The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-06-06
THE WAKE PRIMARY
Req. lar Republican Organi-
7atjon Secures Majority of
Delegates and Committee
men

democrats Nominate J. {. Little for
state Senator and Republicans
Name J. {. l.. Harris-The Major
lty for Harris Was Secured by
Voting Negroes Who Had Not Been
About Primary Before-Llquor
Was Also Used to Help the Mat
ter AIong-The Wake Primary
Law a. Enforced Last Saturday
.-ty Upon Justice.
The "legaliZed" primary for both
parties TO nominate their Congress
e.1aal and legislative tickets, also
20 name the delegates to next County
Convention and precinct committee
men, vas held in Raleigh and Wake
county last Saturday. The primary
vas supposed TO have been held I'M
der the provisions of a law passed by
the last Legislature. 1t is known as
q Iegalized primary for Wake Coun-
ty But If Saturdays primary in
Wake County was a legal one, the
writer would certainly like to know
what would constitute an illegal pri-
mary. The primary law prohibits
the soliciting of votes within twenty
five feet Of the polls, 1t prohibits any
one going into the booth to show a
man how TO mark his ticket unless
first asked to do so, it prohibits from
voting any one disfranchised under
the general election law, it prohibits
a man who is a resident of one pre-
cinct from voting in another, it pro-
hibits any one from giving away
liquor on primary day. From many
reports from sections of the county
all these provisions Of the law we're
most f1agrantly violated. A certain
element of the Democratic party, as
we'll as a certain element of the Re-
publican party, seemed to be no re-
spectOrs of the law. Some of the
registrars and judges of election also
seemed very lax in the performance
OF their duties. ]. G. L. Harris and
his friends made a. specially of the
negro vote in Raleigh and in two or
three of the county precincts and
thereby secured his nomination.
Though be it said that some of the
colored voters refused to vote for
Harris. However, this was no fault
OF the Harris-Andrews crowd as they
pulled in every one they could for
Harris and their list of delegates.
About sixty negroes voted for Harris
III the Third Ward and over forty
in the Fourth Ward, a good number
at O'kelly's Store, in House Greek
Township, and Vance Hudson, the
postmaster at Apex, made a special
lty of the negro vote in White Oak
Township and pulled in thirty-two
and voted them for Harris and fol-
himself. There were three colored
men at Apex, however, that Hudson
Hudson in no uncertain tones what
he thought of him for the means he
was using in order to secure votes
Some even voted who could not reaC
and write. MIR. Hudson was warned
as we'll as the voters, but this did moi
deter him from his work The writ
er is further informed that Jane.
H. Young and James E Hamlin help
ed to corral the negro vote in Raj
egh.
Notwithstanding that he young,
Is under civil service and is thereb,
prohibited from taking any active
or partisan part in politics. The Har
ns-Andrews crowd also succeeded il
elecung their colored committeemel
IN the lower division of the Fourtl
Ward in Raleigh. Some of the Dem
ocratic ward-heelers in Raleigh ais,
worked for Harris. When they coul'
not land man for the Democrats
ticket they would ask him to supper
the HarrisAndrews ticket. 1t is tru
mat some of these same Democrat
"ard-heelers had worked for tn
Harris-Andrews crowd in the Repub
hcan primary held in April and wer
probably still under the obligations
thougn they were supposed to b
working for the Democratic ticke
last Saturday. Some of the Demo
cratic registrars and politicians hav
declared that many of the negroe:
and some of the white men who vol
60 IN the primary will not be above
70 vote in the general election.
When these men were informe
mat any one who would not have
right to vote this fall had no rigt
10 vote in the primary, the Demo
crats replied that it was not the
business to look after the Republ
can vote in the primary, but the
would attend to it this fall. This la
should either be enforced or the Go
eFnor should ask the Legislature |
repeal 1t and make them apologize |