The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-12-03
why Blaine Lost North Carolina.

Raleigh, n. G., Nov. 24.-Mr. Blaine
will have to except North Carolina from
his list of Southern States which have
suppressed the votes of the negroes.
Every couuty In the State has made 1t
return, and the total vote is 26S, 009. an
Increase of 80 592 over the vote of 1850.
La the counties Of Arson, Allegheny,
Ashe, Berthe, Brunswick, Burke, Bum
combe, Camden, Currituck, Columbus,
Catawba, Caldwell, Cleveland, Clay, Dur
ham, Davidson, Davis, Dare, Forsyth,
Gates, Greene, Granv .ile, Graham, Hert-
ford, Hyde. Halifax, Haywood, Hender-
son, Iredeil, Jackson, Johnston. Lenoir,
Moore, Montgomery, Macon, Madison,
Mitchell, Mcdowell, Northampton, Nash,
New Hanover, Orange, Pamlico, Pitt,
Pasquotank, Person, Polk, Rockingham,
Robson, Rowan, Rutherford, Stokes,
Surry, Stanly, Swain, Transy1vania,
Vance, Washington, Wayne, Wilson,
Watauga, Wilkes, Walker. and Yancey
the Republicans gained IL, 039 votes, and
in the counties of Alamance, Alexander,
Beaufort, Bladen, Carteret, Chowan,
Craven, Cumberland, Chatham, Caswell,
Cabarrus, Cherokee, Duplin, Edgeeombe,
Franklin, Guilford, Castor, Harnett.
Jones. Lincoln, Martin, Mecklenburg.
Onslow,l Perquimans, Fender, Richmond,
Randolph, Sampson, Tyrrell, Union,
Warren and Wake they'lost 2 1858 votes,
making a net gain of 9,4Sl votes for Mr..
Blaine over Garfield. This gain would
have been sufficiently increased to have
given the State to the Republicans but
for the following causes. produced by MIR.
Blaine and his friends:
First the resolution in the national
platform pledging the Republican Party
to additional legislation in favor of civil
rights. Second, the nomination Of Mr..
Blaine, and the development of the fact
as the Campaign progressed that hecould
not be elected, becau, e of the bolt of the
independent Republicans. Third, the
wel-known fact that Mr.. Blaine was hos
tile to the coalition of the Liberal Demo-
Gratis and the Republicans, as attempted
in this State in 1882, and again this year
by the nomination of Tyre York for
Governor. The first clause was put in
the platform in order tt fauntt the bloody
shirt" in the North, as MIR. Blaine did
at South Bend, Ind, without regard to
the effect the civil rights question would
have IN the South. 1t drove off from the
Republican Party in North Carolina not
less than 100, 900 white men who had
made up their minds to vote against the
Democrats. The second and third causes
prevented not less than 1O0, 600 liberal
Democrats who had fully determined to
join in the coalition from doing SO be-
cause they saw defeat and disaster ahead
both in the State and Nation, for the Re-
publicans. Up to The time Of Blaine's
domination the State was ripe for the
coalition movement, but as soon as it be-
came known that Blaine was the nominee
for President and upon a platform that
pledged him to further legislation In
favor of civil rights the coalition was
crushed out of existence, and the only
question left to be determined In this
State was the size of the Democratic ma
jority.
In addition to the causes given the
domination of the internal revenue ring
in the control of the Republican Party in
this State has long been q burden too
heavy to be borne, and the manipulation
OF the campaign by the active agents OF
this ring prevented many men from vot-
ing with the Republicans, because they
desired to see the whole crew Kicked out
of Office. The fact that the whole set is
now doomed to go is ample consolation
to many Republicans who supported
Blaine, because they believed he would
rake off the official barnacles of the Fed
eral service in the South. With Lincoln or
Edmunds as the Presidential candidate
on a platform that excluded civil rights
with a hearty and persistent support of
the coalition movement, North Carolina
would have given at least 5000 Republi-
can majority. The only hope now left
for the Republicans in this and the other
Southern States lies in the division ofthe
colored vote through a conservative Ad-
ministration by Mr.. Cleveland. When a
negro In the South can no longer be coun-
ted as a Republican because of his color
the whites will then divide, because the
have ceased to exist, and the voters
throughout the South then divide on
principle, as elsewhere In the Union. But
as certainly as day follows night, if Mr.
Blaine's speech at Augusta is to become
the Republican creed and a sectional
conflict is forced on the country by the
Republican Party of the North, under
the leadership of Mr.. Blaine, by an
attempt to disiranchise the negro and
thereby deprive the South Of its strength
IN the House of Representatives and the
Electoral College, the entire population
white and black-will unite as one man
to oppose such a policy. In a contest of
this character the Republican Party in
the South would be utterly destroyed,
and the color line in politics would dis
appear forever, and there would be no
political division among the voters while
resisting this sectional attack. Conse
quently that portion, of the Southern
bons'' are highly delighted at Blaine's
speech, because they know such a policy
on the part of the Republican Party of
the North will prevent any break in the
solid SOUTH. &. L. Harris, in N. y