Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1880-08-19
Washington Letter.


WASHINGTON, d. c., August IL, 1880
Radical papers, all over the
North, are charging fraud in the
Southern Census returns. Gen.
Francis A. Walker, who, by the
way, was ON Hancock's staff du-|
ring the war, was elected Super
intendent of the Census because
he was believed to be not only
competent but incoruptible. If
there has been any fraud, North
or South, he will disclose it. Ev-
cry man who aided him was Sc
lected with his consent or by di-
rect appointment of Mr.. Hayes.
There has been no fraud, howev-
er, or at least, there is nothing
so far shown that indicates fraud.
The Southern States have sim
ply resumed a growth that was
interrupted by the war and impe-
ded by a goddess system Of re-
construction under carpet-bag-
gers. In only one of the South
ern States, besides Texas,is there
any greater proportiOnate gain
than during the ten years known
from 1850 to 1860. That is Vir-
ginia, and in some sections of
that State, as WashingtOnians
know, there has been a quiet,
steady stream of Northern emf
grafton since the war. Besides
this, thousands of negroes who
drifted North prior to 1870, have
realized that "there is no place
like home," and have returned
A point is made that Virginia
North Carolina, Arkansas, &c.
have gained more largely thar
States like Nebraska. They
have shown a larger gain il
numbers. Starting with an av-
erage population of over a mill
ion each, the natural increase
would of course be greater thar
in a new State, almost without
population, in which nearly al
increase must be by emigration
There is nothing in this new
charge; it only shows how DIES
perately the radicals are i'll neeC
Of an issue. Every charge a.
gainst Hancock, and every
charge of bulldozing fails. 1t il
unpatriotic, to be sure, to seiz'
greedily upon a chance to insis
that a portion of the country il
not prosperous, but who eyel
heard of Republican patriotism
which went below Mason anC
Dixon's line?
| trust that the Democratic
Committee meetings in New
York this week have confirmed
the intention of Messrs. Barnum
Wallace and their associates t.
commence a vigorous campaign
: There is already complaint from
? various points, and especially il
? Maine, where the earliest impor
+ tant election is to be held in a
bout a month, that promise
r made early in the campaign ar
: not kept. Against the enOr
: nous amounts money and tn
great personal activity of Repub
, licans, prompt and energetic ef
forts are necessary.
DIR. johnson said that a crow,
would turn out to hear Il woman
t preach, not because she preach
ed better than a man, but be
7 cause she preached at all. Prob
ably many who went to see Gen
: eral Garfield, on his journey t
: and from the meetings of pOliti
5 clans and capitalists, went be
cause they never before had AM
: never will again have chanc
: to see a presidential candidate
? on such a trip. Gen. Scott AM
: Mr.. Greeley are the two previ
Gus candidates who travelled t.
, improve their chances. They
: went to see the people, however
: and not assembled politician
and capitalists. Still, cOmPara
lively proper as was their action
they were badly defeated.
MCKAY.