The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-10-20
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A Sh,, = SIS Fusion Secret
" .CuIar Exposed.
THE FUSlONISTS GIVE UP
ALL ATTEMPTS TO CARRY THE
STATE ON THE ISSUES.
AND RESORT TO PURE FABRICATION
Trying 70 Deceive the Peope by Attributiog
Statements to Simmons, Aycock, Jar
Wis, and Other Democrats that
They have Never Made.

Chairman Simmons said to 4 reporter
yesterday evening that Col. Olds had just
handed him a secret circular sent
out, he presumed, 10y the FusiOnistS, for
it is not signed by any one, charging that
he, Chairman Simmons, said in n speech
at the Congressional convention in
Wilkesboro, August 18th THE Demo
Gratis favor the passage of an election
law similar to the one in Mississippi and
South Carolina, and would PASS it if they
secured the Legislature"
Mr.. Simmons said he had never seen
or heard of the circular before yesterday,
and that the charge that he made any
such statement as that attributed to him
i'll the circular was in every respect and
particular Ease and without the slightest
foundation in fact. He said he not only
did not make any such statement in his
speech at Wilkesboro on the 18th Of
August, but that he did not in that
speech even mention the subject of suf-
frage or in any wise mention or discuss
the election laws of North Carolina, Mis-
sissippi or South Carolina, present, past,
or contemplated, and that the 400 people
who heard him on that occasion, with
the possible exception of a few Republi-
cans sent there for the purpose of mis-
representing him and to report him as
saying what he did not say for political
purposes, would confirm and cOrro-
borate his statement. The charge that
he made such Il statement, he said, was
IA miserable, bald faced falsehOod.
Continuing, he said this same circular
charges that Jarvis, Aycock, Watson,
Overman, Pou, Craig, Kitchen and sew
eral other Democrats had said in their
speech at the Democratic rallies on the
3rd of August. substantially the same
thing. He is charged in the circular
with having said this at Wilkesboro, and
the circular says that they were so re-
ported i'll Democratic newspapers on Au-
gust 4th.
Mr. Simmons said this statement was
Also utterly false and without founda-
tion in fact. That these distinguished
gentlemen had made no such statement
i'll their speeches ON the 3rd of August,
or at any other time. nor had they been
reported in Democratic newspapers as
having made any such statements on the
3rd of August or at any other time.
Mr.. Simmons further said that the Flu
sionists seeing themselves beaten on the
issues before the people and unable to
answer to an outraged and indignant
public for their short comings and mis-
deeds, corruption and incompetence and
mal-administration had, in the vain hope
OF deceiving the people and diverting at
tention from their shameful record, re-
sorted to the most unscruplous and con-
sciousless falsehoodS. SANDERS and mis-
representations known in the annals OF
political campaigning. Emphatically,
said Mr. Simmons. the people will put
the seal of their disapprobation upon
these wretched methods of the Fusion
lists by an overwhelming vote of rebuke
in November. Verify, said he, these peo-
pie seem to think they can carry the
State by Justification.