National Republican., 1882-12-14
COALITION IN NORTH CAROLINA.
What IL Accomplished and what it Would
Have Accomplished II the "Straight-
Outs" Had Played Fair.


A reporter for THE REPUBLICAN found DR..
J. ]. Mott, chairman of the North Carolina re-
publican executive committee, at his rooms
at the Ebbitt, last evening, and conversed
with him on the recent election in the old
North state.
BY what majority, Doctor, did your state
go for the bourbons this time, and had you at
any time well founded hopes of carrying it ?''
Oh, yes, to answer the latter part of your
question first, we had the state Enthusiastically
up till the very week of election, when our
ticket was secretly knitted by the so-called
straight-outs,' who pretended to befor Dock
cry, our candidate for congressman-at-large,
but who really voted the regular bourbon
ticket Their hope was that the coalition
ticket would bo defeated by the figure claimed
in the democratic press (20000), in which
event their tracks would have been covered
and they could, with some success have con-
tinued their pretense of being republicans /;
but the bourbon majority now announced by
their returning board, being only 4l3 on the
states vote. we are enabled, without trouble,
to put our hands ON the very townships,
where straight-out treachery accomplished its
little ALL"
"Were there any frauds committed by the
bourbon leaders on the ballot-box in your
state ?" said the reporter.
"As matter of course" replied the Tar
state chairman, "but they were less extensive
than usual. By careful watch of the count in
the first congressional district we got nearly n
fair vote there, which is more than we have
had before, and elected Pool, republican, by
nearly 600 votes, where in 80 il was more
than 500 votes the other way. In the second,
or shOe-string district, the bourbons made no
fight against O'Hara, colored republican. In
the third district we lost Canaday by 800 votes,
Csn l,-g .Nr..
and were cheated out of amember of the legis-
lature in one of the counties of that district
(Cumberland), as well as two members in the
counties of Northampton and Granville"
''Do you mean to submit to thatP'
swell, no; we shall contest those three
seats when the legislature meets and appeal to
whatever sense of fair play is left in the DEM
ocratic party to right those as well as other
other wrongs which we suffer-"
81 interrupted you in an apparent analysis
of the vote"
"Yes / was about to say that the vote will
show the strength of the coalition of republi-
cans and liberal democrats as compared with
what any straightout movement has been
ablo to accomplish in the past ten years
and this showing is especially flatter-
ing in the western part of the state,
where the colored vote is small.
To continue by congressional districts: In
tho fourth, or Raleigh district, we ran liberal
democrat, q young lawyer Mr.. Devereux, be-
longing to one of the most distinguished fami-
lies of our state, who lost the district by 3S9
votes, as against 1,316 two years ago-the
democratic candidate being the same. Dock
cry, on the state ticket, carried the district
by 30 votes. Here you can see the influence
Of liberalism in its good faith to us; while
the treachery of former republicans lost us
the congressman. In the next or Greensboro
district you will alone in the state notice a
net democratic gain-Scales, bourbon, being
returned by 2,601, as against 1884 in 1850.
The North State newspaper, Mr.. Keogh, and
his strikers did this piece of work-trihing
in gross, it is true, but fatal in the necls-and-
neck race between Bennett and Dockery.
In the sixth or Charlotte district we made
q small gain, Col. William johnson, promi-
nent liberal democrat, being our candidate,
but unfortunately not brought out in apt time.
In my own the seventh district, York,
coalitionist, defeated Robbins, the strongest
democrat in the district, and DR.. Cook,
straightout republican, by 256 votes, Cook re-
ceiving 1000 votes nearly all of which came
from one county, Forsythc. Two years age
that district went bourbon by 1000 majority
l believe now that it would have been in
fnitely better to have had that same three
cofhered fight all over the state just as Gen
Malone had it in Virginia. We should have
won unmistakably. My own districts sue
U.
trict where the influence of the Hon. Charles
Price, one of the most prominent liberals in
the south, was strongly felt we gained nearly
1000 democratic votes.
"Vance, the member from your mountain
district, is back again for the sixth or seventh
time, isn't he? What sort of a fight did you
make on him?
"A heavy one," laughed the oad-gauged
man from the North Carolina state referring
IN lynt lprnto III hn lngt m
she comes here by 1862, where in 1880 he
had 7,S55-a loss of nearly 5000 majority.
The chairman of the liberal executive COM
mittce, Hon. William NJ. Cooke, was his oppo-
nent, and he never left his committee room to
make u single speech in the district. be-
lieve he would have beaten Vance had he
canvasscd with him."
them are saying up here that straight repub-
lican movement would have swept the state,
and that coalition was unfortunate for YOU
"Yes," smiled Chairman Mott; this was a
good year for straight republican movements.
/ noticed the luck they had in the north and
west.
"What about 's4, before you go?" said the
reporter.
"Oh, think if the coalition is maintained
that we will carry the state beyond peradven-
ture. Our great need and the great need of
the country, in my opinion, is protection to
the ballot aud national system of
education. Thousands of men in the
southern states voting the democratic
ticket despise the methods prevailing there
in elections, and feel the danger
there is to the country in its continuance.
These men will act independently with the
party that will correct this. The fostering
hand of the general government should be eX-
tended to every brave spirit in the south like
Chalmers, Cash, and Others, who rise up against
such infamous conduct. 1t can be set down
that the southern republican who opposes this
policy is utterly selfish. What patriot can de-
sire to see things go on there as they have
been going on, and what man of sense can deny
that the republicans themselves are powerless
to prevent it? This administration is dis
tinguished from others in having discovered
a true solution of these troubles, and continu-
alton of its policy will surely bring final sue
cess"
"You said something, DIR. Mott, about edu-
cation. What are your views on that?
1--WE are in sore need of it in the south, as
you of course know. had hoped the present
congress would grapple the subject, but it looks
as if the house, at least, was stampeded by the
late elections and is determined to vote only
the absolutely necessary appropriations. Our
party has lived thus far by boldly voicing the
Gountrys true wishes; the country is able to
conduct q national system Of education The
necessity lor huCu u hyhlclu 10 uppuIcnu 10 All
men, and congress- in my Judgment, should
not adjourn without doing something with
the subject. Why, even Ohio, with her mag
nificent system Of common schools, | am told,
has been actually retrograding in the past
decade, owing to the influx Of foreigners and
the emigration westward Of her own educated
How much worse off we are in
North Carolina, you will learn by glance at
SpOGords american Almdndc
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Going Ont OF Commission.
Orders were issued yesterday at the Navy