The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-08-12
THE NORTH CAROLINA ELECTIONS.


RALEIGH, August l0.--Ofticia! returns oi
the vote for Governor have not yet been re-
ccived here. 1t is generally conceded, how
ever, that Caldwell is elected by a majority
ranging from 1000 to 800, counting the
great mass of illegal and fraudulent votes
polled in nearly all of the negro counties
throughout the State. Aside from these,
there are so many instances of illegal informal
tiles in numerous Republican counties
which will cause to be thrown out SO many
counties, precincts, and wards when the
Legislature meets us to elect Merrimon Gcv-
ernor of the State by handsome majority.
without the more diSagreeable necessity OF
contcStinS the election. The law requires
that the sheriilS of the precincts and town.
ships should publicly announce the vote cast
for all the candidates from the courthouse
door within a certain specified time after the
day of election. Ii this provision is not
complied with, the precinct, township, or
county can lie thrown out, as established i'll
the contested case of Edward rs. LasSitcl
for a senatorship by the last Legislature, in
which the vote of the county of Granville
was thrown out.
This provision of the law was not com.
piled with in the county of Craven, which
gives Caldwell majority of ] ,iG2. Gran.
vile county, which also gave him 60 major
ity, failed in this legal requirement. InWar
rcn county the poll-holders, contrary to all
law, carried home the hallot-b0Xcs. and did
not count the votes until the next day. Seyc
raj Other of the Republican counties in the
first congressional district, where John Poo
resides, are reported to have held the boxes
over until it was convenient for them tC
count the ballots.
Evidence of these illegal informaities i:
rapidly accommodating, and will he laid tetort
the Legislature wien it meets. The first
duty OF that body after its organization is tc
canvass the returns and declare the caIdl
dates who arc elected and As there is Con
scrratiyc majority of six on joint ballot it is
clear they will not be slow to act upon thy
alleged frauds and infornnlities, and pre-
claim Mcrrimon the Governor elect.
The Republicans in the counties of Clay,
Cherokee, and swain, i'll the west, not hay
ing received their printed tickets, were
forced to write their candidates names on
slips OF paper and vote; and it now appear:
that i'll doing this they omitted all the STATE
officers but Governor and Licutcnani-Gov'
cruor, which may defect all the remainder
of the State ticket in the present count. Re-
ports Of fraudulent voting accumulate 81
rapidly that the Republicans here are teglE'
ming to lose confidence IN the election OF
their candidate, and to-day their enthusiasm
has simmcrcd down to Il weak and superb
ciul show of triumph.
The following Republican counties cast
vote exceeding the voting population estaG'
Iished by the ccnsus Of 1870: In Bladen
county the voting strength is put down at
2,G1O; the number Of votes actually cast Is
1856. In Cumberland county the voting
strength is put down ut 3,252; the number
of votes actually cast is 3,III3. In Duplin
county the voting population i. put down at
1863; the number OF votes actually cast is
3,lS5. In Franklin county the voting
strength is put down ut 2,2IO: the number OF
votes actually cast is %,035. In Halifax
county the voting strength is put down al
Ado; the actual number of votes cast for
Governor in the late election is 3,'0i. In
this county the registration books were SAID
to have been lost. In LenOir county the
vcting strength is put down at POSI-; the
number of votes cast was 2,26i. In Nash
county the voting strength is put down
at 2,lSl; the number of votes east Is
2.527. This increase is in part, how
ever, accounted fer by thc recent an
ncxation of II part Of Edsccombe county
to Nash. In northampton county the fot-
inc strength is put down at 1901; the num-
Der of votes actually cast is 2,oS5. In Robe
son county the voting strength is put down
at 3,Oi3; the number of votes actually cast Is
3.214. III Sampson county tie voting
strength is put down at 1856 the vote act'F
ally cast i: 3,l31.
The following is official: Ashe, MerrImon.
T52; Caldwell, 7G1. Transylvania, Merr
mon, $40; Caldwell, 2o4.
From Tennessee.
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