The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-11-01
AN INFAMOUS ATTEMPT
TO BULLDOzE THE REGISTRAR OF
WINSTON PRECINCT

me CHAIRMAN of the Republican State
Committee Writes a Threatening Letter
to Maj. Young and is Replied to in Red
Hot English.
The following correspondence will
explain itself:
RALEIGH, N. c., Oct %, 1888.
u. @. Young, Winston, ~ G.
DEAR SIR You are, | believe, the
Registrar of your precinct. / desire
to have few words with you. I will
speak very plainly, in order that we
may not misunderstood each other.
| learn that you are refusing to regis
ter legal voters. l send you two en-
closures which may prove interesting
reading. [ commend to your careful
consideration sections 2OO7, zoos,
5506 and 5515 of the Revised Statutes
of the United States.
The course you are pursusuing is
one which will land you in the Fed
eral Penitentiary at Albany, at an
early day, and we shall take very ear
ly steps to place you there, unless you
conduct yourself in proper manner.
These are very plain words and we
do not think it will take you long to
understand them. You can now do
as you please Yours truly,
J. b. caves
Chm'n Republican State Elk. Com.
WINSTON, N. c., Oct. 81, 1888.
IT. 3. Eaves, Esq, Chm'n Republican
Eaecutioe Com, Raleigh, ". Q.
S1R:-Yours of the goth inst. has
been received and found me surroun-
ded by gang of ex-penitentiary con-
victs, whose names your henchmen
here are trying to force me to place
upon the registration books of Win
ston precinct.
You are correct in your belief that
1 am the registrar at Winston pre-
cinct. I have no objection to your
having ga few words" with me, and
| am in no danger of misunderstan-
ding YOU want it distinctly under
stood, by you and your committee,
that am not to be swerved from my
duty by any such impudent and i'm
pertinent threats as you dare to make
against me.
You have received your informa-
ton from some men here belonging
to your party organization, who are
without character and who have no
regard for the solemn obligations of
an oath, and who if they had their
just deserts would long since have
been under the disqualification which
the constitution places upon men
who have been convicted of an infa-
nous offense. have refused no man
the right to register at this precinct
who is bona tide resident and voter
of Winston, and shall not do SO.
| have, as [ have since ascertained,
have served term in the penitentia-
ry, and who have since been challen-
ged by~gentlemen who are acquainted
with the facts.
In conclusion I again desire to re-
mind you that | am not to be intimi.
dated from doing my whole duty by
any idle threats of yours of ''landing
me in the Federal Penitentiary at
Albany" And / would at the same
time quietly intimate to you and your
informer at this precinct, that the
continued wilful violation of the reg
istration laws of our State "will land''
some of your voters in the State pen
itentiary at Raleigh, and | desire to
warn you and those who are aiding
these attempted violators Of the law
that you and they had best keep a
close lookout for yourselves. | con.
clude, as you did, that these are plain
words and | do not think it will take
you long to understand them.
Yours,
JOHN G. YOUNG,
Registrar of Winston Precinct.