The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1897-05-20
MEAN TREATMENT.
Shameful Partisansbtp by tho Aianesn's
LsEisiaturs-Donn says That IL VIII
Mako 10000 Peoples Party Votes

Mako 10000 Peoples Party Votes
The following Is taken from the
St. Paul Representative and was
written by Hon. Ignatus Donnelly :
Our readers know that the State
prints election ballots; and all the
candidates of all the parties that
cast one per cent. of the vote in the
previous election, are entitled to
have the names of their candidates
placed on that official ticket Now
the Populists and Democrats to-
gether cast lG2 254 votes last fall
while $500 would have been one
per cent. of the total vote. But the
vote was arranged on the ballot in
this way.
For Governor:
John Lind, Peoples Party
Democrat
Under the circumstances, while
John Lind received l62 ,254 votes
against lG5, 500 for Governor Cloueh, j.,
it is impossible to say how many of
the lG2 ,254 were given by Popullsts
and how many by Democrats; in
fact it is diff cult to show that ) 800
were cast by either party.
To cure the technical defect we in
trcduced bill in the House, and Sc
cured its passage by an almost unan-
imOus vote, which declared that in
such cases the vote should be con-
sldered to have been cast half and
half, by the two parties which had
united IN nominating the same
ticket; and, therefore,, they would
both be entitled to go on the off
cial ballot without a petition.
The bill went to the Senate and
there our colleague, Senator Shaller,
took it up aud did his best to secure
its passage. But the Republicans
thought they might secure some
petty advantage over their oppo-
nents, and the committee finally re-
ported it back with a provision that
it might pass PROVIDED THE TWO
PARTIES DID NOT COMBINE IN
THE NEXT ELECTION!.
The proposition was so outrageous
and shameful and unparalleled that
Senator Shaller was forced to ask
that the bill be defeated.
We are sorry to hear that the
principal parties, iu engineering this
shabby and contemplate piece of
par,isanship, were Senators Sperry,
Kna'void and Greer.
We ask all Populists and Demo-
Gratis to mark these men when they
come up for of1ice again-and crush
them.
Attorney General Childs is the
man who picked out this technicali-
ty, and avowed in advance the way
ne should rule upon it. 1t will be a
sight to tickle the risibilities of an
iron bed post, to see him ruling that
both the Populists and Demo
Gratis must get up petitions, signed
by 1000 voters each, to gel
their names on the State ticket IN a
State where they cast 162 ,254 votes.
When the Democrats appeal ia
him he will tell them that the legal
presumption is that all those 1852, ,254
votes were Populists; and when the
Populists put in their claim he will
assure all the 162 254 we're Demo
Gratis! Great is law and legerdema ain
But we will get the 2, 900 signers, -
yes. 100000 if recessary-and w
will get them at the State conven'
tion-or by agents sent cut from
these. 1t will be considerable trou.
BILE, however, for each signer has te
be sworn; and notaries public have
to 60 along to administer the oaths
But all that trouble and expense will
simply intensity our wrath agains
that quartette ;-Childs, Spencer
Kuatvold and Greer,-who for 8
shabby, dirty, little party advantage
put US to all that annoyance.
l. will recoil on the head of the
Republican party, however. 1t i!
the meanest thing ever done in it!
name since the State was settled
1t will make US 10000 votes.