The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-11-14
DR.. Pope will Contest.

DR.. Pope said the night OF the election,
when the first returns began to come in
indicating that there had been fraud prac-
tied in the State election, that he intend
ed to make full uilinvestigation and would
per haps land some people 10 tue peniten-
tiary. He stated emphatically that be in
tended to 60 before the State board of
canvassers and contest every inch of the
ground. He cow comes to the front
again, however, with the following
address which bears the date Of Saturday
last:
T., he People of South Carolina:
"The little man" who hopes to be bene-
fted by the ballot box rohberies in this
State, may give out % hi. newspaper pals
that am crazy-his friends, the Ring
but all of this adding insult to injury
will not take the public mind off the fact
that In the late election in this State the
Ring perpetrated the most unblushing
and gigantic frauds that have ever been
perpetrated in South Carolina, not ex-
cepting the elections from 1868 to 1876.
Not satisfied with driving off hundreds.
with having their supervisors to put false
numbers and misplaced names on the
registration tickets, thereby depriving
thousands Of voters of their vote; with
purposely consuming time in order to
leave thousands at the polls at their close
who could not Yote--five hundred of these
at Darlington G. H.-with having in some
cases military companies with their arms
near the polls and ammunition In their
pock cts; not satisfied with all this, the
ballot boxes in many instances were rob-
q ok,> Tol khar hh n ry1nu
over this, it only shows how low in the
scale cf humanity they have sunk.
lam at work. I have ferreted out
great deal and will continue to work.
The evidence against the leaders I am
saving for the United States Senate in
vestigating com mittee, which will come
after awhile and will open the sealed
mouths of good many persons. With
a fair election and count was elected;
even as it is. am allowed over twenty
Thousand votes, unless the boards on
Tuesday next take these from me. l
started with over seven hundred in one
of the counties on Wednesday last. By
Thursday I had been robbed of five hun
dred of these. How many have now I
cannot tell. Are the people Of South
Carolina going to submit quietly to these
thipgs2 am satisfied that they will not.
It will take work, ho" ever, In each coun-
ty to unearth the frauds. In county in
the upper part of the State. got sixteen
votes at one of the polls; the managers
did not count single one for me; one
of them carried the box home with him
Tuesday night unseaied, and sealed 1t on
Wednesday morning. At poll on the
coast twenty-one white men voted for
me; was allowed fifteen votes by the
managers At nearly every poll in the
State robberies of this kind have been
perpetrated; in some instances more
than hundred votes were taken from
box from me and given to "lhe little
man."
Friends Of good government, of honest
government based upon fair election, I
call upon you to give me all of the aid In
this matter that you can 1t Is your fight
as we'll as mine. Rem ember that Con.
stitutional Convention has been called
through fraud of the blackest character
let us join hands and expose this as we'll
as my election aud bring the perpetrators
man who has assisted in the devilish
work force him out of society; let him
have for his associates those who have
assisted in perpetratlug these frauds
make him to iael that the hand Of every
honest man Is against hlm--when you do
this you can have some hope for the fu-
ture.
AS for myself, can stand all OF the in
dignities that an infuriated and conscience
stricken Ring can heap upon me. am
battling for the rights of every honest
man in South Carolina. i am after the
Ring and intend to keep after them
whilst there is law and justice in the
land, and sooner or later will convict
them, if not elsewhere, in the minds OF
an indignant people. i may not get the
office, but will win the fight against the
Ring. SAMPSON POPE.