Harrisburg Daily Patriot, 22 November 1878.
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I have not identified John Simms or his unnamed wife. Note that she was charged with beating her husband and violating his constitutional rights, but the “couple of white men” who waylaid Simms on the way to the poll, plied him with liquor (apple jack was an apple brandy), and coerced him to vote Democrat went unscathed.