The North-Carolina standard., 1844-11-13
1910 SOB IlOI


to the polls and dictated to their workmen how
they should vote, and the result is, a gain of 81
upon the federal vote at the Fayetteville precinct
since last Angst The Carolinian speaks of this
outrage with becoming indignation, and justly
characterizcs it as an attack upon free suffrage.
We quote from that paper:
Outrage Against Free Suffrage!
The independnce of labor attacked!
1t has always been customary for men of each
party to be at the polls the day OF elections to
see that one party makes no attempt TO cheat the
oher-to that their respective voters cast their
votes without ImprOl er influences or means being
used 10 change them but last Monday, for the
first time-GOd grant ii may be the las:-Fayette-
vile saw The pTopTietoTS of the RockhSh* Cotton
Factory or three of the proprietors at leas-there
being TWO others presen; as lockers on-cone 10
the polls and dictate TO men how they should vote.
We assert il upon indiviual responsibility, be-
| ing an eyewitness 10 it, that these propTieIors
faced men at The polls whom they employ, and
had democratic tickets in their hands More than
all this, their vote demanded as being neces-
sary 10 further the interests Of the said propreors.
Your interests and ours the same" said they, &
if you vote for Polk, you vote against your own
interests" Whether that was nent as an IntIma-
lion that 10 for Polk would be discharge, or
not let the public decide. But we deny the posi-
ton assumed that the interest of the manufacture
same and it is so paaPa5le that they are not the
same that shall not here argue the case every
one will see il AT once"
"Some days before the election, the principal
proprietor Of Rock6sh Factory told the democrats
in his employ (foT there necessity for telling
the whigs) that If Po:k elected, The factories
would all stop, and they would all be turned out oil
employment, but if Clay was elected, they would
all 90 on We stand ready TO SubsanlIate this
fact well BY the testimony Of our own ears, As
bY that of one Of the persons TO whom was told
and we do say that it is sberal-anli-republican-
j and unchrsiian-like for men such means IN
eecIioneerng. II pains US TO have TO expose these
things but we consider il duty inc lmbent upon
Us to do so. Not only these proprietoTs aOre-
said at the polls using their rxerons, but they ac-
lualy had their whig tickets printed on coiored pa
per SO that they could tell by looking the ticket
that it WAS the they wished to have voted
Every single ticket voted by the persons brought
| in from the factory marked colored paper
| There may have been one or Two exceptions.
1--WE tell the people of fNort. Carolina, that when
the capitalist comes to the polls by his and
influence control the votes Vi those he employs s
the independence Of the laborer is gone-Liberty Is
gone-for what is liberty, but the right TO 60 Jret
and uHtrdnneLLed the polls, and cast your vote
There is freedom in the case, when these means
ale brought 10 bear against the voters. They
might as well be many cattle. If they are TO be a
the will of their employer in casting their votes"
+Fo the credit of the proprfetors Of the other
factories, say it, that they never came near the
polls 1t was left for the aforesaid three propretors
of the Rockfsh "concern" TO 60 to the polls TO brow
beat voters"
We hope our friend of the Caroinian will
prietors of the Rockfish Factory. The people
of the State ought to know who it is that thus
attempts to put down free suffrage.