Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-08-14
HOW TIE RADICALS CARRIED
NORTH CAROLINA.

NORTH CAROLINA.
Senator Carpenter said in speech in
Wisconsin before the election in North
Carolina, ''If we don't carry North Caro-
lima by 10000 majority things will look
blue for Gen. Grant" Boutwell, claimed
the State by 5000 and Senator Wilson by
1900, while Delano and the New York
Times insisted that The majority would be
10000. There was reason why they
claimed so large a majority. They knew
how the ballot-boxes were &c be manipulate
ed. The Raleigh Sentinel of the 18th inst.
says ''the amount of fraudulent voting that
was done By the Radicals in the late cleo
ton staggers belief" But with all this
they carried the State by very meagre
majority. The following from the Whining
ton On. c. Journal shows the character Of
some of the frauds:
"In Bladen county the voting strength is
put down at 2,6l0. The number of votes
actually cast is 1866.
ain Cumberland county the voting
strength is put down at 1882. The num-
Der of votes actually cast is 8, 773.
"In Dupliu county The 70 ing population
is put down at 2,949. The number Of votes
actually cast is , .4S5.
"In Franklin county the voting strength
is put down at 2,ZI0. The number of votes
actually cast is 3,035.
''In Halifax county the voting strength
is put down at 4,45j The actual number
of votes cast for Governor in the late cleo
tion is 1907!
"Be it remembered that it was in Halifax
county the registration books were said to
have been lost,
ain Lenoir county the voting strength is
put down at Z.08l. The number of votes
Cast was 2.264l
'In Nash county the voting strength is
put down At 2,lol. The number of votes
cast is ,57Tl This iucreaSe is in pant,
how-var, accounted f1r by the recent an
neXation Of part Of Edgecombe county to
Nash.
ia Northampton county the voting
strength is put down a. 2,90l The num-
Der of votes actually cast is 3,085.
ain Robson county the voting strength
is put down Al 3043. The number Of votes
actually cast is 3,2l4.
ain Sampson county the voting strength
is put down It 1886. Tho vote actually
cast is 8, 132
The Raleigh Sentinel of the 18th inst.
furnishes another instance. Il says:
:" The law requires that at the farthest
the official election returns from each coun-
ty must be publicly proclaimed by TueSdIy
after the election We earn from the most
reliable source that the election returns in
Craven county were Withheld until Wed
neSdGy last. Of course they will be thro an
out. If they are not then throw the laws
to the winds, for they are dead letters, or
are only law unto Democrats aud Con
serYatives and Liberals. Doubtless the
same disregard of law was manifesto in
other counties. l. 50, we would ne pleased
to have early information of the same"
Were these returns kept back in order 10
FIX them up to suit the exigencies of the oc-
casion? The Sentinel expresses The hope
that the Democratic candidates will take
immediate steps to contest the election. 1t
is a duty they owe to the country to ex.
pose the frauds by which the Radical lead
ers sought ~ defeat the will Of the people
of North Carolina, and to have the perpe-
traitors punished, if they can be discovered.