Morning journal and courier., 1880-03-19
Connecticut Politics.

Presidential Preferences of the Mem bers of the Legislature.
 A Hartford correspondent of the New Yorl
 Herald says: Ia political notebooks Connec
 ticut has for some years been classified among
 the 'sdoubtfur' States. Whatever may be tn,
 political complexion of it's State government | that revolution will not mark the Presiden l tial vote. Coming down to the latest periods 1 Tilden carried the Stete in 1876 by 2,900, but in 1878 Andrews, (Rsp. for Governor, had plurality of 2,482. The Greenback vote
 however sent his election to the Legislature. In 1877 the Republicans had recovered theil
 ground in the Legislature and had small ma jority on joint ballot, with 267 members, com posing the Senate and House. This was in
 creased in 1878, and in 1879 had reached AZ | in the Legislature of this winter (elsction of
 the fall of 1579) the Republicans have II ma jority in the Senate and 80 in ths House, or 91 majority on joint ballot.
 Leading Republican politicians claim that the State can be carried for the Republican candidate this fall, and Democratic politicians are not over sanguine of repetition of their victory of 1876. The Greenback vote was the Democratic drawback in 1877 and 1878,
 and it is yet regarded with uneasiness The
 Greenbackers put no Legislative candidates
 in the field last fall, with a few scattering ex-
 captions. One of the fathers of the Green
 back movement in this State said few days
 since that his party took little interest in tha Legislative contest last fall because thsre was no important issue at stake, but that they
 would be heard from this year. His predic- ton of 6, ,000 to 10000 Greenback votes in the event of the two dominant parties putting up hard money men may be regarded as soms- what wild, but the history of the past indi- cates that the Greenbackers have 1t in their power to do serious injury to the Democratic party, from whose ranks they are largely recruited. In the last State election-that Of 187S-the soft money men boiled 8.314 votes for their candidate, Atwater, of New Haven. The Democratic vote for Hubbard was 46, 395, and the Repub Gcan vote for Andrews AS, ,S67. If in 1880 the Greenbackers be rallied ss they were in 1878, drawing their $500 votes, or even less, as they did then, mainly from the Demo- cratic ranks, 1t is 8 mere matter of figures to determine that the Democrats will have slim chance of carrying Connecticut into the Demo cratic column. In 1876 the State went for Tilden, stated, by 2,90O, but the Greenback vote was then but 775, instead of the 8, 300 boiled in 1878. The apathy of the Green packers, wholesale dessrtions from their ranks or compromise alone will insure Demo- cratic victory in 1880.
 The correspondent made 8 canvass of tke Legislature. He found that Grant was tue first choice of five Senators, Blaine, Wash burn and Edmunds of three each and Garfield of two. Among the Democratic Senators Seymour was the choice of four and the party nominee of ons. Among the House Repub licans Grant was the first choice of fifty-four, Blaine of forty weight, Sherman of nineteen, Hawley of twelve, Washburn of five, Hayes of three, Garfield of two and Edmunds of one. Among the Democrats, Seymour was the first choice of ffty-three, yildsn of twelve, Bayard of five, and David Davis, Ea- ton and Thurman of one each.
 in the House vote of 24O members the ex President has the lead in four counties and Blaine in two, Fairfield, adjoining New York, and Windhan1, in the northeastern part they are even in Holland and New London Blaine leads to in the strongly Republican county of Wlndham, which this year has 20 Demo- cratic to four Republican members. Ia an- other strong Republican county, New London, with 21 Republicans to Democrats, Blaine Is even, to 6. In Middlessx county, where the Republican advantage is less. the ex-Presidsnt leads to 5, and in Litchfield, ths strongest Democratic county in the State, 21 Democrats to 20 Republicans (the home of ex-Senator Barnum) he leads to 6. Again, in New Ha- ven county, where the numerical strength in the House is pretty evenly balanced this year, he also leads 8 to 5.