Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-05-05
THE CAMPAIGN OF ~.
Money shat was Expended in
North Carolina.
RALEIGH. N. c. April "a.

North Carolina.
RALE1GH, n. c., April "a.
Whiteley's startliug story touching
the secret service money in the cleo
tion of 1872, unbending, as it did, tn
iuelastic Southern Outrage Miller,
exAttorney General Williams, set YOU
correspondent to reviewing some O
his old sources of Information, fount
useful here in North Carolina durin!
the memorable Merrimon> Cald wei
contest of the summer of 1872.
TRACES OF SECRET sEAvICE Nan.
There is at present no trace of Sc
cret service money used in tbs State
for election purposes in 1872 in the
manner described in the case Of John
ny Davenport, but the state was full
/ OF such notorious secret srrvicn moi
as the infamous Beach and the now re
! pcntant and Christian H.ster. These
| men pretended to be on the hunt for
ku hlux. and their expenses and dis
/ buIsements are doubtless covered un-
der what the late Attorney General
playfully suggests as Legitimate cx
pendIture.
The marshal's Office was very liber-
y y
AID IN the suppression of the ku klnx,
and almost every town -hip in the State
bad its deputy marshal to put down
the grim, ghostly foe; but of the $780,
900 disi,ur ed by Marshal Carlow IL
1872 possibly not a fart'lin can now
be traced 10 other sou, cos than '1egit
mate expenditures. thus serving the
ends of jnstica at any cO't.
SPECIAL AGENTS. OF POST OFFICE DEPART
MEST.
Du1ing the campaign of 1872 quite
nn army OF special agents OF the PO-t-
office Department were appointed i'll
this State. A record of their appoint
ments and of the ,ervlce they per-
formed is presumable to be found at
the department in Washington. But
the most or gina al and animated feature
of the campaign of '72 was in the con.
script army of revenue officers. Some
hundreds of "designsted assistant as
SCISSORS" were appointed by Commis-
sioner Douglas and Secre ary Bout
we'll, with the approval of the
President, and these swarmed all
over the State. They received
SIS per day as revenue officials
and performed 10 duty whatever as
such except to canvass for the Repub-
lican party and either buy up or by
intimidation silence voters If u COM
mittee shonld see fit to peep into the
office OF the Commissioner of Internal
Revenue they would be startled at the
amount of false certifying, false wear
ing a shameless swindling perpetrated
through the revenue system during
the North Carolina campaign of 1872.
The amount of government money so
in this State for election
purposes could not have fallen short
of $780, 900. This is, however, con,
sldered a very small matter in govern
ment circles. Secretary Bristow was
Informed on the subject be-
fore the meeting of this Congress, but
it was not deemed "expedlent" TO in
quire into the matter lest it should
provoke Congressional Investigation.
POOL OF NORTH CAROLINA,
now Of Washington, is said to have
invented the ''desi gnated ass stant'
process in tue revenue system for cleo
lions, and doubtlers could tell all
about it. Hon. john A. Hyman, col
ored Congressman and only repuoll-
can member from North Carolina, was
frauds in the election of 1872. and
would sit admirably as one Of the
of Investigation on account
Of his supposed familiarity with the
subject. Collector l. J. Young,of this
district, probable cand date 70: Cou-
gress in the approaching election, was
one of the managers and manipulaturs
in 1872, and seems to have acted as
ii sort of paymaster general for the |
army of "designated asses |
sora" His evidence together with
in his office aud at VAST |
iugt0n will disclose the whole ''con- |
5 spiracy," as District Attorney Badger !
it when some time ago he |
to investigate the matter in
th, United States Circuit Court, but
was stopped.
FUNDS USED IN 1872.
At tue close of the session of Con-
gress IN 1872 Senator Johu Pool and
ex Senator J. & Abbott appeared in
Raleigh with a sum of money various
" estimated at from $40, 900 to $50, 900.
This money, they said. had been APP
prcpriated to North Carolina by the
uatIOual executive committee OF the
party, end themsei es des-
ignAted to expend it i'll the manage
ment of the campaign. Samuel f.
Phillips, now Solicitor General of the
Department of Justice, was the chair
man of the State executive committee,
and it wa remarked at the tt t-e by all
the leading republicans here. as very
singular cIrcums stance that the uatl0nal
com mittee should have thus Ignored the
state committee in the distribution of
funds, practically taking the manage
ment of the State campaign out of the
hands of the State committee and
leaving it without money save local
contributions. Precisely how much
money Pool and Abbott had has never
been known to anybody but them
selves. What they did with ii all las
been Il matter OF specu alton. They
are not known to have kept any account
OF their expenditures, or to have ac
C united to anybody for the money
they received. This matter las all
the time b. e
ONE OF THE PROFOUND MY -TEkIES
of the great campaign 4f 1872. to
which we pcrhupa lave at last KY
through tho Davenport transaction
i'll New York. Senator Pool had. like
Davenport. a system Of political book
keeping and reg :stra+!0n, aud he
ought to b" allowed to till If the
vherewith he had +" txpend came ou'
IF the secret service fund, which all
the cIrcumS ance5 o' the case would
seem to Indicate. Ex-Sena'"I' Abbott
Is now Collector Of the p'rt of VIII
niington. Y. q. Perhaps he, too.
world nix to tell What ne knows about
campaigning III th" ) ate.
EI.SERGEANT-i ALARMS ORDNAY.