People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-10-28
SUPPLEMENT-
FROM GEORGIA.
How the Democrats Sc
curedTheir Big Ma
jority. The Facts.
WAYCROSs, GA, Oct. 10, 1892.


EDITOR VOICE: | have not until
today been able to get correct reports
from over the state, but today our
side of the sham election came out
and it is just as | expected, but not
one bit worse. Following are a few
facts that you can make use Of as you
think best.
In Wilkes county every precinct
that gave a POpulist majority was
thrown out under an alleged technic-
ality, while precincts having the
same flaw, but giving Democratic
majOritieS were counted.
In Wilkinson county without any
legal authority more than 100 names
were struck from off the register just
a few days before election. 30 per
cent. of which were POpuliStS.
In Ware county, this personally |
know minister Of the gospel rode
several miles to spread the lie that
the leaders of the party in WaycrOSS
had taken down the ticket and given
up the fight and advised all to vote
for Democracy and this with prayer
not yet dry on his hypOcritical lips.
The Democratic chairman promised
. us one election officer at each pre-
cinct, promised us, too, in black and
white several days berOre the cleo
ton, but the night before positively
refused. One drove of over forty ne
grOeS were driven to the polls and
voted by their bosses. Two or three
of the drove bOlted and voted their
convictions and the proprietor of the
mills where they were employed
promptly discharged them, not even
allowing them to ride home in the
special car upon which he mad brought
his gang to vote them. Money was
used like water and so was whiskey.
These facts regarding Ware county
are not hearSay.
Now to give an idea of what those
more prominent in the party say, |
will give a few items from letters:
W. L. Peek. our candidate for govern
or: "White men in debt were threat
ened. tenants were inundated, en-
plOyeS were refused time to vote or
told to vote the Democratic ticket or
be discharged" 4 They went
so far as to rob the poor house in my
own county, hauling them to the
polls and voting some, who, on ac-
count of lunacy cannot find their way
back when a hundred yards from the
DOOR farm. A noted hall
was filled with negroes, who were
made merry with mean liquor, locked
in for the night, breakfaSted the next
morning and headed by the leading
mOneyed men of the city were march
ed in line to the polls and voted as
soon as they were opened. 1t was
also circulated that if | was elected
governor of Georgia, / should not take
my seat, but should die the death of
Lincoln and Garfield"
Listen at that, you wide-mOuthed,
craCk-brained fools of the Republi-
can party. That sounds like a Dem
Ocratic scheme" doesn't it? If |
were in the north, | hardly think |
could keep my hands off of the man
who would tell me that the new party
was Democratic scheme, nbut if |
did succeed in keeping my hands off
him, would feel very much like tell
ing him that he was either a con-
temptible liar or a pltiable, ignor-
ant, lOng-eared. braying sort of an
animal that some people called a
jackaSS. Here is from letter by VI.
d. Irwin, chairman of our state COM
mittee: "The cOlOred voter, whose
every interest is with that of the la
boring white men, were bull-dOzed.
inundated, driven from the polls
and in some instances shot for at
tempting to vote as they pleased"
= In some places Democratic Of
ticers had professional witnesses to
swear out warrants against innocent
colored people to prevent their yOt-
ing for the Peoples party. There is
no doubt but the working classes,
white and black, would have voted
with the people, if left uninhuenced
by bull-dozing and intimidation. :
1t was a premeditated plan by
the leaders of the Democratic party.
The orders were sent out for 10000
majority and said orders accompan-
led by at least 100000 worth Of
Doodle to bride the voters of GeOr-
gia."
| am sorry cannot give the entire
letters of these two native Georgians,