New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-04-27
POLITICAL.
THE CONNECTICUT ELECTION,

THE CONNECTICUT ELECilON'
,,su TO PARADE AS GOVERNOR ELECT On
WEDNESDAY NEAI-A hS"i"NNA
OFT AS AN ESCORT. &c
u,prFoRp, April 96.-The LIST Regim ell' u
so,,cut National Guard having been ordered 10 up
WIN wednesday next election day. on the ParS -
pea ,or escort duty it is evident that GOV hihSi
~ nyne that he is Governor elect OF tho o'a'e -
n, a,cept the usual honor. Ii is singular ~ can
,oy Of the fact that the duties OF tho Bo'u -
ors on whose return he bases his electoh' ~ ,oIare
,,ol the Legislature alone having power 70
,he vote In conserving to figure as success, neople
~. 20 make himself conspicuous before '"v ma On
=, ,st ho aware that he is liable to DC Do o
enc embarrassing position Of appearing - 20 nrvate
horseback ON Wednesday and of beng ,no who "a
rte as soon as the Legislature can ~, a. that Mar
legally chosen; and the prospect % Connecticut
shau Jewell will be the next GoVelnV l1
HE "a o4-The form of proceed
hAKrtOhD' o. iogality of the election for Gov
Ing =" wv os.ion must necessarily come peiore inc
e'h'' ,aoshlv this year-win diner rom the usuai
- NV 40 far as the Comihi'ee on INC canvass VI
aoou II necessary to co. In decldlng upon the
woes iu- turns from New-Haven, Enfield, and Chesh
N@i'uy - little or doubt about the vote OF the
ire. -" Though the canvassers give Jewell less
no received there by accepting the returns OF one
ss.ator two having served who acted as partisan
-, on the Democratic papers include in their figures as
ssr3aIr the % votes not counted 80 that the real
1t 70 be decided is to the correct
- NJ the count in the Fourth Ward, New
I,r and in Enfield When the Legislature assemblies,
.h vary arst business order, after the two Houses
have organized is the appointment Of Joint Committee
on the Canvass OF Votes for Governor and state 0cers
This Committee has before it the report of the Board OF
Csnvassers Ordinarily, as have written you before,
when the majority has been considerably one way or the
other IN the State this Committee has only formally ex-
he then, accepting
tbe report Of the Committee. elects by resolution the
candidates chosen by the people, and committee Is
then raised wait upon the persons elected and inform
them Of their election. While these proceedings are
Going oD the election parade is being celebrated outside
and by the time the procession has closed its march and
left the Governor elect lin whose honor the parade Is
evep-in honor Of the Governor elect, not the
GOVERNOR in the Governors room in the State House,
the Committee Of the Assembly is ready TO notify him OF
his election and he then announces that he has COM
muncatOn 10 make, and soon after meets the TWO
Houses in joint convention and delivers his annual
message But there occasion this year for something
more than formal examination of the returns And
said Assembly SHALL" says the Constitution after ex-
animation OF the same Ueturns) declare the person
whom they shall find to be legally chosen and give MN
notice accordingly" Now the Committee on the Canvass
Of Votes will find in examining the returns, that the Mod
orator the town of Enfield has, on the blanks he has
submitted giving the vote of the town, protested in writ
that the Moderator Of the town Of NewHaven has, IN
supplementary report which becomes part OF the
original returns handed into the Secretary OF
States Office within the days limit prescribed by the
ConstiutOn-eertifed to errors in the count OF the
Fourth Ward SO that the Committee will have before ii
Official evidence jusufyng minute examination Of the
returns Of these towns As the Committee will see, by
the whole number OF returned that the election of
one candidate the other must depend upon correct re
turns from these towns IL will be impossible without
further examination, to find who has been illegally
chosen - and hence neither Mr. English Mr.. Jewel
can given notice accordingly till the legal question
has determined Neither therefore-with the facts
at least unofciay understood nOw-can with any show
Of odesty to appear election parade the
day of the session. given in honor of the Governor
elect
surprising 10 many intelligent men Of both parties
here that The Hartford Times, the leading Democratic
organ in the state should raise any question concerning
the duty the Legislature. which is plainly marked
out both by the constitution and statutes. To say that
the Legislature shall back of the report OF the
Board Of Canvassers in any event. is to put into the
hands Of either the Moderator OF the town OF Hartford
or of New Haven full power every year TO defeat the
will of the people by making false returns He may
xilfuy return 1000 votes more for candidate than
were poed and though he himself should be convicted
and fined $40 and costs hais the penalty believed the
LEGISLATURE could legal way declare the person
fairly chosen 10 be elected 1t is almost too absurd to
write about