The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1896-07-02
4 BILL OF INDICTMENT.
IN WHICH SOME DEMOCRATIC MIS-
DEEDS IN ROWAN COUNTY ARE
NOW SET FORTH.

The Perpetrators won.d Ha,s Thcn tor.
gotteu-Eut They Are a Part ola Had
Kecord-And The Record Maker Want
To"G-t rox-ih-r''-s ..I:p..,'' Joke Ap
propriat-iy Applied.
For The Caucasian
SALISBURY, y. e.. jane 18th have
talked with many 81 ny Pop friends
and from all part. Of the county in re-
gard To fusion, and al endorse the ac-
ton OF our state executive commit
See. They say principle first and pie
next. Some Of our Denny friend
have had a good deal of talk lately Of
getting together a. they FAY. | also
sounded my Pop friends on that line
and will tell you what some nf them
say. one Of them said, The good
book teaches ia that If your enc
mics smit- you on one cheek you must
turn the other" That may be good
Bible Doctrine but not much human
nature in il.
Another said "Ihcy hay. always
accused us Of being a low down set,
yet / don't think there is a Pop in the
county who j. low down enough tn fuse
with machine brni-.'
Another said Aren't they cheeky,
after calling us all thu bad name. they
could think of and they organized Il
club of rOughs to run us all out Of town
whenever we talked PopuiIsm. They
would liquor them up on Saturday a.
m, and get them in trim To crack
heads. They would beat and abuse
Us and even went so far to follow
one of our men out OF town one night.
After abusing him and tearing his
clothes oil Of they shot INTO his wagon"
"lie is my neighbour the man said.
land the bullet holes are still in his
wagon body to show for themselves.
They did not stop there. They ap-
pointed a Judge of election to steal our
votes who the court records show, has
been connected with three cases of
thicvery or embodiment, and right
well did he do the work for them. In
the precinct where he was judge there
are 100 or 200 men who are willing to
swear they voted the Pop ticket and
they c0unttd uz amin serga. Before |
will vote with such a party I'll vote
the Republican ticket. Russell and all"
Another man said: "if it would not
be following the example set by them
| would be willing to help ride any
Wy ull ii "IiO "OuII NoIt Will
them"
One said: "The only way see for
Pops and Dems to get together is for
them to vote our ticket after we get it
out.
The "silver Crank5' of the Dem per
suasion had a pow-woW in town Sat
urday. They called it a county con-
ventiOn. lt was very tame thing and
q slim u 70 nd W 40
! learn from my county friends
their primaries were complete fail
ure-the chairman and one or two
others appointing the delegates.
In the comfy convention four town
ships were not represented, but they ad-
dUpted free silver resolutions. There
were a few honest, earnest free silver
men in il, but most of them were
"trimmers," who have been waiting to
see how the cat would jump mat. con-
ventiOn) but the cat Jumped sooner
than they expected. When the States
held their conventions. and Oregon re-
turns came in they were full tledged
silYerites. This is the party that has
been fooling the people for many
years, but if they fool anybody this
year it will be only themselves.
Poor Dems. They remind me of a
little joke | heard on Col. Sumner,
superintendent of the North Carolina
railroad during the war. The Colonel
was boss" from way back (as our
Rowan city people know. he was chair
man of the board OF county commits
siOlers for years. and ruled with an
iron rod. When any of the COlonel's
employees did not please him he used
to tell them, III turn you over to the
conscript officer" The Colonel had a
depot agent cat High Point | think
who was an excellent but very indie
pendent man. God bless him). If our
county was composed of such men to-
day, would there not be a change in
affairs. One day the agent displeased
the Colonel and he said. "l'll turn you
over to the Conscript officers" and the
agent replied: III have you know
sir, I'm not afraid to be shot at il you
are The Colonel left him for the
time. \ few weeks after the Colonel
pulled up to the station one a. III. on
the engine of the material train, told
the fireman to fill his tender with wa
ter. while he stepped in the station
The fireman pulled down the tank
lever but the tank wps empty, and the
fireman called the Colonel and told
The Colonel jumped in the station
and asked the agent why he had Nc
water in the tank. The agent looked
at him smiled and said: The pump
man is sick
That's no excuse" said the Colonel
~ GU could have had another.
Then" said the agent, THE ole
pump is all out CT fix That's no eX
cuse either said the Colonel; ''yOi
know We have man at the shops t,
keep the pumps repaired" The agen
then looked straight at the Colone
and said: Wei! sir, there is no waite
in the well.
Now. that's the awful condition O
the Dems to-day. The pump man i
sick the old machine run down ant
the we'll dry.
JOHN BEARD,
Chairman L. p. Ex. Com. Rowan Coun
ty.
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