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Show Women Voting in Ngeitu Uaho-lina. Uaho-lina. According to the liulcigh (N. C.) Sentinel, woman suffrage was practically prac-tically carried out in Johnston county, iu that tit ate, at the last election, and the pooplo there are warned to beware of the same trick again. The iScntind of tho 17th says: llMnj. tiuiuh, president of the North Carolina railroad, told it himself, him-self, that he voted two hundred negro women in Johnston county by having them dressed in men u clothes. Un-plan Un-plan was this: The register's book-wero book-wero kept open all day; the women in breeches registered when taken to the polls; tho law forbade any man to challenge, so they were obliged to vote. At that election the negroes carried Johnston by lour hundred and more. At the subsequent election no women voted, and the white folks carried the electiou by live hundred and more." |