ALT “When we take into consideration the fact that so large a number of our best citizens have, under one pretence or another, been disfranchised; that the grossest unfairness and injustice has been practiced in the registration; and that thousands of illegal votes have been cast, large numbers of negroes being imported from Carolina and Alabama to vote, many of them voting at two or more precincts, and not unfrequently three or four times at the same precinct, we are surprised that we have done so well. With a fair registration, legal balloting, and an honest count of the votes, the Conservative ticket would have triumphed throughout the State.”