The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1900-08-09

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rington slipped off and telephoned
from Alliance, 2 Ia miles off. He had
had pretty stiff argument with one
of the boys down stairs. here were no
negroes there. We sent other parties
a far ss GrantsbOrO, who met the peo-
pie coming home in buggies They all
said that there was no tr uble at all,
and they counted out, a. d shut up the
court house and left at II o'clock"
A prominent man from the Eastern
part of the State, dated August 5th,
writing to Hon. Marion Butler in part
says:
Il am glad to see there is one North
Carolinian that has the grit to call his
soul his own. l glory in your spunk !!
No man will ever dare say Marion But
Ter is coward sitter this.
1t is a shame to think OF the ccndi-
tion of our dear old Mother, the land
of the freei 'Tis free, If you vote with
me-"
LENOIR COUNTY.
Letter from Lagrange: l was at
Bizzell Mill precinct, New Hope
township, and saw Messrs Benz.
Moztngo and L. A. Ivey (known as
Tank 1vey) poll holders, and saw
them steal votes out OF the ballot
boxes and destroy them. This /
saw and will swear to.
HALIFAX COUNTY.
Letter from Weldon: 1 learn
from good authority that the Hall
fax poll holders cOuuted $50 more
votes than they bad registered.
Letter from Halifax: The regis.
tration bo K here shows the num-
Der Of white votes to be 180, and
number OF colored 359; totsl vote
$50. The vote counted here was
$40, the vote cast for US was 345.
They counted out of this, for Our
side 40 votes. and the 361 came by
the way Of Simmons machine.
PARNETT COUNTY.
Letter from Goodwin: There nev.
er has been such fraud, and even
open handed stealing at every pre-
cinct in the history Of the county
They destroyed and threw away the
registration book In Cedar Creek
township, where We would have had
large majority"
NASH COUNTY.
Letter from Stanhopa: The form
of election which was held in Jack
Son township, Nash county, is d
follows: Only one poll-holder, anG
he a Democrat. There were thre,
constabl.s who were armed will
sticks and climbs. After the poll'
closed, I went In the bull pen ant
b. fore the count started 1 wa
ordered out. The registrar said
ave will have this to ourselves.'
Under the rule in Jackson TOWNSHIP
the State has gone D mocratic, a.
it is by count aud not by ballot.
Letter from Nashville gives NOR
evidence OF fraud, and in conclu
sion, says: "It is just like you sal,
it would be- The Democrats are al
ways abusing you because you lie
the people know what they are do
ing. 1 and thousands Of others ar
stronger for you than we ever wer
before
WILSON COUNTY
Letter from Lucama There wa
red shirt gang organized here i
order to scare the people from tn
polls There are fifty in the town
snip they refused to register.
i robson COUNTY.
Letter from Wilksville IL ven
TO the polls in my precinct, no Pop
ulists met me there at all ] foun
} the tickets in the post Office, and
took charge of them until about tw
!, o'clock. Up tn this hour A vote'
40 colored and 4 whites. About thl
time a mob, Of seven In number
. came to me and ordered me % leav
J town. | stood TO them and baeke
| them OF, and they returned the SCI
ond time. this time sixteen in nun
9 Der. and backed them OF, they r,
eruited and returned again with 2
or more, and then the town Marsha
! came to me and asked me would
j 60 with him, during this time the
J had poured water on me. and W
!, the tickets 90 they could not be used
e I told the Marshall l would. thinl
ing he was going to the Mayor
4 get warrants for them. and l vel
= = With him down towards the depc
: Then the mob surrounded me ar
e told me to get on the frst train an
q leave. / told them my horse VI
q near the place Of voting and y.
8 going after him The ohcer and
i went through the crowd after y
horse, the officer telling them tn
{ he would see that left town. Att
v got on my horse. and started
d leave, the mob followed and the OF
d Ger called me baek and told mo
q would have to put me in the qua
: house for safety. l asked HIM Il