The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-11-03
cHAMBERLAlN'S OUTRAGE
He Votes Twice Against Stud
emit A. Fl. Oliver.
DIVERS ooMlclLE is HERE
Three Parties Not Representative Cham
berlain's Career--BounCed From
the A. & NJ. College and Fined
For Law Breaking.

I0OSpDaIe w OTkS, dEd MI a. - SAA'NAf
a student of the A. and NJ. College.
But because Mr.. Chamberlain is phos-
MATCHMAKER, it must not be concluded
that the limit of his powers has been
reached. The cravings of his nature
reach out far afield. No pent-up phos-
plate pile in his'n.
Registrar, also, Is he, ]. r. Chamber
lain.
AS registrar, he came into relation with
Mr.. A. III. Oliver, voter.
Mr.. Oliver, when he went to register,
was challenged by Registrar Chamber
lain, and when the trial of cases were had
last Saturday, Chamberlain sitting upon
the case, cast two votes against young
Oliver, thereby DISTINGUISHING him.
When young Oliver presented hlmself
at the precinct northern division, Gut
side West, he was confronted by three
registrars who, according to the law,
should represent each political party.
Mr.. Oaks was the Democrat; there
was negro Republican, and Chamber
lain posed as the Populist.
There is fraud to begin with, as Cham
berlain is no more Populist than is Nc
Kinley. He had no business, according
to the law, sitting as a registrar, provided
the negro Republican were there too
But he sat all the same.
Now as to Mr.. Oliver. This young man
has been student at the A. and Nj. Col
lege for three years. He spent at home,
in Duplin county, the summer OF the flrst
year. The last two summers he has
spent working on the State Experiment
Farm. This past summer he went home
for four days only, returning then to his
work.
This was Mr. divers story yesterday
to a News and Obserer reporter.
Moreover" continued Mr.. Oliver, i
have declared this to be my domicile, as
/ have right to do, and am making my
living here and partially paying my ex-
penses out of what earn by my own
labor.
II left home before my majority, and
it may be that my work will never take
me there permanently again, and now
being 81, and as liable to be in Raleigh as
elsewhere after graduation, declare this
to be my domiciIe, as, the fact is, can be
said to have no other"
The case was perfectly clear as the
young man put 1t. but the worst had not
yet been told.
In the meantime, however, let it be
stated that another student, young Ken
dali, whose case was said by Loge Har-
ris to be identical was, by the legal advice
Of Mr. Harris, retained on the registra
ton list by the registrars in precinct
Northern division, Outside West.
But now for thes part of the story
which amounts to nothing less than fiend-
ish fraud.
when" resumed Mr.. Oliver, 'my case
was tried there were as judges the three
registrars above stated and three poll
holders. OF these Mr.. Oaks, Mr.. Riddle
and Mr.. Porter (all whitel voted in my
<fayor, while voting against me were
two negroes and Chamberlain. This made
the tie. Then Chamberlain said, as he
was chairman, he was entitled in the
case of tie to give the casting vote and
so lie votedagain, making seven votes
with six men, two having been cast by
himself"
Let free people think on such a piece
of infamy! If Chamberlain was acting
as chairman, then he had no right to
vote at all except in case of tie. If he
was not acting as chairman then he had
no right to vote as chairman There are
no two ways about this to common seense
and common decency. Another case Of
Pooh-Bah, only the diabolical serious
ness of this offense banishes from it all
suggestion of humor.
But all the same, Chamberlain voted
twice.
BY right, he should not in addi-
ton to a negro Republican registrar
have been there voting at all. Such
a composition of this registry board is
no less than crime against law and
civilization, there being two Republicans
when the law allows only one.
Mr.. Oliver has been legally advised
to present himself to-day and call out
his vote, which he will probably do,refus-
ing to be robbed of his right as a free
man by the Iawless outrage of this man
Chamberlain.
1t is not, however, Chamberlain's first
act of lawlessness in this community.
There were some fertilizer cases against
him here not long ago which came pretty
near showing his stripe. A brief recital
of these may or may not be interesting.
There were seven cases, six of them
being suits for $500 each and one for
500. Two of them were not good cases
and were dismissed. One of them was
taken up to the Supreme court on de-
murrer. the demurrer set aside and the
case will be tried de novo on its mer-
it's. Three of them were decided against
him, and are now pending before the SUI
preme court. But the seventh-that was
for 5000. Chamberlain compromised the
case by paying the complainant $780,
But more about this 800: the cause Of
the complaint was no less than that
Chamberlain as president of the Caral-
eigh Phosphate Works had been send
ing out bags of fertilizer leaving off
the tag which represented the State
tax Of 21a cents on each bag. The pen
atty for this offense is $1,000
per bag, and so Chamberlain came down
with the 500 the half which was to
go to the informer-this being an admis-
sion of guilt. But more a.
bout this 100;: after promising
to pay this 500 by way of compromise,
he afterward refused to make good his