The Van Buren press., 1868-05-08
The Van Buren, Press,
VAN BUREN,, ARKANSAS.
Connecticut.

The following extracts are from the New
Haven Comm Reyisf.r, after the election;
How IT ls.-The question will often be ask
ed by our friends abroad and some at home,
how il Is. that Connecticut Is able 10 elect a
Democratic Governor by twenty five hundred
majority. and yet Is not able to secure both
branches Of the Legislature by proportion
ate vote. The fact is. that under the rotten
borough system OF representation minority
in the State, il nj any election as liable To get
control OF u, Legislature, as a majority
Here l. an astounding fact that will scarce
ly be credited by persons unacquaintcd with
it. The city of New Haven has population
ofover 10000, yet has but two representatives
in the House, while the counties Of Windham
and Tolland. with population of only 55, 454
have FORTI-FlVE Representatives. Think
OF that! fifty-iive thousand persons repre-
sented in Radical section of the State by
forty-fivc Representatives, while Democrat
ic section with over $4,000 inhabitants, has but
two Representatives! And the Radicals will
not Lift finger to change this system. because
they get so much advantage from il. Yet they
daily prate of their devotion to manly suffrage
and equal representation.
SIGNIFIcANT.-It Is n well-known fact that
Grants nomination is not particularly popu-
The State Ticket of the Radicals on Monday,
was embelished with wood cut embracins g
the portraits of" Jewell and Grant" leaning
lovingly upon each other for mutual support.
This was thought to be a mastery notion
but when the votes came to be counted, i'm
many cases Grants picture had been cut from
the vote! before putting IN the ballots. This
may have been done by utra-temperance
men,-some ofwhom openly say they will not
vote for Grant. There Is no doubt that Grant )
name hurt Jewell Il great many votes-though
at no time did he stand the ghost ofa chance
for election Connecticut, as against Grant
is good for 5000 majority.
The recent contest in this State was without
precedent IN its political annals. The unprip-
cipled course of the Grant party called for
the most active eXcrtions on the part of DEM
ocrats and conservatives. The campaign was
ably conducted by Mr.. Gallagher Chairman
of the State Committce) who devoted his
whole time and energies to the sk,-and our
success. in no small degree, is owing TO his un-
tiring labors. Satan never "sowed tares''
half AS indnstrously. or unscrupulouslv. as
did the Radical managers in this campaign
Coop WOMAN The Hartford Times tells a
good story of Mrs. John Rubuer, "a German
woman,) of that city. Her husband, "a small
man, was confined to his house by rheuma-
tism, unable to walk to the polls. Seeing that
he was likely to lose his chance of voting for
Coy. English. she proposed to carry him on
her back, and actually did so. When the
crowd at the polls saw her approach, they
gave her three cheers, and made up on the
spot. purse of 5000 for her. That is the spirit
with which the Democracy of Connecticut
went into the contest.
The Radical papers wanted it "dstinctly
understood by the electors Of Connecticut.
that a vote for Jewell was a vote for the
Congressional Policy"-and a vote for Eug-
lish, was vote in favor Of the immediate
restoration Of the Southern States to the Tn
ion.' We accepted the challenge and have
routed the Redicals' If Seuator Ferry, and
Congressman Starkweather desire to represent
properly their constituents, Let them give up
their internal schemes. and let the Union be
restored, and prosperity returned to the peo-
pie!