The news & observer., 1900-10-21
A JOINT DEBATE
BY THE ELECTORS
Mr.. MendenhaII Has Chal-
Ienged Mr.. Beckwith.
AND He WILL ACCEPT
They Will Begin a Joint Canvass
Next Friday.
RADICALS WORKING AMONG MILL MEN
AND He WILL ACCEPT
RADICALS WORKING AMONG MILL MEN
They Are Making an Organized Effort to lnAu-
ence Operatives to Vote For Mckinley
and Republican Candidate
For Congress.

When the Federal court opened in
Greensboro Judge Boyd signalized his
entrance upon his judicial duties by
delivering a charge upon the same
lines that Holton, Republican State
chairman had sought to conduct the
State campaign.
The judge called it a charge. In
reality it was stump speech" inten-
ed to help out the Republicans in their
contention that the Federal officers
had the right to supervise an election
and control election officers appoint
ed by the State and county authori-
ties. AS a result of Judge Boyd's
charge, by reason of the earnest work
of District Attorney Holton, the grand
jury found true bill against several
registrars because in the August cleo
ton they had obeyed the State law
rather than follow the dictation of the
Radical bosses who were also Federal
officials. But it seems that the arrest
of these registrars is not the only use
that is being made of Judge Boyd S
charge. 1t is being used as the chief
Republican campaign document, and it
is being sent out to registrars in the
hope that they may De frightened
from doing their duty in the November
election.
Here are the facts: A registrar in
a certain large town in Eastern North
Carolina received a letter which con-
tained extracts from Judge Boyd's
charge, under big head lines contain
ing these words: .POWER~ OF FED
EkAI COURT OVER CRIMES / OF
STATE ELECTIONS" and again ''DE-
PRIVATION OF THEIR RIGHT, AL
THOUGH UNDER COLOR OF STATE
LAW INDICTABLE,' and more to the
same effect. The charge is called
s''able and learned
The address on the envelope contain
ing this circular was in the handwrit-
ing of an employe in the postoffice at
the town in which the registrar to
whom it was sent lives.
The program is for the Republican
bosses to put these circulars in stamp
ed envelopes and send them to post
masters. who address them to the reg
istrars and others. The purpose is
plain. The Republicans think the men
receiving these extracts will become
frightened and in the November cleo
ton will take their law from Boyd and
Holton instead of from the statutes OF
North Carolina. They are mistaken.
The Democratic officials did their
duty i'll august. They will perform 1t
in the same way in November.
Boyd ought to have learned long ago
that North Carolina could not be in
timidated. Has he forgotten so soon?
- fy,an hoC
that the Republicans were making an
effort to organize the cotton mill opera
tiyes of the State and capture their votes
for Mckinley.
There is no longer room to doubt that
this report is true. The News and OBJ
server has thoroughly investigated it and
has been informed by leaders among the
operatives in number of mills that
there is an organized movement on foot
to turn as many as possible of the cotton
mill voters to Mckinley and the Repupil-
can nominees for Congress.
An especially strong effort in this dl-
rection is being made among the strikers
in Alamance county.
"They are telling u.s." said presi-
dent of a labor union. that those who
are shutting us out are Democrats. and
Democrats
Others told much the same story OF Re-
publican activity among them, while one,
an old moss back Republican openly
boasted that wen make Republicans OF
every one of them.
This was in the Fifth. district. and
there the mill vote is Joyce's hope of cleo
ton to Congress, it is said. He is using
the situation for all it is worth and is
being assisted in it by man named
Meekins from Greensboro, by the Mill
News at Charlotte and by local Republi-
cans.
In other districts where there is
mill vote some effort is also being put
forth by Republican politicians to secure
this vote.
AS a matter Of fact. the mills in Ala
nance are not run by Democrats entirely.
In fact fully half of those which the nom