The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1905-06-22
SusscslT Iou RATES.

1904, In an editorial on the Mary
land system Of voting says 1t fsi 8
to give full effect to the chico of the
people, and further adds that such a
thing could not happen in North
Carolina. Again it says:
Our way Of voting in this State
may be antiquated, but for absolute
fairness there Is nothing to be COM
pared with our way Of dropping
printed slip Of paper into the ballot
box with the certainty that every
name on 1t will be counted In the
result. The North Caro-
lima way Is the best for us, and we
hope that 1t will not be changed un-
til the more progressive common.
wealths show US something better
than they have at this writing"
Well doesn't that shock your
nerves? Surely the Post doesn't
pretend to mean that we had honest
elections in this State In 1898 and
1900? No doubt 1.-THE North Caro-
lima way" in the hands of the Sim
mons machine, has been the best for
the Democratic hungry Office seek
ers, but 1t has been hard on the tax
payers and those who love law and
order In this State. But in a recent
issue the Post contained another ed
itorial on methods of voting. And
for this reason we withhold further
comment on the above from the
Post until we find out where it now
stands, for it if has repsnted we are
willing to forgive it. The Post Of
10th inst In commenting on the
"Improved methods of voting says
In part:
"From the foregoing 1t appears
that If all election officers were hon.
est the rest would be easy; but ex-
perience shows that it will not do to
take too much for granted. Still
we have to place much reliance in
the honesty of men and we do not
want any but honest men to handle
our ballots and count them; but the
fact remains that we have to make
laws to protect the voter against
dishonest election officials.
North Carolina has been slower
than most Of the states in trying to
improve on voting methods. Per-
haps we may find it possible to
evolve the ideal system out of the
successes and failures of Others"
The above utterance from the
Post caused one Of our readers at
Littleton to write us as follows: ga
new light has broken on the editor
Of the Post since his editorial pub
Hshed just after the last election,
when he declared that We had abso-
lutely fair elections in North Caro-.
lima. think it will do good to
help him along while he is in q
praysrful mood, ond sm sure you
can do it."
The Post says "but the fact re-
mains that we have to make laws
to protect the voter against dishon-
est election officials" Yes, it will
have to be done, but 1t has not been
done by the Democratic good gov
eminent regime. But to the con-
trary, laws have been passed by that
machine to protect the ballot box
thieves to keep them from behind
prison bars instead of passing laws
to protect the voters, and this law
is now on the statute books as the
last Legislature refused to repeal it.
Did they want that law to remain
on the statute books 30 they can
steal other elections and use the tax
payers money to keep the election
thieves out of Jail? We wish sim
ply to ask the Post If it Is In favor
Of repeating this law and If 1t will
help to place an honest election law
on the statute books.
We await the Posts reply. But
In the meantime we hope it will re-