The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-12-03


p ELECTION BLuNDERs.-The recent election has
been more prolific Of blunders than any that have
preceded it within our recollection, and Which
should receive. the apprehension they deserve, to
prevent their recurrence in future: o. -
In Tioga,county, Benjamin Welch, Jr., the dem
ocratie candidate for State Treasurer, loses 2j00
votes in consequence Of an error in printing tie
ballots. The tickets printed at the office OF
the Owego Gazette, edited by Mr. Bebee. For
/ BcHiamtH the name Of Henry was substituted,
and the editor apologies for this gross blunder by
stating that the ticket was set up fosa the. copy
standing in his columns from the time of die Mass
Convention at Syracuse 10 the day of the election
| How person Of ordinary intelligence, and much
\ more an editor receiving exchanges every morning
containing the correct name, could make such a
! mistake, passes our comprehension. If done IN
tentonally no terms of condemnation are too
strong to rebuke the act il gnorantly, lie Is nnht
! 10 read the proof OF a common hgndbill. -
| In Duchess county, thetickets were priutedrat
! the office of the Telegraph, and here also an UNI
! paronable blunder occurred. Nine State, and a
! like number OF the Judiciary, etc,were printed to-
] gether on "a sheet la the State ticket the eand-
| date for Senator, John Snyder was printed on one
of the ballots each Sheet Synder, placing the n
before the ~ and thus ninth of all the tickets
sent to the difiereut,pos were wrong In one dis
| trictin Pishkil Rhinebeck and Clinton, these de-
! iectve ballots attached to the return with a
certificate that the votes were cast for John Snyder
| The Board Of County CanvasseTs had the returns
aTnended by allowing the inspectors to attach a
true ticket in each case TINS making the return and
1 certificate agree. But in dstrctih the town
OF Rawlings, the defective ballot attached, and
the inspectors certified that many votes had been
cast for John Synder. Il is certain that ninth
Of all the votes cast in the district were Of hi,
character and yet by the return the Beard County
Canvassers will have the power, but an defiance 0
justice, to deprive Mr. Snyder OF these votes, ant
/ thus probably defeat his election .-rr
Since writing the above, we learn that the BIS
votes IN dispute have been allowed to Mr.. Snyder
which places his election beyond a doubt
We alluded last week to a similar blunder il
Greene county in printing the name Of the demo
cratic candidate for SeBator-spelllng II ReyOln
stead of Deyo. From the information then in ou
possession, we were induced to believe that suci
spurious ballots had been widely circulated, ant
that many votes had thereby been lost, although
1 we were left in Ignorance whether it was "trcl
oil the enemy, or an act oftreaehery on the part
OR political associates. The official canvass O
Greene has since been received, and it absoIve
our democratic friends from AL eensure in regard T.
the Senator. Only eleven of the spurious ballot
found their way into the box, and without dlese
! Mr. Deyo has 149 majority-the highest Of anyper
son on the democratic ticket. While we regre
that the county ticket in Greene should have bee
lost by causes similar to those which produced tn
tdefeetion in this county on Clerk and Senator
| domestic treachery9 we are gratfed that he
4 democracy have acted in good faith towards III
candidate from Ulster, giving him majority whiel
with one-haf the party vote in this county, woul
have elected HIM by nearly4 hree hundred.-Utst
J (N.K) RepubktcaH.. J