The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1900-08-09
ELECTION
ANALYSIS.
DEMOCRATIC MAJ0RITIEs
IN MANY BLACK COUNTIES
EXCEED THEIR TOTAL
WHITE VOTING POPu.
LATl0N.
Negroes Either Voted The Dem.
ocraiic Ticket OF We're
Counted as 0uiss So.

The fusiontst< Mastc Gr~as
Gains I'm whi,c Counti~..
Notwithstanding the ruriou.
Campaign of Their Oppon~n,.
and Outrag~ou. Proc~eding..
( lAshevills Gazette
An Analysis OF tho majoritiss q
returned (officiAl sud e.timat<dD In
the counties OF this stat. IN the
election just passed proves some
Interesting facts. Cnls~. the ma
yority IN the State on tae fuai
count amounts 10 more than 1000
and unless the returns from the
eastern counties published from
Democratic sources gives greatly
exaggerated maJorities IN those
counties, the election Thursday,
though victory for the Democrat
ic Organization, Vas not by any
means = white man o victory. This
10 proved from the figures In the
Counties in which tae negro voting
population exceeds the white vo-
ting population or In which the
Uegro vote Is very large.
Northampton county has 500
uhite voters and = 300 color.d d vo-
ter.. yet Northampton 10 credited
with n majority OF s03 for the
Democratic ticket. Craven county,
with 500 VII tee and 1000 nrgro
voters gives / 500 Democratic ma
joriiy. But still more surpridng 10
the v. te Of Halifax, of Robs.~n n and
OF New Hanover balifAr has
1900 white voters and 100 negro~s.
Here the Dem. crAtie mai ariry a.
said to be 800 Rob son, ~ith
nearly twice ss many mgr 90 60
whites, . pds In . repori Of J, 100
Democratic majority. wh Oh is
much I'm eIce-s OF her whits voting
population. New Hanover wih
:. 200 white and 3 300 negro voters
sends In q repor, OF 500 Dsmocrat-
ic majority. yet New Hanover hsd
only 80 o. her negro vo'err regis-
'ered for this election. The big ne
gro county OF Edgecombe returns
an estima'ed Democratic majority
OF more than 1900. From other
couuties, which ~ the Rspublicsu
party In North Caroliba p ssssses
the negro vote should yield large
Republican msjorities, the returns
OF Thursdav's election shows the
following Democratic msiorities;
Anson l625, Besufort 100, Berthe
l545. Craven 1900, Cleveland 1913.
Dupl;n 727. Rockingham sS7. Scot
land 100, Hertford $50. Richmond
400. Cumb-flaud 400, Wilson
1900. Washington 900, Granville $50.
Vance 500, Mash 500.
While thus the Democrats made
iheee immense gains (sccording 20
their returns) Ia the negro counties
In some Of them having maj1rities
that far exceed their total white
voting population, the dIs closure 10
quite ~ signiGca and Interesting
when a study is made OF the returns
from the white counties- Madison
county in 1898 gave ss2 fusion ms
jority. The fusion ticket wins
there this year by 1874. in Hay.
wood county, which WAS more than
500 Democratic too years ago, the
amendment was defeated by 260
ard some OF the fusion and antrim 3
ticket were elected The amend
ment vas defeated by 900 vo 60 10
cherokee, which was q Democ rsttc
; county two years ago Mcdowell
county shows fusio7 gains. Swatr
county, Democratic tHo years sgo
i- now fusion, aud the same 10 nov
true OF Clay, Alexander and Cald-
well, which makes q gain Of go
votes. Graham and Polk shSv
fusion gains Yadkin made q IN.
sion gain OF 900 votes and WILKES
sustsins her 100 Republican ms
jerIty and Alananca, which gave
the Dsmocrsts 375 In 1895, 10 nov
q fusion by nearly that amount
sampson county doubles her l62(
fosion majority, and 10 is nov
800.
}, Tn re- In evidence 10 tbia, and IN
e the returns from other western and
- northern counties. that the Fasion
. lists, In spite ef the furious cam.
& paign Of their opponents and th'
. fraud and the unjust d scrIminatiol
!, praefic4d againss them updsr ths
simmons election lav, yagsd {
successfal cam paign 10 the coun
v les where violeScs did nor prevent
: free speech a. well 90 . free bsilos
1 " a "a frl 80
e will show that many hundreds o
"a of Democratic white voters ven
a over TO the opposition in the cam
= paIgn Just clos@d, and this 10 |
cause for en- nrouragement % % tn
resu { of the national Campaign II
North Carolina
The red shirt eampaigu In Tn
- Outrageous proceeding, that Shouts
= nullify tn. election In every one o
!, those counti.s- An honest ooon
n IN the reusining counties. Ne hs
n lieye, would snow . Democratic de-
a eat IN this election. The stronGl.
Is aegro counties have yielded, accord
ing to DJmocratsc returns made
\, public, an alleged majority OF near
ly 10000, Q majority that prove
r that all the Negroes registered Il
these cou aties voted the Democrat
. lie ticket or were counted TO have .
voted. whichever happened, tn
,. Democrstic party In North Csrolini
10 now forever debsrred from shout
= .ng n-gro ut its political oPponent1