The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-06-23
WHAT THE RADICAL ELEC TON
~ LAW DID.

All over North Carolina, the Radical
gang of orators are going about de-
nouncing the new election law and
misrepresenting its provisions. Only
this week one of these hired hobo
statesmen was in Raleigh telling that
under the new election law no man
could vote unless he could give the
name of the former occupant of the
house in which he lived. He was
"shut up by being offered ten dol
lars to point out that requirement in
the election law But so few people
have read and studied the election
law, that his ridiculous assertion
might deceive some people. This a
fair sample of the falsehoods they
are telling about the election law.
Let us see what right the Radicals
have to denounce election law Or elec-
ton methods.
When the Republicans wrote an
election law the Candy Constitution
was declared adopted, they not only
appointed the poll-holders, but they
had the ballot-boxes sealed up and
carried to Military Headquarters to
be counted. Before doing that they
disfranchised about twelve thousand
OF the best men in North Carolina
and permitted many thousand newly
Il.
they did not permit the residents OF
the State to count the ballots, but sent
them to Columbia, S. c., to be counted
by soldiers. Of course the count
was in favor of the Reconstruction
and Negro party. To show the dishon-
esty and farce Of the whole proceed
ing, we may mention that the first re
turn sent back to North Carolina
showed the election of Mr.. f. c. Bart
lett, as member of the Legislature
from Ashe county. When he reached
Raleigh, he acted with the Conserva-
tives. That displeased the Radicals
beyond measure and they thereupon
days word was received that there
had been mistake in the count and
Mr.. Bartlett had not been elected, but
Mr.. John G. Marler was the man elect
ed. When Mr.. Marler got to Raleigh
it was found that he was even bet
ter conservative Democrat than Mr..
pn J,4f bn p.1i l..
mad crowd, but they never stopped
at wholesale fraud to carry their ONT.
They needed a better Radical from
Ashe and so after Marler got to Raj
eigh, the leaders of the hands noti-
fled General Candy, and a new count
was ordered. Pretty soon word came
from Columbia that Marler had not
been elected, but that man by the
name of Marshall had been elected.
And Marshall, who was a true messy
back Radical, took the seat and held it.
1t took three fraudulent counts to
give him the seat, but that gang
was equal to the emergency.
best white men in North Carolina to
throw off the yoke of Militarism, Car
pctbagism and Negro Rule which the
Candy gang put upon the people when
they had an election law that was
warranted TO count out a. Republican
majority, no matter how the ballots
went into the box, and a law that was
so adjusted that they could "un-elect,"
so to speak, any person elected who.
did not do the bidding of the thieves
and knaves who were in control of
the State government.
In the face of this record, Radical
orators are trying to infame the peo-
pie against the present election law.
The real objection Radicals have to the
new election law is that dead negroes,
eighteen years old negroes, negro con
victs and imported negroes cannot
vote under it. That's the secret Of
their hostility!