The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-11-20
KILPlTRYCR,s FALsEHOODs.
What a Raleigh Editor has 60 saw about the
North Carolina Canvass.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: Your
contemporary, the NctC York Times, published
last Monday column letter from Gem" JUDI
son kilp,trck. There is but one truthful SEN
tence In his whole ranc letter, and that Ia
his opening declaration, which he derlslvely puts
IN quotation marks, "North Carolina has gone
overwhelmingly Dem ocrati6."
Alluding 10 the methods by which the Democ-
racy irrlcd the election, he says What | saw
on Tuesday last and what / have heard since,
horrify me"-thus conveying the assurance 10
the gullible Northern reader that he was an eve
witness on election day OF the bogus horrors he
pretcnds to describe. The truth is he was not
in this state at all until Thursday after the cleo
ton. He left Washington at $40 A. NJ, Thurs
day, Now o. | myself came through on the
train from Richmond with hun. He reached
Raleigh after dark thursday evening, sneaked
to the motel on foot did not register as respec-
table traveller should stayed closeted with the
Radical grand PAM ndruins all night. and slip
ped on on the FIRST train Friday morning.
He says Fraud. treaChery, aud intimidation
are the means nv which this state has been car
ried against the Republican party" fhe fact is
that there was not single disturbance, not
single quarrel I'm the whole State from the
mountains to the SEA on election dav. The lie
is ciuched by the fact that one OF the speakers
at the Democratic jollincation over the result
was W. II. Richardson. editor OF the Raleigh
Constitution, the Radical organ OF the state and
he declared himself and his party "fairy aud
honestly whipped"
He ISLANDERS his own party In this state by say.
Ing 1t has never been well organic d." and
that it lacks leaders ~ Intelligence, FORESIGHT
and resuIute will" Tue Radical party in North
Carolina Is as solid AZ a Mac donian phalanx
and as for its leaders, such men as Gov Holden,
Judge TourRee, Judge settle, and Col. keORh
know more Of political history and political
strategy than would suffice to split Kilpatrick's
bulet-hcaded skull with excessive learning.
lie saws: " Ihe polls all over the state were
ocrais." VITA the ' Whole state q Government and
all the courts in the hands OF X ideals, with
hall TIE pol l-holders and chsllen0ers X dcals,
and with Il horde Of Radical Jnited states Su-
pervisors ana Deputy Marshals appointed where
ever they were asked for. the falsity Of this Is
lie says: "rhe announcement of the Dem
ocratic majorlties In remote districts before the
news could rOssi iy nave been received shows
that the whole thing was liked NJ beforehand"
The lie here Is by Implication. Tue fact II that
aihoroueh canvass enabled us to state, with a
close approximation to accuracy, the vote Of
IN ny counties before they were heard from.
Only that aud nothing more.
lie says "One county mas given Democratic
majority Of 1,4OO. Previous to this time that
county has been Republican, and the majority
for the Democrats now announced Is greater
than the greatest number OF votes ever before
pUlled." rue only county to which. this can
possibly refer Is Catawba. Catawba county
vote in 1872. when the Greeley apathy was on ali
our Democrats. was l,5l Democratic aud 426
kadical-total. l.6sl, or ~ more than the
Democratic majority Of this year.
He says col. Ike Young, Radical candidate
FOR Congress In TINS district. found toe polls at
neuueIsou DtiIlCdueu, ana was reIuseu per-
mission to enter aud act Us a challenger" The
legal number of chaliengers were already at
their posts. and Col. Young had no right to ask
to act IN such capacity But the question Of
admitting hun was put to a vote OF tue poll
holders. tic was tue result, when H. III.
Young magistrate aud registrar, and brother
Of Col. Ike. cast the deciding vote IA favor OF
his admission: and he officiOusly oficiated for
tue remainder If tue day, occasionally ufging
his colOrcd friends to crowd the id Demo!
Gratis from the DOLLS.
When Gen kilpatrick pronounces the whole
Democratic party VI North Carolina rebels. he
utters tue most shameful lie. North Carolintans
have ever been true to the constitutional Union
winch their fathers aided la founding. The
first blood Of the Revolution redeemed their soil,
and GufOrd Court House WAS the prelude to
Yorktown. The Democracy Of tins state com-
prises its Intelligence, virtue, aud patriotism.
T. DONAN, Editor Raleigh Sentinel.
kALEICH, Nov. IL, 1916