VOL. XI.
PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY, JULY1 27, 1900.
NO 3.1
THE EXAMINER,
TltOY, N. C.
Il.VNJil T A K lis ItOL.1) STAND.
National Admliill mllon Working
HhmI to Defeat Itu(ii lUloit
In 'I'll In Stale.
Special Dispatch to Atlanta Journal.
Kakeich, N. O., July 1(5. The im
tional administration ia taking a band
againBt the North Carolina effort to dis
franchise the uegro vote. Several weeks
ago it whs stated in the dispatches from
Wellington tht the election laws of the
statin this fight would be interfered
with by federal authorities. It was
deuied. Tne reality of that statement
ia now being verified.
Registrar Thompson, a Democrat,
was prosecuted at Winston by four ne
groes at the instance of the district at
torney. The ablest lawyers in the state
defended Thompson. The democratic
machinery of the state was at his back.
The commisioner heard the evidence,
upon which any court would have ac
quitted, and then thoughtlessly drawing
a blank bond form from his pocket, put
there premeditatively, doubtless, declar
ed that a $2,000 bond might be suffici
ent. It now develops that the commis
sioner was appointed and qualified for
the purpose of trying this one case.
What is the object of the caae? To in
intimidate other registrars throughout
thfiite and embolden the negroes to
demand to be registered. And what is
behind this? A scheme to import
thousands of negroes in the Btate to vote
at this election, defeat the fight for
white supremacy ffnd perpetuate black
rule in North Carolina.
The negroes who brought this action
against the registrar have been arrested,
and Chairman Simmons, of the Demo
cratic committee, declared to nie today
that every future attempt to interfere
with registrars would result in legal pun
ishment. And thus the fight proceeds,
increasing in bitterness and tn sensation
al features as the campaign draws to a
close.
The election will be held on the 2nd of
August. There are today three hun
dred democratic campaigners on the
stump. The republicans and the few
populists assisting them have perhaps
half that number. The people are
aroused as they have never been before.
The Democrats are fighting with a quiet
but unmovable determination. They
are trying to avoid the bloodshed that
has been predicted, if possible, but
without sacrificing one inch of ground
to the enemy. The negro champions
are desperate, and in their desperation
are appealing to McKinley and Manna
to help them. The effort to intimidate
the registrars is an administration
scheme. It has failed in its design.
The constitutional amendment to be
ratified in August was submitted by the
last legislature. It was the issue of the
legislative fight by which the Democrats
captured again the two houses after five
years of fusion rule affected by negro in
fluence. Its ratification will disfranchise
not less than one hundred thousand ne
groes who are unable to read and write.
It does not disfranchise any white man
for this cause, and yet the amendment
is in no way, so stated by the ablest law
yers in America, a violation of the fif
teenth amendment, which prohibits
discrimination on account of race, color
or previous condition of servitude. For
instarce, the educational qualification
is general. There is no race or color
line drawn. Tnis section, however is im
mediately followed by another, which
declares that any man may vote anyway
who is a lineal descendent of any voter
prior to 18G7. There is no race or color
line drawn here, and yet every white
man is enfranchised by its provisions.
ItCMiU Will ISe Aotiilllied
The
It ut the MeaitM Must lie
Itegardctl .
Charlotte Observer.
We have to confess that within the
past week, for the first time, have the
prospects of victory for the amendment
and the Democratic State ticket been
perfectly apparent. Thev are going to
win beyond a doubt. The course of
the Republicans has made this as certain
as anything unknown can be. The in
dictments and shooting of Democratic
' registrars; the assaults upon them in
different parts of the State the latest
reported being from Richmond county
have put hell in the Democrats, and
they will now carry the election. It is
merely a question of majorities. At the
same time they need to guard every
point to see that every Democrat is
registered ; that every doubtful voter is
appealed to; that every man intending
to vote for the amendment and the
State ticket is at the polls on election
day. This is not far away. There is
much to be done and little time within
which to do it. The result will be ac
complished but the means to the end
are to be regarded.
Recall of the Itllssloiiarlew.
New York, July 17. The board of
management of the Missionary Society
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, at
its monthly meeting, this afternoon,
passed a resolution giving full authority
to the secrearties, acting with the China
committee, to recall all missionaries of
the society now in China, if they should
at any time deem it wise to do so. The
resolution authorized the expenditure
of any sums necessary to affect the
purpose.
ItATTLIS AT TIKIM-TSIN.
Allied I'orcfs Are Defeated The
American Sutler Terribly.
Tien-Tsin, July 13, via Che Fu, July
15, and Shanghai, July 10. At 2
o'clock this afternoon 2,000 of the allied
troops were attempting to storm the
wall of the city. The attack began at
daylight. Its success is doubtful. The
Chinese on the walls are estimated con
servatively at 20,000. They are pour
ing a terrific hail of artillery, rifle and
machine gun fire upon the attackers.
