The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-10-28
PERSECUTION AND FRAUD.
The Son of Stephen A. Douglas
Forced to Leave North Carolina.
WHITE REPUBLICAN VOTE OF
10000 NULLIFIED BY FRAUD.

NEW YORK, Oct. pa Washington special
to the Times says that Stephen A. Douglas,
son of the late Senator Douglas. in consequence
of the petty prosecutions practiced by the Demo
Gratis towards Republicans, has decided to leave
North Carolina, his native state, and take up
his residence in Illinois. The National Repub-
lican tomorrow will contain an interview with
Mr.. Douglas upon political affairs in North
Carolina, in which he explains the treatment
accorded Republicans in the South. Mr.. Doug
las says:
eve have in North Carolina larger pro-
portion of intelligent and wealthy Republic
cans-white at that-men of high social stand
ing-than are to be found in any other South
ern state, Tennessee alone excepted. The
estimate you printed the other day, putting the
white Republican vote of the state at 10000,
was not far out of the gay. And this vote is
composed of the best c.tzens of the state, in
Guiding some of the very best famiies-the
Reeds, the Dockerys, the Barringers, and doz-
ems of others-in the South. But with all the
advantages this intelligent numerical strength
gives us, the Democrats have succeeded in
getting the control of affairs, and the drift is
against us, socially and commercially, as well
as politically. The Republicans will be able
to reclaim the state with the hardest kind OF
hard work. The state belongs to them by a
fair majority; but the Democrats have control
of the election machinery and can count US
out, as the phrase goes They got this control
by resorting to the diabolical agency of Ku.
KluX away back in lo72 when the people OIL
the North, good Republicans and bad Re-
publicans, wouldn't believe what they now
know to be true about Southern Democratic
methods of political warfare. And having got
ten it they propose to keep it. Why, do you
know that L and hundreds of intelligent Re
publicans here and elsewhere in the North
who meyer have heard of our Ku-Klux trials in
1923? And at those trials in both the Caro-
linas not less than 1000, and perhaps 1000 men
W ere convicted Of crimes closely akin to the
Chisolm massacre and the Barksdale-Dixon
affair! Hundreds of these criminals were sent
to the Albany Penitentiary, others were pun
ished with milder sentences, and very large
number were let off scot free for having plead
ed guilty and promised to do better. But Ku-
Kluxism is broken up in North Carolina now
almost entirely. In its place, however, the
! Democrats have established a reign of fraud
and corruption at the polls, which serves the
| same purpose. For example, there were very
| few if any actual outbreaks in our last cam
paign- the campaign of 1876, mean. There
| was one man, Republican Observation-Disclosures
| in the eastern part of the, state. killed OF
drowned-thrown into Albemarle Sound--and
| there were possibly half a; dozen or more
violent interfences with voters. But
| the Democrats don't rely on violence now
| fraud and false counting are their favorite
agencies. So it happened that in 1876 they
| gave us peaceable election-comparative
| peaceable; but they counted Settle out all the
|