The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-04-04
FIRST EDITION
The CONNECTICUT ELeC fI0N.
An Unworthy u. 8. Officer.
His Indulgence in "Faro."
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An Unworthy U. 8.
CONNECTICUT.

Two Opinions upon the Great Republican
Victory.
From the NJ Y. Tribune
Though the returns are not complete as we
write, the gain of more than one thousand on
the vote of last year nearly or quite insures the
election of Marshall Jewell as Governor, with
all his colleagues on the Republican State ticket
Governor English being the strongest man of
his party and running generally ahead of other
candidates.
We have every reason to believe that Messrs
Strong and Starkweather are e-elected to Con-
gress, and report adds Mr.. Kellogg also, but
we cannot believe that on anything short of full,
precise returns. We have no doubt that the
Legislature is again Republican in both
branches, and probably by an increase on last
years meagre majorities.
The vote is some thousands heavier than last
year-in fact, very full, considering that the
day was in good part rainy and the roads in
wTetched condition. Hartford, New Haven,
New Britain Stamford, and Norwalk are among
the towns which have done nobly.
Connecticut has often deserved the grateful
blessing of the Republicans of her sister States,
but she never did so well under circumstances
so embarrassing and dsheartening as yesterday.
The Sumner quarrel, the clamor against the Pre-
sident with regard to Santo Domingo, the New
Hampshire surprise, and hundred other make
weights, operated to discourage and paralyze her
working Republicans, while inducing the weak
brethren to get out of sight aud stay there.
Tammany Hall bought a seat in her Senate
for one of its tools last year, and poured out
money like water to do it again this year. Its
organs secuted the suggestion that Jewell was
running in earnest. insisting that Englishs cleo
tion, with that of three if not all four Con-
gressmen of like pattern, was fixed fact, which
no one seriously disputed If, against all these
odds, the Republicans had simply tied the
State, which gave English 1894 majority in the
spring of 1868, they would have exceeded all
reasonable expectation. All hail! gallant, glo-
rious Connecticut
From the N. Y. World.
There was large vote polled, and the result
on Governor is in doubt The majority is not
likely to be over 100 either way, and the official
count may have to decide. The heavy Republi-
can gains in New Haven and Hartford had the
effect of changing the result which was antci-
pated from the general canvass of the State.
1t is evident that swarm of radical repeaters
were imported into both of those cities, and that
they were used to cut down the rightful Demo-
cratic majorties The radical leaders managed
their part of the campaign with more dexterty
than honesty They thrust the national issues,
the Santo Domingo job, and the Sumner rebel
lion, about which there was so much dissatisfac-
tion in their ranks, into the background, aud
rallied their party on bugaboo about the flood
ing of the State with money from Tammany.
1t is clear now that this pretense was devised
for the purpose of covering their own intended
frauds. Another circumstance must be con-
sidered in connection with the result 1t will
take another day before the definite result in
Connecticut can be announced.