Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1890-05-17
JACKSON WARD
P0LIT IC S
NOMINEES FOR THE CITY
COUNCIL.
Burly Policemen at the POllS-The
Convention Meets.

Democrats to get all Os the colored
voters as far as possible into this
ward and thus have five Democratic
wards and one Republican, The col
Ored vote is as about 6 to 8 in
thecity. jackson Ward rs it
is called has figured prom
tional politics. 1t was the vote of
this ward that elected eX-Judge Ed
mund Waddill, Jr., to the 51st Con-
gress and caused Hon Geo. ID. Wise
to come marching home. The polls
were opened for registration of vO-
ters on the 18th inst. From 4 TO 6
burly policemen were stationed at
each precinct in the ward doing
nothing They were there simply to
Overawe voters and to make them
submit to any outrage the registrar
and challenger saw fit to impose upon
them. The registrars i'm many cases
assisted iii the delay. AS many col
ored men had to register after they
came from work this method was
resOrted to.
DISHONEST TACTICS AT THE POLLS.
Editor Mitchell saw colored man
who had been given transfer to the
2d precinct, Jackson Ward, simply
because his middle name was not
given, although he had never regis
tered under it, he was not allowed
to register. Aaron Harrison, a col
Ored man who resides at S1S Y. LIST
street, enquired whether or not his
name was on the book. 1t was
found that it had been stricken off.
possibly as dead. This man had liv-
ed in that precinct four years and vet
would have been disfranchised. The
following conversation took place
between the Democratic registrar.
X. b. Taylor, and Mr. Harrison:
Mr.. HARRIsoN.) II want to see if
my name is on the book"
Registrar TAYLOR, after leisurely
looking "No, it's stricken off. How
long have You been living there?"
HARRISON. -Four years.
REGISTRAR. "Where were you at
the last election ?"
HARRISON. ''In line looking at You
all keeping us from voting"
REGIsTRAR.] "Where did you live
before?"
HARRISON. -'In Richmond"
REGISTRAR Glow long have you
been living here?"
Harrison. Ever since the second
year of the war"
Registrar, apparently thinking
"When was that?"
Harrison, after being posted by ed
itor Mitchell. 1852"
Registrar. How old are you?"
Harrison. Il don't know"
Registrar. "Well. you ought to
know your age
Editor Mitchell } "All the law in.
tends is that you are over u years
of age, tell him 45."
Harrison.l "About 40 or so, say
45.
Registrar.) 81 don't know that
man lives there. Is your name Har-
ris?"
Harrison) "No, sir, Harrison"
RObt. Bullock, Republican challen.
ger.) 81 know him. he has lived there
ever since I've known him."
Democratic canvasser.) "He don't
live there"
Mr.. Mitchell to Harrisonl "Ask
him II he'll register you, if not Just
take an appeal to the Judge OF the
Hustings Court and come away"
HarrisOn.) "Will you register me?'
Registrar.) 'Tm trying to find
that out now"
MIR. Mitchell TO registrar Il know
that Mr.. Harrison lives there. I've
been sending him the PLANET there
four years. There is no need for al
this delay"
Registrar.) 81 don't know you
Who are your"
Editor Mitchell. } mitchell of the
City Council
A. B. GuigOn, ESQ., ''There may
may be some mistake in his name
Democratic Canvasser.) eyes
there may have been some mistake. >
REGISTRAR % We all make mis-
takes, ito Mr.. Harrison1 How dc
you spell your name?"
HARRISON l." You kOnw that bet
ter than do. -
EDITOR MITCHELL =" H-a-r-r-i
SON. ?"
REGISTRAR, to Editor Mitchell l.
How does President Harrison spel
his name?"
EDITOR MITCHELL]"I presume h
spells it the same way
REGISTRAR =" You arelwrOng II
spells it with one 'r'. You are not
good Republican.
He then went on to tell sOmethin,
about girl. Aaron Harrison wa
then registered.
1t seems that the Democrats hav
put very illiterate registrar in TIN
ID Precinct, Jackson Ward for Hal
risOn is spelled just as Mr. Mitche
said it was and not as Registra
Taylor would have himself believ,
He was a white man; but there wa
practical demonstration that
Negro could spell better than h
could.
These were the tactics resorted t