New-York tribune., 1868-04-16
LOCAL ELECTIONS.


We wore in Albany on Tuesday, when, it il
said a Charter Election was held there, but
we saw nothing of it, IL was not even men,
toned in The ErGniRg Journal. We are con-
ident that not One-half of those voters who
fully intend to vote for Gen. Grant next No
vember went near the polls. The election did
not excite so much or SO general an interest as
did an election of officers of the Young Mems
Association in that city thirty years ago.
Albany will give Gen. Grant not one less than
1900 votes, yet we presume it gave less than
$500 Republican votes on Tuesday.
We were at Madison, Wisconsin, when the
Republican State Convention sat there last
February and renOminated two Judges for the
ensuing election. Several delegates assured us
that their election was very doubtful, for local
reasons, though no one doubts that Grants
majority in that State will range from Fifteen
to Twenty-fi Thousand.
A Convention met last Summer in Michigan
and framed a new State Constitution.
majority of the delegates were Republicans.
The Constitution was voted upon few days
since, and the Democrats all voted No, with q
large portion of the Republicans, for various
reasons Every County but one voted NO.,
though sevcn-eightbs of them are Republican.
If this result should induce any one to bet
that Grant will have less than Twenty Thou
sand majority IN Michigan next Fall. he will
afford q fresh verifcation of the proyerb con-
cerning fool and his money.
Many of these local elections have gone
Republican, when it is not probable that they
will do so next Fall. Madison, Wisconsin,
e.
few days since, though she has usually given
a Democratic majority. Omaha, Nebraska,
gave an overwhelming Republican majority
at her late Charter Election. which was
unusual. The great township of Kingston,
Ulster County, chose Republican Supervisor
a few days since, though he has been cheated
out of the return, because he would give a
Republican majority in the County Board.
Kingston gave 5jf Democratic majority on a
lighter vote last Fall, and will probably give
200 against Gen. Grant next Fall. Harrisburg,
Pa, will probably give Gen. Grant majority,
though that city usually goes Democratic, and
gave large majority that way this Spring.
Not more than half the Republicans voted,
believing that they could not succeed. So in
Trenton, n. j., which has given more than its
usual Democratic majority.
The politicians who draw their inspirations
from the grogshOps are almost always on hand
at elections "Vote early and vote often." is
their rule. The voters who elect our Presi-
dents are often remiss at local elections Take,
for example, Connecticut, usually 40 well con-
tested and rarely with greater energy than on
the 9Th inst; we presume her stay-at-home
voters rarely vote more generally than they
then did, And yet we are confident that she
has 1000 to 5000 Republicans now absent in
Europe, or IN California, OF up the Pacific
Railroads, who will he at home to vote for
next President We estimated that fully
$4,000 votes would be required TO carry her last
week, and they were. Our friends were con-
fident that they could be poled for Marshall
Jewell, but they were not. Gen. Grant will
poll more next Fall than were ever east for
any one in that State.
We would not inspire the Republicans with
over-confdence if we could. The struggle be-
fore us is destined to exceed all pre-
cedent in violence and bitterness. The
honest vote polled will be enOrmOus and we
sadly apprehcnd that it will he swelled still
further by fraud. Fraudulent naturalization
and double-vOting have become portion OF
the regular Democratic machinery Judge
Sharswood was elected by them in Pennsyl-
vania last year; and the Democratic majority
in this City swelled by more than Ten Thou
sand. To cOunteract and defeat that machinery
is one of the most arduous duties of the can
vass; but we ought at once to provide for
reaching One Million Voters with good jour
nails who do not now receive any. Let no one
hat tbo fttu nh
ont effort. or the hallucinatiOn will be wOeful-
lu r,nd ,rhnn the contest Ia ended.