The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-07-26

man Simmons, in an interview pub
lished in the Twin City Daily, OF Win
ston-Salem, July 18th, said that not q
negro was appointed JUDGE of
ELECTION in North Carolina.
"This is in keeping with his policy
in this campaign"
The purpose of this statement, made
by this Republican circular, was to
create the impression that Mr.. Sim
mons had knowingly made a mis-
statement about this matter.
When this circular was called to
Mr.. Simmons attention, he stated to
the reporter that he did not know
what the Twin City Daily of Winston
had reported him as saying, but he
remembered distinctly that reporter
of that paper enquired of him If any
negro had been appointed registrar,
and that he answered that no negro
had been appointed registrar. For the
purpose of ascertaining what the
Twin City Daily had reported him as
SAYING. Mr.. Simmons wrote to the ed
itor of that paper for a copy of his pa
per of July 18th, which was received
by him July 25th. Here is what the
Winston Twin City Daily reports Mr..
Summons as saying.
"a telephone message was received
today from Kernersville, stating that
the Republicans there are circulating
a report to the effect that the Demo-
Gratis have appointed negro registrars
in Oxford. State Chairman Simmons
was interviewed, and was emphatic in
the statement that this was one of the
many lies circulated by the Republi-
negro REGISTRAR in North Caro-
lima"
The author of this Republican cir
cular, above referred to, must have
had the interview with Mr.. Simmons
before him when he wrote the lines
first above quoted, and, for the pur-
pose of misrepresenting Mr. Simmons
deliberately and wilfully misstated
what the Winston Sentinel had pub
lished concerning Mr.. Simmons inter
view.
This performance is on par with
the willful misrepresentation and
peuversions which the authors of this
circular recently made concerning Mr.
Aycock, The Charlotte Observer, Gov
Heard. etc. These people seem to be
incapable of representing anything as
IL really Is.
Mr.. Francis d. Winston, of BERTHE coun-
ty, who has been in Raleigh attending
the session of the Legislature, said:
81 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. In BERTHE coun-
ty the Populists only asked for the APP
pointment of poll-holders, under Sena-
tor Buffers method, in two precincts.
They asked the appointment of white
men. The chairman Of the Republican
Executive Committee went before the
county board of elections and asked the
appointment Of poll holders in every pre-
cinct in the county. There are eleven
voting precincts in BERTHE county, and in
nine of those precincts negroes were
recommended in writing by him as suit
able poll-holders, and that recommends
ton Is now on file in the 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 age
the poll holds of that party. l see that
the charge is made that John T. Cole
has been appointed at Windsor precinct
as negro No such person has been
appointed there, but John T. Gale, as
Butler, Mr.. Pritchard, or Mr.. Holton
has been appointed as a Republican
judge of election"