Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1850-11-15
Hubbard had 2i5
Appleton, al

All council. Tut three oil the Senators VINO
were on the wing and free soil tickets. re-
ccl'cd s6s votes, while Mr.. Fesscnden. who
was upon both tickets, and II was supposed
would run ahead Of the Senatorial ticket, was
counted on, at only ?sd. The statement Of
the Argus, tina, Mr.. fesscndcn received more
than the wing candidate ior Governor, is ial-
lacloUs, for there was a separate free soil can
dldaic for Governor, but Mr.. Fesscnden was
their regularly nominated" candidate for
Congress Advertiser.
The Argus does 10, care either to aibrm or
10 deny " the probability of a mistake IN the
Auburn vote" That vote was declared,
counted and returned in the usual manner By
the town officers Of the town, and the strong
presumption Of course Is that the Return is
correct.
/ Whether there j. any mistake ia IL, cpln.
ions are no, agreed, either auoag the citilens
OF Auburn, or among the sclccimcn Of Au.
burn. The latter, howeye-, all three ofiScm,
agree IN ssyiag. and IN o,,htyHc, that II Their,
vas any mlslak, ~ the CONT, and the dcelaT.
alton, and the return, they do no, know ho~
It was The following IL their ccriiaeatS Ia
this effect 49,
/ We lhs undersigned, Sccc,mrn Of Auburn,
certify that Il there Mas any mistake in the
counting OF recording Of the votes for Repre-.
sentative to Congress, gwen in ihls town, at
the l.sl September election, We arc ursbl, to
say how the mistake was
TNorW BAlrr, } Selec,men
lirRINC BHGGS, Of
Dawn SrEorr, Auburn.
Auburn, Nov ii,h, IsJO.
/ We saw letter iiro day. am Ms ,ioiIor
from a Democrat IN Auburn, Who wrote that
by miscoun, there, MI. Appleton had lost
upwards of fouy votes To which he was cn;l,
tied An inquiry was at once made there
which resulted ~ belief on our part, that II
there WAS 4ny niSske at an, u o,riaraiy va,
agaius, Mr Arplylon and no, IN his h,or-
IN this hylcf w. have reason 10 know, many
ofihc wings of Auburn coucuu,d.
The Advertiser ,laus In is investigation
with the Governors vote ior its bass of com
pau,on. b., Il there Is any mistake a, all 10
the Aubum count, i had IT. beginning, doubt,
less, with the vote iur Guycruoi--aud NJ
Hubbard j. entitled 10 more than forty votes
which were actually counted ior Mr. Crosby
The Advertiser says that three uf the Scua,
tors who were on the wing srd free sol tick
cts, received ~! votes, while Mr. Fos,enden
who was on 10th tickets, was counted out At
only 226 Does the Advertiser forget thai
Mr. Little was also on both tickets and thai
he received. according To the count, oaly 81;
vote, VIZ Mana, too, was on the Democrat
lc ticket, bu, no, on the free soil ticket, ycr
. he received go votes, while Mr.. Appleton !,
unly allowed oil votes How are these Va.
ralious accounted for They mag be &C
counted Tor IA ,his way. There we're printed
,cl,,, circulated IN Apbp,p D,,c nj a, Inch Fl.
,o,, b.,,,.r, which h,-, the rsm,, NJ ,br,,
,, J...,,h,, c,,d,J,,,, &, S.,,,,,, ,,3 N,
v,r, 4.mo.,,, +, Mac. ON, I,,,l, uh,,.
and II these tickets, no, fr from f,y arc
known =, have been circulated and voted 80
Suppose there were lust g. Ii. ,hen. you
add T. 10 MI Little, vote. who VAS no, on