Wilmington journal., 1873-08-01
ADMINISTRATIVE CANDIDATES.
FEDERAL INTERFERENCE IN
STATE AFFAIRS.

FEDERAL INTERFERENCE IN
STATE AFFAIRS.
President Grant friends are now in
dustriously seeking to place themselves
where they will do him the most good.
Beast Butler is busily preparing for
another raid upon the Governors
chair in Massachusetts,, and one of his
strongest cards is that he is ''the ad-
ministration candidate" for whoever
is the administration candidate is sure
of the silence if not of the support OF
every federal office holder in the State.
The Secretary of the Interior, Mr..
Delano, has gone to Ohio to arrange
matters in that State for the succession
to the seat that Mr.. Thurman now oc-
cupies in the United States Senate.
He. too. is the administration candi-
date.
In Virginia, too, there is an admin
istration candidate or two for Gov
ernor. It has been alleged by some
that the old war horse of politics, Cen
eral Henry A. Wise, has by some
curious legerdemain, managed to
become the administration. candidate.
On the other hand it is said that
Colonel Hughes if not "the genuine
original Jacobs is at least the gen
uine original administration candidate.
OF one thing we are sure. kellog
| is the administration Governor of
Louisiana.
| OF course after the nominations are
made, all of the candidates of the
''truly loil'' Radical conventions are
genuine administration candidates.
How the administration gives aid
and comfort to its friends in obtaining
the suffrages of the people, will be
seen from recent Developments in New
Hampshire.
While bill providing that in future
none but ballots upon white paper
mouth, New Hampshire, was under
consideration by the Legislature O
that State at its last session, the Speak
er of the House took the floor and op
posed it with all the ability and earn
estness at his command. The Ne!
York San says that all wonder at TIN
course of the Credit Mobilier party il
the New Hampshire Legislature will
cease when it is understood how elec
tio1s are managed in Portsmouth. Ii
that city is navy yard. When i'm
, portant elections are to occur there ]
always great demand for workme
in that ward, and the wOrkmen are al
expected to vote for the Admlnlstra
, ton candidates. There is possibility
however, that some of these workme
may have conscientious scruples agains
voting for these candidates, and TIL
device has been adopted Of supplyln
them with ballots having highly colol
, ed backs, so that the Federal officer
can detect them if they attempt to vot
. otherwise than as they are told. Whe
they are caught in such rebellious cor
, duct they are promptly dealt with
This ingenious trap for free and inde
pendent voters was first employed q
the Mare Island Navy Yard i'll Califoi
/ MIA, Il little nest of corruption whic
deserves and one of these days WI
get thorough overhauling.
, While the bill providing for whit
| ballots was under discussion, Nh
Hatch, who introduced it, made Il WIG
orous exposure of the abuses whic
have lately prevailed at the Portsmout
elections, showing that from five hun
i drcd to two thousand votes have bee
t controlled by the tyranny of Feders
officials through tpe device of marke
, ballots, enough sometimes to decid
the contest III the State. His expo
sures were SO thorough and convli
, cling that, although his bill failed,
general election law comprehensive
. enough to cover this specialinstance O
wrong was afterward passed in spite G
ali opposition.
What /. good thing it is to be an ad
ministration candidatei