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NORTH CAROLINA.
The election in this State may be likened
to the first skirmish between two approach
ing armies, and the result in this case is
full of interest as indicating the strength
or weakness which the coalition of Sore
heads with the Democracy, beaten on a
hundred fields, has produced. The eager
their overwhelming success, too plainly
showed the terrible anxiety they felt, and
the urgent necessity of making favora-
BILE impression upon the country by this
first trial. The prestige of victory was of
all things most needed to bolster up the
extravagant boasting which had been
made use Of by this new mongrel party.
Although the candidates had been nomi-
mated by and from the old Democratic
organization before the Cincinnati Balti-
more coalition, yet the noisy Greeleyites
claimed it must be " Liberal fight, and
sent Carl Schurz, Upton, Mcclure and
other leaders of the Liberals (?) down to
stump the State. Had it been straight
out fight between the Democrat and Repub-
lean parties without any interference. we
are warranted in believing that the former
would have triumphed by clear majority.
The returns of the election Of 1870, the
only party election since that time to the
present fall, that has been held in the State,
warrants the belief that the Democrats,
without the hindering aid of their new
allies would have carried the State.
In the election of 1870 which was fair
square party fight, the Democrats carried
the State by 1921 majority. In 1871 there
was an election held for taking the sense of
the people on altering the Constitution
The vote resulted in majority of 9,245
against; both parties dividing and voting
for and against the proposed measure
The Tribune takes, in the first blush of
success with $4,000 reported majority,
which turned out to be most cruel hoax,
the figures of 1870, which are obviously
fair, to refer to as comparison of party
strength; but when later returns knocked
down the majority with every despatch,
the returns of the constitutional election
of 1871 were resorted to for comfort to
show what tremendous assistance the Lib
erals(?) had rendered.
Schurz, Mcclure and Upton were sent
down to stump the State for the Democrat
candidates; and they came back promising
fabulous majorities for the Liberal(?) ticket,
and the election was scarcely over till they
had returns telegraphed from nearly all the
most remote and inaccessible parts Of the
State, whore neither telegraph or railroad
was within hundreds of miles. $4,000
majority was reported in the Greeley
papers the next morning. The lying SO
successfully practiced by these worthless in
their speeches, was carried out by the tele-
graph operators, and majorities were man.
ufactured in the cities as soon as the polls
were closed and telegraphed north, which
proved to be the most shameful hoax per-
petrated upon their friends that it is posi-
BILE to conceive. North Carolina is
changeable, and considered doubtful State,
but from the complexion Of the last cleo
ton which has any significance as party
test, we might have reasonably expected
Democratic victory;but with the speeches of
Schurz, Mcclure & Co., together with Sum-
ner's letter and Greeley's Tribune defend
ing the Ku- klux, it is fair to presume that
decent Democrats were disguised with the
mongrel crowd their party had resolved
itself into, and voted for the straight-out
Republican ticket. This North Carolina
election has proved pretty clearly that the
Greeley bargain and corruption'' has
detached as many, if not more honorable
Democrats from the party, than the coali-
ton has caught Of soreheads from the
Republican ranks. The enemy like bold
Adventures and gamblers have been play
tho weak, and those who strive to get on
the winning side, but North Carolina has
uncovered their weakness, and proved that
the American people are not tickle enough
to prefer the crotchety old Philosopher of
the Tribune to tho. solid fruits Of the ad-
ministration of General Grant. The Gree
ley speculation is what every sensible man
in the beginning believed it must prove, a
fascO.
GREELEY FOR TEMPORARY PURPOSES
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te Democrats had subscribed to in our
Y Ia issue. Governor Whyte Of this State
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