The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-10-12
T-E rOgSOOO NETTING

lima railroad. and the Scotland Mech
branch of the 4. {. l.. We had a
very Intelligent audience, yarIouzly
estimated from nine hundred 10 4
thousand We not only discussed
the remedy which the Alliance offer
for the hard times from which We
are suffering, but we also paid OuI
respects in plain and unmIsiakabie
language to the action Of the Demo.
cratic administration III Congress;
and then came home 10 State affairs,
and showed up the last Legislature
in its true light. We then camt
down still nearer home, and discuss
ed the action Of the ballot box stuff
ing machine in Halifax county al
the last election. We not only
showed up the record of that county
a. We have already published it in
these columns, but we came even
nearer home, and took mp the action
Of the election machine in the very
township III which we were speaking,
Palmyra township, Halifax county.
In this township 80 Votes were cast
for the Popuist party, while only
about 100 were cast for the Demo
cratic ticket. The voting was done
in dark hole, a ''bull pen" made
for the purpose. The counting was
done where none of the voters or
citizens could see. When the results
We're announced, the POpulist ticket
got Onl y forty votes according to
their count. In short the Democratic
ticket was counted two hundred ma
Jority ahead, when by an honest
count the Populist would have been
two hundred ahead. These facts
were given to US by reliable men on
the ground, We made the charge
publicaily, and no one present dared
to question or deny it. We were
further informed that Mr.. Walter
Brlstow, who was register in that
township, refused to allow the citi-
zen to see the registration books
before the election; he said that
Capt. Buck Kitchen, and Sheriff B.
|, Allsbrook, told him not to let any
one see the books. We are further
informed that the county commiss-
toner's appointed in that township to
represent the Republican party, two
negroes as judges of the election.
They We're negroes of such bad char
acter that the greater majority |
OF the cOlOled voters protested |
against their appointment. They
refused to g i've the Populist any rep
resentative. On the morning of
election these negro judges did not
appear, in fact they did not come to
vote until near night. 1t is of course
believed that they were hired to stay
away by the machine, and that such
IN understanding was made with
them before they were appointed.
At any rate the machine had pres
9nt that morning of election two
Democrats of just the stripe they
needed, who were promptly appoint
ed as judges to fill the vacancy
caused by the absence of the negroes.
This conduct, the conduct of the
register, and the "bull pen" voting
box in which to hold the election,
explains how a two hundred Popu-
list majority was mysteriously
changed to two hundred Demo
cratic majority. When we got
through exposing these frauds and
the perpetrator we could
lind no man on the ground who
could hold up his head and say he
was Democrat. The Populist party
is rapidly gaining ground there as it
is rapidly everywhere else. And in
truth there is more cause for the re-
volt there, for these honest people
cannot stomach such conduct, and
are bound to use their votes to con-
denim it. 1t would be natural for
Simmons the man who conceived
this corruption to send for Buck
and Bill Day Ohe two re-
of the frauds in Halifax
county, to go to Washington City,
and prove to the Senate that he was
man of good character.