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that one hundred or more were rejected the
right to vote here that day. No instructions
/ we're given out except through precinct chair
men, but we were instructed 10 come here
/; and attempt To vote at the Federal box any
way.
! ACCORDING TO INSTRUCTIONS.
! According to those Instructions four or five
| hundred voters were here. did not register
! last year. ! was rejected because the super.
visor was reading; sometimes he said he had
the wrong book sometimes he was TOO busy
10 renew any old certificates. | stayed there
about an hour with LOmax. Every white
man who came was registered. l counted
| eleven that came after l was already there.
There was no trouble for white man TO get
registration ticket. We were instructed TO
In congressional box whether we were regis.
tered or not.
HIGH SWEARING.
noticed as high as eleven sworn Mt con-
gressional box al once. Some run them IN
risht-some %rong-then let them go.
BAD PLIGHT OF REPUBLICANS.
Republicans could not read, and could not
tell which box was State and which WAS Con-
gresslOnal. No PARTITION between them. In
the same house.
''TIIEY WERE TOLD
Cross.examined by Mr.. Rlease:
=. How many Republican votes were re-
jected at the ballot box?
A. One hundred or more.
q. How many Republican voters were
there IN town who did not apply to vote?
A. There were at least three hundred who
were told they could not vote because they
did not have registration tickets, and there
lore did not go 10 the box. [ expected those
who did not have registration To be allowed
" vote for Congress until they came to the
box.
NONE REJECTED WHO HAD REGISTRATION
TICKETS.
I did not see any Republican votes rejected
who had registration tickels. I saw the Su-
pervsor Of Reg isLration reject some who APP
piled for registration tickets. There were ltO
heard rejected. stayed there and counted
them, and came each dHy. | made no coin
ment 10 them. Ii man couldn't read, he
rouldn': tell a slate box from n congressional
box. The State box and the congressional
uOx were fifteen or twenty feet apart-ln The
same room. The fact that these boxes were
IN the same room deprived MIR. Norman OF
votes Some OF these voters hal registration
tickets.
lie SAW ONE HUNDRED AND TEN AT ONE
TIME--lT GOT TO BE SUCH CON
TINCouS THING IIE Stopped
COUNTING.
I saw no c0lored man vote for Mr.. Lat.
Imer I saw some with LatImer tickets
They wouldn't vote them If they knew It. !
lid not see any voter who did not vote II he
had proper registration tirkei.. Don't
know how many votes MIR Iailner or Mr..
Norman got here. Al uue time | saw ITO re-
fused registration tickels-prelly much the
same people who were not allowed to vote.
II seemed TO he such Il continuous thing !
stopped counting.
No COIOred Man Can be n Democrat
Just Votes that Way, Sometimes.
r. q GARRETr sworn.
O What Is your precinct and where were
you on November 6. 1871?
A. AT Abheville. / did not vote. Didn't hate
re sIstration ticket, but would have voted for
Robert Moorman for Congress, il had been
allowed 10 vote. He was my man. / saw
three or four hundred who had MoOrman
tickets. and who would have voted for Moor
man. / counted ten State and Congressional
boxes.
l voted for Tillman the first time he ever
run, without registration ticket. j have
voted the State Democratic tickets ever since
1875. l am not a sure enough Democrat. l
never WAS required to show n registration
ticket. No colored man can be Il Democrat--
just votes that way sometimes. l am Re.
pub lican on National politics. The Managers
would not let me vote because had Moor
man ticket.
WOULDN'T LET HIM VOTE ON A TOWN REGIS
TRATIoN TICKET.
They said could not vote OH town registra-
every colored man wa, going To vote the Re-
publican tick ct. did not ask the Managers
which WAS the Norman box. l saw five or
SIX sworn AT tline-may be more.
SOMEBODY NEGLECTED HIS DUTY.
1 was not instructed who to vote Tor. /
knew IL was for M0orman. ! could not tell
State from Federal boxes. could not fiud
box. They SAID L couldn't vote without re.
gistration ticket. / went TO the other and
they told Inc the same thing.
DtLIGENT EFFORT.
l applied for II registration ticket every Sale
Day last year. The office was open. lost the
one had, and he told me L would have 10 go
before Trial Justice and swear ont an atfida-
Wit befole could get one did not get the
could not afford to pay out for it. i got the
affidavit after so long from Mr.. Wardlaw.
Then the supervisor or Registration would
not ri We me q registration ticket. l saw other
persons rejected. 1 cannot say what was the
cause. One-half time the book WAS out. The
Supervisor OF Registration lives some fifteen
miles from Town.
SAW a GREAT MANY VOTERS.
by MIR. Blease:
q How many voters did you see 90 to the
polls, VINO we're rejected?
A. cannot say-thlrty-hve or lorty. saw
between four and five hundred who did not
cnIne 10 the box at all. cannot say whether
there were two or three boxes where l went
Two times TO vote for Congressman. cid not
see but one box.
WORE OUT HIS TICKET.
did not know whether II was State box or
not. Some OF the Managers were here in 80
that were here In '9i. The Managers would
not let me vote because Mr.. Norman was
and they knew the colored men
were suppoI ting him. Sam Holmes gave me
my Congressional Ticket at the door. The
Managers saw my ticket did not have 1t
fol ded. was rejected because did not have
q registration ticket.
did not SEQ any Republicans rejected who
had a res lstr2tlon certicate. We thought we
had man but he did not show himself !
have had registration Ticket made out for
No. II Township. Got here. wore IT out
carrying it In my pocket. l cannot read or
write.
Impartial and NOne.Partizan State. I,
ment-Didn't See Anything Wrong.
w. NJ. POPE, sworn:
q. What IL your precinct, and where were !
you on November +, 1891:
A. AT Abbevile. | was here on election
day. Voled. n good many OF my race said
they did not vote because they did not have !
tickets. 1 ain precinct chairman !,
since the election. | did not see any OF my !,
members try To register on the first Monday, |!
and saw none OF them ut the Superintendent /
Of Registrations office. l saw crowd in !
town. :
The Reason MOOrman Lost Votes
Lack Of Registration Tickets.
BEN BROWN, sworn: !
Q. What liz your precinct aud where were ,
you on November g. 1891?
A. AT Aboevile. Did not vote that day..
Tried TO get registration ticket, but could ,
not get II. Tried twice To get one. If could
have voted could have told State bux from
Federal by following the men of the crowd
would have voted the Congressional RepuD-
lean ticket for Robert M,,ormun, II | had ,
been allowed to vote. All of my color. i I!
think would have voted for Norman. There .