St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1871-05-12

English OF Connecticut. lncy h'iNc
elected him governor by 4 fraud so OBJ
yious that nobody can we'll doubt it, and
so gross that it will be forever notorious,
and Vet legal proof of which it is al
most, if not quite, Impossible to obtain.
Ii lie takes the office by virtue of it, he
can never escape the responsibility and
odium of it. 1t will he as milestone
hung around his neck his political rec
ord will be forever associated with II,
bound up with it, and ended by it. More
over, SO clear is the fraud, it will COM
promise his personal character,-it ought
forever. He will be known hcnceforth
as the man who took and proiitcd By
stolen goods, knowing them TO be stolen.
lie had better never have been governor
of Connecticut than to take and hold the
office another year at the price that some
of his friends have thus furnished it to
him.
The history of the matter, thus culmi-
mating, is familiar TO our readers, chap
ter by chapter, Let Us recall it in cJn-
ncction. The returns for governor TO
the statc-housc footed up a plurality for
English of 10, and Il majority Of 81, and
the board of state canva>scr- 50 reported
ID the Legislature. There were, howcv-
cr, three Obvious cases of error which,
being corrected, would change the result.
The democrats insisted that the Lc@i,la-
turc had no right 10 20 behind the rec
ord, that it must accept the votes as
returned and as the board of canvasscrs
had done. But the Legislature, holding
the final duty Of declaring who is GOV
crnor, and there being these obvious
mistakes or frauds, ordered an cNamina.
ti0n. In Enfield it proved, as expected,
that Ivy : being taken for . 10y the
returning officer, English was givcn 20
more votes than he received. In Cheshire
Il democratic MODERATOR assumed without
right that % votes had bcta improperly
registered and though but u of that
voted, he threw oil - votes from the
footing for Jewell - a. ITO make it
right Correcting this presumption,
and ciyin@ the 2:i:i votes to Jewell that
the tuwn cast, instead OF the 2lO OF the
molrrator's report, was the next clear
duly Of the legislative examiners.
Now comes the third casc-thr vote
of the Fourth ward of New Haven,
which was returned loo more than the
number OF voters who ,'aSt ballots and
were checked ON til, REGISTRY. These
extra hundred appeared on En%lish'-
side, his vot, b-inI 100 more than the
democratic candidates on other ballots,
while .irwcliS Wa the same a. the lest
of his ticket Eat tl,. baiiut-hp< b.iny
rc-opencd last Friday, lnL the votes re
counted To- the legislative committee.
Gov. Jewell counts out loo lc-- than
the original report. and loo less than
the republican candidates "n other tirk-
cts, and thu extra Iun,lrrd STICKS Ia Gov.
l.n"li,I,'s column The presumption
"t Il second iraui here IL rv,n mole Oh
NiOu- than that yt IT." liz. Ihr we'll
known division "t parties IN the war,l
Justified Gov. Jewels inst vuty. and dill
i not that OF Cox. l.n1li>h: there was NJ
reason why Gov. Jewell should run 100
votes bchnt the republican r'niIltrs
i"r repre- 'lIi'itlN'> -i''fG W. none VIE
Gov. English should oct 100 murr vote
than Tia" democratic representatives,. and
there Wa even Ir~t reason, II possible,
Tor ~"rporIn& HAT 10" republican" IN
that ward should ,'H>cri Jewell and ."
'uNrr t. English. still iurlhrr,--- TIA,
VotrS now found al the hailut-buN ale
c"frc't---t'r names t"r thr other state
executive officers and m'mher ct Con,
SrtS7 hcm@ on IT," sam" ballots with the