The Americans, Japanese, British and
French troops are attacking from the
West and the Russians from the East.
The Americans suffered terribly. As
the Associated Press representative left
the field, the chief surgeon of the Fifth
Infantry said a conservative estimate
was that 25 percent of the Americans
were hit. Colonel Liscum ia reported
to haye been mortally wounded as he
was walking in front of the troops.
Major Regan and Captains Buckmiller,
Wilcox and Noyes are among the
wounded. The marines' losses include
Captain Davis, killed, and Bdtler,
Leonard and Beveral others wounded.
Officers declared that it was hotter than
Santiago. .
Wheu the correspondent left the
Americans were lying in the plain be
tween the wall and river under an en
filading fire and direct lire. It was dif
ficult for them to advance or- retire.
The correspondent counted 300 wound
ed men of ail nationalities.
Washington, July 10. An un-official
report has come to the attention of the
Chinese officials here to the effect that
three thousand Cninese at Pekin peti
tioned Prince Tuan to protect the for
eigners, whereupon Prince Tuan ordered
all those who signed the petition to be
put to death.
The Assault on Tien-Tat n.
London, July 17. The Daily Mail
gives the Associated Press the follow
ing dispatch from its Shanghai corres
pondent, under date of July 17: The
allied troops resumed the attack upon
the Chinese walled cicy of Tien-Tsin on
the morning of July 14, and succeeded
iu breaching the walls and capturing
all the forts. The Chinese were com
pletely routed and the allies took pos
session of the native city and its citi
zens. The total loss of the allied forces
in the engagements on Thursday, Fri
day and Saturday, were about 800 kill
ed and wounded. The casualties were
greatest among the Russians and Ja
panese. The guns of the allies did im
mense damage to the native city, caus
ing many large conflagrations and
finally sitenced the majority of the en
emy's guns simultaneously. Then 1,500
Russians, assisted by small parties of
Germans and French, assaulted and
captured eight guns that were in posi
tion on the railway embankment and
the fort magazine. A body of American,
Brjtfah, Japanese and Austrian troops
then made a sortie and attacked the
west arsenal, which the Chinese had re
occupied. After three hours of the
hardest fighting yet experienced, the
Chinese lied.
London, July 17. Wm. Pritchard
Morgan, member of Parliment, to-day
received by cable assurances from a
source upon which he relies, that the
British legation at Pekin was still stand
ing July 9th, and also that Li Hung
Chang left Canton this morning to take
supreme command at Pekin.
JTIr Sam Ilartnell'n Letter.
Concord Times.
The following is the letter of Mr.
Samuel J. llartsell, of No. 11 Town
ship, which was written and publish
ed iu The Times nearly two years
af?o. Its republication at this time
is particularly opportune:
Concord, N. C, Oct. 1, 1808.
Mr. A. B. Young, Chairman County
Democratic Executive Committee:
Deak Sir: My daughter, Emma,
was outraged and murdered at our
home near Concord, on Sunday af
ternoon, May 2t)th, 1808, by two
negroes while I and others, of my.
family were at church worshipping
God. The two negroes, Joe Kizcr
and Tom Johnston, who did . these
crimes, were quickly put to death
that Sunday night by white men of
Cabarrus county as they ought to
have been. For several years I have
voted the Populist and Fusion tickets
because I thought I was doing in
this way the best I could for our
State. Nobody can know as I know
now how wrong I was in voting these
tickets and now 1 have to suffer for
it. I am sure that such votes tend
to make the negro do such deeds be
cause when white men vote and elec
tioneer with the negro he feels that
the officers thus elected and the polit
ical parties winning elections with
him and by his votes will protect him
in anything he does, and I now ap
peal to the white men of North Caro
lina to vote for the protection of our
mothers, wives and daughters.
Use this letter as you please.
Yours truly,
Samuel J. Haktsell.
Tammany has 60,000 members and
is credited with controlling 300,000
votes. No wonder the Tammany leader
is a big man in New York politics.
THK AITlICNDIiD AM liNDUIENT.
Text of the Important IM?HMir You
Will He Called to Vote On In A li
ft nut an 1'uNMcd by the Legislature
June 13, 1900.
The General Assembly of North Carolina do
enact:
Suction 1. That chapter 218, Public Laws of
1899, entitled "An Act to Amend the Consti
tution of North Carolina," be amended so as
make said act read as follows :
That Article VI of the Constitution of Nyrth
Carolina be, and the same is hereby abro
gated, and In lieu thereof shall be substituted
the following article of said Constitution as
an entire and indivisible plan of suffrage:
ARTICLE VI.J
SUI'FJIAOE AND ELIGIBILITY TO OFFICE QUALI
FICATION OF AN ELECTOR.
