The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1900-03-08
P0WS CAMPAIGN AFFIDAVIT
ONE OF HIS METHODS oy
POOLING VOTERS IN THE
LAST CAMPAIGN.

HE MAKES AFFIDAVIT THAT A PROF
osrr1oN TO DTsFRAScHrsE HF-
eRoEs AND tLLrTIRATE wHIrEs
WOULD NOT RECEIVE A srNGfF
DEMOCRATIC VOTER N THF lEe-s.
LArURR AND DKSoUSCEs THo,r
WHO MAKE THE CHARGE A. srEAK.
ING FALSELY AND TRYING To rpor.
THE PEOPLE
From Caucasian oct. ls.-
The following afiidavit made hy
James II. Pou, ex-Cbairman % ~.
State Democratic Executive Com.
mittee, during the last campaign.
will be interesting reading. uur
readers will remember that when.
ever and wherever IL was charged
In the last campaign that II the
Democratic machine under SIN.
mons got control OF the State, that
they would offer a scheme 90 dls-
franchise illitterate votes. that m.
charge was Indignantly denied and
denounced by every Democratic
speaker rs being UNANIMOUSLY falls.
Even Mr.. Simmons, the Democrat
ic State Chairman, Issued an ofiici-
nj statement TO the voters OF the
State, branding every such charge
az false In toto; saying that that
campaign lie had been charged
against the Democratic party be-
fore, and that the charge was now
so old and so false that no one
would believe IL.
Mr.. James III. Pou, the ex-Chair-
man OF the State Democratic Com
mittee, In his speeches made the
same declaration. But IL seems
that in one OF his speeches In Moore
county, some members OF his audi
dience expressed doubt OF the truth
of his indignant denial, and called
upon him while upon the stand "a
know III he would make an afilda.
Wit to that effect. He publicly
agreed to do so, we are Informed
The result Is the affidavit below.
. made at Raleigh, dated Oct. liih
! 1898. 1t will De noticed that Mr.
; Pou, shrewd, slick and cunning a.
he is, attempted to word his afiidS
{ Wit so as not to say explicitly what
I he had said publicly on the stump
and yet at the same time, 10 SAY
e enough to make IL appear that hi,
affidavit had made good his cam
paign declaration, and fool the vo
tiers into accepting his Statement
and voting for the machine.
The following Is a true copy o
the affidavit:
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA,
County OF Wake
a James 81. Pou, being duly sworn
: deposes and says:
81 have never said that, In IA
T Democrats regained control OF 10
: State, they intended TO disfranchis
3 the negroes and illiterate white vC
ters never have said anythin
like this, and / know that such
not the intention OF the Democrat
ic party. i have never heard a III
gle Democrat give utterance {
such a sentiment, and do not b'
lieve, IL such a proposition come
before the General Assembly, tina
IL would receive a single Democra
Ic vote. i believe that a majority
70 the uneducated white voters {
st North Carolina are Democrats. III
- Democratic party is appealing
them for aid In preserving VIII
y supremacy in the center west
- In restoring IL In the Eastern %
ic Of this State. They are respondfI
d, to our appeal, and to repay them I
10 their aid with a disfranchiseme
es of their votes would be folly a
g. ingrattiude indeed. The mi
e, who makes these charges knc
- they speak falsely, but their Cal
~ paign this year is run upon q
h. idea that the people OF North Ca
olina would rather believe a falls
hood than the truth, and tn
would rather hear libels upon q
honorad dead than to hear arg
'u ments based upon truth
O. [SigneoJ
TO JAMES III. PoU.
H. Sworn to and subscribed befo
~ me this October LIST 1898.
RS tSigned]
GEO. w. THOMPSON,