New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-03-25
HOW TILLMANISM FIGHTS IN foES.
covrrexop EVANS REMOVES NOTARIEs PUBLIC
WHO DARE TO AID REPU BLlCANs IN hE"lo-
TERING-oNLY 10000 VOTERS
YET ENROLLED.
,,roh o, ,sraclaO-The ten


Columbus. s c., March "a (speciaD-The ten
aavs for registration for the Constitutional Con-
vention election expired at p. m. March a. I'M
mediately afterward a committee or coiored me-"
consisting of retiring Congressman o. W. MU,ldE'
of Charleston: the Rev. r. f. Hart anu lhe i'e''
w. D. Chappele. OF this city NS'eo uo N,,a.
Evans and presenter pe'il1OA "a ""O' '
ing is the gist:
AS representatives of the Ministerial Union and
Republicans organized to aid the masses III ~
Citizenship order that they might TAX Lnven n.
choosing deegaes to- the ,bSr ctxeashp is 10 be
dxed or DESTROYED having received advlces from an
parts Of the 81 sSs ffae during the ten days
anart for registration, which exhausted TO-DAY
we s Within the entire state and that
many more than 100000, after unparalleled eAP9su
SSisfranHbsed and that the four remaining days
namely the first Mondays in april MAY June hli
July are wholly inadequate Inerelore, IN penasi
Of these thousands of wIonred and injured persons
we cali upon Your Excellency TO pray ina, ss ine
~ nrovide means whereby these more than uoUc
citizens may quality b seecson Of debates
The petition went on 10 protest against the par
barity of the conditions which required electors 70
travel from ten to fifty and seventy-hVe ml'es ~
the various county seats and TO expose themselves
in ,un shine rain and cold for weeks In endeavorns
70 qualify themselves with the certainty that many
Of them would be sent away at the end OF Their
waiting without even an opportunity to register
Governor Evans assured the committee mat ne
would take the petition under consideration. and
then consigned il TO his private secretary.
The registration, 50 far Republicans ana, TO a
great extent Democrats opposed 10 the 1lllnan
ring. are concerned, has been farcical. When the
books were opened March the registration ofi-
GERS had none Of the blank aftdavlts whch app o
could be printed and distributed several days were
lost. All classes of voters except T1lmanites were
taken completely by surprise g.
State Senator Wilson, row member OF Non-
gress. who had charge of the bill in the Lees!at-
rs stated m n mar any s Counties e tD day
the average said 10 have been reached. These small
feures can only be accounted for on the assump-
ton that the officers performed their duties tardy
and persistently killed time which, as matter OF
Evans removed several notaries public who dared
10 affx their official seals TO afdaVits or RcpuD-
iicans one OF these was w. T. Andrews, a negro
LAWYER at Sumter and another D. f. Kees a white
Tllmanite OF the town. The Governor denies,
though that they were removed for political rea-
sons afirming that Ms action was simply in def
erence TO the requests of reputable citizens. no
men except two in this city who will be prosecuted on
the C<large Of having forged the names OF negroes
to affdavts. $. r. Pointer, a notary at Spartan
burg. a man who, outside of his politics, is popular
and respected, and who postmaster for that
city under President Harrison was another victim
"The Spartanburg headlight" the most influential
"cSoVernor Evans has removed ex-Postmas,er
Poinier AS notary public in spartanburg lie rem
dered himself obnoxious 10 our white reform Demo
ing Registration Blanks for them Governor Evans
IS a hustler. and such prompt removals VIII cincf
h' The iaa 'H sp sGS Herald an an,Tmar
Democratic paper. denouncos the Governors act!sr
in the Pointer case as the most unworthy, low
contemptlble, dirty trick ever perpe;rated by ar
officer IN the name Of the law" 1t adds that many
from registering on technical grounds while certih
Gates were granted TO Tillmanites without question
tion Of renewing the attacks upon the registration
law in the Federal courts, and COLLECTIONS VIII be
taken In the colored churches to defray the ex