New-York tribune., 1872-07-29
THE ADMINISTRATION CAMPAIGN


FRAUD IN THE ELECTION-oUTRAGE5 TO
WHICH NORTH CAROLISIANs ARE SUB
JECrED-THE u. s. MARsHALs WORSE THAN
THE KU-KLUX.
AsHEvmLE, n. c., July 24.-The Liberals Of
North Carolina will certainly deserve great credit II they
are successfui In August election for they have had
more opposition from outside 70 contend with than gen
orally confronts party with an honest majority in
State canvass do not refer much to what may
be called legitimate campaign work OF the Adminsra
ton party to the Of money In preparing barbe
and bringing TO tho State every Ofcehoder from
the Presidents Secretaries down. who can exert
the least influence upon the result, though
in this respect they have greatly the adyan-
tage OF the Liberals who have no public treasury
from which TO draw the salaries OF their speakers
fer rather to hedishonestuse money OF which here
numerous aud well authenticated reports One use
to which this money is being put the importation OF
coOred voters from Virginia and South Carolina. sa"
evidence Of this at CharotteOn Sunday evening" as
was about to take the train for Salisbury en- route 10
this place number or negroes pointed ont 10
about the depot who told formerly resided there,
but had removed to Richmond several months ago.
Some OF them showing their return tickets and
they we're accompanied, told, by others Who we're
strangers II any Of these attempt to vote ille
galy at Charlotte they will be challenged although
number OF te most respectable citizens OF the town
still under indictment in the courts for challenging lie
gal colored votes at the last election To ask boy who
offers TO vote II he is 81 years OF age, or
10 inquire where his residence IL, IL called 'fntim
dating voters" by the model ofcehoder OF this state,
and II one Grand Jury can't be induced 70 ndct
for It, another can. or q great number OF citizens
arrested last year, only two three have been tried.
and they have been honoraby acquitted. AT Greens
boro also have been taken to prevent Illegal
voting The Greeley and Brown Club Of that place. one
OF the organizations of the kind in the State has
caused a complete Of Gulf0rt aud adjoining
IN no M will members the polls
to detect any who strangers and attempt TO
In other counties especially along the s0uhC Caro-
lima border where the population Il sparse and tho
negroes numerous, these frauds viii be more dhcnt
TO prevent. No white will be able to swear that
negro who offers vote does not live whore he says he
does in Out-ofthe-way corner Of the county, aud
hundreds Of illegal votes will thus slip in. was told
Salisbury, this week. that number OF negroes nan
already registered in Rowan County who were suspected
Of being residents OF South Carolina. The Admins
tration it Is estimated, may be able TO get IN from
5000 to 5000 fraudulent votes in this way The Admin
istration will also money in buying whlte VOtes III
we carry this election" said the correspondent OF an
Administration journal, TO me, the other day. you WI
charge that did it with money; II you carry IL Wa
shall accuse you OF mtimdating voters" " Yes andI
have no doubt that shall sustain our charges sadL
which is more than you will be able to do" have
shown in a former letter how negroes are prevented
from voting the Liberal ticket white voters who cannot
| be bought will be met with the cry OF /" Ku-Klux"
THE KU-KLUX DODGE.
Next 70 the use of money the Liberals have this Ra
Klux GO fear more than anything else. do not mean by
this of course that the KuKux has any longer an or
ganization ia any county OF the State or that ~ wm
ptarfere with the election been dead and boed
for more than year, but the Grant party has captured
its hideous mask and gown, which they guard az Jea
ousy as the Israetes did the ark of the Lord Wine
they can make the people Of the North believe that us
Ghost still stalks through the South they hope to keep
the "bloody chasm" open and broad that the North
and South can never "casp hands across It, The moro
ingenious of them admit this. Only yesterday "r1nt
man in this town confessed to me that 'he MI
Klux had been "God-send' 10 the A"n'"
istration party in North Carolina its A"lsSs
deeds have been rehearsed again and again to prove tn
the south IA still opposed the Union, and now has
even its ghost can longer be raised us uHKuSes
PLANTED in the pathway from the ADMINISTRATION 10 'ne
Liberal party and is OF the most eneeuVo moans
whpping back into the party traces men who shows
d,snosition TO waver Have you got your mask YetT
HOW do you like the Orderi "Let us know when yea
expect TO go ON a raid" are the tauntng 'aluauons
which Liberal Republicans OF this State receive iVb
their late poticai associates No crimes are oomm"
anywhere in the state for which the KHhuN are D"
held responsible Not only every drunken quarrel 10
tween any two persons of opposite politics reported by
the Administration newspapers. North ana Sootn'
KuKlux outrage but there is not mnder comhhi'ea
woman outraged, a horse stolen that tno eie "o'
charged upon tho Ku-klux ana tue h'"crs parry no''
4 Ie forf
stata ude and he commenced telling me at once about
n caused the arrest Of about half dozen Ku-Klus
| ,o weeks aoo and added that he had men out atet
| mara NJ them On making more particular inquiry
about the matter, found that the men had nor been
arrested on charge Of conspiracy but that they hsa
been indicted for criminal enses, such highway rob-
berv rape chicken stealing, &c. Some OF the
fessed that they belonged TO the KuKux order but
there was nothing connected with their crimes to Lead
any one TO suppose that t organization had anything
| " Wv TWO SORTS OF oUTRAGEs.
The gross injustice that systematically done tbs
peope OF this state more srkngy illustrated
- :, os las week in the sensational in which
one of the NewYOk newspapers reported an execution
I'm Henderson County about 20 miles FROM here ana It's
editorial comments 1t. The circumstances o '"s
ase were briefly as follows: man named Weston was
employed by a whisky dstier, and discovered .sss
night several passing his cabin Win whiy s,w
they had stolen from the distillery "nen n u,o.,on
that they were caught, they threatened 1 shsu But
| - -. ronorted them, they would Nil '" =.
| u,o,,r d,d report them; they were ari'' ,,st
| ,, man and his wife appeared aS WIZ VIZ a., ry ,ha
| -, some time after, six OF seven ~ - -, a. we..
1dirs who had tried Tor Tue me- NC 80, h,s wifs
| TOMS house and shot him ~ 'oN ,nroat Of their
Nil ,hey believed her dead cut 'he 80, now.
,ns~,. an, sot fire 10 the house, Atier 'h's !'F
| ever the woman revived and He'd TO neisno'' -,
| where she reported tine particulars VI ,.,srs
| affair and gave the names OF three o' 'H h. ever
These men were all Republicans aud no QUO .hs Ka.
| thought OF ascrbing the crime " .n,.A
| Klux Though one OF the brothers who were . eA
| lost week did at one time say that the murucr' a..
| committed by order of the Ku Klux 1t was proNeuN
-, ,hat he said this for the purpose Of averng susp
49, ,ou, his father and another brother who had ho''
,n, time been arrested The people OF TINS lai' o.
ststs without regard TO party are justly lhisHAH n.
,his execion should have been the occasion Jns' 81.
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