Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-08-16
NORTH CAROLINA.
How the Radicals Carried the State in
the GubernatOrial Election,

Senator Carpenter SAID in speech i'm
Wisconsin before the election in North
Carolina, "if we DON'T carry North Car
olina by l0,WO majority, things viii look
blue for General Grant, Boutwell,
claimed the State by $4,000 and Sena-
Tor Wilson by 1900, while Delano and
the New York Times insisted that the
majority would be n, 600. There was a
reason why they claimed so large a ma
iority. They knew how the ballot-boxes
were to be manipulated. The Raleigh
SeFlcset Of the twelfth instant says "the
amount Of fraudulent voting that was
done by the Radicals in the late election
stsggers belief But with all this they
carried the State BY a very meagre ma
iOrity. The following from the VIII
mingtOn North Carolina Journal shows
the character Of some Of the frauds:
"In Bladen county the voting strength
is put down al 2,6l0. The number of
votes actually cast is ,, $50.
:" In Cumberland county the voting
strength is put down at 3,252. The
number of votes actually cast is 3, ,773.
ain Duplin county the voting pOpula-
ton is put down at 2949. The number Of
votes actually cast is S4S5.
ain Franklin county the voting
strength is put down at 2270. The num-
Der Of votes actually cast is 3035.
In Halifax county the voting
strength is put down at Ass. The actual
number Of votes cast for Governor in
the late election is 5307.
''Be il remembered that il was in Hall
fax county the registration books We're
said to have been lost.
In LenOir county the voting strength
is put down OF 20Sl. The number Of
votes cast was 2264.
"In Nash county the voting strength
is put down at 31sl. The number of
votes cast is 3677! This increase is in
part, however, accounted for by the re-
cent annexation of part of Edgecombe
county to Nash.
"In Northampton county the voting
strength is put down at 290l. The num-
Der Of votes actually cast is 30S5.
''In RObesOn county the voting
strength is put down at 3O43. The num-
Der Of votes actually cast is 1914.
"In Sampson county the voting
strength is put down at 1855. The vote
actual east is Sl32.n
The Raleigh Sentinel Of the twelfth
instant furnishes another instance. It
says:
d The law requires that at the farthest
the official election returns from each
county must be publicly proclaimed by
Tuesday after the election. We learn
from the most reliable sources that the
election returns in Craven county were
withheld until Wednesday, last. Of
course they viii be thrown out. If they
are not then throw the laws TO the
winds, for they are dead letters, or are
only a law unto Democrats and Con-
servatives and Liberals. Doubtless the
same disregard of law was manifested in
other counties. If so, we would be
pleased to have early Information Of the
same
Were these returns kept back in order /.
TO fix them up to suit the exigencies of |
the occasion? The Sentinel expresses /
the hope that the Democratic candi- I
dates viii take immediate steps to con- /
test the election. 1t is duty they owe
to the country TO expose the frauds by /
which the Radical Leaders sought to de-
feat the viii Of the people ST North Car
olina, and to have the perpetrators pun
ished, if they can be discovered.