The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-04-01


The Connecticut election for Governor
State officers and Legislature upon which
will devolve the election of United States
Senator, comes off to-day. There are fou r
parties in the 6eld-the republican, the demo-
cratic, the temperance and the labor reform
parties-and in addition to these there is the
unknown element of the liberal or anti Grant
republicans. The test question and the
national interests in this fight, however, are
centred in the struggle for the Governor
between Jewell, the present republican incum-
bent, and Hubbard, his democratic competitor.
Last year, after a vigorous republican battle,
upon a total popular vote of ninety<five thou
sand, Jewell, from an overhauing and wedding
out of the returns blythe Legislature, was
declared elS<pThe slender one hundred
majority - English SO that, considering
the intrusion of all these outside parties,
Jewell would appear now to be in considerable
danger of defeat; for it must be remembered
that your temperance and labor reformers
everywhere are mainly offshoots from the
republican camp, as in New Hampshire, and
that the out-and-Out anti-Grant republicans,
If limited to the contemplate figure of two
or three hundred boilers, may turn the scale.
On the other hand, our special correspond
ents, who have been carefully attending to
this Connecticut campaign, report that many
things have been operating to the advantage
of the republicans-that they have had plenty
of money, plenty of good speakers, very
active and experienced chairman of their
State Central Committee and the prestige of
their New Hampshire victory. They have
canvassed the State thoroughly, they have
worked night and day, and, above all, they
are enthusiastic in their efforts to secure a
| ringing popular judgment in favor of General
| Grant. On the democratic side it has been
heavy, discouraging, uphill work. They have
had few speakers, fewer campaign documents
and very little financial and material aid.
Last year they had the open sesame to that
cave Of the forty thieves, with its big jars of
gold, silver, greenbacks and diamonds, the
cave of the Tammany Ring. But now the
Ring and its treasures are gone, and the
lonely cave is haunted only by the ghosts of
dead Indians. The "Boss" has not come
down to the cry for help from New Haven, be-
cause the tBoss' has ''gone up" Hence,
cut off from State and federal patronage, and
from the liberal largesses hitherto furnished
by Tammany, this, to the Connecticut demo-
Gratis, has been ''the poor mans campaign"
And so the general impression is that the
republicans will win the day; for, on the
whole, their prospects are decidedly the
brightest 1t is morally certain that in the
Legislature and the United States Senator they
will secure the fruits of substantial victory;
but still the key of the fortress, the Maakoff Of
this contest, is Che Governor. The republi-
cans, nevertheless, must do better this year
than they did last, or they may fail; but they
may do better Here is the Connecticut vote
on both sides in 1868 and in l871:-
loos-for Grant SO $50
FOR seymour NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Al, 84
Grants majority Observation-Disclosures. 1886
Or, In round numbers, the handsome little
majority of three thousand upon full vote.
As first reported, the vote of 1871 was as fol-
lows:-
For English .......................- A. 400
Engllsh's majority Observation-Disclosures. 40
Bat the point to be observed in the vote Of
each of these two parties, as between that of
1868 and that of 1871, is this: that taking the
vote of '6S for General Grant as representing
the full strength of the republicans, and that
for Seymour as the full poll of the democrats,
we find on the one side reserved force of
three thousand and on the other a reserved
vote of only three or four hundred in last
years election. Now, as this contest between
Jewell and Hubbard is really contest be-
tween the friends and the enemies of Grant,
we may be sure that the Grant men will do
their best to-day, and that the issue depends
upon the ant-Grant republican boilers.
But what says Ex-Governor English upon
these anti Grant republicans? In a conve r
saton with HERALD reporter the other day
Mr.. English expressed himself as still in
doubt of any material assistance to Hubbard
from the anti-Grant mercenaries. He had
seen one Of these stray chickens, who had
promised to go for Hubbard; but that was
all. He could not say how far this feeling
extended. But he could and did say that
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mainly depends the success or failure Of the
Cincinnati Liberal Republican Convention,
and that if we (the democrats) win the liberal
republicans all over the country will pluck up
courage to come ont boldly and cross the
Rubicon. ''They will see," continued the ex-
Governor, ''that the masses of the people are
opposed to Grant, and, certain Of support,
will venture to act up to their convictions.
But (mark this ''but''), if the republicans are
successful, do not think the Cincinnati Con-
vention will amount to much. The dsafIected
members OF the democratic party will give up
the contest (the passive cooperation policy
and go back into their party lines" As to
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