party hav sent you here today the Rspublicana and fusion Populist to confront me with." It wan eJeetrl- -n the last legislature passe. cal. The crowd went wild. Old men If that isn't driving In the nail and and voiing cheered to the echo. 'cliii'-hing it. what is it? "What." said Mr. Winston "is this It is to this that the boasted political Ponulist candidate for the State Senate manhood of our North ''arohrm people dnine with a letter written by me years has descended. Step by step the rule ae-o which is the property of a neero f the I-tofses haa been advanced; o'itician? Where did he ret it? here a little and there a little. The Through what channel dos it come to conventions committing nomination . te ptiblic1 Ts the neg-T-o running committees to lie arrangd The rm- ho Populist rartv. as well as the Re- mittees trading, taking down, s-'t',ar Publican pprty' Pv what means does tip at their .pleasure. Surer nien traird "'-ch a letter, written under such cir- c-ff for goldbugs. and l! sorts of ra,. cumstancen. hocorne the stock in trade blnations made by Rosaa for th pi of a man who says he Is for whit su-; P'e to vote for until st lenrth toe nrpmricv" What otber Instructions did 'Rosses hare put on the I'tt'i" ti tho riTrr of th 1tter srlve to the men that the chalrmaa of a eerosnirt aj hn rcek it nublic? T chsrr you. s'r. ise'eet his device and a list Of aiws rth bin- the ernissarr of the netrro to bs Toted for, aad that aay osk 'n t's rnnt'sr. and demand that you has in his aossssslssi a balls wish that 0) tetter to the puhfr." j derlee on it aad wltai a aslr ee-lrJ Prof. hw "Tioke for an hour and a'"hig In a aaa Sted trr tSe w Tiirr. and d'd not reefl the letter skafl as tied aad saart a pstecaa. la r ask any referanee to tee lavldeat. - R publican and Populist Committees Name the Candidates ' The People Be D d" The foundation principle of our free institutions is that each voter la a sovereign, and the safety of the Re public rests tin the idea that each man in casting his ballot will pive expres sion to his honest convictions; that each voter will vote for the man of his choice: and the will of the people ex pressed at the ballot box la said to b the will of Cod. Rut here in Nortk Carolina we Una a condition of affairs so far different from all this that on c.-.nnot understand it and realize tt will-out feeling shocked and a mated. Thank Heaven the Democratic party still posseses the oi l method. Still Utw such methods that the will of the voter is registered at ever stage from tb township primary to the election. Rut in the 1'opulist party and in the Re publican party under fusion, it is dll fer?nt. The voter does not select tn cand date. Th.- voters do not make tb nominations. The leaders attend the convention and invest committees with tie power to sol up candidates. The Republicans held their State Conven- in n in July and the 1'opulist held theirs in M iy- tour mouths ago; and the ejec tion is a i p: cu hing ; and yet no Popu list and no Republican in the State ki.ov. s w ho he is to vote for! And they tieer will know until I ho tickets are distributed. Then for the first time when it is too late for any one to ob ject, the people will learn the names of toe men Ihey are to vote for. Where is the boasted fredoni of the Am'-rican -itissen who cannot select his cai.i3 i-.Ve ., , , , , v,lt'' f'" ' 1!mv nu,, h O-edom .loee that man enjoy who has to take a caa- filiate imposed on him by the uill of some committee! And yet that is the xact way the Republican and the Populist parties are run in North Car olina. This state of things is th; result of the Rule of Political Posses. The Political Rosses say to the convenUott do not nominate, let us manipulate, arid the conventions submit themselves to these Rosses and the people do not even at this late day know who have been selected as candidates. You must wait until lhe manipulation is complete and then the tickets are distributed and then when the tickets are distrib uted you will know who you are to vole for. And this is called freedom; and this sort of thing is practiced by ,e voted for on the ticket The chairman, being a political Ross can take down or put up can d i da u. .ie can manipulate as he pleases. Thai power is given to him by the commit tees, and the committee has the power gnen it by the convention. And iiid- the chairman, under the law fixed up .... , ., , . , , . . . , , . , ... mi- .-7 ua.-. to i-eeni iiiii. 1 11 ijr- pendently of the committee and inde- pencil rit of the convention, to file jujy nam-s to be voted for that he choeeS. There is no legal restraint on him. And the device he selects and the names he hies makes the official ticket. Now lei us suppose that the device of the 1'opulist party Is a plo-igh or a silver dollar; and the chairman makes a deal with a lot of Republicans and gives la a list of gohibi.gs to o on the- ticket under the device of the allver dollar, Any Populist t ho is found In the py session of a ticker with a tdv-?- - lar on it and with any other najaw printed on it but those raanipulate goldbugs, will be iruilty of a miaie- Sl':tcely h,
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