Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-10-18
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The indications are that there is trouble
ahead for Georgia, in case OF PRESIDENT
Grants reelection. The overwhelming
majority by which the Greeley allies have
just carried that State, has demonstrated
beyond doubt that Grant has no fo0thold
in Georgia. Indeed, Governor SIuith'S
majority was so great that it is vain TO
think Of overcoming it by anything short
of another reconstruction. Neither fraud
nor force upon All ordinary scale can
make any Impression upon the Conserva-
tive majority ia that State. But ali that
the Grant people need to know to make
them resort to extraordinary force and eH-
trao!dinaly fraud, is the fact that ordinary
means are not sufficient. \ majority Of
sXty-otd thousand votes cannot be over
and in view Of this fact, we are not sur
prised to hear of preparations looking to a
new reconstruction of that State, or at
Last to throwing out Of its vote.
The following extract from a Radical
dispatch sent from Atlanta to the New
York Times, exposes the programme
agreed upon:
q Taken all in all, there has, perhaps,
never been on this continent, all election
fraud compared with the one perpetIated
in this State two days ago. Considering a
fair election impossible under the existing
Democratic rule here, and unwilling to
subject the negroes TO further outrage and
personal danger, the Chairman of the Re
publican State Central Committee will call
q meeting Of the Committee and pro. C
the withdrawal of all candidates ana e.el :
tors OH the Republican ticket, thus declin-
ing any participation whatever in the No
vember election. This course has been
earnestly recommended by the leading
Republicans in the State, and will, in all
probability, be adopted by the Committee"
Radical orators openly advise the colored
people not to vote at the election, but to
go along about their daily business, and
publicly proclaim from the stump that
Grant is sure to be reelected, and that ono
Congressman elected by the Greeley Party
Of Georgia acW take has seat"
This game was attempted once before
in Georgia, in the election following tie
absconding and resignation of Governor
Bullock, when the present Governor,
Smith, was first elected. 1t was not a
success then, nor will it be a success now,
unless President Grant shall be reelected.
Unfortunately for that State, however,
Simon Cameron and Secretary Delano are
interested in some Of tie Georgia rail
roads, and it is said they th.n1i they can
better accomplish their ends under a new
reconstruction than with a Democratic
Governor and a Democratic Legislature.
If Grant shall be elected he will owe his
success to Simon CameTDn's influence in
carrying the State of Pennsylvania last
week.
y special dispatch to the Louisville,
(Ky.) Co"te,-JO1ynd1, from Washington,
dated the 9th CT October, says:
at is believed by well-informeG persons
that there is q serious design in Admins
tration circles to throw out the electoral
vote of Georgia and to subject that State
to q third military reconstruction i'll order
to further the designs, now only partly &C
coInplished, of Simon Cameron and Secre-
tary Delano upon the Georgia railroads
There will be an endeavor to work up
public opinion so as to furnish excuse for
these acts and for excluding the members
Of Congress to be elected in November
next until the organization Of the next
House of Representatives shall have been
perfected. Federal troops will probably
be sent to Georgia and Louisiana, with
directions to back MP the carpet-baggers in