The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1900-08-09
FORCE, FRAUD,
INTIMIDATION
r>Eu TO CARRY AMEND
NEtT AND ELECT DEM
OCRATIC TICKET.
LETTERS FROM EVERY SECTION
or The STATE

Prove That The Methods Used
By The simmons Machine
Defeated the VIII OF the
People.
B,low W. give only Few OF the
etI,rs received at this oftice, sent in
by good men, sho wing how the Dem.
ogra ic 10 ,chi le woa their recent
victory %. Thy will not be able
10 on live it and ans yer it before the
people mnch lrss before the bar of
justice
BEAUFORT COUNTY.
Letter from Aurora: They In
ttmIdated so many negroes, and
made them take their names of
the b oks, a d Others they could
not scare II. they refused to let
vote, aud some they refused TO reg
ister B III Thompson scared
ZEN Oft With the threat that he
rhOmpsOn) ruld h We them all IN
the pCniteatiary if they voted, but
that II they wo Id take their names
olr the books, he would not bother
them This had the efft ct OF caus-
l"g them to take their names of
The hook.
Letter from Latham: ave had
lis voters registered In our pr cinct
and they counted forOur State tick.
OF only 7S votes, the balance OF the
lis were frightened away from the
polls. put In Jail, and votes thrown
wrong box. We hsd no judge Cf
election at the polls, 10 o. more
special election constables were on
the outside OF the bull pen to in
timidate vo'ers all day.
Letter from Washington The
agents and appointers OF the Dem
ocratlc party had stolen everything
in sight on the 2nd-election day.
They refused to register in the
county 400 that were entitled to
register; they intimidated $50, who
after registering, scratched their
names off the books. They made
the voters In many places put their
names In the boxes, and in other
precincts they put tne tickets in the
wrong box purposely, and In the
count threw them out The vote
cast, IL counted correctly, would
have defeated them In this county.
While they have committed the
fraud and announced the results
there Is n want of enthusiasm
BURKE COUNTY.
Letter from Morganton Burke
county has been carried by fraud
No doubt OF that. Out Of 180 ne.
groes In Morganton township only
81 were allowed To vote. Most OF
them applied for registration and
were sworn, and their names placed
ON a sheet, but not copied on the
registration books before the elec
tion. The Democrats appointed one
Democrat at each Of the polling
places here. They then removed
these men and appointed two othel
Incompetent men over the protest
OF Populists and Republicans
These men, knowing their inabilit,
refused to serve We urged the
board to appoint men who wer
competent, they refused, and tn,
election was held exclusively by
Democratic registrars, judges an,
clerks.
Another letter from Morgsnton
The Democrats put up their bull pen
in Burke aud stole the votes of on
people. W. wourd have carried tn
county four or Ave hundred msj'ri
" with q tar election.
BsRTIE COUNTY.
letter rom Bertis county The ele,
tion has resulted in this county N tn
entire sup preston Of the colored an
white republican vote. 80 far as I ca
learn. The registrar and poll holder
III the Roxob ! precinct each had sep,
rate rooms. and the oie who receive
the tickets kept double barrel gun h
his side during the entire day. Gun
were stored in a ware mouse on the OF
posite side Of the street. On yesterds
a colored man was shot three times, I'll
ball passing through his face, and t.
man, a democrat, who shCt him, vi
brought before the Mayor and fine
one cent and the cost by a democrat
mayor OF the l77 co operation ticke
voted. only forty were counted again
the amendment, and the list taken
mys-lf was sent ia by Mr. Norfieet, r
publican Chairman.
CLEVELAND COUNTY.
Letter from Shelby Almost e.
cry opportunity for corruption an
fraud found in the pres mt electiO
law was taken advantage OF in tn
county. The boxes at nearly evel
precinct in the county were rop,
OF and only one entered at tim
and every man who intended
vote oar ticket and could not re-,
was nos assisted while those WI
voted the other ticket were asst
ted. The result at my own precin
was that out Of about sixty wi
voted our ticket only 15 were a
counted for. he same Is true OF OF
or precincts at many places &
voting was done In dark rooms.
one precinct the voter found o
box open when he went to vo
must have been tampering wi
the ballot Intimidation and b
berry resorted TO on large scale.
Letter from Earl, Cleveland q
We acid our election yes .erday, q
they rad tn lir police end lock
themselves OF in the back of st,
room and would MOI let our me n
70 see II the voting was done rig
Our challenger they would not lei
when the voting was over they W,