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

tHS one ticket IN DOx, saw MIN Told
1t and put it in. Others ga " it several
times. He char ges position of boxes
about every Eve or ten minutes. saw
him take a negroes ticket out of his
hands and do the voting himself, and
send the negro out. These facts are
abundant. | have been informed that
Flea Hill township has suffered the
same fate. Populist ajority expected
three fifty. 7 he democrats were at Flea
Hill armed with shot guns.
letter from DIAL: I'VE appoi nted
good, reliable man to examine the reg
istration book at Newton's Precinct on
challenge day, who asked the registrar
to let him see the registration book,
but Mr.. Neill Clark, the Registrar, paid
! no attention to him. and did not show
him the book, although he stayed there
all day. On election day, | asked Mr..
Clark to let me look at the tickets, af-
ter he had taken them out of the box
and called the names, but he refused
| to do it, and continued to call out the
tickets and throw them down. 1t was
| impOssib e for me TO get where / could
see the name on the ticket, before he
would throw it down. He was jammed
up against the wall and [ was standing
in front of him, and it was impossible
| for me to read the names on the tickets
in that position. There were 1873 color
ed voters that voted, and 20 white fop-
ulists that voted, and one white Repub-
lican that voted. Total l54 that voted
the Fusion ticket, and there were only
two tickets in the wrong boxes. There
| were about 20 white voters that did nO'
go to the election, which left only 127
to vote the democratic ticket. Our ma
jOrity should be at least %, but the
democrats claim a ma jority of 26 on an
| average"
Letter from Tedar Greek: The cleo
tiOn is over, and reports say we are de-
feated overwhelm ngly, but is there no
way to remedy some of the wholesale
ballot b x stuffing and intimidation
carried on by the enemy? Never in all
my life saw anything to compare with
it. 1t is all that is damnable to repub-
lican form of government
| A this precinct, e edsr Creek the
registration seemed perfectly fair unit
! election day, but when the polls OPEN
ed that m 'rning, the registrar cried
out that the registration book had neen
stolen from him. 1t was subsequently
found torn up, about three hundred
yards from the voting place. There
we're only four men present when he
claimed to have missed the book, and
all of them were democrats They were
all white men and their names are well
known. The evidence against two OF
them is pretty strong. They ella m it
was taken by the POpulists, b1t as the
precinct gives PopCl'st majority of
over 100, it is plain to see who stole the
book
CHOWAN COUNTY.
Letter from Clum: We request.
ed our board of election to give US
a good white man to represent US at
the polls, but they gave US ignorant
negroes instead, who Immediately
resigned, then they put On one
mere Democrat. The people did
not know who the man was unit
on the morning Of election, so you
can easily see how they claim 4O(
majority.
, On Monday, Mr.. W. J. Leary, ou1
county chairman, had an appoint.
| ment to speak in the county. b.
was met there by a crowd of un
unpri ncipled Democrats (all armed
who would not allow him to speak
At another place in the county the
) vo'ing place of my precinct, the
owner Of the place left home ant
left q note telling Mr.. Leary thai
, he could not speak on his place
and that the Democrats had givel
him SIS to do this.
DUPLIN COUNTY.
; Letter from Joford: "We fin,
that there has been more or les
! intimidation, etc. in every precinc
! in the county. Negroes were de
q MED registration in the start upOl
this ground, VIII. n they would tax
the oath, the registrar would as
the voter his age, and he woul'
q Say, Il am 4S ears old ; then tn
registrar would take up the oil
registra ion book and tell him tina
he had given ia his age wrong an
IS that II he insis ed on registering
T. then, he, the registrar, would b
e Obliged to report 1t to the solicito
lie and that he would be indicted q
III Of 1Yst r.
! Thus hundreds were driven ava
by this means. On August lst, on
chairman sent tickets by ex. res
" from Rosehill, N. c., to Warsaw
I and the express agent at Warsa,
'e did not deliver the tickets uotil l
Re o'clock on the day of the electio
ct after most Of the voting was owe
re By this means our people were d
ID prived OF the opportunity to vote.
&c DAVIDSON COUNTY.
~ Letter From Thomasville tt
Is Democrats have stolen the entil
q ballot at this precinct. We ha1
as kept record and have at least A
ce voters who are willing to swear tn;
n they voted against the amendmen
a. and they have only given Us 253
Ee Lister from Lexington There
We much evidence, and it is accumul
ting every hour, that We We're
fraudsd out of about 600 votes
Lexington, and Tnomasville tow
s- ships. The fraud was committed.
ct Is believed, in depositing the ballot
st dropping the Republican ticket, n
h.. outing the D mo ratio ticket in
- place. Tney had A armed fieers
armed with clubs on election ds
Tue poll holders thev gave us he
re and at Thomasville were awful cha
ng actsrs. The people in the county q
ne IN q statement of excitement, al
to feel outraged beyond expression.
Id hey could steal here, where the pc
of pie are all white, what could tn