The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-06-29
A PATCHWORK OF LIES
From the Campaign Mill OF SIackcy aud
Taft,
Special 10 The lAicago Tribune.

w ASH juno lOs
The South Carolina Bourbons are TAX
ing time by the forelock. Last February
they passed new Registration law
which contains some provisions obvious
ly designed to lessen the need of frauds
ut the ballot. box, and afterward to insure
the return Of Bourbon Congressman.
Under this law no person can vote at the
election to be held in South Carolina
next November, Of at any subsequent
election, unless he shall have been pre-
viously registered, rs now required BY
law. The only provision in the law for
the correction of the register list after
the completion of the first registration,
which has to be OH or before June 80,
1882, is one which requires the supervisor
of registration, Immediately preceding
each election, 10 revise the registration
of electors and mark off the names of
such electors as have died, or such as
have removed from one residence, pre-
cinct or county to another without noti-
flying him and obtaining certificate Of
transfer.
OTHER SECTIONS OF THE LAW
provide that whenever a voter removes
from one county to another he may no.
tify the supervisor of registration for his
county, surrender his certificate, and OBJ
tain new Or, for the precinct into
which lie has removed, and then receive
the entry of his name upon the registra-
tion books there. If an elector fails to
do this he becomes disfranchscd, for
there is no provision in the law which
admits Of the admission to registration
hereafter Of any person now q minor who
may hereafter come of age, or Of any
person who goes into the State and be-
comes resident there. The law re-
quires that whenever man presents his
ballot he must also present his registra-
ton certificate before he can vote.
If HE LOSES II,
lie can only obtain another by proving
the loss to the satisfaction of the registrar.
II it wears out he may surrender the mu-
tilated certificate and receive new one.
According to complaints in South Caro-
lima Democratic newspapers these ccrtifi-
aateS nave been printed on very thin
paper, which will soon wear out. The
regis.ri ton books also, which are to be
permanent records, have been prepared
in the most slip.shod fashion, and will
not Outlast the wear ard tear of single
registration election. But all these draw
backs arc nothing compared to the actual
eyasions and violations Of the law which
have been practiced since the registration
began in regard to coored voters. Bear
ing in mind that au clector must before
he can vote present to the election man
ayers his certificate Of registration, the
following letter received ty Republican
Congressman
FROM a RESPECTABLE AND TRUsrwoR.
THY MAN
Of South Carolina will be of interest:
~ thought would write you to give
you some Of the late registration frauds
which the Democrats arc trying to push
through. was appointed United States
supervisor at the Twenty one Mile House
precinct, aud there l blocked the game
as far as thnt parish is concerned. ST.
Stcpens and st. James Santce have been
registering by proxy. Democrat
would bring in fifty or one hundred
names and take the receipts of the regis
trar-that is, the certificate of rcgistra
ton, end hold them either to vote them
himself or to destroy them unknown to
the voters in whose names they were
issued. They attempted to do the same
thing here, hut stopped it on the spot,
and told thu State supervisor that
would register no more names unless he
swore according 10 law. have been TO
Charleston to ueo the United States chief
supervisor. also called on District At
torney Melton and stated the case to him,
and he told the marshal to take down the
points, so that something might be done.
1 can bring down between forty and flfty
voters, Republicans, whose registration
certificates have been issued and held by
n Democrat for his own purposes. If
something is not done very soon il will
be no better than in the election of $780,
IN CHARLESTON
the registrars have adopted plan simi.
lar to that pursued on election day in the
South. They have separate entrances
provided for the Democrats and the Re
publicans. The Democrats ore admitted
without delay and allowed to register
while the Republicans aro subjected t,
all sorts of delay and Inconvenience
four hours before thoy can receive ad
tion takes place.
A PROMINENT WHITE REPUBLICAN
Of Charleston, writing under date of June
l, says:
Col. L. w. NJ. MAcKEY, Member ol
Congress for the Second Congressional
District of South Carolina-Dear Sir: !
desire through you to call tho attention
of the department of justice to the fact
that while Mt my own precinct, Ward t.
yesterday morning there was such gross
violation of the Civil Rights Act by the
State supervisor of registration that, as q
citizen and as acting chairman of the
Republican party, protested against IT,
and for tho time being : caused the
supervisor in q measure to act fairly
To-day was arrested and held in 81 600
bond for examination. A peace bond
was also required of me, and tho inten.
ton is if l go to the place OF registration
and ask for fair play my bond will DO
declared forfeited and bail will be denied,
A CONSPIRACY EXISTS
to arrest me and put me in Jail. The
tissue.bailot fraud is not rs bad az this.
Two lines arc formed by order of the
supervisor-one of white, the other of
colored voters. Many of the colcred
men stay in limo for hours, and are finally
turned off without registering, while
every '!hite goes in and registers. Yes
teruay morning went TO the place OF
registration and found forty eight colored
men in one line, with two policemen
keeping them out of tho building. Th.re
were seventeen white men in another line
Mt another door, with no police, the most
of them in the building. Eighteen white
men were registered during the time
was waiting to register, and only one
coloied. A colored man came In the
room and was elected Immediately by the
police. Every obstacle is thrown in the
way Of colored men. I protested with
the result stated. Then
COPIES OF THE OATH