Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1868-04-03
The Wall over New Hampshire.

The Wall over New Hampshire.
In some parts of the country and es
pecially just now in Connecticut, the dc
mocracy have raised the cry of fraud il
the late New Hampshire election, insteao
of the more honest reason Of a want o
the necessary number of votes. On,
Gallagher who has formerly stumpec
New Hampshire for the democracy, anc
now of the democratic State Central Com
mite Of Connecticut, has issued an adj
dress the democracy of that State ii
which he raises the cry as follows:
! BY purely partisan and one-sidcd
control exercised by the Radicals in New
Hampshire over the registry lists, they
excluded large numbers Of democrats and
Conservatives who were incontestably
entitled 10 be registered, while they I'M
blushingly admitted large numbers of
Radicals who were not so entitled, MANY
of whom were brought from neighboring
States, without ever having had voting
residence in New Hampshire. BY an
exclusively partisan control of the bal
lot boxes i'll many of the towns, on the
day of election, 1t Is beliered that still
greater frauds We're perpetrated by them,
in the way in which they completely
manipulated the votes. In some localities,
the number Of CoteS cast erceeded the whote
number Of uotes registered, which shows
that ballot-box stuffing was the Radical
order of the day. If any further proof
Of this were needed it is found in the
fact that the total vote of the State bears
to the total population ratio of about
one TO to,a--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 10 serea, and
rarely exceeds that of one to sic and
there is no reason, but fraudulent one
why New Hampshire should be an ex-
ception to the general rule.
The New York Tribune has thoroughly
sifted this chap, and we give its response
which says it gives him credit for igno-
rance, since it is incredible that any man
who could read and write should set forth
such absolute Misrepresentation. As
usual, after defeat, the democratic press
of New Hampshire at once set up the
cry of fraud, corruption" &c, against
their opponents. The ~ FL. 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
every four inhabitants; that % no State
ever did or can honestly cast such
vote" and that in other States even,
where the proportion is one to six, it is
considered p1'ima facie evidence of fraud"
This calumny upon the living and the dead
the live Republicans and "the dead
ducks " of Democracy--is easily refuted.
The population of the State is now abont
800, O0O-the total vote cast is 1900
which gives one vote for four-and- a-half
inhabitants; and this vote the State has
been accustomed to throw for many
years past at all sharply contested cleo
tons. If there has been any fraud in the
matter, the strong democratic towns
where the checklists and the voting are
all managed by democratic selectmen,
have committed more than their proper
ton Of it, as the terms will demonstrate.
Taking dozen towns at random, one
half OF them republican, and the other
democratic-all mainly agricultural and
homogeneous in population-and the
figures will'almost uniformly show that
the Democracy have thrown a larger vote
in proportion to their numbers than the
republicans. For example: