The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-11-21
ELECTION RESULTS IN THE souYn.
A Political Error Made rHtrhhIa-The cry
Of Intimidation False.
WAsu1NGToN. November 10.

| WASHINGJON, November lO.
The defeat of Mr.. Yates in the Firs
North Carolina District and the election
of his Republican competitor does no
look like there was any intimidation
practiced in North Carolina. 1t is yer,
likely that the Republicans would nav,
been more successful in the South if the,
had made the least effort to have il so
But from the very first the Republican
Campaign Committee here confined it.
work to the theatre Of The Northern and
Western States. The amount of none,
that it sent into the Congressional Dis.
tricts of the South was so insignificant
rs not to merit notice, and it is believes,
that during the whole campaign not one
campaign speaker from the North ap.
peared on the stump in any part of the
South, except in Petersburg, Va, where
the Republican candidate was elected
A month ago the Chairman of the Re-
publican Committee OF North Carolina
came here, went to the rooms of the Re-
publican Congressional Campaign Com
mittee, and bcsought the managers to
send some good speakers 10 North Car
olina, mentioning especially Mr. Blaine.
All he could get was promise that per-
haps Mr.. S'ockctt Matthews, Of Mary
land, would come. 1t Mr.. Matthews
went the knowledge of the fact has not
yet penetrated to this locality.
While the Republican Campaign Com
mittee thus deliberately abandoned the
South to its opponents, the contest all
over the North was wngcd with MI earn
estness and vigor not often surpassed in
Presidential elections. Senator Cork
ling did what he did not even do in the
Presidential contest-went out of his
own State to make campaign speeches
for his party. Mr.. Blaine spoke all over
the West and ut various points in the
East The most gifted orators of the
Republican party traverscd State after
State, speaking froit the stump daily.
No one will say that there has ever been
a more animated or q more intensely bit
ter campaign in Mass s:husc,is than The
one which has just clio ,ed. Gen. Butler
fought his own campaign almost single
handed, while ngninet him ~ns arrayed
all the power Of the Republican speakers
of the Stale and all the social influ-
ence, which is as potent factor in Mas
sachusetts rs it is in South Carolina o,
Louisiana. Yet If it had not been for the
direct aid of Democratic votes General
Butler would to-day be the Governor.
elect of Massachusetts.
If the Republicans had made no con
test in massachusetts as they made non,
Ill South Carolina or Mississippi, VIII
can deny that Butler would not hay,
been elected Governor And in tha
event there would have been Just n
much logic in nsciibing his success I,
Democratic intim dation as there is il
charging the result in South Carolin.
and Louisiana 20 intimidation. Wha
necessity for intimidation when you
enemy surrenders without contest
Hard money" and plenty of it ha,
also much to do with the Republican
success i'll several States of :he North
1t was literally poured out like water i,
PennsyiSutlia, Michigan, New York an,
Illinois, not to speak of Massachusetts
But if the Republican les in thes
STATES had been as they were in tn
South, they would to-day be ranged o
he Democratic instead Of on the Rerub
lican side
| IL is alleged that Republican meeting
were broken up in South Carolina an,
elsewhere during the campaign Jus
closed. But who was there to addres
Republican meetings? Outside of tn
Federal offcellolders the white Republi
cans in South Carolina can almost b.
counted on your ten fingers. Why di.
not Mr.. Blaine. or Colonel Ingcrsoll, o.
hundreds of other Republican speaker:
who can be mentioned, 90 to South Car
olina and take part in the campaign
They have rs much right tc speak il
Suuth Carolina as in Massachusetts. and
they and their friends know very vel
that no Republican meeting at which
they were TO appear would be broken ur
and no division of time demanded. The
stories of intimidation, of breaking up
of Republican meetings, g., come from
persons of 20 responsibility, but they are
made use Of all the same.
Under the circumstances the lament
which is now going up from the Radical
papers over the North OF the Republican
congressman who ought to have been
elected from the South is the sublimity
OF coolness. 1t is wonderful that there
are any Republican Congressman from
the South at all. The Republicans do
not elect Congressman in the North
without fighting for them, and despcr.
aieiy at that, yet they expect to have
TWENTY-FIVE or thirty given hem in the
Sodih without SO much as Lifting a hand
Tor them. An amusing instance of ig.
norance of the facts which exist even in
so central State as Maryland is evil
denced by the manner in which promi.
nent journal Of another State headed on
the morning after the election the an
nouncement OF the election of Mr.. Urncr.
II was rs follows: "The negroes Of the
Sixth District of Maryland succeeded in
electing representative" This was no
doubt considered a great feat and no
table example where the colored people
had managed to get to the polls despite
the intimidation. OF course this must
bring smile to the lips of every citizen
of Maryland knowing the very large
body Of intelligent and influential white
Republicans vino live in The Sixth Dis
tr.ct and the numerically insignificant
proportion of colored voters.
Iti is asserted by prominent Republi-
cans that in the next campaign things
will be managed very differently: hat
they intend TO send their best speakers
to the South, and manage their cam
paigns there just as they do in the North.
This will be the proper thing to do, and
if they can convince the colored people
of the South that it is for their interest
to act with the Republican party the
democrats must acquiesce. BaHimorc
Sun