The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-07-17
REGISTERED At
POINT OF A Gun
Lawless Act of Radical.
Montgomery.
THEJAlL YAWNS FOR THEW
And They Are Now Fugitive, :.
Justice.
NEGRO'S MESSAGE FOR A FFC1rs.
"A Crowd Of Us Are Coming to be R.
Next Saturday and if He Refuses R-A
Send Him to a Worse Place Tia,
the Peniten,iary."
the Penitendary..

Especial TO News and O-l..-..
Winston Salem, y. G.. I.... F..
Saturday the 18th inst. when .E.
trar for FIdorado tuun-l... NJ.
gomery county, opened his U.
Ohir. the polling place. ~iN ur.. .I.
white and three black. u~...
themselves armed with rifles .....
guns for registration. Ih,-r u...
cred the registrar with their a.a-
forced him to enter their uau,-.u
book without having the proper ..
tons asked them. and Wjfhuur
chance to know whether they .,
qualified electors or not. Tile. ..
not previously presented them~.
for registration nor had they ar
time been refused registration.
Warrants were immediateIt swift.
out for their arrest, but mp 40 Np.t..
day they had lot been appryhruIo.
At Mt. Gilead, \. C.. n negro
went to the residence OF MIR. I.
Hayward. the registrar for MI. t....
precinct, called Mr.. IIayWard's u....
the door and told her that hr or-.n
to leave Il message fOr her hU.N..
The message was as follows.
Tell Mr.. Haywood that We have.
ready sent two Democratic rcgi-a..
to the penitentiary for ryfu-...
register negroes; hat a crowd OF
are coming to be registered urN' ~t
urday and that if he refuses u-
will send him to a worse place '.
the pen~itentiary.'
The above information is given ~.
a citizen of Montgomery county. NV.
in the city.
MIR. STI1ED TIE REGISTRAR.
WinSton-Salem. y. c.. ,IuIN |..
James +. Steed, of Montgomery pu.
t!y, was in Winston today and
that n daV or two Q three u,-I0.
and three white men entered thuu "
flee of registration in that county a.
holding pistols at his head forced IH
with threats of killing to roe.-..
them. OF course they were register
ed but Immediately upon their o.-.
pearance their names were ERASED
from the books. Officers have .~
in search of these negroes and u|#tn
men. but up to the time of Mr.. ~tr..
leaving here the officers had been 1885,
able to capture them.
Mr.. Steed is well known i'm Ra.r...
lie was a clerk here in the rcte..
office several years apo. and uH- r
garded as a man of high char.or.
fearless and faithful to his duties.
ADVISING NEGROES To ARM TH-E-
SELVES.
Baskerville Graphic)
While in Springhope Monday ua H.
informed by some Of the very b.t .
Zens OF that place that MarshbouIl"
PCpulist nominee for commie lone.
making incendiary speeches to the r,.-
in Mannings and other adjacent towns.
and urging the negroes to so TO tn" -
on August End and demand their r.ar '
vote, and if there is opposition Oh PIP"
part Of any p~oll-holder, for the u...
to use violence if necessary to- .h..1
the purpose of the amendment aal
white people of Nash.
Other incendiary speeches are .rE
made throughout the county and
these very speeches which will e.e.
cause the white men Of Nash 'J .I
such men as Marshbournc and j.
cohorts from the county.
1t was only recently a gang ~ meg.
and white Republicans were col-r'=
on our streets and discussing ugI'..#
having nlaDC tn On -ryy ont the .".......
of these heilish peace-disturba'-. '-
white man in the crowd. a E.rl".
offered to supply them with N.....
rifles and ammunition, and ...'."
them to kill any white man who .a'