The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-06-08
DON'T WORRY, IT'S COMING.

"THE CAUCASIAN continues 10 be-
wall over the defeat of its party last
fall and charges the Democrats with
having used fraud at the polls. The
people are getting tired of Buffers
nonsense. II he knows of any Dem
ocrats who used fraud at the polls,
let him name them, have them ar
rested and produce witnesses to
prove the charges. There Is n law
to punish all people guilty of sup
pressing the suffrages of their fell
lowman. Have the guilty 90 parties
brought to the bar Of justice or stop
your rantlng."
The youth who wrote the above is
either very shaple, or else very rash,
Yes we do charge the Democratic
bosses and machine politicians, with
having planned certain frauds and
corruptIons, to be used at the polls
last fall; and that the said frauds
were carried out wherever the ma
chimes selected its proper tools to do
the disgraceful and demoralizing
work, except where the people by
such close scrutiny, and the asser
ton of their manhood and rights,
deferred them. Yes we charge it,
and maybe denied, but it can't be con-
tradicted. The express says that the
people are getting tired of hearing
this kind of thing. 1t is sadly mis-
taken, for the people are enjoying
it, or rather congratulatlng them
selves that there is paper in North
Carolina that has the manhood and
justice, to expose frauds and tell the
truth. 1t is those who are guilty,
who are getting tired of this expos
ure. The Express calls upon us, if
we know any Democrats who com
mitted frauds. to name them. This
is very rash request, but it was
not necessary one, for before this
year shall have closed they will be
named in every section of the State,
and theirnumber will be legion So. far
we have simply been discussing the
law, and showing how frauds might
be committed under IT, and also dis
cussing the amendments offered by
the last Legislature, and showing
how they would improve the law,
that is protect the rights of the peo-
pie, and make it less easy for dis
honest men to defraud the will Of
the people. Next it asks us to have
the guilty persons arrested and pun
ished, this shows great simpleness.
or great demagogery. If the editor
of The Express were better acquaint-
ed with the law, (or rather we might
say if he was capable of seeing the
imperfections of the law even with
the assistance of such powerful OBJ
iect lessons as were gwen last fall)
he would know that the greatest OBJ
lection to the present law, is that it
gives scoundrels chance to com
mitt high crimes against the ballot
box in the name of the law, or at
least in evasion of the law. We
We don't expect all people to be
honest. Law was not made to pro-
tect the people against honesty, but
against dishonesty. We know there
are men who will always do wrong,
unless they dare not do it from fear
of detection and punishment. We
| want law that will have this effect.
Probably the rditor Of the Express
is ignorant of the fact that in mum
bers. and numbers of eases, that
the people have given information
of these frauds to the grand jury and
the Solicitor, but as yet have not
been able to get bill Of Indictment.
| In fact when one case came before a
certain Judge, (by the way pure
upright man. than whom there is no
| Out Ill WuoII VIC -udNC SohA
dence, and for whom we have more
respecD he frankly admitted that
there was no law to pu nish the partie
The Express is also probably ignor-
ant that in its own county, (not very
far from where the paper is publish
ed that man generally looked
upon as good man, Cat any rate a
man holding high position in the
church, was caught at questionable
practices, as judge of the election on
the Sth of last November. But
enough of this now, THE CAUCASIAN
has its plan mapped out, and will
follow it. We are now discussing
the law, and the needs of just one,
and in due season, the names, and
the facts and the places will be Civ
en- to the full satisfaction of, if not
to discontinue, of The EXPRESS and
all who will vince to see the
truth told and justice done.
ALLIANCE SPEAKlNG!
| Bro. Cyrus Thompson, State Lect