The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-04-06

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| Connecticut. With . full vote, as far as
returned, Of between ninety-two and ninety
four thousand, the election OF Governor
remains in doubt. The latest returns show
that Governor English has plurality Of dve
votes, with a hundred errors yet to be cor
rected In the official count The old proverb
that one swallow does not make q summer is
illustrated in the comparison between the
democratic victory in New Hampshire and
the democratic disappointment In Connecticut.
| The fact is that the sudden shock which the
republican party got from the reverberation of
the democratic cannon announcing triumph
| from the battle field in New Hampshire, woke
them up to the necessity of looking after their
interests in Connecticut. They braced them
selves up, stiffened their muscles and put on
their dignity for good square fight, and there
is no doubt but they fought 1t well. The
| administration, too, was alive to the fact that
| Connecticut must not be permitted to add
another success to the democratic cause In
New England; and hence every effort was
made on Monday last by the labors Of federal
officers, and, it Is said, by the influence of
federal money, to great extent in helping out
the necessary electioneerlng expensesto defeat
Governor English. The colored vote also,
which was brought to The polls for the first
time at this election, took at least eight hun
dred votes from the democratic majority of
| 1870; for it is fair to conclude that the newly
| created colored voters nearly to man went
| for Ex-Governor Jewell. The majority Of
| Governor English last year, being only eight
hundred and forty three, would thus be easily
demolished, compelling the democrats to build
| up that majority from other sources, and these
sources appear to have been dry.
In many respects the Connecticut election Is
a curiosity in politics. The machinery was
admirably managed on the part of the repub-
licans. The clever scheme, whereby the
voters were made to believe that Tammany
| Hall had seized upon the State, by means Of
an imaginary despatch from Governor English
| to Mr.. Tweed, was an admiral continuance.
| Tammany itself could not beat the trick in
| adroitness. The despatch purporting to come
from Governor English to Mr.. Tweed, which
we may safely assume was never written and
never worried the telegraph wires, was cum
ningly circulated in the weekly edi-
ton Of republican paper at Hart
ford-the C0urant-throughou the country
districts with such appeals to the prejudices
of the farmers and others in the rural places
as brought the spectre noir of Tammany before
them in hideous aspect. Shall the honest
voters of Connecticut or s'the thieves of Tam
many" carry this electio M was the question
pres ented to the rural voters Naturally
enough they were alarmed at the alternative
they were not going to be sold like cattle,
and they came out, consequently, in consider
able strength to assert their claims to New
England backbone. Hence, in measure, the
full vote polled. 1t was cunning trick, we'll
devised and lucky In its operation but all is
| fair in politics, as in love and war.
We hardly think, after all, that the St. Do
mingo question, made hot and irritable by the
fierce assaults of Sumner and Schurz upon Pre-
sident Grant, had much to do with the result
in Connecticut. We are disposed to think that
the republicans there looked with considerable
Indifference upon the quarrel. In Short they
probably were about equally divided in their
views as between President Grant and Sum-
ner, and rather liked the boldness of the Mas
! sachusetts Senator than otherwise. At all
events that question was skilfully withdrawn
from sight In the canvass by the republican
organs and orators. 1t was not trumpeted in
the columns of the radical press, neither was
it proclaimed from the radical stump.
The only issue supposed to carry any
weight with it, which was presented carefully
up to the last moment, was this terror that
Tammany was controlling the State with its
| greenbacks, its cohorts of rufians and it's
innate and dangerous corruptions. We are
told now that Mr.. Tweed is rhomme qui rit
and that he enjoys very hearty laugh over
the affair of the bogus despatch.
1t may not be 80 difficult after all to dis
cover the reason why this election In Connec-
ticut was so unsatisfactory and indecisive,
when we consider that local quarrels existed
in almost every district in the State, and split
tickets were the common rule almost
everywhere. The Second Congressional
district, for example, was lost to the demo-
Gratis in this way. The bitterness existing
against the democratic candidate (Mr.
Kendrick), since his opposition to Mr.. Bah
cock two years ago, which gave the district to
the republican candidate (Mr. Kellogg, con-
fronted him at the polls on Monday, and
resulted in the reelection of Kellogg. The
democrats could not forgive Kendrick, and
thus they permitted him to be sacrificed.
There seemed to be that kind Of feeling
among the democrats AL through The State,
extending even to the local elections. Those
who calculated that family quarrels were
going to demoraize the republicans, there