The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1894-12-13
THE TYRANNICAL CO.
COMMISSIONERS.
THEY INVENT NEW METHODS 10 NULL
FY THE WILL or THE PEOPLE AND
TORO5 MEN or TIER OFFICES.
MIN WILL CONDEMN SUCH
DISHONEST ABusEOF POWER.
The sh rim of Wake County Robbed al his
Once. Larger Bond> Required Than
Ever Before. 4 New Basi, of Valuation
was Adopted The People are Indignant.

ED. CAUCASIAN
The proceedings Of the Board OF
county Commissioners in this City
the past week, has caused no end Of
talk by all classes of people.
The Board met, were sworn into
Office and should have taken up the
bond of the Register of Deeds and
sworn him in as Register aud Clerk
to theBoard. Thiswas not done and il
developed later that the reason was
that a Populist Clerk would have
proven very unhandy in the SECRET
CAUCUS of the Board while consider
ing public business. The bond of
the Sherlif-elect was taken up, con
sidered for three days and no action
taken, only rumors atloat that the
Board did not consider the bond
good and suiicient' but they would
not in any way Indicate IN what re-
spect it was cot good and sufficient
Counsel for Sheriff asked the Board
to state whether in considering the
bond, they would follow their usual
custom Of taking the lust!tications
of sureties as per their sworn sched
uleS of values, or whether they would
only consider tax valuations! This
they declined to answer and only
said the bonds must be III their opln-
ions rood. After argument by
counsel, the Bonds went into secret
session with their attorney, Arm
stead Jones ESD, and what they did
| is not yet known, except they decld-
ed on a basis of valuations They De
! clined to accept the Sheriff's bond.
After three days caucusing, they Dc
cided the bond not good, declared
the office vacant and elected the
Democratic candidate defeated by
about 900 majority and gave him
until December 2lst to make good
and satisfactory bond. They refused
to give the Co operation candidate
any further time to make a new bond
or increase or strengthen his bond.
| The Sheriff, Treasurer al i Register
of Deeds were all required to file
their bonds, before they would take
action on any. This was for the
reason that a ruling on one bond
would have indicated the standard
of valuations they must adhere to
in others. The Clerk Of the Court
was ready on Monday with sureties
with 5000, ,00O-but the Commission,
ers would not let him file his bond OF
they would have to swear him in
and thereby lose to the ID. .. Z,
Clerk the three days pay that he got
out of the office Of his successor.
The Register of deeds filed bond
with justified sureties to the amount
of $4,000. They began its consider
alton and upon intimation it wa:
: not sufficient, asked to add new sur.
!. eties, but it was refused, whereupor
, he got up an entirely new bond foi
$11 800 and filed that. This the,
accepted after much hesitation, fear
ing that they would not accept this
he made a THIRD bond with justified
securities for $11,5OO-the signer
worth $4,000 or more. This the,
tried to refuse to consider, but coun
sci by hard work forced it on them
While they were considering this
third bond, certain tools Of the ma
: chine offered one of the sureties 500
to go before the Commissioners an,
take his name off the bond.
The Treasurer made his bond fo
( about $1SO,000-with sureties wort
S S25O,OOO-(the bond required bein
/ $40, ,OOOl and b. the aid of counse.
a finally got it accented.
The main hight seemed to b
against the sheriff, not because b
n was unpopular, but because the ma
+ chine feared prosecution of It's heel
: ers for election frauds and they kne'
J. that with machine sheriff to sui
e pena jurors after exhausting regu
e lar panel by challenges, it would /
: impossible to convict the criminal
The action Of the Commissioner
. has robbed a man of his office an
+ the democratic party will pay th
penalty of 1t by losing nearly all {
Il the best element of the party. I'll
= people believe in fair play. III
/ question with fair-minded and hor
:, orable men here is, how can the den
ocratic ex-sheriff who has been d
: feated by nearly 900 majority, accel
u u the office and face the people Of tt
county?
n This same Board of Commission
e ers in October refused to appoint a
II Judges of election, the men recon
, mended by the Peoples and Repul
" lican parties, but appointed in tt
. main such men as either could nc
4 protect their own or their neighbol
e rights, or such as were venal an
:, would act with the d. O. p. machin
r. One of said Judges is said to ha,
ID received 500. to turn over his wor
r to the machine and then got Gus
e. ing because he could not do i
u Democrats, Populist and Republ
'' cans are now asking chow the Legi
! lature can be conservative in the fax
! of such treatment" While it is hal
to submit to such, our people rejoi'
is that there is ga better day a coming z
eo 1e Chairman S. Otho Wilson who ma
he aged the campaign in this coun
W. and district was on hand all Il
he time and did all in his power to S
ed cure justice for our officers;
in in seemed if possible more interest
than the officers themselves.
Awaiting the removal of TT
CAUCASIAN to our city when
will have paper that will see tn
we have fair show or make knoN
- the reason why. | am
1,e Ie Yours respectfully,
ut n