New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-10-04
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GEoRGIA AND SOBTH CAROLINA.

| GEOBGLA AND NORTH CAROLINA.
! The Associated Press stands by its fgure9
md insists on o Liberal and Democratic ma
iority of 10000 TO $4,000. A cautious CORE
| spondent in Savannah telcgraphs us that it will
DO at the lowest $4,000. Enough that it is
az Unexpectedly overwhelming as it is in
spring. The Grant papers are preparing
stories of intimidation at the polls. Men
whom we know we can trust assure us
that the reports are without foundation.
The disturbance at Macon was precipitated
in The Grant interest. Even there the Mayor
protected the negroes in their right to vote.
More of them than we had expected appear to
have voted for reform and decent government;
and it is not impossible that in the interior,
where cotton picking is Mt its hight, many OF
them concluded to wait for November before
voting at all.
But tho magnificent triumph in Georgia is
chiefly valuable as demonstrating the strength
of liberalism in the South when free TO mani
fest itself without the interference of Admins
tration agents and the corruptng influences OF
Administration money. BY contrasting the re-
suit with that of the North Carolina election we
can form u iuser estimate than ever of the
! by which we were robbed Of the full measure
, of victory leGitimately won in that State.
| Georgia was as promising field for the en-
| poyment Of those peculiar agencies which the
! Administration knows how 10 use so I'M
scrupulousy as was North Carolina. The
Blacks number about fve-elevenths of the
population. and MS in North Carolina, where
| they are less numerous, they are completely
| under carpet-bag control. There is also to be
| found in Georgia an element of small farmers
| among the mountains who were attached to
| the Republican party in its better days, on
| account of their Union prccliyities in the war.
| Georgia had suffered terribly from the rule OF
thieving carpet-baggers, but so had North
! Carolina and the prejudice of the better class
| of citizens against the Administration party
| on this account was no stronger in one State
| than in the other. In Georgia the Grant party
| had the advantage of the assistance OF an or
ganized Bourbon element, thing not to be
| found in North Carolina or anywhere else In
the South. This element, while running no
candidate against Gov. Smith and giving him
pretended support, embarrassed the canvass
| all they could and would have rejOiced at his
defeat Fortunately for the good people of Geor-
|
full in PENNSYLVANIA, Ohio, and Indiana, and
could give no attention to their election.
Otherwise they would no doubt have been
overruD by marshals revenue officers, POST
Office agents, and all manner of Government
officials and deputies, with pockets filled with
corruption money and bogus warrants OF
arrest to bride the weak and brighten the
timid. Cabinet Ministers would have tTay-
ersed the State to incte their subcrdinates to
more vigorous efforts negroes would have
been imported from adjoining States, and in
genious schemes of fraud would have been
devised and put in practice-in short, the
shameful history of the North Carolina can
vass would have been repeated. They have
been spared these infections, and have been
permitted to hold a fair election only because
the Administration did not dare to weaken
its forces in the great Northern States which
vote next Tuesday. All its stumpers and
strikers its repeateTs and cOlOnzers, its ballot
bOx-stuffers and corruption-agents, and all
the money it can extOrt from its underlings is
needed in those States.
The Georgia election is full of cheer to the
Liberals. 1t exposes the weakness of our
enemies. They have given us fair fight and
an easy victory in the Empire State of the
South because, great as are the cOrrupting
resources and influences in their CONTROL they
did not dare to divert any part of them from
Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Ohio. Our friends
in those States know now that they are fight
ing the whole concentrated strength of the
Grant party. The knowledge should animate
them to renewed exertions. If they are sue
cessful, the November battle will be already
fought and won, and theirs will be the honor
of the victory.