The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-09-08
At THEIR OLD TRICKS
The Republicans Get in Their
Dirty Work.
ILLEGAL APPOINTMENTS
NONRESIDENT REPUBLICANS
MADE REGISTRARS.
POPULlSTS IGNORED IN MANY PRECINCTS
High Handed Conduct of the Election Board Of
Wake County-'The Office Holders
Predominant in Appointment
Of Registrars.

Outrages upon decency and justice by
Republican officials are of such COM
mon occurrence since the Radicals have
assumed the reins Of government in this
surprised at their actions, no matter
how scandalous the turn may be.
A total disregard of law and the rights
of the public have played the leading
part in their management of affairs s."
far And in view of this state of af
fairs into which the State has been
dragged by scheming white Radicals, one
is scarcely astonished at the action of
the election board of this county this
week in appointing nonresident Repub-
lican office-holders as registrars for the
city in the coming election.
This is an unlawful and high-handed
proceeding that will meet with condemns
ton from every fair-minded honest man.
These illegal appointees are Republi
cans holding offices in the various pub
lie departments here, but their homes
are in different sections of the State.
Their homes are not in this city, and
they have no right to vote here. And
not having the right to vote here, they
have no right to act as officers of cleo
ton.
This infamous attempt of the pic
brigade to run everything is but another
evidence of the rotten rule with which
North Carolina is afflicted, and which
has always prevailed when the Republi.
cans have been in power. In their high
handed methods the present gang are
eclipsing all former records.
What do these appointments by the
election board mean? There can be Nc
reason for their course unless the of
fice-holding gang contemplate the at
tempt of some dirty work, and want t.
be directly in position to take the neces.
sary steps to accomplish it.
Here are a few samples for Raleigh
township, giving in part the appointees
In the First ward. first division. ar.
]. c. Worrell, clerk in register of deeds
office. and Berry Rogers, negro. Both
are Republicans. No Populist was ar
pointed. Perhaps one could not be found
70 their notion. In the second division
of the First ward J. Rowan Rogers. Re
publican, holding the office of stewart
at the Deaf and Dumb and Blind In.
stitute.
In the Second ward, first division. J
NJ. Allen mailing clerk in the Agricui
tural Department. whose home is in
Rutherford county, was appointed. Be
ing a nonresident he has no right to the
position. In the second division there
is Warren V. Hall, clerk in the Bureau
of Labor Statistics. He is from Clevc
land county, and nonresident. His
appointment is also Illegal. Caesar
Johnson, negro. was also appointed for
Il - H.
POpulist also left out here Illegally so
In the Second ward, first division, Il
negro Republican office-holder is ap
pointed-A. ]. Rogers, who fills a posi-
tion in Dan Youngs office. In the
second division of this ward are Joseph
Perry, negro, who holds the office OF
superintendent of the cOlOred Deaf
Dumb and Blind Institute. With finn is
George +. Ball, another Republican
The Populist is not in il in this division
In the second division of the Fourth
ward two Republicans are also appointed
They are o. w. Shaffer and Pat. NJ
Stewart. No Populist represented here
Outside East another holder
Seymour Chamblee, in charge of County
Work House hands.
Outside West, south division. G. II
Lewis, night-watchman at the Supreme
court building, and a representative from
Davidson county. Another illegal ap
pointment.
This ignoring of the Populists in the
appointments cannot be understood, M
less the office-holders are afraid to truss
them. Honest Populists should note this
fact well and resent it.
The public aan judge the character
of the appointments throughout the
county from these samples from Raleigh
township.