People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-10-14
ECHOES FROM THE ELECTION.

coming In from all parts OF the State.-
The letters of correspondents relate
facts which disclose the means bv
which the result was reached. And
the means were fraud, bribery, drunk
enness, intimidation, murderous as
sault and homicide, all traceable to
the door of organized Democracy.
Here follow some samples. The first
is from Hancock county, the home of
Governor Northen:
One of the most glaring outrages
ever committed in free country was
perpetrated at Sparta, Georgia, on
the day of election.
Rev. II. S. Doyle, colored min
ister who is striking such telling
blows for the Peoples party, was as
saulted by a mob Of Sparta's most re-
spected citizens.
Using the privilege Of a freeman.
he was working for the success Of the
party's State ticket, when he was ap-
preached by crowd and informed
by the leader that he had come to
cut his throat. Several colored men
were around him, and pushed him
out Of reach Of the knife, when i'm.
mediately pistols were displayed, and
as he attempted to escape he was
shot at like dog. This was not the
only attempt or the life of Mr.. Doyle.
Once before a crowd, led by the
mayor of the town, went to his par
sonage for the purpose of mobbing
him in broad daylight. He happened
to be out, but the mob, not satisfied,
went all through the house with pis-
tots, searching for him.
This is justice, this is fairness of
the Democratic sort. 1t is enough
to make the cheeks of every man
with one iota of self respect mantle
with shame. 1t should be the rally
ing cry Of all colored men as thew
sound the clarion call for Peoples
party men. Not so much because
Rev Doyle was outraged, but be-
cause this is fair sample of Demo
cratic methods. They mean to silence
by force every man whom they can
not otherwise intimidate. It is the
duty of every man to rise and bury
the party of bulldozing, of assassina-
ton and intimidation beneath a
shower Of ballots, too deep to rise
ever again.
Mr.. Doyle is now compelled to
leave his home and seek safety else
where. 1t is no secret-men have
openly sworn it-that they mean to
have his life. Hence he is an exile.
driven from home because he dared
to tell his people what he believed to
be right.
Whoever votes for the organized
Democratic party votes to perpetuate
this system of political persecution
a system more repressive than the
Siberian exile system of czar-ridden
4 Russia.
skte1tlse, men, wnIte aud black, vote
with the Peoples party, and give life
to the party whose object is to bring
about a peaceful reconciliation of al
on the broad plane of equal Justice, a
free ballot and fair count for ALI
MEN alike, both white and black.
The Democrats find nothing sacred
IN the cloth of the divine, and allow
no right of asylum even to the par
sonage.
Then comes a letter from Albany
Dougherty county:
There was complete steal. We
had over 200 majority in this town
Discovering that ballots were being
substituted at the polls, Is tickets
were soiled so as to render them
easily distinguishable when folded
and given to as many men who de-
sired to vote for the Peoples party
We would watch through the win
dow and could see none but clean
ballots go in the slit in the box
Twelve witnesses saw no less than sc
changes in succession. One voter
then folded his ticket in diamond
shape and passed it in. The manager
who took it dropped his hand behind
the box, and when it came up he held
q long-folded, clean ticket, which
went into the box. If we could have
had any show of justice, the Peoples
party could have carried the county.
as the colored people voted nearly
sohdly, there being only about %
traitors. At one precinct in the west
ern part of the county, where every
voter favored the Peoples party, the
polls were not opened, the blanks be-
ing returned and 400 men deprived
from voting. In Albany of 937 votes
they stole all but IFS.
The murders in Ebert county are
reported as follows:
At Ruckersville, Ebert county,
Ga, J. w. Rucker, highly respect
able citizen, and from one of the best
families in the state, Il mention this
as we are called by the Democrats
rag-tags) was going quietly to the
polls with squad of negroes and
white men to cast their votes as free
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