The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-03-27
THE CONNECTICUT ELECTION

The Connecticut election, which is to tax.
place on Monday the 9Th Of April, is invested
with more than ordinary interest by the acci
dental circumstance that it will be the las
State election occurring this year. and that il
Is well understood the Administration part,
are making the most strenuous efforts tc
carry that ever closely contested battlefield.
Additional importance is attached to the
contest from the fact that Jewell, Grants
Postmaster General, halls from Connecticu
| of which he was elected Governor in 1872 bv
an imposing majority of twenty-five votes all
told.
Ia 1873, the Democrats carried it by As, O75
to 1926, and again last spring by the in
creased majority Of 46, 755 against 80, 973.
JUDI ing from the past, therefore, the pros
poets the Democracy to carry the Connecti-
cut election two weeks hence, should be con-
sidered as very encouraging particularly as
the ticket which then swept the State has been
re-nominated and the Democratic Congress
sional candidates are also very strong ones
with the exception of the Fourth District
where considerable opposition exists to
ex-Congressman Barnum on account
Of his scandalous neglect Of his duties during
the whole of the last session of the House.
Gen. Hawley, the Republican candidate in
the First District, is man of character who
does not wear the Grant and third-term col
llr, and whose probable election to a largely
Democratic House will cause no one in this |
State to shed tears, as he has persstently and |
honestly refused to indorse the Louisiana |
usurpation and the Sheridan satrapv. Gov. |
Ingersoll, who heads the Democratic State
ticket, is acknowledged by his political oppo-
nents to have made an excellent Chief Magis-
trate, and the other State officers who were
also renominatel, have given universal salts
faction.
The Republican ticket is also said to have
been very shrewdly made up of men having
weight and influence in the estate of steady
habits. They have very efficient chairman
y their Central COMMITTEES in the person of
L. Harrison, and they have gone into the
canvass with evident hope of achieving sue
cess Having placed themselves squarely on
he Grant platform, the whole power Of the
will be exerted in their behalf,
md the New York Custom House will doubt
ess be made to bleed freely for the impend-
ng struggle, and every corrupt appliance
which official patronage or moneyed corpora I
ions, sustained by the Washington rings,
viii be brought into play.
In spite of all this, however, the Democrats
t Connecticut seem conf lent not only OF
folding their own, but of carrying the State
y largely increased majority. Mr.. Brown 1
he chairman of the Democratic State Central
Committee, told correspondent Of the New
'ork Times that there was no manner of :
oubt about the result, and that the Demo-
rats would make a clean sweep of every Con-
ressona District
Connecticut is not Louisiana. and therefore
o one can tell who is to be Governor thereof t,
ntll the election takes place and the returns
re counted Returning Boards do not :
arrive there and political fungi Of the Wells
nd Anderson species would not be tolerated r.
II moment. Whatever the people of Con-
ecticut may decide on the 5th of April next, NJ
lerefore, the triumphant party will have the !, y
'tisfaction of knowing that no rascally politi-
Il gamblers will be able to cheat them out of b
le fruits of their victory, and that the She
sndoah rough rider and banditti discoverer
i'll not undertake to decide upon the status
their Legislative and executive officers he
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