The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-05-21
HOW TO DECIDE ELECTIONS,

of principles being commonly drafted
i'll a style better adapted to win votes
than to affirm political truths or
party policy. Whatever may be the
..glittering generalities' which appear
on the surface of their resolutions,
there is always one principle inVarl-
ably adhered TO, but never aVowed,
which is certain TO underlie all resolu-
tons emanating from that source.
That principle Is, never surrender
power The persistence and lngenu-
ity displayed i'll the maintenance OF
this maxim commands our admira-
ton. however little We may admire
the selfish, rutlianly spirit in which
they originate.
We have W forcible illustrations
O: the taithfulness with which this
p.undering principle is adhered to i'll
the case of the recent elections held
III Connecticut, and i'll the District,
HOW Territory, OF Columbia. The
Legislature OF Connecticut declared
Jewell elected Governor, although
the turns of the election. called and
held according to law, showed
that English, the Democratic can
didate. received 4 majority OF
all the votes cast at the cleo
ton. The only justification at
tempted for this proceeding was that
Jewel OUGHT t have received about
one hundred votes in New Haven
which the official eturns proved he
NEVER DID receive. He was declared
elected, not by virtue of ballots cast
for him, but by virtue of votes cast
candidate. This political legerdemain
was brought about by holding a SUP
election in a single district
OF a city, upon which all the corrupt
ing appliances known to Radical
State and Federal politicians were
brought to bear upon the floating, If
responsible mob, who having voted
freely once, ere delighted with Il fresh
opportunity of repeating b perform
ance. After rendering N verdict 1t
is not to be wondered at that enough
men could be found i'll the streets OF Il
large city who could be influenced to
furnish another, provided the proper
consideration was forthcoming. There
was nothing produced oshow that the
ballot of any voter had been tempered
with. The number of ballots agreed
with the number of voters on the
registry lists. The election apparent
" had been conducted with all the
Formally and strictness required by
law, or used in any other portion OF
the State. The Radical desperadoes
singled out the only charge that al
forded even the color OF a preteXt Tor
an interference with the returns. 1t
was the general one that some OF the
tickets had been changed; but which
tickets, or by whom, or when, or
where, nobody pretended to have amy
knowledge. Each registered voter
was brought up before a Board and
questioned as to whom he had voted
some weeks before, and on this farce
of IA supplemental election, unknown
TO the election laws, Il majority was
found to assert that they voted Tor
Jewell, though their own ballots prov
ed the perjury OF Il portion OF them.
II there were any doubt about the re-
suit the district returns should nave
been thrown out altogether, as Is Gus
tunary everywhere; or If this bastard
supplemental election was to be held
III one district, justice demanded that
1t should be held i'll every district OF
the State. The voters of other districts
were as much entitled to hold two
elections as those OF the district ofNew
Haven. This election of Jewel was
one OF the most fragrant frauds ever
perpetrated i'll American politics.
In the District Of Columbia the Rad
zeal ticket was elected by some 1000
uIajority-not as i'll Connecticut by
votes NOT cast for it, but by an elabo-
rate system OF repeating, by which
single voters doubled the responsible
ties of American citizenship; and by
driving to the polls every clerk Of the
departments. whether he claimed a
residence in Washington OF not. 1t
was a notorious fact that most of the
clerks have voted from year 10 year i'll
the States from which they were orig
inallv appointed to office, and many
OF them within a few weeks prior to
the Washington election. y Wash
mgton paper charges that the whole