The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-04-06
The Connsc,ieut Campaign.

Our Connecticut and New York eNon"A -"
are overlooking with items OF pohtlo"t An.e'il-
gence relating to Connecticut FROM them
we gather the following notes.
A Hartford correspondent OF the New York
Times writes that a South Carolinan. who
owns plantation near Charleston, and who
is row travelling through Connecticut with
a view of ascertaining the true condition of
northern sentiment, said, as they walked away
from Democratic meeting held in Allyn
Hall, that he had heard sentiments uttered
there that night that would be Kissed for thelr
dlsloyalty by South Carolina rebels, ana that
the argument OF the speeches would De INSULT
ing to the intelligence of majority OF the
freedmen on his plantation.
In the town of Clinton, ON Monday, twenty
six new voters were admitted as electors, of
whom twenty will vote the Republican ticket.
This is the way the young men are going all
over the State.
A Connecticut correspondent of the New
York Post in speaking of the forthcominS
election in that State, says: "The CONSERVATIVE
Republicans, who were very iukewarIn IN
their support of Hawley last spring, seem 10
have entered into the canvass TINS year WIN
the utmost enthusiasm a fact whlJh is prin-
cipally owing to the prominence given to
Grant as q Presidential candidate.
Attorney General w. p. Frye, of this State,
is in Connecticut, as well as Hannibal Ham
iii, anu DOtn zen are uOluH CACe1Icub
service. Gen. Sickles seems to be the favorite
speaker in Connecticut as he was in New
Hampshire. 1t was an excellent point he
made in one of his recent speeches, when in
answer to the talk OF Democratic speakers
who tell the laboring man that to give the me-
gro civil rights would be to bring him into
equality and competition with white labor,
he said the only way to prevent the negro
from coming North to compete with labor
here, was to give him his rights at home. If
this was not done he would do as the Irish
and. Germans and all other oppressed people
do, leave the place where his rights were de-
MED and go where he could find freedom
Again in the same speech he spoke of Gov
Seymour and Mayor Hoffman of New York
coming into Connecticut to teach the people
their political duties, when they had been for
years, particularly the Governor, denouncing
New England and New Eng'and men as the
pests of the nation, and had animated more
than once their desire to consolidate the whole
of New England into single State, in order
to lessen its power in the government, or else
to "leaye it out in the cold" altogether. e4l.
The most exciting incident hitherto is what
is known as the "Cranberry Plot" A few days
ago some gentlemen named Gowdy, owning a
large cranberry patch on Toms River in New
jersey advertised for laborers, and squad OF
Hartford men answered the advertisement
On the steamer they were waylaid by Dem
ocratic runner who offered to pay their ex-
penses back TO Hartford if they would leave
the boat at Saybrook. They preferred to seek
employment and on arriving at Toms River
found plenty of work to do and were to go to
work the next morning. When morning came
the Messrs. 8Gowdy, who are Democrats, had
changed their minds, and the men were sent
back to Connecticut where some of them will
no doubt be persuaded to vote the Democratic
ticket and then left to shift for themselves.
The Democratic papers thereupon burst into
chorus of curses about the "plot," charging
the Republicans with having persuaded Dem
ocratic voters TO sell their birthright for mess
Of cranberries. Only one sworn statement OF
fact has appeared. This is paraded in the
Hartford Times with the following sonorous
flourish of trumpets: ..~,
The Cranberry Plot-Laborers, Bewarel-
The Radicals sending off Votersi-Thelr Game
Representations to be Hired to Stay Away
from the Polls-The Story of One of the Vic
Tins! -Iar1lfiIl .Ha 7a IE-G 40 b.. sea Nr
In the "Story of One of the Victims" to
which this dissonant howl is a prelude, occurs
the following passage:
arrived here yesterday morning on the
boat. was never SO deceived or misused in
my life. am eighteen gears old and board at
No. 53 Front street, Hartford and shall o to
work in this city again. A
1t is quite possible that the Democrats in.
tend to have this boy vote, but it is an uneom-
monty cool proceeding to claim that he has
right to vote. -1 low r stit.. ~
In New Haven we observe cony.....sA ~
publican gains by the publication of the vot-
ing lists. Mr.. Andrews, the Republican regis
trar in the second ward, published in Fridays
papers statement that he had discovered IF
ty more fraudulent names on the list as made
out by the Democrats. rI'f