The news & observer., 1897-01-30
Jim Young and Loge Harms
Continue to Dodge.
NEGRO KEPT IN BY FRAUD
REPUBLTCANS AND MINORITY
poPULIsTS SHIELD HIM.
.kArYoID" SUTTON sQuELCHED
Douglass Exposes Loge Harris and His
Contemplate Trickery--8rough-
~ a. A.
S ton Issues Memorial TO
The Legislature.

.fof the House EecuoHs CohlihlttSSs "Aio
yesterday voted to prevent white man
gNeedham r. Broughton-fairlya and hon
\ estly elected to seat in the General AS
! sembly from Wake county, from prose
cutting his contest against negro-Jam
I'll. Young-who was not elected, but
holds his seat by fraud:
THOS. II. SUTTON Rep), of Cum
berand.
SCOTLAND HARRIS Rep), of Ha-
flax
FRANK JONES (Pop.), of Jones.
j. II. PERSON Pop) of Wayne.
= THOMAS PERSON Pop), of Wilson.
ID. b. SUTTON tRep), of New Han
over.
J. e. BRYAN Pop), of Chatham
CHAS. A. COOK (Rep.), of Warren,
was paired with r. DUFFY Dem), of
Dnslow, who was absent, and SPENCER
BLACKBURN (Rep9, of Ashe, did not
vote.
Those voting for the white man and
fair trial, and against fraud and the ne
gro were:
COL. JOHN S. CUNNINGHAM, of
Person.
JAMES w. FERGURsON, of Hay
wood.
G.. NJ. CREEJH, or johnston
Pursuant to a motion made by Col.
Jchn s. Cunningham last Tuesday even
ing, the Broughton-Y Young contest for
seat in the General Assembly from Wake
county. was taken up by the House Elec-
tions Committee when it met in the SUI
preme Court room yesterday at o'clock
Rroughton was represented by Messrs.
w. c. Douglass and w j. Peele, and
Young by j. G. l.. Harris.
1t was the most interesting meeting the
committee has yet held, and, in one re-
spect. the most important. The party
lash was applied TO Republican and Pop
Mist alike. and they did a thing which
many had said they would not devoted
to keep a negro in his seat when there is
the strongest possible evidence that he is
not entitled to it.
The most sensational features of the
meeting were the speech of Mr.. Doug
lass, exposing the trickery of Young and
his attorney. Loge Harris, and the man
ner in which Col John s. Cunningham
closed the face of "Katydid" Sutton, Of
Cumberland. when the committee went
into secret session. While Mr.. Douglass
was replying to Harris, just before the
vote was taken. one could almost see the
fur fly as he held up the contemplate tac-
tics of that worthy, who is trying, by
means fair or FOUL TO keep his negro IN
office and defeat the ends Of justice
I.oge was anything but happy, but he
knew the charges against him were true.
and he opened not his mouth. He turned
and twisted, but the cato -nine-tails of
Mr.. Douglass denunciation continued to
fall on his back, till the chairman grew
uneasy and called time.
The case was opened up by an appeal
from Mr.. Douglass on behalf of the con-
testant, Broughton, to take some action
upon the resolution, offered Tuesday af-
ternoon by Col. John S. Cunningham,
instructing the committee to appoint
committee TO at once take such evidence
in the case as has not already been taken.
Mr.. Douglass said he would not deny that
he had knowledge Of the resolution before
it was presented and he had given his
assent to it in order to get to speedy
hearing of the cause. He wanted 1t dc
cided whether or not this committee had
the authority to appoint subcommittee
to take evidence Mr.. Douglas believed
it had, and that it was an inherent T1ght,
conferred by implication upon the COM
mittee in its appointment 1t the COM
mittee did not see fit to appoint sub
committee, it certainly could name
commissioner who could proceed at once
TO take the evidence.
Mr.. Harris objected to this on the
ground that Mr. Broughton had taken 6S
days to complete his case, and he ought
not to expect the contestee, Young, to
take less than thirty days. He argued
that the committee had no right to over
fho
"a give the contestant thirty days notice.
The depositions taken by the contestant,
he said. were closed and sealed up in the
absence of the cortestee and without no.
tice TO his attorney; and the contestee
Young. was not allowed to take any evi-
dence. he said, in rebuttal Of that taken
by Broughton.
Speaking of the waiver of the thirty
days notice by the contestant, Mr.. Har-
ris said that they had tried to take advan-
tage of him in the attempt to shut him
of from taking testimony, and now he
didn't propose to give up one hour of the
time allowed him by law. The House
committee, he said, was only one branch
of the Legislative body, and it had no
right to override the statute; the only
remedy, he held, was TO pass special act
in regard to the matter.
Replying TO Mr.. Harris, Mr.. Douglass
said Harris had misrepresented the facts:
that Harris was the direct cause OF this
delay, of which he was now so bitterly
complaining. The taking OF dispositions be-
fore Maroon was time and again suspend
ed, in order that Harris might go out and
attend to his private law business, and on
Harris express promise that the case
should not thereby be delayed. Now
be comes here whining and growing that
we have consumed 6S days and he ought
TO have 6S. AS to the taking of evidence
before ]. @. Maroon, Mr.. Harris never
intended to do anything OF the kind. 1t
was his intention all the time to take his
evidence before Lehman. He is resorting
TO a trick to keep his client in his seat |
when he knows he is not entitled to it." |
There were cases often in which it took |
ten years TO prepare the plaintiffs case, |
and the defendant was given only three |