The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-04-26
ELEClIONEER|NG IN THE SOUTH.
Employment Of Government officers
to Elect Grant.
Money That Was Expended in
North Carolina.

RALEIGH, N c., April "a, 1870
whisleys startling story touching the Of Secret
Service money the election OF 1872, unbending, as
IL did the inelastic southern Outrage Millcr,n
Attorney General iams, set your correspondent TO
reviewing some of his old sources OF information,
found useful here North Carolina during the memo
rable Merrimon- Caldwell contest Of the summer Of
1872
TRACES sEKvIcg
There Is at present no Secret Service money
used this State for election purposes In 1872 In the
manner described In the OF Johnny Davenport;
the State full OF such notorious secret Service
men as the infamous Beach and the rcpcntaat and
Christian Hester. These men pretended to be on he
hunt tor Ku Klux. and their expenses and dsburse-
doubtless covered under what the late Ator
ney General playfully suggests "a lie. inmate expcn
dmure.n
Tho Marshai's Office was very literally supplied with
money that year the suppression Of the Ku Klux
and almost every township the State had ITS deputy
marshal TO put down the GRIM ghostly foe; but OF the
$3.50 COO dsburscd by Marshal Carrow in 1872 possibly
not iarihing can now traced other than
Legitimate expenditures thus serving tho ends OF
justice ut any cost
DEPARTMENTS
During the campaign Of 1872 quite army Of special
agents OF the Post oncc Department appointed
In this State OF their appointments and of
at the department IN Washington. But tho most
original and animated feature OF the campaign OF 10
in the conscript army OF revenue oincerR
some hundreds Of designated assistant asscs-
sors'' were appointed by Commissioner Douglas
Of OF tho President, and these swarmed ali
over the State They received So per day revenue
officials and performed no duty whatever as such cx
rcpt Tor tho republican party either buy
up or BY intimidation silence voters II committee
should see u, TO peep into the Office OF the Conmis
soner Of Internal Revenue they would be startled at
the amount OF false certifying, false swearing
shameless swindlng pcrpetrated through the revenue
system during the North Carolina campaign OF 1872.
The amount OF government money squandercd In
this state for election purposes could not have fallen
short OF 500 600 THIS is however considered very
small matter in government circles Secretary Bristow
was officially informed ON the subject before tho meet
ing OF tins Congress- but II not deemed "cxpcdi
sut 10 inquire into the matter lest should provoke
Congrcs sional Investigation.
EX-SENATOR rooI, NORTH CAROLINA
resident at Washington, is said to have Invented
The designated assistant process in the revenue
system Tor elections aud doubtless could tell all about
II. Hon. john A. Hyman, colored Congressman, and
only republican member from North Carolina
ot these designated assistant trauds the election
oflS,2 and would sit admirably one OF committee
OF investigation on account OF his supposed familiarity
with the subject. Collector J. Young. OF this dis
lrict, probable candidate for Congress IN the
approaching election. was one OF the managers and
manipuators IN 1872 and seems TO have acted MS
sort OF raymaster general for the conscrpt army OF
'rcslgna;cu ASSESSORS HIS evidence together with
documents IN his Office and Washington will disclose
the whole conspiracy" as District Attorney Badger
characterized II when some time ago, he proposed TO
investigate tie matter in tho United States Circuit
Court, but was cstoppcd.
FUNDS USED ~ 1872
Az the close OF The of Congress In 1872 SEN
ltor John Pool and ex-senator j. o. Abbott appeared
In Raleigh with sum OF money varously estimated
from $4,000 10 $50, 00O This money, they said,
had been apportoned 10 North Carolina by tho Ma
tional Executive Committee Of the republican party,
and themselves designated To cxpcnd In the manage
OF the campaign samuel +. Philips now So
ucitor General of the Department Of Justice then
chairman Of the State Executive Committee, rnd Il
remarked the time. by all the leading rcpubli
caus here, as very singular circumstance that tho
National Committee should have thus ignored The
State COMMITTEE IN the distribution OF fluids,
practically taking the management OF tho
State campaign out OF the hands OF the
State Committee and leaving II without money save
local contributions. Precisely how much money Pool
aud Abbott had has been known any body but
themselves. What they did with II all has been a
matter OF speculation They are not known 10 have
kept any account OF their expenditures or TO have
counted anybody for the money they received This
matter has all the time been
OF TIE PROFOUND MYSTERIES
OF the great campaign OF 1872, 10 which perhaps
have ut last Key through the Davenport TRANSACTION
IN New York Senator Pool had. like Davenport. n
system of political bookkeeping and registration and
he ought 10 be allowed to tell II the whercwth he had
TO cxpcnd out Of the Secret Service fund.- which
oil the circumstances OF the would seem TO ind
cate Elk Senator Abbott Is Collector OF the port
OF Wilmington ~ {. Perhaps he. too. would like TO
tell what he knows about campa gning in this State.