People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1895-09-20
KING FRAUDOCRAT
ANSWERED-THE CONSTITU-
TION DIDN'T LIKE IT.
CAPT. SANDERS WRITES
A Reply to BOykin Wright's
"Wail'' No. . and Exposes
His Fallacies.
THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT


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Editor Peoples Party Paper:
Will you please publish the in
closed reply to Mr.. BOykin Wright's
letter of Sept. 9th, which you will
see the Constitution refuses to pub
Gsh. Respectfully,
D. N. SANDERS.
Editor Constitution My atten-
ton has just been called to MIR. Boy
kin Wright's letter in your issue OF
Sept. 9th. This letter is SO unfair
and misleading that I beg space in
your paper to notice it.
Until three years ago l was cit
izen of the 10th district, and still
continue to take interest in 10th dis
trict politics. Mr.. Wright boldly
avows that both sides perpetrated
great frauds and seeks to justify or
palliate the frauds committed in Au
gusta on the pleas chat the people
were maddened by Mr.. Watson's
incendiary utterances, and secondly
that they sought to offset the frauds
committed in populist counties. MIR.
Watson never uttered one incendiary
sentence during the campaign, and
Mr.. Wright knows that he did not.
Neither will his secord plea hold
water. What are the facts 7
Wherever the popullst were IN con-
troll, they placed democrat on the
board of manages to see fair plaT'
Wherever the democrats were in con-
troll they refused to allow 'populist
TO sit at the election so as to see fair
play. Now what was the result?
The census shows that the nine cour-
ties which gave Watson majorities
contain over one hundred thousand
people, while the two counties which
gave Black majorities contain sixty
two thousand people, yet the cleo
ton returns show that the sixty two
thousand cast more votes than the
hundred thousand, yet Mr.. Wright
has the cheek to charge outrageous
fraud upon the larger number who
east the smaller vote. BY the way,
will Mr.. Wright inform a curious
public just how many votes Augusta
did cast in the last election. We
know that some sixteen or eighteen
thousand were counted out, but we
are still curious to know how many
ballots were left in the box when the
counting stopped.
We have heard of one man who
boasted that he voted the same squad
of "niggers" thirteen times during
the day, and of another still more
industrious who voted his squad six
teen times by the middle of the af-
ternoon, when he was notified from
headquarters to cease operations as
they nor had ootes enough. We
have also heard of the Edgefeld Co
man, who declared he "kI ew Mr..
Black was fairly elected, because
enough of us South Carolineans
crossed the river and voted for him
to insure his election; but we have
never yet heard just how many bal
lots were left amounted in the Au-
gusta ballot boxes.
Mr.. Wright complains that the
populist wont admit frauds on their
mart. and asks if there was ever a