Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-01-24
The Senatorial Contests.

Hoar has triumphed in Massachusetts,,
Cullom in Illinois, and Frye in Maine, all
republicans. Among the southern states
Salisbury has been reelected in Delaware,
Ransom in North Carolina, Harris in Ten
nessee and Garland in Arkansas, all dem
ocrats. West Virginia has chosen John E.
Kenna, now leading democratic represent
alive, to succeed Davis, who is chiefly
known in the senate az the man who is not
David Davis. In Michigan, Ferry's pros
poets are waning. Window in Minnesota
cannot command sufficient strength to Sc
cure reelection, and deadlock also exists
in Colorado and Nebraska, Senator Saun-
ders of the latter state having fallen to the
second place in the bslloting. Governor
Pitkin is the popular candidate in Colorado,
but he is opposed by the bonanza kings and
the outcome there is as uncertain as in
Michigan and Minnesota. Hears success in
Massachusetts, has been followed by brisk
breeze over an alleged forged dispatch from
Grape, requesting his supporters to cast
their votes for Hoar. That such dispatch
had been received from Grape was asserted
in the state house on Thursday before the
decisive ballot was taken and the fact that
Crapo's supporters transferred their votes to
Hoar gave color to the rumor. The Boston
papers credited the rumor without quaifica-
ton, saying such dispatch was received
and read at conference of the Grape men
and that this decided their course in the
ballot which followed Editorially and in
their reports Of the final ballot, they
ascribed Mr.. Hoar's victory to the action OF
Mr.. Grape. Those journals which were
supporting Mr.. Hoar spoke gratefully Of
Mr. Crapos conduct and held political re-
wards in store for him and punishments for
Governor Long. The next day it turned
out that Mr.. Grape had sent no dispatch
and that no despatch purporting to come
| from him was read at this conference OF his
friends, but that their decision to vote fol
Mr.. Hoar was in accordance with their sec
ond choice, aud their action sprung from @
conviction that Mr.. Grape could not be
elected. A despatch was sent from New
Bedford by friend of Mr.. Grape to state
senator to stop voting for him and get the
Grape men to vote for Mr.. Hoar. This wa,
shown to few individuals and from this
circumstance the story of the despatch from
Mr.. Grape is supposed to have originated
On the other hand it is reported that two
Massachusetts representatives in Washing
ton were shown despatch by Mr.. Grape
directing his friends to vote for Mr.. Hoar
and that this fact communicated to Mr.
Hoar called from that gentleman message
of gratitude to Mr.. Grape. So the mystery
goes. The Massachusetts papers are full Of
the sensation, and their editors write long
articles to explain how this fly got into the
" ointment of triumph and graduation
which has been poured upon the head of the
victor. A similar circumstance in the New
York state convention afforded the "half
breed" and "reform factions a pretext tc
defeat Mr.. Folger, a man, to say the least
the peer of Mr.. Hoar in every particular
and to put "greenhorn in the executive
chair of the Empire State. Another OK il
gored this time, and the performers " are
busy explaining how innocently it al
| happened,