The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-11-23
SAM lsHE REJolcEs OVER VIRGINIA

monopoly anu aPoios'''
box thieves:
" We have felt considerable inter
est in the result IN Virginia, ana al
last have the figures at hand. ne
vote for Governor will be canVassed
when the Legislature meets but tha'
for ATTORNEY General is now known,
there being only two counties yet 10
hear from. The Democratic vote Is,
with two counties missing. l28,2ol.
The Popul lrmit tc-,y 8,439, and the
ProhibitiofMU --,Hndidate got 1854.
The total vote is about 2l8,ooO, a
falling off in the total of about TO-
600. 1t appears that the Democratic
vote Is very light, and yet thas OF the
Populists, who rallied all their
strength, was 10000 less than the
Democratic. There is no hope Tor
Marion Butler and his followers.
When Capt. Ashe says there is no
hope for the Peoples party IN North
Carolina, if he means what ne says
he evidently feels sure that there
will never be another fair, honest
election in this State. We will not
argue this question with him or his
kind, bat simply serve notice on them
that all the hired thugs and "ple
counter brigade" at the command OF
the machine can not steal the next
election in this State without pro-
test from the people who are honest
in all parties.
But we started out to call atten-
ton to the Virginia vote. The hg-
ures quoted above of course repre-
sents the count of the Democratic
machine, but for the sake of argu-
ment let us take it for granted for
the present that they are correct.
Suppose that the Peoples party only
got 78,439 votes, what does It mean !!
1t means that more than GO,GGO Dem
ocrats who voted for Cleveland last
year, this year voted for the Peoples
party candidate for Governor. The
Peoples party got only l2,275 votes
in Virginia in 1892. This year 49,
439. Yes, Mr.. Ashe, suppose the
Populists did orally their strength
this year, if they rally as much add
itional strength next time, the Dem
ocrats will be badly left. OF course,
the machine politicians will now try
to make it appear that this tremend-
GUS gain in the Peoples party vote
was caused by negro votes. But ev-
cry man who read the Virginia pa
pers a few weeks ago, knows how an
xious the Democrats then were about
the colored vote. They admitted
that the Peoples party would win If
it got the colored vote. We all know
that the Chairman of the Democra-
tic Executive Committee got some
leading negroes in the State to sign
an address calling upon the negro
voters of the State to vote the Dem
ocratic ticket. We also know that
they sent off for an imported negro
orator to go out and make stump
speeches for the Democratic party.
And when this writer was iii Eir-
ginia he was told that tina Democra-
tic machine had negro school teach
ers or preachers hired going over the
counties advising the colored people
to sell their votes to the Democrats
or at least to vote that ticket. If
the Democrats did not get the negro
vote, they wasted lot of money and
effort.
The Virginia Sun in its last issue
contained a large number of letters
from different quarters of the State
that throw light on the situation.
The following are a sample of them
ALBEMARLE COUNTY.
The Democrats claim this county
by 1900 majority. They had and
used large quantities of money and
whiskey. We used neither. Their
majority is derived mainly from the
negro vote. GEORGE K. MINOR.
BEDFORD COUNTY.
This county gave OFerrall AZ
majority. The negro vote saved him
THOs. f. COBB.
Again Mr.. LawtOn writes from
Chesterfield county that the Demo
Gratis used whlskey, money and in
timidation.. He says that they 60
all the negroes they could 70 vote tn
Democratic ticket and preyente'
those who would not from voting a
all. -
Besides this, the places where th
Democrats made any gains were i
counties where such wholesale in
timidation, cheating and thievin
occurred as was practiced in Halifa
and other counties in this State laI
fall.
The Peoples party in Virginia IT
fused to make any fusion, but mao
a square in the middle of the roa
fight. They have just gone throug
the same experience there that "