Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-10-12
Town ELECTION.

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political mind that the entire vote polled
on Tuesday was only 743, while at the
Presidential election, there we're Lila
falling off of 81. Tickets were split up in
various ways, and voters who attempted
to make selection from the numbers
spread over the table, found themselves in
maze. Beside the regular Republican
and Democratic tickets, they were cut up
into three others-an Independent with
Tuckerman's name instead of Thorp's as
Representative; another Republican with
Doel's name instead of Wrignt's as Infrm-
airy DirectOr-sustained by the friends of
Thorp and regular nominations; then
there was another regular Republican tick
ct with Judge Lees name for Representa-
tive. This device for catching the Repub-
lican friends Of Judge Lee had the effect
to cool the ardor of some of the opponents
of Thorp, in the fear that it might secure
Lees success. There were also Greenback
tickets, prohibition tickets, and we think
others, not now in mind
The election, Of course, was a quiet and
good natured one, but if other portions of
the State were as torpid as Ashtabula, it
will, no doubt prove the quiet of defeat to
the Republican party, as has been predict
ed by its friends, through the campaign.
FOR GOVERNOR.
Republican. Democrat.
West. ..... 1859 Bishop. ... 1886
FOR STATE SENATOR.
Rowland. $50 Page. .......... 1853
FOR REPRESENTATIVE.
Thorp. ..... .2S8 Too asa
Tuckerman. =. IA N''' ''OO1
CLERK SUPREME COURT.
Crowell. ......442 Tanning. .. .259
COUNTY AUDITOR.
WI. Crowell 1876 Miller. ..332
NFIRMARY DIRECTOR.
B6sf Rright' - .8S8 S8 Stanton. ,aaO
The following are the correct footings
for the several candidates for Representa-
tive:
1 uOi .OOtt Lee .SUOU
Tuckerman. ...1227 TalcOtt. .... n
Constitutional Amendment, yes 6O-nO
%.
No less than 408 votes were thrown away
on scattering-Greenback, Prohibition.
and such nonsense.
The vote for Governor is fair average
of the run of the State ticket.
That for Auditor Crowell is somewhat
ahead of his ticket, as are those of Commits
sioner aud Coroner. It is however, near
enough for ranging the county ticket by.
Judge Lee, twill be seen, leads his ticket
by a few votes.
Returns from this county, as will be
seen, show a very light vote, and the Re
publican majority will be correspondingly
light. 1t will not exceed 5000. The
same is true of Trumbun county, in which
the majority will not, probably, exceed
1900.
Constitutional amendments have but
little influence in attracting the attention
of the people. The vote poIled here, on
the adoption of the free banking law, is,
no doubt, an index of the vote of the State
The people do not care about tinkering
the constitution, and will not take the
trouble to inform themselves and intelli-
gently form an opinion as to the import
ance or nonimportance of any proposed
amendment. Thus they go by default.
The reason of there not being larger
vote for Tuekerman, is mainly attributable
to an unwillingness of many of our Repub-
lican friends to break away from regular
nominations.
A feature of the Thorp tactics was made
very apparent in the scattering of Republi-
can tickets, gotten up at Geneva, with
DOePs name substituted for Wright's-the
regular caucus nominee for Infirmary Di-
rector, while the friends of the "Young
man" were eloquent in urging elsewhere,
adherence to regular nominations. The
ticket was engineered by the Thorp men of
deneVa, and the same was true here. If
the antl-Ihorp men adopted the bantling
-
at Kingsville, as our CORRESPONDENT at that
place intimates, it only goes to show that
there were too many tricks started bv the
"Young man" to have them all carry
This was the view taken of his course Inv
himself when his prudence lead him to
procure the shortening of the interval
between the election of delegates, and the
holding Of the County Convention, least
the cloven foot should be seen, and failure
should follow.
If our Young man" will only observe
the modesty generally considered proper in
young members Of the General Assembly,
and forbear any forensic indulgences, the
Democrats will be compelled to shoulder
the responsibilities of legislation, and held
to answer to the people for any abuses
of confidence or trust.