The New York herald., 1876-10-24

cess sometimes called gerrymanderine but which. i
believe, Is considered legitimate by boIh pars.s-,naI
the only district certain 10 be carried by the radicals
the second, now represented by u coored man named
Hyman, but in which Governor hrogden Is
by 5000 majority. more or less THIS
much Is certain Ii looks 10 mo ns II
the democrats could carry the other seven districts
Prominent republicans however, such as Colonel
Thomas d. Keosh, Governor Brogien and others,
claim that Canaday in the Third district Young IN tue
Fourth and Lindsey in The First all OF them radcas
will carry the day their democratic competitorA
had conversation, few days ago. with Mr. lsaac
W. Jones' republican Tor Presidential elsctor
in the seventh district who contcndcd that xr Thomas
J. Duia. republican, would dsent Hon. w. 81 Robbins,
present Representative tor Conaress In tha. disiric.
Robbins had about 900 majority two years ago. put
there was practically no contest Acrrmon majority
IN 1872, ia the eleven counties composing the df-
trist, was l529 Mr.. Jones' claims that Dula w.l see
this majority and 20 sone 200 or 500 better
Jones says Dula viii certainly carry six OF the eleven
counties Of the district Dula - AN able ana
In The Fifth district lnd Mr. James f. Boyd, Sepubli
can. and his friends, confident OF his success. Mr.
James NJ Leach only led Settle, then the republican
candidate Tor ngress by 25i majority in 1872 the
Fifth district. Alamance county, which then cast 223
majority against Settle, II claimed Will now give
another county OF that district Judge Settle that
he lost some 800 votes BY intimidation and fraud To
offset all this however may state the act that Leach
beat his republican oppoLeni General W. L. SCOTT ny
!, 400 two years before
pExocRArIc LEGisLATuRE.
The Legislature elected two years ago had
two.thirds democratic majority IN each
house. There viii. inevitably bc democratic loss
here. Tie democrats WILL without any poss,ble doubt
carry tho incoming LEGISLATURE, thereby iasur-
ing tho election OF : democratic United States
whose term expires March 4. 1871 Ransom Is dili-
geuty travcrsing the State for re-eeciion. Ho has
speeches at various points Judge Fowie, Mr.. j. n
Leach and Mr.. Georpe Davis, OF Wilmington, are
also sspirsnts for tho United States Senators hip But
Governor Vance will get the nomination oil the demo-
cratic caucus, whether he succeeds or fails In his
present for the Governorship It's Questionable,
though.iif this nomination will be equivalent 10 an
election. The policy of the republicans IS to repeat
the smart little game by which they spashed tho
slate ntho session OF ls'2-3 and made hueusius >
Merrimon Senator by supplemcning with their united
strength cshteon boiling democrats IN the General
Assembly
THE DEMOCRATIC sPgAKRRs.
In the campaign now IN progress the democrats
have very dccidcd advantage IN the number II not
IN the ability OF speakers Hundreds speeches daily arc
generally being made all the State Tho audiences
are small. ranging from nifty persons 10 two or three
hundred. Whether the republicans are doing any rf
ectvc work in quiet way to Offset the loud and open
efforts OF the rival party Is more than can toll ~ Is
certain. however that neither OF the State Executive
Committees has maze even so much as au approximate
estimate by townships and counties OF the probable
voe. canvass OF the entire State, IN this sense OF
counting noses, was made in 1872 by the Republican
Committee but there has been nothing OF the sort this
year No man. whatever his facilities oil observation,
owing to this absence OF specific data can in.cgenty
forescc the result The probabilities iavor Tiden and
Vance, but the vote will be very close, and North
CarolEa may 60 for Hayes and Settle.
GOVERNOR VANCE DELIVERS AN ADDRESS TO
THREE THOUSAND PERsoNs.-HE DEFENDS
HIS WAR RECORD.
KIxGsrdS, n. c., Oct. %, 1876
Hon. Zebulon b. Vance, d.-aocratic nominee for
Governor, spoke here to-day, for two hours and a
quarter, to upward Of 5000 people from Wayne,
Greene, Pitt, Jones. Craven, Onslow and Lenoir
ties. He received Mt the railroad depo, by the
Greenvillc cornct band and great concourss of cit
zens OF whom many horseback. Immense
enthusiasm was manifested. Governor Vance claimed
that he steadiasty maintained the supremacy Of the
civil the military authority throughout the war,
Horato Seymour, Of New York, being the only other
State Governor who did He sad that ne told
Jefferson Davis, Secretary OF War; in the absence OF
any Confederate states supreme Court that the de-
cisions OF the supreme Court Of North Carolina, ad-
verse to Daviss harsh measures were law to him. and
that f the Confederate government did not respect
them he wound call upon the State militia to enforce
them and he would, II necessary, issue procla-
recalling the North Carolina troops from Lees
army 10 sustain him.
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