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DR.. ssmps Pope Issues Another Address
to the People.

DR.. ssmpa Pope Issues Another Address
to the People.
COLUMBIA, S. c., Nov. 12.-The tol-
lowing address to the people has been
issued by DR.. Samps Pope:
To the peopl, OF South Carolina:
"The little man" who hopes to be
benefited by the ballot box robberies in
this State, may g'vs out to his news
paper pals that am crazY-hls trienda,
tho Ringsters, may burn and hang ne
in eflgy--but all Of this adding insult to
injury will net take the public mind of1
tho fact that in the late election lp thia
State the Ring perpetrated the most un'
blushing and gigantic frsuds that havs
been perpetrated in South Carolina. not
excepting the elections from 1868 to
1876. Not satisfied with driving cff
hundreds, with having their supervisors
to put false numbers and misplaced
names on the registration tickets, there
by depriving thousands of voters ftheir
vote; with purposely consuming time in
order to leave thousands at The polls al
their close who could rot vo!e- five
hundred of these at Darlington g. H
with having in some cases military cnm'
panies with their arms near the polls
and ammunition in their pockets; not
satisfied with all this, the ballot bcx'e
ip many instances were robbed and
stuffed. If the robbers can gicat over
this it only sho vs. how low iu the scale
of humanity they have sunk.
I am at work. have ferreted out 0
great deal and will continue to work.
The evidence against the leaders am
saving for the United States Senate ip.
vestigating committee, which will c1He
after awhile and will open the snal' d
mouths of good many persons. With
a fair election and count I was elec!e';
even as it is, I am allowed over twenty
thousand votes, unless tho boards en-
Tuesday next take these from mo.
started with over seven hundred in one
of the counties on Wednesday last. By
Thursday I had been robbed of five
hundred of these. How many have
now, I cannot tell. Are the people OF
South Carolina going to submit quietly
to these things? I am satisfied that
they will not; it will take work, toT-
ever, in each county to unearth tie
frauds. 10 county in the upper part
of the State, Igot sixteen votes at one
of the polls; the managers did not
count q single one for me; one o. them
carried the box home with him Tacs'
day night unsealed, and sealed it on
Wednesday morning. At poll on the
coast twentv.one white men voted for
me; I was allowed fifteen votes by the
managers. At nearly every poll in the
State robberles of this kind have been
perpetrated; ip some instances more
than q hundred votes were taken from
a box from me and given to "the little
man."
Friends cf good government. OF hon
est government based upon fair cleo
ton, I call upon you to give me all of
the aid in this matter that you car; it
is your fight as we'll as mine. Remem.
ber that a Constitutional convention
has heen called through f:aud of The
blacklist characters let Us join hands
aud expose this ss we'll as my election
and bring tho perpetrators to justice.
Turn your backs upon every man who
has assisted in this devellsh work; force
him out of society; let him have for his
associates those who have assisted in
perpetratlng these frauds; make him to
feel that the hand of every honest mau
is against him-When you do this you
can have some hope for tho future.
AS for myself, I can stand all of the
indignities that an infuriated and con.
science stricken Ring can heap upon
me. am battling for my rights and
the rights of every honest man in South
Carolina. am after tho Ring and in.
tend to keep after them whilst there is
law and justice in the land, and sooner
or later will convict them, if not else.
where, in tho minds of an indignant
people. I may not got the office to
which I was honestly elected, but I will
win the fight against the Ring.
SAMPSON POPE.