The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1900-08-16
NAMES Of THE MACHINE GIVEN.

The Fight Was Strictly Between
White Men The Invasion OF
Armed Red Shirts Revolution
arv and VIII he Condemned.
The Populist majority In Samp-
son county by Democratic count was
fourteen hundred, a gain Of nearly
one Thousand in the past two years.
The fight in Sampson was between
white men with the ratio more than
two to one in favor of the Popu-
lists, and the increased majority this
year was caused by the shameful
of the Democrats by wear
ing red shirts and importing all the
red shirt cut-throats and tramps in
counties to invade our
county for the purpose of terrorizing
our people ard driving them from
their honest convictions.
The leaders of the Democratic
party in Sampson county and espec-
tally in Clinton, encouraged and
protected this bowling mob to the
disgust of all decent people in the
county and to their utter rout and
reputation at the polls.
With fair registration and hon
est count Sampson would have gone
Populist by not less than $500 ma
jority. After all the stealing they
could possibly do on the day and
night of election, we then carried
the county by 400 majority accord
ing to their own count.
This majority was appalling to
them. They did not expect it.
They hoped by their stealing on the
day and night of election, together
with their fraudulent registration,
to carry the county. They decided
that this big majority must be re-
duced by the Canvassing Board on
Saturday, and here in the court
house of the county, venerable
temple Of justice, and in the broad
open day time in the presence of
several hundred good people of the
county, there was perpetrated the
blackest and most damnable outrage
ever witnessed in q civilized cOun.
| try before. The highway robbel
who sits by the roadside for his un-
suspecting victim, or~fhe chicken
thief who crOuches in the hen house
in the night time, or meaner still
the sheep thief who walks off will
all innocent crying lamb on hi
back, any of these, in the estimation
of good people in Christian com
munity, would be regarded as hon
orable men and gentlemen compared
to the measly gang that called them
selves the Canvassing Board o
Sampson county and polluted tn
county's court house on Saturday
August 9TH. After taking sol
emn oath to do their duty befor
God and man and to administer jus
tice to all parties, they proceeded
while their breath was still hot O
the Book, to throw out Lisbon towr
, ship with 247 qualified voters; Tul
, key township with 22S qualifie
voters; Herring's township with 81
: qualified voters; HOneycutts tOwl
ship with 400 qualified voters, M
king grand total Of one thousan
and lightweight qualified vot'
stolen by a sampson county Dem
cratic canvassing board in one day
The Populist party includes mo
than twice as many white men
: the Democratic party in this count
s and own more than twice the re
g and personal property of the count
= and poll more than twice as maj
i votes as the Democratic party, y
the Populists were denied represe
It tation on the canvassing board 81
ID in several Of the townships were ]
70 fused Judge of election, but q
a pointed Democrats in their stes
The registrars were all Democr.
le and every scheme and subterfu
was reeorted to by the registrars
y prevent Populists and Republics
=, from registering. Voters applyi
for registration were asked all kin
of foolish and absurd questions a
required to answer upon their oa
n Hundreds were denied registrati
g because they could not give tn
= exact age in days and mont
ne though they swore to their ex
al age in years and had been vOti
VI regularly more than quarter OF
century. Others We're denied ree
tration who swore to their ex
~ age but could not tell what y
they were born. Others who sw
:. to the day and year in which II
- we're born and gave their exact q
.Ibut reference to the old registrat
ibooks did not correspond either