Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 226, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1917 — Separating the Votes. [ARTICLE]

Separating the Votes.

Just after a recent election a large crowd had gathered at a courthouse in North Carolina to see the official vote counted. To facilitate the work an adding machine was used. Among the attendants there were large numbers of people from the rural districts who had never seen one of these 4 complicated machines. They viewed it with open distrust. And when the votes were finally counted one of the defeated candidates remarked tq,a friend as he turned away: “I know I was elected to that office, but that blame separator cheated me out of it.”