Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-10-30
TO THE DEMOCRATIC VOTERS
 OF JEFFERSON COUNTY

Without wishing to influence No1f | 1,otae for either of the other candl- l dates. for circuit clerk. and with no personal malice to Mir \. F. McNei!' |
 wish to make d statement as ie'- lows: simply that yoa may judge oi his democracy and hence his clal", to democratic suppor5
 In 1908 | was the regular demo- cratic nominee for constable ot Bar rauue township. having won the non'- ination fairly, before the white den- ocratic voters of the township, at the regular primary election, that nomln1- ted county and township officers
 Messrs. Harwel and Matthews were the nominees for justice of peac' af the same election. At the general election following Mr. McNeil, who is now asking the democratic nom'na- tion for circuit clerk. ran as an in dependent candidate for constable and defeated me. This was done, l char@a. with the negro voters of the toWa- ship, and caused the defeat of one Of the democratic nominees for .iusiii": of the peace, in the township, by a ne- gro republican, Tom Minsea, by nanc
 An analysis of the vote of the towa- ship will show this to be true.
 Barraque township has two votinc precincts, viz: Redfield and Kearney. Nearly all of the negroes voted at kearney, less than a dozen voting at Rcdfield.
 The vote at the two precincts for constable and magistrate was ar fol- lows:
 At Redfield.
 Fort, democrat, (defeated) ,-...,,.,...... , Matthews, democrat, (defeatedD 5: 5: McNeil, independent ......,.,...... MinSea, negro republican ---.-..-----...-z... | At kearney.
 Fort, democrat .......5...-.... lf Matthews, democrat .................. .... ( McNeil, independent ,.,-......,....... 5t N1ingea, negro republican ...-..-....-.-.....= 5G
 You will see that Matthews. the defeated democratic nominee for mag istrate and myself ran together, at each place and that McNeil and the negro ran together.
 An analysis of this vote shows such close parallel between the vote al each place in the vote cast for Me- Neil and that cast for the Negro re- publican candidate for justice of the peace. Tom Afingea, as to leave nc doubt in an unbiased mind that th& same or practically the same votes were cast for each.
 This statement of the votes is tal.en from the returns of the General Cl e. tion as certified to by the EIectio.! Commissioners, and nine tenths of the white voters of Barraque township will bear me out in my deductions.
 Of course this is a free cnnntrN, and man may do as he plaases. so long as he violates no law, but every white man knows the need of party loyalty, in this section, and when a man asks for a party nomination he should have clean record as U party loyalty. and no stain of coni- vance however remote with the negro republican element in politics.
 give this statement out to thc Democrats of Jefferson county. SC t.lr you may judge for yourselves i,i,r how much Mr. McNeil is entitled to your support.
 1 have no interests as between the other candidates, but do feel that any man who asks a democratic nomi- nation, at the hands of his party should show clean party record. and not have even suspicion of collision with negro Republic ans to defeat re- sular Democratic nominees.
 Respectfully yours for Democratic T. H. FORT. 1929 fo 1g-1