New-York tribune., 1876-03-14
NEW-HAMPSHIRE ELECTION.

BOTH PARTIES NERVOUS AND ANXIOUS.
NEITHER SIDE LIKELY TO WIN A COMPIETE VIC
ToRY-THE REPUBLICANS CONFIDENT OF THE
GOvERNoRsHTP by 500 OR 600 MAJORITY
LITTLE BETTING, THE MONEY OF POLITICIANS
Being IN THE CORRUPTION FUNp-A REPUBLI-
CAN CALL FOR MILITIA.
ny TELEGRAPH TO TRIBUSEl
CONCORD, n. H., March 13.-The leaders OF both
parties nervous and anxious to-night, although
they try 10 keep mp a show of confidence In to-mor-
rows result The contest will be very close, and 1T
is probable that neither side will win complete
victory. According to the statements of the best in
formed Democrats, made 10 their friends, they ex-
pect that there will be choice Of Governor by the
popular vote, and that they will have working
majority in the House, six an perhaps seven OF the
twelve Senator's, and three of the five Councillors
The Republican State Committee claim to have full
faith that they will elect their Governor by
a majority of 500 or 600. and plurality of 1000,
and that they will have fair majority on joint ballot
in the Legislature They concede three Councillors to
the Democrats, and are disposed to admit that the
Senate will be tie. This is the most moderate Re-
publican estimate given-not for effect but as the
actual belief Of men who in possession of all the
attalnaDle facts on the Republican side.
Comparing these two predictions, it will be seen
that the issue cannot be accurately predicted, but
tnaI lue success OF lne hepuDlIcan cduuiuatc ioi
Governor would seem more probable contingency
than that of his opponent All talk about the COM
plexon of the Legislature Is mere guesswork. There
are l46 towns in the State That have been trust
worthily Democratic for the past six years. that
have uniformly given Republican majOrties. and
10 that have varied and are therefore classed
as doubtful. OF these latter, SO have given Repub-
lican oftener than Democratic majorites, and 81
have been carried more frequently by the Demo
Gratis.
Closing meetings were held by both parties IN this
city tonight and also in most of the large towns of
the State. The excitement very high, but there
is not much betting. All the money the politicians
are willing to risk the election has been put into
the corruption fund side or the other to buy
votes. The Republicans in Manchester, in their
selfish eagemess to gain power in their own city
have been trying to persuade Gov Cheney into
taking q step that would prove suicidal to their
party in the State. One hundred of them signed a
petition ON Saturday asking him to call out the
militia to guard the polls in the Fifth Ward and
number of leading men, including ex-Goy. Straw,
gave an indorsement TO this extraordinary request
There is no particular danger of a riot there,
and the only purpose of stationing troops
in the ward would be to oyerawe
the Democrats who control it, Gov. Cheney had the
good sense to decline to accede to the request No
greater piece of political folly could be imagined
than for a Governor in peaeeable New-EnRland, to
order soldiers to the polls when his own reelection
was at stake or indeed at any time The cry OF
military interference with the freedom of the ballot
would not alone go through the State, bnt would be
taken up all over the country, and would help the
Democracy than all the exposures OF corruption
they can make
By one of the intTicacics Of w-lIampshire law,
town up in the mountains called Hart's Location
elected a representative to-day. The Republicans
carried it, and their papers raise n shout over the
result. There are only l3 voters in the town, ana
but seven of them voted. But it glorious vic
tory the organs say.