The Litchfield County post., 1827-04-12
COUNTY POST.
LITCHFIELD, APRIL l2, 1927.

as would show the comparative standing of the different candidates but we are totally unable to collect any thing like list from the different papers in the state. Scarcely any one of them goes further than simply to state the votes ;n their own town.-It is, however, very evident that MT. Tomlinson will be elec- ted and it is said by one or two editors who appear to have had access to the returns from about one hundred towns, that Messrs. Smith, Wildu1an, and Brockway, District candidates for the Senate, and Messrs. Barber and Mer- win. for Congress, will be elected: we confi- dently trust that the work of reformation has gone further than this if it has not, the fault is owing to the supineness rather than the weakness of the reformation party. The friends of the Caucus Ticket rallied their ut most strength, while the friends of the Dis trict Ticket, fearing that nothing could be done, appear to have kept away from the polls ] that nothing might be done. As far as we can learn, Litchfeld county is the only county in the State which has done its duty. Large towns, containing from to 700 hundred free men, gave from 50 to 100 votes. The result of the election, however, has shown what can be done if the freemen are awake to their du- ty; and we also believe it has given death- blow to King Caucus. and released the state from any further allegiance to his Majesty There was want of concert among the friends of Districting, which has very materially in- jured their cause. We believed that MT. Mer- win and MT. Boardman were the choice of Ltchfeld county; and the result has proved that we were not deceived. Each of the two candidates received about 1000 majority in the vicinity where they and their competitors were best known. In asking the support of the friends of Districting in other counties for the District candidates ofthis county, the re- publicans here were willing to be consistent they were as willing. to support the District candidates of other counties, as they were to support like candidates of their own counties, mot so in New-Haven. Mr. Smith was their choice, and they gave him handsome sup
 
 port to the District candidates of other coun- ties. MT. Barber was the choice of N. London county, as the votes of many towns strongly evince; but the votes do not show that the freemen were anxious for the success of the 1 other District candidates. It is true MT. Ster- ling gets comparatively no support ;-from 0 to 50 is as high as he stands on any list; but MT. Merwin's support was not large, although sufficiently so to give him three votes to one over his opponent. A little more concert of action, little more liberality of feeling. lit- tie less ofthe dictatorial spirit, and the District Ticket would have gone in triumphantly.-| As far as we can learn, every county in the state, with the exception of Fairfield, gave a large majority for the District candidates of their own county; but they appear to have felt but little disposition to help their neigh bours, and by that means their own labour is likely to he lost. Our brother Barber, appa- rently full ofzeal for the overthrow of Legis- lative caucusses, undertook to dictate how far ~"-~ ''OAN OA EOS 0uu WnCTe it should stop. He wished that MT. Smith, MT. Wildman, and MT. Boardman, might be elected; but he was also willing to place MT. Sterling's name on his District Ticket, noting with star that MT. Merwin was also thought of as candidate in Litchfeld county. Some other candidates nominated in county meet 'ngs were excluded from his list, because it twas not Lest to carry the business too far," else the work of reformation might be too complete. The republicans of Litchfeld county did not feel so. If the caucus had done an act of injustice to them, and if their breth- ren in other counties made the same com pIaint' they were not disposed to show any marked civility to his Majesty, but turn out en n'asse and put him down; and had the az grieved party in other counties done the same, there would have been no cause of complaint that candidates have been forced upon the different counties, who were not men of their choice. This election pleads strongly in favor of Districting; and such we understand is the character of d large majority of the represen-