The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-08-08
THE SOLID SOUTH.
what the North Carolina Elec.
lion Has Proved.

llUu Llhb AEoNGNs
Raleigh Letter 10 Philadelphia Times.
There has been a fearful smashing Of
Democratic slates in the election Of coun.
" officers and members Of the Legisla.
ture. Many regular nominees have been
defeated by the free lauces, or made to
give way = them at the last moment. 1t
has been high old time for the political
guerrillas. Quite number Of indepen.
dents have been successful in their quest
Of Legislative honors, and those who
failed TO get votes enough to elect them
are now claiming that they only ran for
the fun Of the thing. Split tickets were
in all their glory at Thursdsy's polls,
and the combinations Of names were most
cOnfusingly Kaleidoscope, presenting in
some instances remarkably queer colo
cations in view Of the antecedsnts Of the
persons put in juxtaposition on the bal.
iots. A spirit Of doing as they pleased
seems 10 have actuAted the great mass OF
the voters and TO have run rampant all
over the State. 81.
There have been strange changes, ut
terly coniounding the calculations Of the
professional politicians. Democratic
counties have elected radicals and radical
counties have elected Democrats. The
heretofore strongly Republican county Of
Granville, famous for its tobacco, returns
Democratic Senator and two Demo-
cratic members OF the House, being q
gain OF three. The Democratic county OF
Cumberland elects two Republicans to the
Legislature. These are fair samples Of
the way matters went throughout the
State. This result IL due TO the indepen-
dent movement, which has shaken up
things worse than any oil the Mysteries OF
Bald Mountain. The color line, too, was
badly broken. At Salisbury all the ne.
groea voted for John g. Henderson, regu.
lar Democratic nominee for the State
Senate from Rowan. At Weldon and
other polling places in Halifax county
the colored voters largely supported the
Democratic State ticket, aud gave J. B.
ZoIlicoifer, Democrat, big vote for Sena.
tor, nearly and perhaps quite electing
him. Weldon is a noted radical strong.
hold, and the ratio now Of nearly twenty
Democratic votes to one Republican Is a
revolution worth remarking.
The election Of Moses A. Bledsoe, in.
dependent Democrat, as State Senator
from this county is somewhat oil sur
prise. He was generally supported by
the Republicans. 10 fact, 1t ia said he
was brought out by Ex-Governor Hol.
den. Bledsoe Ia for Merrimen's re-elec-
ton to the United States Senate, and bit.
terly antagonized Vance. Ex.Congress.
man James Madison Leach Ia doubtless
elected State Senator from Guilford. He
IL a Hayes Democrat, but was the regu.
lar nominee OF the conservatives, another
man who was frat nominated by the eau.
Gus having been hauled down to make
room for him. Josiah Turner, formerly
state printer, editor Of the old Raleigh
Sentinel, and confederate Congressman,
turns up successful in his tree-lance but
with two competitors for the House
from Orange. This is signal victory
for the independents, Of whom Turner is
the chief apostle and taeile prineeps as boss
disorgauizsr. He will make things lively
in the next Legislature.
The election just over demonstrates
beyond dispute the fact that North Caro-.
lima Is not 10 be counted upon with con.
fdence hereafter as an integral part Of
the "Solid South.m