The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-11-02
THE CAMPAIGN IN NORTH CAROLINA.
A Radical Estimate OF the Resmit-probm~
bllity of "a solid Dernacratic
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[Corresnondence Of the Cincinnati Connr

Correspondence OF the Cincinnati Commercial ,
For members Of the lower House there arc
eight separate campaigns, Of more or less
severity.
In The first district the Republicans really
have 81 majority, but they are divided, spIjt
into factions and Of little account TO them
selves or tho rest Of the country There arc
chickering's and heart-ournings about O. little
pot Of patronage that will not be healed until
the Democrats get possession Of the whole
concern. At present this district Ia renre-
sented by q Democrat, and the probabilities
are that it will continue So
La the second district (Which Is the only
one the Republicans have left they are acting
like children and Idiots. This district has o
history. When the Democrats first came to
power, they did oil they could to make that
condition Of things perpetual. Like their
brethren in Ohio they 'reflstricted the State"
They did 1t to succeed; they did 1t big. They
gathered all the heavy negro counties into y
and gave it bodily over to Africa. The col
ored voters have about l3 900 majority over
their white rethren, and the latter, as was
the Intention IF the Legislature, make no ef-
fort to carry it. Usually some young lawyer
is the Democratic candidate who embraces
the opportunity tn practice public speaking.
The practice Is all he gets out Of it.
Ibis seems to be Il bad year for the South
ern Republicans. Here, in the second district
where they have every opportunity to win q
than GArfield's, in Ohio. they have two can
didates, both black, and the Democrats uniting
in solid mass to run in between. The first
nominee, OHara, was found, on inyestiga-
tion, to have more wives than the law allows,
so the committee attempted to shnlye him
and put another In the field not open to the
charge Of bigamy. The bigamist claims to be
the rightful candidate and refuses to give
way to the new nominee. The party is split
tsguarely in two as between the man With
three wives and the man with none. The
Democrats are joyful and count upon carry
ing the district. If so, the State will have 81
solid Democratic delegation.
In the third district the Greenbackers
started out at lively and spirited pace
early in the canvass, but as all the Democrats
are Greenbackers, and all the Greenbackers
Democrats, and the Republicans ant to run
IN between, they came together and the
candidate will undoubtedly be
elected.
In the fourth the Republicans are gupport-
ing joe Turner as against the regular Demo-
cratic nominee, with fair chances that Joe
Will be elected. No man in North Carolina
has abused the Republicans more than he,
ana that they now support him IL bcca use Of
the utter 1mposslbility Of eecting their first
choice.
In the fifth the present member, Scales, is
the Democratic-Greeny candidate, and op-
posed by Judge Turgee, Republican and car
pet-bagger from Ohio, / believe The district
- I"'+VN'Ieit, DIt get - ItttIR-
ing gallant canvass, and Is more than O.
match for Scales.
The sixth seventh and eighth districts are
hopelessly Democratic and 50 regarded. To
sum up, the Republicans can carry two dis
tricts, first and second, but the prospect is
that they will fool them away
There Is an approach to fairness In the cleo
tlons here which contrasts favorahly with the
way they do things In the Cotton States The
ku-KIux never fIourished in North Carolina
to any large extent. There has been no or
ganzed attempt to intimidate or overcome
majority by outrageous means. The large
white Republican element In the State gives
the party moral backbone, which it does not
have in South Carolina and Mississippi. With
10000 more white Republican voters North
Carolina would become steadily and reliably
Republican. HV +.