The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-05-13
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THE CASE OF CONNECTICUT IN BRIEF

THE CASE OF OONNEC TIOUT IN BRIEF.
From the N. Y. Tribune.
The World rejoiced over the Democratic
victory in Connecticut, at the election of the
I'd of April last; and the Herald echoed the
verdict if not the p@ans. Those may best
laugh who win; and the time seems fitting
for q summary of the causes of hilarity
1. 1t was distinctly charged, in respon-
sible way both in Connecticut and New York,
three days before the election, that Governor
English was engaged in negotiations with
notorious members of the Tammany Ring of
this citv, to carry the election by some one
of the well-known Tammany appliances; and
a despatch from Governor English, furnish
ing strong corroborative proof of the negotia-
ton, was produced. Its authenticity was de-
nied but we still stand ready to prove it,
whenever the Governor will have the kind
ness to give us an opportunity for securing
process to compel the attendance OF wit
pesses.
9. On the morning of the second day after
the election the most careful calculation we
could make on the returns showed the vote
for Governor to be, for Marshall Jewell
45, 7S9; for James E. English 1854; exclu-
sive of the vote of six towns that gave Eng
lish II ma iority last year. subsequently the
returns, as certified, gave English trihing
majority.
8. 1t was presently discovered in the mi
mute examination to which the eloseness of
the contest led, that there were discrepan-
cies and other reasons to suspect error in the
returns from the towns of Cheshire and En-
field, and from the Fourth ward of New
Haven The Republicans believed these
sufficient to turn the scale in favor of Jewell,
or at least to bring the votes for the rival
candidates so near each other that the few
scattering ballots would prevent either from
having clear ajority, and so throw the
election, under the Constitution of Connecti-
cut, into the Republican Legislature.
4. The Democrats resisted every stop
towards On investigation of the doubtful re-
turns-in their local press, here in New York,
and in the Legislature. The Republicans as
steadily courted investigation.
5. When they secured it, through an order
of the Legislature, their committee, fairly
chosen, and acting with all the facts and wit
nesses before them, found,
G) That in Cheshire the Democratic
Registrar directed the subtraction of % votes
from the acknowledged number cast and
counted for the Republican candidate, on the
ground that 90 men whose ballots had been
accepted were not duly qualified voters. OF
the 90 thus specified it was proved that one
did not vote at all, and there was proof
that the other % voted the Republican ticket,
which had been therefore unwarrantably
weakened by the withdrawal of their num-
ber from its aggregate vote. 1t was there
upon decided that the % wrongfully deducted
here from Jewells vote should be restored.
(2.) That in Enfield the Endorsement on a
package of straight Democratic tickets, num-
beripg 76, was inadvertently read upside
down, and counted as 90, thus giving Cover
nor English 20 more votes than were actually
cast for him. Both parties agreed as to this
error, it was mooted by the Moderator on the
face of his original return, and there has
been no dispute about it since.
(3.) That in the Fourth ward OF New Haven
100 straight Democratic tickets were fraudu
lently placed among the ballots during the
counting. Subsequently, the clumsy cheats
discovered that, in case of a recount, this
must be detected, by comparison with the
tally, and SO sought to conceal the fraud by
Withdrawing 100 Republican tickets. The
crime was detected by the gross contras
shown between the vote on the State ticke
thus doctored, and that, in another box, fo
Representatives, which had not beer
tampered with. 479 votes were re
turned for Jewell, and the whole Re
publican State ticket, while it was no
denied that the Republican candidate TO
Representative received 5S4, and for Board o
Relief 596 The committee then summone,
the voters before them as witnesses, and
thanks to the stable character of the popula
tion, and the profound interest felt in de
featipg the audacious fraud that had beel
attempted, FIVE hundred and forty-four elect
ors came before the committee, and severall
swore to having voted for Jewell The frau
dulent abstraction of sixty-ive ballots wa
proved hey yond peradventure; and, with thi
light upon their path the committee foun'
little difficulty in securing evidence fully war
rantipg the report that precisely an evel
package of one hundred had been taken.
6. The several corrections thus establishe
being made, the vote of Connecticut for Gov
ernor was proved to have been cast, At, Al
for Jewell, 47,373 for English, and
scattering, leaving Jewell elected by an absc
Lutte majority of SO on the popular vote.
THAT is the whole story. ALI honor t
the State that was noble enough to reverse th
current of Democratic victory, and sagaciou
enough to defeat secret villainy as well 9
open and manly hostility And now let I
commend to our late rejoicing Democrat
friends careful study of the returns frol
Connecticut
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