The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1894-09-20

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up as large ma orlty az may be re-
quired 10 overcome the Popullst ma
lorities from the white counties. We
carried the il white counties Of this
state 10 the present election as shown
hy the official returns of about TO-
900 maj1rities. In all these coun-
ties where We had the appolntmei t
Of election inspectors, We gave the
democrats competent inspection
clerks and fixers in each precinct,
and no one claims the election was
unfair here. The county officials
certified the correct vote to the Sec
retary Of State. How different this
is to the practices in the black belt
counties as illustrated by Col. Troy
above, and the following private let
ters from very intelligent Popuiist
Of Lownds county, where III 1890
there were about 1000 white people,
and $4,000 negroes:
SANDY RIDGE, Ala. Aug 18th 81,
Hos. NJ ". WHATLEY, Idaho. Ala, Dear
Sir-YOu ask To the frauds III LOwnd~ cOun-
". There were not more than 900 legally
registered voters iii LOwnd, However the rec
stratiOn list showed 2.GuOi in ID precincts
where we had no inspectors. Oates 10y the all
Of negro votes carried them by l3i majority
In the other five precinct, there were ltS votes
pOlled by actual count. l,IlI were returned
N I,ttt | at he II
Haynesyllle Court House,. Oates MAORI
" including the fraudulent vote returned
from the precincts where had no Inspections
was ,9ll. challenged the vote of Haynes
/ Vile As poll lists had more names than til,
registration list. / challenged LowndsbOr(
and Whitehall precincts on the ground tina
shr poll lists we're not certified by the in pee
tors as required by law. Now Oates maJo
ty could not have been more than l,5ll III
| Guiding frauds OF 1--WE precincts. where w
were not represen ed yet in Official count, h.
| - given / ,634. This only shows to what ex
| tent paI1lsans Will 20.
| | have written this up for the MontgOmer,
Journal, and it Was published yesterday: Is,
| these methods Oates majority was obtained
| | have been in bad huInor generally, sine,
| the August election The frauds were NOR
| open than ever before, what we have beer
| pleased to term the Moral Element OF de
| mOCraCy have no word of condemnation f.
| the wrCng and Outrages perpetrated upon Us
| fhe meeting i'll our county To deterInln
| what course for our people to persue on til
BIRD inst was we'll attended and our peopl
| are ripe for revolt. Who will lead them?
| Yours truly,
Our people in Alabama have 1T
idea OF giving up this fight. The.
ire a law abiding, honest, conserva
i've people, who have been goaded
robbed and outraged by balIo
hieves, who according to Senate
Morgan, "would steal from thel
mother" until they are almost DIES
perate, almost ready to exclaim tina
when the ballot is denied, the rig
II revolution remains"
Oates majority III the Is black
oelt counties was more than 10000
Is returned by the county officials
Every intelligent man here knows
md every honest man will confess
that the negroes generally do nc
willingly vote the democratic tickei
they being republicans, and bein
advised 10y republican leaders wan
to vote our ticket-yes, do vote on
ticket as do half the white voters i
these black belt counties.
| We have large maJorities, as wei
us majority of the white votes i
the black belt. We know we are be
ing robbed by a set of the most con
summate Williams that live to-day
that too by the consent of the mos
Infamous set of election laws, tina
disgrace the statutes of any state i
the union.
Our people have tried to hav
these laws so amended as to allo,
each party to have competent lnspec
tors, clerks and fixers at each poll
ing place, to be selected by the Elk
ecutiye Committee of the respectiv
parties throughout the state, bu
these fair requests have been cor
temptuously refused. Our peopl
lave about reached the point whe1
we are ready to ask the L. S. Cong
ress to interfere in this matter, 50 d
to guarantee to us republlCa
form of government in Alabam;
We would not want the Lodge ele(
ton bill nor the enactment of til
: recently repealed federal electio
laws, but since the whole country
: interested, let congress enact a ger
eral law, requiring that each stat
at all federal elections, and at ele'
tions where assemblymen are chose
who will elect U. S. Senators, sha
, give the opposition in each precint
representation of their own selection
These are few of the method
employed to rob the people in AL;
bama. We would say to our frient
in North Carolina, in the west an
throughout tt e co ntry,th t if the
was not single colored voter in All
bama that there would be trouble
} carrying this state. The Democra
once lived by bowling "negro dom
: nation" to make all white men SUI
NIT to their rule. They now Ii,
= not by only defrauding the negro {
his vote, but by counting the neg
on their side. We have not give
up. Right will win after awhil
We will use every lawful and ju
method to be heard at the polls, an
when we are heard, we will stan
with Colorado and Kansas for II