The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-10-26

crat to-day" "iote for the nom.
nee and think what you please
LII all that goes TO make a first.
class, social gentleman, this man il
rated IN his community as standing
sans prier, ct sans reproachi, and his
test of a democrat is "vote for the
nominee" and, if, for any course, be
fails to be elected, "throw out enough
of the other man votes to elect
and while this, sometimes looks q
little irregular, to say the least of it,
We must protect the Anglo-Saxon
race.
1t struck me that the Anglo-Sax-
on who calls for protection acknowl-
edges himself a very inferior creature
"a rather emasculated specimen of
that noble line of people. This talk
about protecting this great race of
ours Is the merest cant and nOnsence.
INDUCED in for the sole purpose of
arousing the passions of men and d.
vertlng attention from the true is
sue. No race of men on this earth
ever has or ever will be able to COM
pete with the Anglo-Saxon, and it is
painfully surprising to see so-called
good men, trying to mislead and
blind the people. To my mind a
great many of these men who are so
sollcltous about the future of our
race care about as much about what
they are talking about as they do
about the man in the moon. The
man who spends his time in trying
to stir up race prejudice is not apt
to be an angel. 1t is all in keeping
with ballot box stuffing and other
forms of fraud.
Now, do not believe, for mo-
ment, the great masses of any party
favor fraud, but still, many connive
at it. | heard man say not a great
while ago, that while he had never
been a candidate for any office, he
always voted, and at one election, not
many years ago, he saw, if the fair
thing was allowed his candidate would
be beaten, and what do you think he
did? He said he put in five votes for
his man, and, as he gave this inform
alton, he laughed at the stupidity of
the poll holder, and boasted that he
but did his duty. He did this,
doubtless, to protect the race.
Mr. Editor, what is fraud VIII
you kindly enlighten the public on
this now interesting subject?
Last year l had the honor to be a
candidate for Congress. In addition
to being the recipient of quite num-
Der of epithets, was accused of be-
ing drunkard and an unbeliever,
and to cap the whole, l was accused
of buying somebody; while this ''rac-
ket" was worked for all it was worth.
the discovery was made, just before
the election, that if something extra
ordinary was not done and that
speedily, that | would be elected. |
know of over two thousand votes
cast for me, being thrown out be-
cause of some alleged irregularity.
These votes were confined to three
counties and the information was
given me by kind friends. ] did not
seek it. l have hardly spoken of it
since the election. | knew it would
do no good. The man, or set of men,
who do wrong will always justify
themselves. In the county Of Beau
fort l noticed in the official vote for
Congress, that $50 votes cast for ME
were thrown out. These votes were
cast for me by men who never saw
me. They were clearly the wish of
the voters. have been told by good
authority that the votes referred to
condemned and thrown out because
''53" was not printed before the word
congress- / ventured sometime since
to ask an old machine democrat what
he thought of throwing out my votes
for the reason alleged above. "Well,"
he said, eve did not know if you got
in, but that you would hold over
and we wished to guard against such
a possibility" And this answer was
about as sensible as any of them can
give.
With your kind permission, pro-
pose at some day in the future to an
alyse and examine the vote for Con-
gress in this district. | have moth
ing to say against the incumbent.
He makes US a good representative
SO far as l know. | am not after
him, but | despise the methods en-
ployed by the machine to encompass
my defeat. suppose the end justi-
tled the means; We must protect the
Aagle-Saxon race, you know!
My offense for the treatment | re-
celved was | was not going to vote
for Cleveland. l did not vote for
him and | believe to-day his elect1on