Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1892-04-25
DEMOCRATIC PRIMARIES.
HELD IN THIS CITY ON SAT.
URDAY NIGHT.

The West ward selects Twenty
two Delegates, and the East
Ward Thirteen Some ContrO.
yersy Over Printed Ballots.
The meeting of democrats in west
ward Saturday night to select delegates
to the county convention to be held on
April 3Oth, as unique affair in politics
in Ashcville.
There were rumors during the after
noon that two tickets for each of the
two wards of the city had been printed.
1t was asserted that one of the tickets
was for general exhibition, while the
other, containing many different names,
was to be placed into the hands of its
friends to be voted straight.
The Buncombe warehouse was not
open at the hour appointed for the meet
ing, and quite crowd throngcd the
sidewalk and street awaiting admission.
Mayor Blanton proposed that Chair
man Starnes, of the township committee,
get in the door Of the colored restaurant
in the warehouse building, and call the
meeting to order, and then allow those
present to come forward and deposit,
their ballots for delegates, and go home
or stay as they liked.
Opposition to this was urged by
number of gentlemen, who said that the
primary was not called for the purpose
of casting ballots for delegates, but that
it was a mass meeting, and that the
delegates would have to be chosen in the
manner usual at such mass meetings.
Finally the warehouse was opened and
the crowd entered. T. c. Starncs called
the meeting to order and stated that its
object was to select % delegates to the
county convention.
On motion 7. G.. Starncs was made
permanent chairman and J p. Kerr
secretary.
!. H. Carter moved that committee
Of five be appointed by the chair to
select list of delegates to be reported to
the meeting for approval or rejection.
Y. Jordan moved as a substitute for
MIR. Carter's motion that every person
present be allowed to cast his ballot for
% delegates. and that the % names
receiving the highest number of votes on
| the first ballot be declared the choice of
the meeting. Mr.. Jordan's amendment
prevailed.
The chair then appointed {. d. Blan-
ton, N. A. Reynolds, T. X. Ransom, TIA
Jones and !. Y. Jordan as tellcrs.
The ballots were then cast into hat
each voter passing between tellers, and
each name being put down as his vote
| was cast.
The tellers then counted the ballots,
and the following names r,ceiYed the
largest number of votes: M. L. Carter
90; |. B. Bostic, 95; W. S. Bean, 93;
N. A. Reynolds, 94; T. W. Triplctt, 90;
X. p. Foster, so; L. d. Cunningham, 73;
L. II. Fulcnwider, SS, Walter Connally,
75; w. l.. Walker, II; ]. M. Gudgcr, n;
+ M. Edwards. 80; F. p. Mimnaugh, 90;
ID. J. Lange, sc; c. b. Leonard, 81; {. D..
Blanton, S4 V. T. Belote, y; Frank
IO'Donnell, SO; Duff McCollum, 73; w.
". Lowe, 96; John Hampton, 50; l..
SwiceSood, 81.
Before the chairman announced the
/ delegates as chosen, I. A. Jones, one of
the tellers, said that he desired to say
that he considered the election traudu-
lent. He thought the ballots had been
cast properly and counted properly Lut
there was fraud in the preparation of
the ballots, many men voting them upon
| the representation of Others that they
contained certain names, when rs mat
ter of fact they contained other and diff
ferent names. Mr.. Jones further stated
that large number of democrats had
left the meeting after seeing the fraud
that was to be put upon them, and did
not vote or participate in the meeting.
| J.Y. Jordan, another teller, gave no.
tice that he considered the election fraud
ulent for substantially the same reasons
as stated by Mr.. Jones, and further, that
he would not certify to the election of L.
II. Fulenwider as delegate, as he was
not a voter Of North Carolina, and
therefore not entitled to be delegate.
7. X. Ransom and c. D. Blanton con
sidered the election fair and legal so fal
as they had any right to so declare as
tellers.
N. A. Reynolds, the remaining teller
was not present during the counting o
all the votes, and was not in the meeting
when the objections of the other teller!
were made.
The chair withheld his decision in thC
matter.
Eighty-four different persons were bal
lotcd for as delegates, and only 103 bal
lots were cast. At the congressional
election of 1890 the democratic vote il
this ward was CSC, showing that a llttl'
over onc-seventh of the party's strength
was present and voting Saturday night
East Ward.
Of the east ward democrats there wa
only fair attendance at the court house
Chas. A. Moore was called to the chair
and W. F. Randolph was made secretary
AS soon as things had been made read
for work W. w. Jones, esq, made a mo
ton that the primary select twenty.si
f men to cast the thirteen votes of the cas-
c ward in the county convention.
DR.. H. B. Weaver thought the doubl
number would be too unwicld i'll til
i convention.
Mr.. Jones contcndcd maniully for tn
appointment of the twenty-six delegates
He said he found on coming into tn
room something he had never seen betor
. in primary-a printed ticket made II
for the use of the voters. He was afrai
= of anything like that-it looked to
much as though somebody was trying t
foist on the crowd men who iavore