New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-03-26
caTIAGHER or CONNECTICUT

Is there 10 sense of decency, not 10 say
honor, left among the Eastern Democracy 7
Here, after the most thorough scrutiny of the
wild charges of fraud in NcwIlampShire on
the part of the Republicans, we find man
named Gallagher, signing himself Chairman OF
the Democratic State Central Committee OF
Connecticut, issuing in an official manner, an
address to the Democratic aud Conservative
ELECTORS" of that State, in which he says:
view Of the startling fact made apparent that
the Democrats and Conservatives OF New Hampshire
have been cheated ont Of NE election ~ that Sae OF me
corrupt and fraudulent practices Of NE Rade1 the Dem
ocratic state Central Committee OF the state oil COhiect
Constitution and the Union upon their guard against
State BY a purely partisan and Onesded control eNor-
csed by the Radicals NcwHampshire tho regis
Conservatives who were inconesably entitled TO De reg
iscrcd while they unblushingly admitted large numbers
were brought from nelghbornR states. without
having had voting residence IN New hampshire
many the towns, the day OF election. - bercd
still greater frauds Terperaed by them IN the
way IN which they completely manipulated the votes
localities. he Number Of rOes cast efcecdcd me
whoe number of rioters registered which shows that
baot-box stufng the Radical order Of the day. II
further proof OF this wec needed y found IN the
fact that the total vote OF the state pears 70 me toa
possibility in the very nature Of things The ratio OF the
to population s In most Of the states. only as about
one 10 screI and rarely exceeds that Of 10 sr! and
there is no reason. but a fraudulent one. why New
Hampshire should be an exception To the general fr
Now let US sift this matter a little, and show
wherein and how far this, Gallagher falsi-
fes the record We give him credit for
ignorance, since it il incredible that any man
who could read and write should set forth such
absolute Misrepresentation. As usual. after
defeat, the Democratic press of New-iamp-
shire at once set up the cry of fraud, corrup-
&" fon y Kc AGAINST their opponents The
N. II. Patriot led off by asserting that the 10
tai vote of the State is "monstrous;' that the
aggregate shows that one vote has been east
" for every four inhabitants;' that mo state
"ever did or can honestly cast such vote :
and that in other States even, " where the pro-
portion is one to six, IL il considered primd
" tdcie evidence of fraud This calumny
upon the living and the dead-the live Repub-
licans and the dead ducks" of DemOcracy-is
easily refutcd. The population of the State is
now about 33j, OO0-the total vote cast is 1000
which gives one vote for four-and -a-half in
habitants; and this vote the State has been
accustomed to throw for many years past at all
sharply contested elections. II 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 proportion Of 1t, as
the returns will demonstrate. Taking dozen
towns at random, one half of them Republican,
and the other half DemocTatic-all mainly agrl-
cultural and homogeneous in populatlon-and
the figures will almost uniformly show that the
Democracy have thrown n larger vote in pro-
portion to their numbers than the Republicans.
For example: