The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1894-11-22
The Machine al Work.
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orrftie judges sent for Sam Marks.
Republican Judge. to come over
and sign the papers. Marks come
aud nothing vas <aId To him about
an error having been discovered or
Mauney's refusal TO sign Just as
they We're about to sign some one
suggested that II might he we'll to
run over tae tally zhee,s again as
there might possibly DE a mistake III
the counts. II vas done and found
That one tally 9 marks had been
omitted" III LaJtimore's vote. This
IS the ) that defeated Quinn aud
counted in baltimore. The three
Judges signed the returns, Mauney
did not and says he never Will.
Marks says now that il was d trick
To defeat Quinn but he did not know
the particulars at the tine he signed
or be would not have done so. He
counted the judicial box and paid no
attention to the county box night Of
election. By the way. il. TIddy.
the Registrar, is an English man by
birth aud has never taken, as reports
say. the oath Of allegiance. Four Of
the men who were challenged at this
box lived ii other township 5: three
of Id IN had eros township to
get there and the other lived one
III lie from the No & line. OF the
other eight that were challenged one
was an idiot, though he has never
been so declared by q jury, one has
been convicted II stealing or of IAN
"a tempt 10 steal (as the Democratic
judges decided and the remainder
had not been in the State long
enough.
BEFORE THE BOARD.
When No. & was called we protest
ed against receiving the returns till
these D votese were taken off and
and the challenged votes investigat-
ed. We offered the evidence of
Mr.. White, one of the tallismen. and
his tally sheet together with a mum
Der OF others who saw the counting
done, but the Board refused to take
their testimony, as they did in the
case of No. IL, because ''they We're
1Ot uItIlbCIo VI IHt bOdIu. JDuI III
the face of these refusals, the Board
called IN S. G. Brice, one of the
Democratic judges, to explain how
the mistake of votes came about.
Brlce's testimony was about as fol-
lows: Il examined Hamrick's tally
sheet night Of election. In count
ing the votes he (Hamrick) had
placed a cipher over each twentieth
tally to Indicate hundred. | count
ed the ciphers without going over
the tallies and pronounced Lattl-
mOre'S vote 54o just as he and White
made IT, but the next night when we
met TO sign the papers we discovered
that Hanlrick had placed "a cipher
over the twentieth CD tally in one
instance instead of the twentieth.
SO we corrected the error and made
Lattimore's vote 553 instead of 54S
To show that nothing wrong was in
tended | will state that we found an
error of ) against Sheriff Hamriek
(DemOcraD which we took off his
vote" 1t should be remembered,
however, that Hamrick was already
defeated by large vote and taking
off didn't change the result. 1t
was done only for d blind. Marks,
| tie Republican Judge, was called IN
and asked ii Brice's statement in re-
gard to this discovery was correct.
He said it was. Green, the other
Democratic Judge, made the same
statement. Neither of these men
were sworn by the Board. We still
insisted that our witnesses be sworn
and heard, but in vain. The Board
would not investigate the challenged
votes, but adopted the returns of \ 20.
without further investigation.
| should have stated above that
this case of No. & was decided before
that of No. IL.
The case of No. l where 20 votes
were east and only 90 polled was
again taken up 1t was Populist
township and would have been
TIN own out had it not been discover
ed that throwing it out would not
| defeat any other Populist candidates
Our poll book showed names of every
man who voted our ticket, so the
error was on the Democratic side
So the Board decided that one man
voted whose name was not recorded
These are the facts in regard tc
these frauds as fully as can be giveI
in Il letter. Our people are indignant
at such hlgh-handed rascality. anC
say they won't suffer such things tC
go UNPUBLISHED. Every conservative
Democrat that | have met says 9 1in1
and Byers were honestly elected anC
ought to have the Offices.
Please study these facts and le
me know at once what course to per
sue.
The following Populists were de
clared elected: F. S. Fortenberry
Sheriff; Rev. L. l.. Smith, Repre-
sentative, and J. Y Hamrick and J. B
Fortune (Rep.) Senators from 32ne
district. To count No. IL and throw
out the fraudulent votes at Shelby
every Populist candidate, excep
Register of Deeds, would be elected
Thank God the machine" will b,
crushed IN North Carolina.
Yours respectful,
D. J. HAMRICK, Cham'n P. P.
Elk Com. Cleveland Co