The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1900-07-12
TEE DAn0ER TO RKolsrRARs YOR
RErusINe TO Rk.IsrKK Quail
IIED VOTERS.

REIusTNG TO RkoIsrER QUAIL
1IED VOTERS.
The next morning after the reg.
lstrar In Winston (who was acting
under Instructions from Simmons)
had refused to register voters who |
We're legally entitled to register.
who had answered correctly every
question asked them. and complied
in every respect with the law, NJ.
Simmons gave out IN interview Ia
which he assured this registrar and
others who were violating the law
ut his dictstion, that they could
proceed to violate the law with per-
feet impunity, because as he stated,
the Sections of the Revised 8 at
utes under which they had been
arrested only applied to congress
aonal elections.
Mr.. Simmons 10 too good q lawyer
to believe this. He knows that the
law IL to the contrary. he knows
he is advising these registrars to do
that which will land them in a
Feds raj prison. yet he glibly gives
them this advice trusting that they
will be foolish enough to obey it,,
and thus succeed In keeping
enough voters sfrom being regis
tered to enable him to get q legisls-
ture that will elect him to the
Senate, and after he Is elected to
the Senate (Which he will not be by
such means), he.will leave the reg
istrsrs to the pains and penalties
Of the law and to serve out their
terms In a Federal penitentiary. BE
IL willing to put every Democratic
registrar in the penitentiary il
thereby he can bridge his way into
that grandest legislative body In
the world. where once Zebulon B
Vance stood and where once Zebu-
lon B. Vance denounced him (Sim
mons) as unfit to represent th'
people of North Carolina even as ,
red-legged grasshopper.
Now for the Information Of these
r. gistrars who We do not wish tG
see ares ed and thrown irto prison
we publish below the law go tina
they may see and know for them
selves In the case of the United
States VS.. Lackey, 80 Federal Re
porter, page 952, the courts hav'
construed the Section of the Uni 81
States laws under which these reg
istrars are being arrested. Tn
Court says:
1st. 1.-THE fifteenth constitu iona
, amendment, within the Limitation
specified, applies generally 10 tn
elective franchise, prohibi ing tn
denial or abridgement Of the RICH
to vote on account of race, colcr, O
previous condi ion of servi,nde
, whenever, wherever, or howeve
, such right is sought to be exercised
aud Revised Statutes, Secs. 5507
55O6, which we're enac ed as q par
J Of the legislation for the enforce
ment Of such amendment, unde
the power conferred on Congress b,
Section 2 there Of, are not limited t
elections for representatives in Con
gress, but apply equally 10 all cleo
9 lions, whether national, s,a,e o
municipal"
9th. THE fact that an act con
sti tutes an offence under the stat
u'es Of State, cognizable only i
I the state courts, does not depriv
. Federal Court Of jurisdiction t
entertain q prosecution based o.
the same act, where 1t also consti
q tutes an offense against tie laws Q
the United 8 es.
Thus every regis rar can see 70
himself, first that he will be guilt,
Of violating the law by carryin
out Mr.. Simmons instructions, sec
ond, that he will be sure to land il
q Federal prison If he persists Il
doing SO.