Section 1. Every male person born in the
United States, and every male person who has
been naturalized, twenty-one years of age and
possessing the qualifications set out in this ar
ticle, shall be entitled to vote at any election
by the people in the State, except as herein
otherwise provided.
Sec. 2. He shall have resided in the State
of North Carolina for two years, in the county
six months, and in the precinct, ward or other
election district In which be oilers to vote four
months next preceding the election: Provided'
that removal from one precinct, ward or other
election district, to another in the same
county, shall not operate to deprive any per
son of the riirht to vote in the precinct, ward
or other election district from which he has
removed until four months after such removal,
No person who has been convicted or who has
confessed his guilt in open court upon indict
ment of any crime, thf punishment of which
now Is or may hereafter Je imprisonment in
in the State prison,- shall be permitted to vote
unless the said person shall be restored to citi
zenship In the manner prescribed by law.
Sec. 3. Every person offering to vote shall
be at the time a legally registered voter as
herein prescribed and In the manner hereafter
provided by law, and the General Assembly of
North Carolina shall enact general registration
laws to carry into effect the provisions of this
article.
Sec. 4. Every person presenting himself for
registration shall be able to read and write
any section of the Constitution in the English
language, and before he shall be entitled to
vote he shall have paid on or before the first
day of May, of the year in which he proposes
to vote his poll tax for the previous year as
prescribed by Article 5, Section 1, of the Con
stitution. But, no male person who was on January
1, 1807, or at any time prior thereto entitled Jo
vote under the laws of any State in the United
States wherein he then resided, and no lineal
descendant of any such person shall be denied
the right to register and vote at any election
In this State by reason of his failure to possess
the educational qualification herein prescribed.
Provided, he shall have registered In accord
ance with the terms of this section prior to De
cember 1, 190S. The General Assembly shall
provide for the registration of all persons
titled to vote without the educational qualifi
cation herein prescribed, and shall, on or be
fore November 1, 100S, provide for the making
of a permanent record of such registration, and
all persons so registered shall forever there
after have the right to vote in all elections by
the people in this State unless disqualified un
der section two of this article: Provided, such
persons shall have paid their poll tax as above
required.
Sec. 6. All elections by the people shall be
by ballot and all elections by the General As
sembly shall be viva voce.
Sec. 7. Every voter iu North Carolina ex
cept as in this article disqualified shall be eli
gible to office, but before entering upon the
duties of the office he shall take and subscribe
the following oath: "I, do
solemnly swear (or afllrm) that I will support
and maintain the Constitution and laws of
the United States and Constitution and laws
of North Carolina not inconsistent therewith,
and that I will faithfully discharge the duties
of my office at So heip me, God."
Sec. 8. The following classes of persons
shall be disqualified for ollice: First, of all
persons who shall deny the being of Almighty
God. Second, all persons who shall have
been convicted or confessed their guilt on in
dietment pending and whether sentenced or
not or under judgment suspended of any trea
son or felony or of any other crime for which
the punishment may be imprisonment in the
penitentiary since becoming citizens of the
United States, or of corruption and malprac
tice in office, unless such person shall be re
stored to the rights of citizenship in a manner
prescribed by law.
Sec. 9. That this amendment of the Consti
tution shall go into effect on the first day of
July, PJttJ, if a majority of votes cast at the
next general election shall be cast in favor of
the suffrage amendment.
Sec. 3. This amendment shall be submitted
at the next general election to the qualtied vo
ters of the State In the same manner and un
der the same rules and regulations as is pro
vided in the law regulating general elections
n this State and in force May 1, 1899, and at
said election those persons desiring to vote for
such amendment shall casta written or printed
ballot with the words, "For Suffrage Amend
ment" thereon; and those with a contrary
opinion shall cast a written or printed ballot
with the word "Against the Amendment"
thereon
Sec. 3. The said election shall be held and
the votes returned, compared, counted and
canvassed and the result announced under the
same rules and regulations as are in force for
rcturning.compariuix, counting and canvassing
the votes for members of the General Assem
bly May 1, 1899, and if a majority of the votes
cast are in favor of the said amendment, it
shall be thedutv of the Governor ol the State
to certify said amendment under the seal of
the State to the Secretary of State, who shall
enroll the said amendment so certified among
the oermanent records of Ills ollice.
Sec. 4. This act shah be iu force from and
after its ratification.
Ratified the 2 1st day of February, A. D. 1899.
C. A. Reynolds,
President of the Senate.
II. r. CONN'OK,
speaker of the House of Representatives.
