The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1894-08-09
NASH Cot MY iiIIi Il.
How. Battle Was >"ninat-d For Judge =
some Inside Facts.

SPRING IIorE, \. c. Aug. l, 81.
Especial to The Caucasian
The Democrats SO far seem to hc
peculiarly fortunate IN selecting
men for their candidates whose
character both public and private,
are assallable, and while it is con-
sjdered in politics, "not the proper
thing" to speak of Il mans private
life and character, Democrats here
tofore have not observed this rule
with regard to their opponents, ard
they excuse themselves by saying
the party cannot be better than the
men who compose it. Should they de-
sire to follow their usual line they
can be met more than half way in
this the 3rd judicial District in re-
gard to the candidates nominated by
their Judicial convention here in
Rocky Mount on August the lst, ia
cub Battle for Judge and Jno. (.
Woodland for Solicitor.
The newspaper reports do not give
any inside workings of that conven-
ton. The POpulist well remember
what a grand victory they won in
Nash in 1892, and how they were
defrauded out of it by the failure to
unseal and count the votes from
three precincts. When the contest
for Judge waxed warm between Bat
tie and JAS E. Moore of Martin, and
1t became certain that unless some
thing was done by the machine, the
machine candidate Battle, would be
defeated, it became necessary that
some method should be taken to
count or inspect those sealed returns
from these three townships in order
to get the number of Democratic
votes cast, to increase Nash's repre-
oentatiyes in the convention. In or
der to accomplish this Mr.. Exum,
present Register of Deeds and close
kInsman of Jno. f. Woodland, makes
an affidavit of the number of Dem
ocratic votes cast in those three
townships, which increased Nash's
vote from y to 26.
Now the question is how did
EXum get at that vote without break
ing the sealed returns? These four
votes were necessary to nominate
Battle, and although Pitt, Martin
and other delegations protested
against this acknowledgement of
shame, fraud and corrupt practices,
it was nevertheless adopted by the
convention, after bringing Mr.. Exum
before the open convention, and the
earnest and learned appeal of Maj.
Latham against it.
VIII AIliancemen throughout the
State, regardless of party stultify
themselves by voving for Jacob Bat.
tie for Judge after his notorious &C,
ton and active endeavors to have
their charter repealed in the last
Legislature?
Is Jno. +. Woodland a proper per.
son to be Solicitor when it has been
well known to him the men who
were responsible for not counting the
returns from these three townships
in Nash county, and who perpetrateC
these fraudulent practices in election
returns and no effort made to bring
them to justice. And is it true thai
he has pocketed or pigeon holet
presentments or bills of Indictment
against Justices of the Peace in
several counties, because they were
democrats, and democratic bench
mel? Did he pocket or pigeon-holt
an Indictment against Justice OF
he Peace in Franklin county fol-
embezzlement, as is openly charged
II newspaper In this State? If sc
he is not fit to perform the high and
important duties of Solicitor, and
every good man in the District
whether Democrat, Republican OF
Populist, should vote against him.
and yet this man Woodland has the
impotence to ask the endorsement
of Populists in Wilson county. The
action of the State convention is
highly satisfactory to our communi,
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