The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-11-01
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
0Nf UUNDRED LND EIGHTf BAL
IOT BOxEs WITB FILsL BOIIOas'
,r.,cb Of TicketsTha Are sixteen TO one
Good and May Cost Candidate
His Election.

prrrcu n. c.. oct. 3l.-special.--
The real snte-election excitement h"S
nearly Ill been compressed INTO 'i''
81 The Guthrie episode was inc
cr,uninc sensation CT the cam 2aigh' 10
..,. ,hat e. demoraiizes the PCpuiist ma
chime is telling the plain truth. Inc M
chino claims that Guthrie has no ioi-
LOWING save in Durham county ana l"o
oc three more nearby. but il Will require
,no election Itself to tell the true story
The Republicans and fopuiis's nave
absolute control Of the eiecli1h A'A
cry. This Is the true reason lOi ''0-
fn.ion. Ibls Is one element TO he taken
into account in ngurinS on the c'e0 ~
Another is the attitude OF the Popuhst'
DO The latter obey their State Committee
or do they not? On this much depeHuS'
FALSE BUTTONS.
The Republican worked all Thursday
ni.ht getting out mimeograph copies OF
"a circular SAYING they had advices that
something like $50 doubie-button ballot
boxes. made In Baltimore. had been snip
ped to this State They assert that as
soon as these were shipped they got vino,
and that they went TO Weldon addressed
% a man named Killott OF course, the
Republican Committee seeks TO make
much OF this mares nest. II rivals the
Populst State Chairman, who publishes
a long list Of frauds which he thinks
the Democrats may attempt
4 COSTLY ERROR
To-day the state Treasurer was 70
print two tickets. one the correct Popl-
list one. and the other not bearing the
name W. II. Worth for Treasurer. IT is
said that one-siXteenth Of the tickets
which the Populist state Chairman sent
cut contained this error Of omission. and
that the fault was his in reading the
proof. the tickets being printed in sheets
of sixteen. He must have simply over
looked one. The Treasurer remarked that
5000 such tickets were out. and said
laughingly that his majority would be
so large that he could stand Il even II
all these error tickets were voted.
The Populists all say that J. Ed. Kest-
Ter. the Cabarrus county man, who sent
out one hundred thousand bogus Popu-
list electoral tickets, containing the
names Of only the nve- Populist cleo
tors is Republican pure and simple.
Chairman Aver says. Il have telegraph
ed to our people that any ticket without
the names OF 81 the electors IS bogus.
FLAG-DAY.
Though this was "nag-day" there was
no display mace here.
Burton Harrison said IN his speeches
IN this State that ne was for Mckinley.
and did not propose to waste vote
on Palmer and Buckner." The Repub-
lioans have sent out many Mckinley
stickers for use on Democratic ballots.
Thirty-nine Of the counties OF the
State will vote at the election Of Novem-
Der 81. on the question OF levying
special tax on OF % cents on the 500 OF
property, and 6O cents on each poll for
the purpose of experimenting their
school funds. These counties are as fol-
lows: Burke. Cabarrus. Caldwell. Car
teret. Cherokee. Clay, Dare. Davidson.
Davie. Dupln. CASTOR. Graham Guilford.
Harnett, Haywood Henderson, Jackson,
Macon. Madison. Mitchell. Montgomery.
Orange. Pamlico. Fender. Polk, Ruther-
ford, Stanley Stokes. surry, Swain, Tyr
rcll Washington. Watauga, Wayne, Yad-
kin and Yancey. The vote is TO be by
townships. and the special tax voted
by any township will be expended In
the township where 1t is voted and levied.