The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1921-09-09
TO THE VOTERS OF HALIFAX
COUNTY

and from my personal observation,
that the so-caled cold Political
Ring q; this County, are busy going
around asking the voters topledge to
them their support in the coming pri
mary to be held next Spring. [ am
also told that the parties who prom
ised and helped defeat Hunter Nor
man, that they would be rewarded by
the ''Old Ring which is composed
of not more than two dozen men and
that they would be given an office.
Especially was the treasurer office
promised, and [ presume that the prom
Use was fulfilled by getting the treas
urer's office from self-appointing
board, which works this way, viz:
Sam Whitfield, County Commissioner,
appointed assessor, at a salary of $3.50
per month, w. R. Harvey, County
Commissioner, appointed County Treas
ure at salary Of $1,000 per year, Sam
Thorne, County Commissioner and also
County Auditor or in other words,
the holder of two County offices ana
which is III violation of section 1864
of the rcvisal of the year 1905 Of
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treasurer s office, at a salary of $4,000
a year.
And now a young man is riding
vote for him in the coming primary.
The "Old Ring seems to think that
the voters have nothing to say about
who shall have the offices in the Coun-
ty. All they have to do is to make
the slate and tell the people how they
must vote. They must think that the
people in the County are as ignorant
as lot of monkeys, after the didoes
they have cut up and the burdens
that they have placed on the people by
taxation, that they can say come on
and vote for the cold Ring we will
burden you more, we will loan you $25
10 percent, if you viii pay for writing
the papers and secure us with a mort
gage on your house and home.
Don t let us help put any more bur
den on our already broken backs, if
we do we might as well throw up our
hands AMI quit. Let us be free and
vote our conviction one time if it
kills us. Don't let the cold Ring
pick out our officers, if you do we
will be no better off than we are now.
Let us select our own officers possibly
we would not have officers that win
tell us that they will reduce the ex-
penses AMI go right on and raise every
office holders salary IN the County
and take every office make vacant
by death.
Let us try it one time, vote right,
and against the "Old Ring and let's
rid ourselves Of the yoke, for if we do
not we will not be able to carry it in
a few Years. Do not pledge yourself
to the people who are asking you to
vote for them a year ahead, who are
hoping to catchl you naping and get
your promise. This shows how un-
worthy they are of our support, wait
and see who you wish to be the office
put = with their votes let them
[ think that >.-c"v n&n AMI woman
should stop this bossism or we vi
have to 90 and live with Hamp Price
as the Roanoke Herald suggest, they
also stated that they thought the hot
weather had affected my brain. I
have never been charged with brain
trouble before, but must have been
affected two years ago when I voted
for the "Old Ring but my friends
say that my brain is getting normal
again as [ have seen my mistake.
They have led us far enough, now let
them follow someone else a while
Let us have a new crowd for officers
throughout, and let the people say who
they shall be, we certainly cannot