The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1894-11-14
DR.. POPE WILL CONTEST.
He Issues a Strong Address to the People
and Is 1T Work FerretIng Out Frauds
and Uses Very Plain Language.
The State, 12th.1

AAN SSSt>3 A-sA'l
DR.. Pope said the night of the elec-
ton, when the first returns began to
come in indicating that there had been
fraud practiced in the State election,
that be Intended to make full investi-
CATION aud would perhaps land some
people in the penitentiary. He stated
emphaticslly that he intended to go be-
fore the State board of canvassers and
contest every inch of the ground. Then
DR.. Pope went to his home III Newberry
and up to yesterday had not been
heard from. He now comes to the
front again, however, with the follow
ing readable address which bears the
date of Saturday last:
To the People OF South Carolina:
"The little man" who hopes to be
benefited by the ballot box robberies in
this State, may give out to his news
paper pals that [ am crazy-his friends,
the Ringsters, may burn and hang ME
in effgy-but all of this adding insult
to injury will not take the public mind
off ice fact that in the late election in
this State the Ring perpetraed the
most unblushing and gigantic frauds
that have been perpetrated in South
Carolina, not excepting the elections
from 1858 to 1875. 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 thou
sands 1T the polls at their close who
could not vote-five hundred of these
at Darlington g. H.-With having 10
some cases military companies with
their arms near the po Is aud smmuni-
ton in their pockets; Bot satisfied with
all this, the ballot boxes in many ip-
stances We're robbed and stuffed. If
the robbers can gloat over this it only
shows how low in the scale of human
ity they have sunk.
I am at work. I have ferreted out a
great deal and will continue to WORK.
The evidence against the leaders am
saving for the United States Senate in-
vestigating committee, which will come
after awhile and will open the sealed
mouths of good many persons. With
fair election and count was elected;
even as it is, 1 am allowed over twenty
thousand votes, unless the boards on
Tuesday next take these from me. l
started with overseven hundred in one
OF the counties on Wednesday last. By
Thursday I had been robbed of five
hundred Of these. How many I 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, how
ever, in each county to unearth the
frauds. In a county in the upper part
of the polls; the managers did not
count single one for me; one of them
carried the box home with him Tues
day night unseaied, aud sealed it on
Wednesday morning. At poll on the
coast tWenty-ene white men voted for
me; I was allowed fifteen votes by the
managers. At nearly every poll n the
State robberies IF this kind have been
perpetrated; in some instances more
than a hundred votes were taken from
q box from me and given to 'the little
man."
Frieuds of good government, of hon.
est government based upon fair eiec-
ton, l call upon you to give me all of
the aid in this matter that you can; it
is your fight as we'll as mine. Remem-
Der that a Constitutional Convention
has been called through fraud of the
blackest character, let Us join hands
and expose this as well as my election
and bring the PERPETRATORS to justice.
Turn your backs upon every man who
has assisted in this devilish work; force
him out of society; let him have tor his
associates those who have assisted in
perpetrating these frauds; make him to
feel that the hand of every honest man
is against him-wben you do this you
can have some hope for the future.
AS for myself, I can stand all of the
indignities that an infuriated aud con-
science stricken Ring can heap upon
me. I am battling for my rights apd
the rights of every honest man in
South Carolina. l am after the Ring
and intend to keep after them whilst
there is law and justice in the land, and
sooner or later I will convict tt EN-, if
not elsewhere, in the minds of an in
dignant people. I may not get the
Office to which I was honestly elected,
but 1 will win the fight against the
Ring. SAMPSON POPE.