Litchfield enquirer., 1868-04-02
WHOLE NO. ooS7
GALLAGHER OF CONNECTICUT.

IS there no sense of decency, not to say honor, left among the Eastern Democracy? Here, after the most thorough scrutiny of the wild charges of fraud in New.Hamp. shire on the part of the Republicans. we find a man named Gallagher, signing him. self Chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee of Connecticut. issu- ing, in an official manner, an address to "the Democratic and Conservative " Flee tors" of that State, in which he says:
 In view of the startling fact, now made apparent, that the Democrats and Conser- vatives of New-Hampshire have been cheated out 0f the election in dbat State by he i corrupt and fraudulent practices of Ne Radi- cals, the Democratic State Central Commit tee ot the State of Connecticut deem it one of the first importance to put the friends of the Constitution and the Union upon their guard against the perpetration of similar outrages and offenses in this State. By purely partisan and one-sided control exercised by the Radicals in New Hamp- shire over the registry lists, they excluded large numbers of Democrats and Conserv- atlves who were incontestably entitled to be registered, while they unblushingly ad- mitted large numbers of Radicals who were not so entitled, many of whom were brought from neighboring States, without ever hay ing had a voting residence in New Hamp- shire. By an exclusively partisan control ot the ballot boxes in many of the towns, on the day of election, I is believed that still greater frauds were perpetrated by them, in the way in which they completely manipulated the votes. Ln some localities the number 0f 0otes cast exceeded the achoLs nun6e' of voters registered, which shows that ballot-box stuffing was the Radical or- n "a dow p,,@s -R this Were needed, 1t is found ill the fact that the total vote of the State bears to the total population a ratio of about one to fow'-which is an impossibility in the very nature of things. The ratio of the vote to population IS, in most of the States, only as about one to seven, and rarely exceeds that of one to sir! and there is no reason but fraudulent one, why New Hampshire should be all exception to the general rule.
 Now let us sift this matter little, and show wherein and how far this Gallagher falsiies the record. We give Jim credit for ignorance, since 1t Is incredible that any man who could read and write should set forth such absolute misrepresentations. As usual, after a defeat, the Democratic press of New Hampshire at once set up the cry of :" fraud, corruption" &c. against their opponents. The N. H. Patriot led off by asserting that the total vote of the State is monstrous;" that "the aggregate shows that one vote has been cast for eve ry four iphabitants;" that 'no State ever did or can honestly cast such vote;" and that in other States even, "where the pro- portion is one to six, it is considered pri- nsa facie evidence of fraud" This calum- ny upon the living and the dead-the live Republicans and the "dead ducks of De- mocracy-is easily refuted. The popula- tion of the State is now about 335, OOO-the total vote cast is 77,OOO-which gives one vote for four-and half inhabitants; and this vote the State has been accustomed to throw for many years past at all sharply contested elections. If there has been any fraud in the matter, the strong Democratic towns, where the check lists and the voting are all managed by Democratic selectmen, have committed more than their propor- tion of it, as the returns will demonstrate. Taking dozen towns at random, one half of them Republican, and the other half Democratic-all mainly agricultural and homogeneous in population-and the figures will almost uniformly show that the De- mocracy have thrown larger vote in pro- portion to their numbers than the Repub- licans. For example: