Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-05-26
Connecticut.

The election in Connecticut last month,
so close that both parties claimed the
Governor till the meeting of the legisla-
ture, has finally been proved to have
been a complete republican triumph, and
the face of the returns showed this very
soon after election, when errors were cor
rected, but few over Jealous friends of
Gov. English attempted double fraud,
fraud so plain and so thinly yelled,
that Gov English himself and most of
the democratic party of that State, not
only concede the fair and honest election
of Jewell and the rest Of the State ticket,
but we're much disguised with the at
tempt of the Tammany politicians of
New York city to count them in dishon-
estly.
On the assembling of the Legislature an
investigating committee was appointed,
who Immediately visited the three towns
or places where errors were reported In
one town 81 votes were reported for
English where he had but rs, and the er.
ror was manifestly made by the package
of votes being inverted. which made the
entry read or look like 81. No question
of this error was raised in any quarter.
At the next tcwn the democratic moder-
atnr deducted % votes from the total
number cast, on the ground that that
number was so much in excess of the
registry list, and took them all from Jew
ell without particle OF authority for sc
doing. These two corrections alone
elected Jewell according to all previous
reported election returns. The commit
tee visited the fourth ward in New Hav.
en-, where 100 more votes had been adj
ded to English's vote in the returns, thar
were first reported for him. On opening
the ballot box, it was found that 10t
votes had been distracted from the pack
ages for Jewell, and 100 added to thos,
of English This made the total vot
for governor all right, but it left the bal
ance of the republican ticket 100 aheac
of Jewell and the balance of the demo
cratic ticket 100 behind English. TIL
total vote for Jewell on election day wa
$40, when the committee opened the DO,
it was 479. On election day English
vote was 619, now it had swollen t.
1911
The attempted cheat was perfectl
transparent, and yet few democrats Q
the Eaton-Gallagher tribe of that State
attempted to make it appear that 10
republicans, had voted for English i
preference to Jewell, because Enelis
was so popular, thereupon the eommitte
summoned the voters of the fourth war
to appear before them and over $50 re
publicans did appear and made oath tina
they had voted for Jewell while not on
democrat appeared before the committe
at all. The committee therefore amend
ed the returns so that it might conforr
to the common principles of honesty, an
the legislature declared that Jewell wa
elected governor by the people by m,
jority of Sc.
Before his Inauguration, few of III
Tammany tribe Eve will not say demo
Gratis for very few of them had any syn
patty with it, } desired English to refus
to give up the executive chair, and wish
ed him to call out the military to SUI
tain himself in case Jewell should a
tempt to "usurp the duties Of governo
all of which Gov English and most
the democrats of Connecticut, wisely an
utterly repudiated. Such in brief is IL
sequel to the Connecticut election.