The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-10-01
THE SOUTH SOLID FOR GRANT.

1t appears from what the President
makers and political strikers say, the
South is solid in every respect. 1t is
solid in it's opposition, to the colored.
hegira to Kansas, and to carpet bag
rule; solid in favor of State rights and
Democratic rule, apd last, though not
least, solid for Grant for third term.
A special from Raleigh, North Carolina,
to the New York Times says, upon the
authority of Colonel Keogh, Chairman
of the State Republican Committee, and
of Judge Settle, who has returned from
prolonged tour through the country,
that nine tenths of the Republicans are
in favor of Grant for President, because
they believe he. can be elected, and
under his candidacy the entire Republic
can vote of the South would be rallied
and aroused, as there would be. reason
to expects free election and fair count.
1t is rather strange that Southern
sentiment should be so intensely solid
on every proposition, and stranger yet
that northern people should. believe all
that is said of its soidity. 1t is true
decidedly Democratic, but no more SO
than many of the. Northern States,
notably Vermont, Rhode Island, Michi-
gan, Kansas and Nebraska, are Repub-
lican. 1t is also, true that there is as
large proportion of Republicans
elected tothe Legislature in many of the
Southern States as there are Democrats
in many of the. Northern States. At
the election in Nevada year ago only
one Democratic Senator and six or
seven Democratic Assemblymen were
elected, and the Republican majority
Ill the Legislature on joint ballot was as
large as the Democratic majority in the
Legislature of any of the Southern
States; yet, an insinuation that there
was buildozing or unfair means used.t to
accomplish this result in Nevada would
be strongly resented. by the majority.
This shows that there is no more reason
for asserting. that Republicans are in
Inundated in Georgia or Alabama than
for asserting that Democrats were bull
dozed in Nevada, and that the election
or count was unfair.
The expectation that if Grant was
candidate for reelection the
election would be freezer and farer in
the South than if some other candidate
was nominated, is not warranted by
previous elections. In 1876 Grant was
President, and therefore more capable
OF securing free and fair election, than
Ire would be as a candidate. Yet in
Louisiana, according to. the Returning
Board count, Packard, the Republican
nominee for Governor, received thou
sand more votes than the Hayes
Electors; yet. they were counted
in and he was counted out.
This is conclusive evidence of fraud, and
it occurred under Grants Administra-
ton. If the Hayes electors were
chosen by the people, Packard was cer-
tainly elected Governor, while, on the
osher hand, if Packard was not elected,
the Hayes electors were certainly de-
feated. A fraud was perpetrated
which deprived the people of the
United States of their choice for Presi-
+ dent, OF the people of Louisiana of their
choice FOR Governor, while Grant was
President. so the Southerners have in
reality no grounds on which to base
their expectations for free or fair elec-
tions, if. he is candidate for third
term.
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