The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-07-11
NEGRO THREATENS
To KILL AND BURN
Vote We Will or Blood Will
be She'd"
A COPY OF HIS LETTER
Some Democrat Devil Will Have No
Some Democrat Devil Will Have No
Cover For His Head"
ATTEMPTS TO NTlMlDATe REGISTRARS
A Sampson Popuist Writes That the Popus S
Have Employed Oct ctyes to
Watch democratic
Registrars.


becoming desperate. Defeat is not
pleasant for ,lem to contemplate and
with incendiary advice and blood
thirsty speech they are trying to drive
their foolish dupes to their own de-
struction. And for what? That they
may continue to hold office.
1t is an awful task that they have
undertaken. The white men of North
Carolina are aroused, and woe be unto
those who attempt to use violence and
fraud in order to defeat them.
Having advised the negroes to beat,
kill or lynch the registrars who re-
fuse to register them, the leaders are
now employing themselves by writing
letters to the registrars with the pur-
pose of intimidating them.
Here is a sample of these letters,
sent to this paper yesterday from
Sampson, Buffers native county.
Home, July 9th, 1900
Mr.. ]. G. Weeks, Keener, N. C.
Dear Sir: In the campaign of 1894 and
1895 the Populists had employed detec-
tiEes who made many discoveries as to
the methods employed by the Democrats
to carry elections, and the agency is at
work again with startling revelations for
so early in the campaign.
Your office has been visited and will
be visited again, and as a friend 1 advise
you to put registration books in shape
and keep them So
You are charged with taking the regis
tration on sheets of paper not designed by
law for such purpose, instead of using
registration books.
/ was prepared for hearing such ras-
cality in general, but when I learned
that ]. G. Weeks was the registrar l had
until recently considered him an honest
law-abiding, God-fearing man and 6
Christian gentlemen, and I truly hope yoJ
may be able to disprove these reports but
this letter is intended to put you on your
guard, as l am aware that the white mer
of North Carolina and of Sampson county
are too brave and determined to submit
to any effort to defraud them of their
rights to cast their ballots as their con-
science Dictates
I am informed that Mr.. Jno. d.
Kerr, at Clinton. is your adviser. !
hope fully as much that this also is false
Be careful Jap. be careful.
Kindly your friend,
VIM A. BARBREY.
P. ST. will call attention to Laws OF
1899. page 663, chapter 507, sec. Is of the
Registration Laws, "books" not sheets
of paper, are to be kept for the registra-
tion of voters, &C., &c.
w. A. BARBREY.
Mr.. Jos. c. Weeks is a registrar in
Hollis township and is one of the best
men in Sampson county-one of it's
largest farmers and one of the most
highly respected citizens. w. A. Bar
brey is the Fusion county surveyor
and has held said office for four years
under Fusion rule. lie is Il very bit.
ter Populist.
THE Populists are making all kinds
of threats to the Democrats of this
good county where Fusion rule has
held its sway for eight years,
writes gentleman residing in the
county, and adds, referring to the let
ter printed above: ''This is but a
sample of the many outrageous
threats by the Fusionists of this coun-
ty, but by the help of God the Demo
Gratis are going to do their best and
carry out the law. SO they may leave
white mans county to their des-
cendants."
,7-lry~
The following letter was received
by Mr.. II. NJ. Staley, of Wilkesboro.
Mr.. Staley is the registrar for the
Wilkesboro town precinct:
"Wilkesboro. July $500.
Mister Staley: l wrote you a few days
ago worning you what our league had
done, but seams Xix you pa no attention to
it an go rite on not letting some of Gull
lerd citisins register. Now we all your
trends and don't want to hurt you an
no body els, but our rites must and shall
be respected. Our feeders say thar is no
law to cut the cullerd man out his vote,
only what the democrats here max the
constitushun ses any one u can vote
and vote We will or blud viii be shed an
some white democrat devil viii have no
cover for his he'd l warn you as friend
to give us our rites. FRIEND.
Mr.. Staley refused to register four
negroes not yet twenty-one years OF
age, and he got the above letter. The
News and Observer is informed that
the author of this letter is known.
This is the county in which one j.
w. Mcneil is the Republican cahdi-
date for the Legislature, and who at
Ell1ville short time ago, in the pres
ence and hearing of Mr.. w. Gather
Hall, gave violent and incendiary
advice to the negroes and other Re-
publicans up there, telling them to
go and present themselves for regis-
tration, and if the registrar refused
to register them to take a stick and
beat his brains out, and then if that
did not do to lynch him or do any
thing else they wanted to do with
him. This letter is one of the fruits
of such advice.
1t would seem that even as big a
fool as the average young negro who
lives in the neighborhood of Wilkes
boro would know that it would be a
waste of time to try to intimidate