Evening star., 1900-08-02
It is Being Celebrated Down in
North Carolina.
DEPRIVING CITIZENS OF RIGHTS
Senator Butler Throws Down the
Gage to Representative BeIIamy.
G L O. SIN G. CIDENT T S
Special From STAFF Correspondent.


today to register their ballots to decide the
question of political supremacy in North
Carolina for the next quarter century.
The democratic registration has been
usually heavy. The republican and popu-
list vote being cast is in proportion. 1t Is
not expected that more than the usual
number of election rows will occur and in
the early part of the day there was no in
dication of serious rioting anywhere. At
Raleigh the company of local militia has
been under arms for forty-eght hours by
Gov. Russells orders A special train is on
the siding and the company can move at
moments notice wherever trouble may oc-
cur. The holding of the militia aroused
great indignation in Raleigh, but the gov
ernor refused to dismiss them, saying he
proposed to be ready for any emergency.
Turbulence Marks Campaigns Close.
Yesterday was a day of turbulence in
several sections of the state and numerous
affrays marked the close of the campaign
At Caesar, Cleveland county, three men
We're badly hurt and lynching party is
reported to be after the man who did the
shooting. In Cabarrus county and in Della
there were local rows, and in several other
towns small fights took place.
The most hated man in North Carolina Is
United States Senator Butler, popullSt- he
has borne the brunt of opposition and has
been held up, together with Senator Pritch-
ard as a leader and inSpirer of negroes.
Senator Butler has been vigorously abused
on every hustings and whenever a demo-
Crat orator would find his audience grow
ing cold he would warm them up with a
fling at Senator Butler.
Now Up to MIR. BeIIamy.
United States Representative Bellamy of
the Wilmington district took a crack at
the senator also, and said he should be
driven out of the state. He got a rise I'M
mediately in the shape of the following let
ter from Senator Butler:
Hon. John D. Bellamy, Wilmington, NC:
Sir: You are quoted in the Raleigh
morning papers as saying in speech at
Wilmington Yesterday that the democrats
should forcibly expel me from the state
Do you mean that you feel 1t your duty 70
forcibly expel me from the state, or DO you
mean that some else should do It? Dc
you mean that one man should undertake
it, or that a cowardly, lawless mob should
do it?
Now If you think l should be expelled
from the state l suggest that you under
take the job yourself. You are one man
and 1 am one man. If you mean what you
say and have any courage teXcept when
you have a mob of red shirts behind you)
| suggest that you proceed to Raleigh and
begin the expelling business at once. #
you have not the courage to undertake this
job then l suggest that you have the de-
cency to keep your mouth shut.
1signed1 MARION BUTLER"
This is regarded in Raleigh as hot shot
according to the southern code. 1t Is con-
sidered to be up to Mr.. Bellamy, and poll
ticians are awaiting with interest his reply
to the senator's challenge. Senator Butler
is referred to as a man of courage and
ready to make good at any time.
Frightened. but Grateful.
Harry Tracy, a populist orator, came into
town today a badly frightened but grateful
man. He attended big rally at Concord
yesterday and attempted to address a crowd
which he thought was composed of popu-
lists. Just as he started to talk company
of mounted red shirts rode by.
There's those id red shirts" cried
Tracy to his supposed populist audience.
Throw them outr'
Hold on there" the crowd replied, they
are our people," whereupon they swooped
down on Mr.. Tracy and demolished the
stand. the orator fleeing to the hotel for
his life. big crowd surrounded the hotel,
but two ladies who kept the hostelry plead
ed for the victim.
He is our guest, gentlemen, and surely
you would not invade the sanctity of the
home"
This appeal to their ehTalry kept the
crowd back, and In the meantime the mayor
of the town arrived and escorted Tracy
away. He kept in hiding until night,
and then taken twelve miles across country
to a lonely depot, and boarded the first
train for Raleigh.
Prominent Populist Beaten.
The republican governor Of the state of
North Carolina did not go home to vote to-
day. The reason he assigned was that his
presence at the capital is desirable to direct
the movements Of the militia in case of
trouble. 1t Is generally understood that the
real reason is that he is afraid of violence
If he gets down into the eastern counties
where the feeling runs high.
Thomas Massey. a prominent populist
orator, was severely beaten at Selma yes
terday by the crowd He had been attack
ed at Smithfield the day before.
He got gentlemanly thrashing at
Smithfeld.' was the way man put it,
but at Selma he got dogs beating
The popultsts are hated great deal more
than the republicans throughout the state.
And no sort of liberation is given them
when they take vigorous stand.
The dispatches received by the demo-
cratic central committee during the after
noon indicated a heavy increase in the
democratic vote over the last election
The populist managers were
very much discouraged by their reports
N. o. NJ
Divergent Views on Result.
BY Associated Press.
RALEIGH, N. c., August 2.-"White su-
rremacy" has been the battle cry of the
democrats through the bitter campaign
which has just closed in North Carolina
and the result of which will be evidenced
by the casting of ballots today.
Conservative estimates by democrats
place the majority for the constitutional
amendment, which will practically dis
franchise the negro, at 10000. The leaders
of the fusion ticket-repubicans and pop-
ulsts-who are now in control of the offices
of the state and have held them for SIX
years. believe the amendment will be re-
jected.
Attempt to Burn Fafson
WILMINGTON. N. c., August 2.-An at
tempt was made early today to burn the
town of Faison, N. c., about fifty miles
from Wilmington. The fire began in a
drug store in which the registration books
for today's election were deposited, and the
local democrats allege that plot was
afoot to nulify the election in Faison town
shin q demncratic stron1hnld