The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-07-31
THE CAMPAIGN BOOMING
Every Body Every Where for me
Observation-Disclosures Committee Sc
cures Funds-More Fusion Campaign
Lies Nailed.


The state election board met lo-o3s
70 Regulate some matters in Pamlico
county.
II is learned to-day that h fusion
lists have at last raised a large sum
of money for a campaign fund IheiF
plan is &c spend II between this time
and election day. in the close counties.
They will do special work IN h smau
~ountie which elect one member
Of the legislature They n they
cannot defeat the amendment Up TO
this time they have not had a large
supply OF money. but now they are In
funds. They will put out in their cam
paign work every federal officer VINO
can travel. The marshal OF this dis
trict has gone to Dare and Hyde TO
rally the republicans there. most OF
whom are in the government service
Revenue officers by the score are
travelling and working day and night
The republicans are now claiming the
Eighth and Ninth districts by a Dig
majority They practically concede
the east.
A gentleman from the eastern coun-
| ties says the feeling OF the democrats
has been so aroused there by the ar
rests OF registrars and by senator
Buffers work in the campaign, that
il is impossible to describe the excite
ment and that il is in fact almost like
a political revolution.
Two years ago NJ. II. H. Caldwell, OF
Concord, was the populiSt nominee Tor
ongreSS in the Seventh district against
Kluttz, democrat. Now they are
speaking together and both working
for the franchise amendment and
democratic success
The state charters the Greensboro
telephone exchange. capital S5O,op0. L.
J. McAdoo chief owner
The estimate is mad that at present
there are not above 5000 actual ropu-
lists in the state.
1t is the belief here that many of the
negroes who have registered will not
vote.
The fusionists a sent out the
greater part of their tickets. They
have three sets of tickets. They still
keep up their air of mystery.
Mention was made a day or two ago
of the arrest of Mr.. Stedman, an cleo
ton registrar, in Chatham county. He
was arrested on the usual fusion
charge of refusal TO register a negro.
There was no case and the matter
ended.
Francis D. Winston, of BERTHE, said
to-day:
II see the republicans are having
something TO say on the question Of the
appointment Of negro poll-holders in a
few precincts in the black counties in
eastern North Carolina
I'm BERTHE county the populists only
asked for the appointment of poll
holders, under Senator Buffers meth
cd. in two precincts. They k the
appointment of white men. The chair
man of the republican executive COM
mittee went before the c2Urty board
of elections and asked the appointment
Of poll-holders in every precinct in the
county There are eleven voting pre-
cincts in BERTHE county, and in nine
of these precincts negroes were recon-
mended in writing by him as suitable
~poll-holders, and that recommendation
is now on file in tn records of the
board. Some of these persons recon-
mended by the republican executive
committee were appointed, and others
who were appointed were two years
g the ~poll-holders of that party.
Il see that the charge is made that
Joh T. Cole has been appointed at
Windsor precinct as a negro. No such
person has been appointed there. but
n T.. Gale, as respectable a white man
as Mr.. Marion Butler. Mr.. Pritchard
or Mr.. Holton, has been appointed as
a republican judge of election"
In a circular sent out by the fusion
lists, referring to the appointment of a
few negro poll-holders to represent
the republican party in certain pre-
cincts in the black counties in the east
where the republican party is COM
posed entirely, or almost entirely, OF
negroes, this statement is made:
With full knowledge of the appoint
ment of these colored men, Chairman
Simmons, in an interviw published
in the Twin City Daily, of Winston
=. Salem, July 18th, said tina no a negro
was appointed judge of election in
: North Carolina.
This is in keeping with his policy
t in this campaign"
: The of this statement
made by this republican circular, was
to create the impression that Mr.. Sim
, mons had knowingly made . -n~isstate-
ment about this matter.
When this circular was called to Mr.
Simmons'S attention, he stated to the
reporter, who brought the matter tc
his attention that he did not know what
The Twin City Daily of Winston had
reported him as saying, but he re-
membered distinctly nat a reporter Oh
, that paper inquired of him if any ne
gro had been appointed registrar, and
that he answered that no negro had
been appointed registrar. For the pur-
pose of ascertaining what The Twin
: City Daily had reported him as saying
Mr.. Simmons wrote to the editor OF
that paper for a copy Of his paper OF
July 18th, which was received by him
July 25th- Here is what the Winston
Twin City Daily reports Mr.. Simmons
as saying:
A1NSooSS was receive &c
! to-day from Kernersville. stating tha-
the republicans there are circulating
a report to the effect that the demo-
Gratis have appointed negro registrars
in Oxford. State Chairman Simmons
was 1n~trviewed, and was emphatic in
the statement that this was one of the
many lies circulated by the republi-
cans. He added: There IS not a ne
gro registrar in North Carolina"
n author of this republican circu-
lar, above referred to, must have had
the interview with Mr.. Simmons be.
lore him when he wrote the lines frs
above quoted, and, for the purpose OF
mlsrepresenting Mr.. Simmons, deliber.
ately and wifully misstated wha the
newspaper had published concerning
Mr.. Simmons interview.
This performance is on a par with
the willful Misrepresentation and per-
version which the authors of this cir
cular recently made concerning Mr.
Aycock, The Charlotte Observer, Gov
Heard, etc. These people seem to be
incapable of representing anything az
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