The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-12-03
Mae OF the New Hanover Canvassins
Board Indicted.

Board Indicted.
Ia the Federal court this week ''true
bilI' was found against Walker Taylor,
E. G. Parmele, I. G Pickett, William
Ulrich, J. NJ. MCGOWAN, E.W. Manning,
&. S. Montford. and Will West, members
of the late canvassing board Of New
Hanover county for failing to canvass
the vote of Cape Fear Township for Re
preventative in Congress il the recent
election. This, it is claimed, is in vio-
lation 5,515 OF the Revised Statues of
the United States, which is as follows:
every officer Of al election at which
any Representative or delegate in Con
gress is voted for whether such officer
Of election be appointed or created by
or under any laT CT authority of the
United States, or by Or under any State,
territorial, district, or municipal laT or
authority, who ncglects or refuses to
perform any dnty in regard to such cleo
ton required OF him BY any law Of the
United States, or Of any State or terrific
~ thereof; or who violates any duty so
imposed; or who knowingly does any
acts thereby unauthoriz d, with intent
| to affect any such electiorS,0r the result
thereof; or who fcaudu emily makes any
| false certificate q the result of such e.
| lection in regard 30 such Representative
| or Delegate; or who Withholds, Conceals
Or destroys, any certificates of record Sc
| required by law respecting the election
Of any sucn Representatives Or Delegate,
| or who refuses to make and return such
| certificates as required by law; or who
| aids, counsels, procares. or advises any
voter, person, or officer, to DO any act by
this or any other preceding sections
made crime, or to omit to do any duty
the omission Of which is by this or an,
of such sections made a crime, or at
tempts to do so, shall be punished a
prescribed in section fifty five hundred
and ten."
The punishment, on conviction, is
fine of one thousand dollars, or by i'm
prisonment not more than one year, 0
both.
| The Wilmington Star says: Jockey
the prC scouting witness; so the indict
ment is based on ex parte Republican
testimony, and amounts to nothing. Q
course, the grand jury was not az
curately advised as to all the facts, or
true bill would not have been found
And in this connection it may be sug
gested that it would be emlnently prope
for some grand jury to take cognizanc
of the acts of the Radical negro VIII
withheld the books from the legally az
pointed Register Of Cape Fear township
and thus by force aud, as is currently n
parted, under the advice of white r.
pubIicans, prevented legal election.
This whole proceeding is piece {
Ralical devilty set on foot for the sol
purpose Of harrassing and intimidatin
the Democratic canvassers who had tt
nerve and honesty to reject the return
of a township in which most ou
rageous violation Of the election la
the salient feature.
But the efforts of the Tom-Read lay
: yers, whether adipose or attenuatet
will utterly fail of their purpose, in bot
!. the State and Federal courts, in Il
present case.
J. According to the telegram to the Sta
Messrs George 81. Jackson, J. 81. Horl
and James Cowan, all members Of t
} canvassing board, are not included
the indictment.