Admiral Seymour til lis III Wounded
to Save Them front CuIih-mc
Torture. v
New Yokk, July 1G. A dispatch to
the Jbtirnal aud Advertiser from Tien
TBin, July 8, says:-.
"Ineffectual attempts have been made
to conceal the horrible fact that Ad
miral Seymour was compelled to shoot
his own wounded during the recent
disastrous retreat of the Tekin relief
expedition.
"All the wounded and prisoners who
fell into the hands of the Chinese were
frightfully tortured.
"The bodies had been cut into pieces.
First, the eyes had been hacked out;
then the cheeks, arms and legs cut off,
until death ended the sufferingc of the
poor fellows.
"When Admiral Seymour, in his re
treat found himself so hard pressed that
he was unable to longer carry his
wounded with him, he asked them:
" 'Whichjdo you prefer, to be left to
the mercy of the Chinese or be shot by
your own comrades?'
"As Admiral Seymour put the ques
tion the tears were running down his
cheeks.
" Ve prefer death to torture; shoot
us now that we may die like men,' was
the piteous reeponse of the helpless
men.
"A firing Bquad was selected, and
while tne little allied force stopped and
beat off with gun fire the Chinese horde
that surrounded it, inside its lines an
act of mercy was performed as the firing
squad carried out its orders.
"A few merciful volleys from the
rifles in the hands of friends and the
harassed expedition was lelieved of its
burden of wounded; the fanatical Chi
neee horde was cheated of victims for
its torture, and the Bufferings and fears
of the unfortunates were brought to an
end in an honorable death under their
own tlae:.
The British and American forces
are brigaded together on the west side
of the town; the German and Japanese
on the Bouth side; the French and Rus
sians on the north, and a force of
Cossacks hold the east side.
"Scouts report that imperial Chinese
troops have arrived from Pekin, well
equipped and with many gunB. Troops
of native cavaliy and hordes of Boxers
are coming from the east and south."
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Shockingly Corrupt.
Ne and Observer. : .
The sale by the Asbevilld Gazette of
its editorial columns to the liadicals is
the most shockingly corrupt transaction
ever known in North Carolina.," Men
have established papers here as else
where to ad.vocate measures in which
they are interested, they have bought
presses and type, and hired editors to do
their bidding these things . are bad.
enough, but not eo shockingly corrupt
as the agreement entered into by by the
editor of the Asheville Gazette with
Senator 1'ritchard, Collector Harkins, i
Col. V. H. Lusk, District Attorney Hol
ton and others, "to oppose the constitu
tional amendment and the election
law." Editor Norton received $5,000
in money for such Bale of his editorial
columns and the Agreement was in
writing. Elsewhere we publish the
affidavit of Mr Somerville, who owned
375 out of 1,500 of the shares of stock
in the Asheville Gazette, who adds in
his sworn affidavit "that in repeated
conversations between said Jas. E. Nor
ton and affidavit said James E. Norton
stated that his only motive in opposing
the said constitutional amendment and
election law was the $5,000 paid by the
Republican party."
And this is the fellow who has had
the impudence to preach morals to the
editors of North Carolina and pose as
the special champion of the rights of
the ieople! And these are the methods
Radical leaders are employing to pre
yent permanent White Supremacy in
North Carolina!
The Radical bosses may buy the
Asheville Gazette and other like sheets
that have nothing in common with
Southern thought of Southern senti
ment, but it cannot buy the people
of North Carolina, and it cannot
fool them bv the insinuating misrepre
sentation of such corrupt subsidized
sheets as the Asheyille Gazette.
Hot water for Train Kobbers.
Denver, Col., July 18 The new
locomotives just put on by the Denver
and Rio Grande Railway have a unique
attachment as a safe guard against
robbers, in the way of a nozzle on the
roof of the cab. These connect with
the hot water of the boiler, and point i
at the rear end of the tender. The noz-1
zle can send a jet of mixed steam and '
boiling water at 200 pounds pressure, j
that would kill anyone in its range.
You can get
any degree of heat
require on a wicKiess uu
a single turn of the valve
merino fire and a slow oven
and a fast oven. There's no
of its usefulness. It gives
cooking whether baking, boiling,
or simply toasting. Can you do
or gas range ? The
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is giving cooking comfort at low cost.
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stoves are sold. If your dealer
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In Cumberland county a few days ago
Sandy Williams, an aged negro, was
found dead in his corn patch, bent over
his iioe, just as if he was in the act of
turning over another sod. ; The old man
had not returned to dinner and his wife,
after long Bearcb, discovered him late
in the afternoon bent over his hoe, with
a fierce sun pouring down on him.
She at first thought he was asleep and
tried to arouse, him, but soon Baw that
he was dead. The old man's back was
literally baked to a crisp, indicating that
he had been dead for many hours.
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