The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-05-02
ANOTHER FALSE REPORT PUBLISHED
IN THE SMlTnfKID JOURNAL
The Account of the Wake County Republican Convention
Misleading and Many Portions of il FalseThere Was
no Packed Only the Fake Credentials Were
Thrown Outfit Any Fraud Perpretrated Was Done
by the Boiling Element.

ne AAE
sidfzed organ. OF the Federal Office
/ holding element, made Its appearance
some time last Friday containing
what purported TO be a report of the
Wake County Republican Convention
held In Raleigh Tuesday. April 23rd.
Like the other articles that the Fed
eral office-holders and their clique
have had published in that paper, ii
was false and misleading.
First, the Raleigh correspondent OF
the Smithfield Journal claims that
the Secretary did not call the pre-
cincts in the regular way. IL there
has been a special way Of calling the
precincts this writer has never heard
of 1t before. The Secretary began
by calling the name of the largest
precinct in the county and then the
adjacent precincts In the county un-
til he came to Raleigh and then, be-
gan with First Division of the First
Ward and called the wards in the
regular order.
/ Second, the Journals article says
1.-The contests announced against the
Andrews precincts were fictitious,
groundless and fraudulent" This
charge reminds the writer of the old
story, stop thief" when the opposi-
ton were at the same time trying to
perpetrate fraud upon the Republi-
cans of Wake County. Panther
Branch, Neuse, the First Division of
the First Ward and the Second Di-
vision of the Third Ward in Raleigh
were the four precincts contested, and
the minority asked for their voting
strength in ST. Matthews and in the
Second Division of the First Ward, as
provided for under the State plan of
organization, and which had been de-
MED them at the prifaries.
Now, in Panther Branch, Mr.. By
than Stephenson, the Chairman of
the precinct, stated that no primary
was held, that he went to the voting
place and stayed two hours, and when
no one came, he went home and that
the credentials showing the list of
the delegates from Panther Branch
that were handed the Secretary on
up later.
| Mr.. Bytham Stephenson stated
these facts to Messrs. E. T. Banks,
John w. Harden, and L. F. Butler,
as we'll as stating it before the Gre
Dental Committee. A member of the
Credential Committee has informed
the writer :hat the man, whose name
was signed as secretary of the pri-
mary meeting, admitted that he was
not present at the place where the
primary was supposed to have been
held. Yet the Federal office-holding
element holler fraud when such fake
credentials were not acceptd by the
Credenial Committee.
What is the reason the friends of
Morehead and Butler couldn't have
gone into Panther Branch after no
primary was held and framed I'D a
list of four delegates that they knew
would be favorable to them. They
didn't do it because they knew it
would be fraudulent, but the Federal
office-holding element didn't seem to
be so particular. OF course the Gre
Dental Committee, to be honest, had
to throw out Panther Branch because
the credentials were faxed up" after
the date of the primary.
In Neuse no primary was held on
the date set. In fact, the Chairman
was not there, and if any other Re
publican was there 1t has not been SO
reported. No meeting was called to
order, so of course there was no ad-
journment to later date. Notwith-
standing this fact, some of the friends
of the Federal office-holders went out
in that township Monday and posted
notice that primary would be held
at the postmaster's house at Neuse on
Tuesday morning at o'clock, this be-
ing four or five miles from the yot-
ing precinct, where the primary was
originally advertised to be held. Early
Tuesday morning Charlie Wildes
went to Neuse in an automobile and
met with the assistant, and active
postmaster at Neuse, and his son and
about two others of their friends
whom they had present by special
request" and Mr.. Wildes helped them
hold the primary" fixed up their
fake delegation and then Mr.. Wildes
piloted them to Raleigh in the auto
mobubble and turned them over to
the Andrews headquarters. Still Mr.
Wildes and his friends hollered
fraud when the Credential Commit
tee reported against the fake creden-
tlals from Neuse. In the First Dr.
} vision of the First Ward there was
evidence to show that the primary
meeting was called and delegates
named ahead Of the appointed hour.
yet because Postmaster Briggs and
Charlie Wildes were the delegates from
that ward, the contest was withdrawn
and the credential committee report-