People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-10-28

upon their reliability for they are
published in the Peoples Party Paper
over their own signatures and it is to
that paper am indebted for most Of
these extracts.
Another trick: Democratic tickets
were headed. Free School Tickets"
and thousands OF ignorant negroes
were made to believe that if they
voted any other it would be against
free schools. This was clearly an il
legal ticket. but not one of them
was thrown out.
Hancock county, Gov. NOrthern'S
own home. Rev. H. S. Doyle, a cOlOred
minister was approached by a crowd
who attempted to cut his throat, but
his friends got him away and saved
his life. This. however, was not the
first attempt. Once before a crowd,
led by the mayor Of the town, went
to his parsonage for the purpose of
mobbing him in broad daylight. He
happened to be away, but the crowd
went all through the house with PTS
tolls, searching for him. Mr. Doyle
is now compelled to leave home for
safety. 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
was right.
In Albany. our men discovering
that ballots were being substituted
at the polls. twenty-five tickets were
soiIed. 50 as TO be easily distinguish
able. but the manager put in the box
none but clean CicketS Twelve wit
neSSeS saw no less than fifty changes
90 into the box in succession, then
a voter folded his ticket in diamond
shape and passed it in. The mana
ger who took it dropped his hand be-
hind the box and when it came up he
| held a long-folded, clean, white ticket
which went into the box. Al one
precinct in the same county where
every voter favored the Peoples par
ty. the polls were not opened at all
and about 400 voters were deprived of
voting. At RuckerSville in Ebert
county. J. W. Rucker and a number
of others were quietly going to the
polls. when one B. H. Heard saw
some negroes in the company who had
at one time lived with him and bore
the name of Heard. He commenced
curSing them for voting against the
Democrats. Rucker tried to quiet
him. but got cWsing for his efforts.
He. lRucker) then said if any one of
the negroes wanted to vote the Dem
ocratic ticket they had perfect right
to do 50. They all said they did not
want to. This made Heard so mad
that he struck an old negro with a
wagon standard and the negrO'S son
then struck him Heard. He then
rushed across the street and got a
dOuble-barrelled shot gun and DELHI
erately snOt down two of the negroes,
one of which has since died. Geo.
Hall. another white Democrat, drew
his pistol and shot three other ne
grOeS. The negroes had committed no
crime, but were going tOvOte the PeO-
pies party ticket. A mob then sur
rounded Rucker and his crowd aud
after beating them most cruelty,
finally drove them from the polls.
In Bullock county counterfeit mon
cy was used to buy votes with. In
Richmond county they shot and killed
a negro preacher for trying to induce
his cOlOred brethren to vote the PeO-
piles party ticket.
Northern carried his own county,
but in addition to the facts given al
ready, here are a few more. In one
precinct three miles from the Govern
Or'S home the vote stood, Northern,
IL; Peek, l4S. This was too much for
the DemmieS and they threw out the
precinct. At the PameltOwn pre-
cinct, Northern attended the polls in
person, but the Peoples party came
out 100 votes ahead. This was also
thrown out. In the county seat,
l(Sparta), negroes were driven from
the polls to the music Of pistol shots.
So it went all over the state, until
one grows sick and ashamed that he
is living in land of barbarianS,
who mock civilization. Let no one
doubt but these are facts. | cannot
yOuch personally for all of them, but
then have seen enough to know ]
know that Thos. E. Watson, NJ. d,
| Irwin and Col. Peek are honorable
gentlemen and have always stood as
high as anyOnein Georgia, until they
renowned allegiance to Democracy,
The other facts, not given by these
gentlemen in their published letters,
| from what ] am firmly convinced
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