New-York tribune., 1876-03-11
NEW HAMPSHIRE POLITICS.
1rpcrD FRAUDULENT VOTING.

DATES For SENATOR.
tvRoN STAFF CORRESPONDENT OF TIRE TRIDuNkl
MANCHESTER. n. H., March s.-Unaduteia'cd
+rpth about politics is as hard TO find IN Now-ltamp
sbire in tic heat Of a campaign, as was an honest
man in fl,e days Of Diogencs. With the pesueht
bttle newspapers hurting misrepresentation ana
yitupcratioa a; each other in italics ana capiti1'
and with tie whole community worked mp 10 Pitco
of excitement amounting almost to mama, IL
Is difficult TO get at any facts TO base
conclusions upon. One thing is nhd'S-
puted however. Both parties are domoraIUed
and corrupted by the Of money to an extent uh-
known believe anywhere else in the United states
Neither party denies that it makes regular pr&c-
tice Of 'buying floodwood"-whch in plain En-
eljsh means bribing voters hut when it is qucS-
tion of other forms of election villainy snch as
making false check lists, stuffng ballot boxes and
repeating, the managers on both sides Indignantly
protest their innocence They may be said TO
~Compound for sins they nrc inciin' a 70,
b. dausninS those they lave no mind TO-"
But in truth there is very littie opportunity for
cheating AZ the polls The State contains only one
place thai can properly be called city, and that is
Manchester. with its 1000 Inhabitants. Ali the
other so-called cities are only large villages, where
everybody knows everybody and where frand-
ulent voting is ont of the question. with
its large fore gr-born population employed IN
the cotton mills, Manchester is naturally
Democratic and it has long served as
the BITE nor OF Republican stump orators who barry
the feelings of rural audiences with iIghtim tales
of the election frauds perpetrated here 10 destroy
as Iauch possible thc power m the Legislature Of
the large Democratic constituency ia Manchester the
Republicans, years ago, Gcrrymandered tie
city in such an outrageous fashion that they were
able to elect 20 ont of % members, although the
Democrats carried the city by a considerable ma
iority When The Democrats got possession of the
state Government, in 1871, they rcdistricicd the
city with torrable fairness There Is one ward the
Fifth pe0pcd chiefly by the Irish, where the Demo
cratic vote Is very large and tlis ward the Rcunbh
cans make a great ado about every year. No doubt
they have some cause, but they ccrtany
exaggeTatc the amount of fraudulent voting
done there. Two days after the BeAnap
exposure the Republican newspaper here published
a list of 45O names out Of the 200 on the cheek
list for thar ward which The Republican Ward Com
Inittee professed was fraudulent. They were either
bogus names IL pretended, on names OF dead
men or non-residcuts This list with the comments
m the case Of raeii name has been printed n cam
paign document by the State Central Committee,
and distributed to every school district IL tbs State
The Democrats here claim that the whole thing is
an ingenious canard, published TO ncutrdlZs the
effect of the ikuap developments. Their organ pub
fishes numerous afdayits of men set down as dead
or having moved away by the Republican Commit
tee who protest that they are alive and well, and
live just VIII re they have for gears past The dciib-
crate preparation Of this fictitious list, to make the
country people believe the Democrats here are going
to perpetrate more gigantic fraud than ever, is
good Illustration Of the Low depths TO which politics
has descended in New-iIampshre. The motto OF
both sides seems TO be, All is fair in war
In the present contest it Is regarded as more I'M
portant to carry majority in the Legislature than
TO elect the Governor and the Democrats feel conf
dent that if Mr Marcy is defeated 10y few hundred
they will still obtain a majority ia the Legislature
on joint ballot and thus be able 10 elect United
States in place OF Nh Cfagin. They are not
70 fond Of counting chickens before they hachcd
as are the Republicans, and 10 not talk much about
candidates. The men most spoken Of, perhaps
because most active in their own behalf are
Mr. Harry Bingham lawyer of Li;tletol,
and Mr. Sinclair, a business from
the Southern part of the State. On the
Republican side. ex-ConRcsSman e. H. Rollins
is " fixing things with great diligence and adgoit-
ness. He is the ablest practical politician in the
State and no matter who is Chairman Of the Cen
tral Comlutttce, hc always manages the campaign,
and during the fortnight before election Is con-
stantly at tie committee-rooms Twice before be
worked to secutc a Republican Legislature 70 secure
the Seuatoship. and failed by the tIeachery, hc
and he is likely to suffer the fate this time,
surprising his party TO have a majority on
the jOint ballot. The business men III the
party say hc is TOO much of politician 10 make
creditable Senator and they him OF first in
Producing the vicious system of raising and
disbulsing large corruption fund for buying voters
in the close towns. Rollins, O.dway, and VIM. f.
Chandler are said TO have originated and perfected
this atrocious practice Ex-GOv. Stcarns, q prom
inent railroad operator, who controls nearly all thu
Hew-fainpshre roads, is also candidate, and with
about as good a chance TO succeed as has Dir.
Rollins. hcar that some man, who Is entirely out
of the impure current of active politics. VIII be more
likely to win than either Of these gentlemen.
have said heretofore nothing about the currency
question in lItcr, on the canvass because there Is
really no question Of the sort to dIscuss, all men
being of one mind upon it, True, the Republicans
sometimes thrust at their opponents the soft-noney
speeches and votes of Democrats in Congress but
in view Of the fact that the NevHampslire De.noc
racy is untcdly and stubbOrnly III favor of specie
payments, this sort of argument, although annoying
t. them, has effect their vote. Ii Mr..
Holman and few of his fellow intationists in Con-
gress would come here and learn the abhoTence felt
for their doctrines by the entire Democratic party in
the State, they would perhaps go back convinced OF
the folly Of trying TO force them upon the ST.
Louis Convention. No candidate tnctured with
soft-moncy theories will get the vote of the New
Hampshire delegation to that Convention. should
add that the delegates already chosen. One is
earnestly in favor Of Gen. Hancock; the Others are
not committed. but lean toward Iilden,
The canvass is exceedingly all over the |
State Both parties are working with tremendous |
energy. The meetings are largely attended and ex
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