Morning journal and courier., 1886-11-04
WEST HAVEN mArrERs.

MIR. Grahamss Brilliant and Successful
Run for the SenatOrship-Two Yale
students D1sfranch1sed Although
West Haven Residents-TheIr Indig-
nant Protests Bnavaflfng-The De.
cision. to be COntested-VOters and
Taxpayers
West Haven rejoices in the sweeping vic
tory of Senater-elect James Graham. The
result caused qualification all over the town
and congratulations were general yesterday
on all sides. AS said prominent gentle
man yesterday: "Mr. Graham is a man en-
phatically possessed of a host of friends, a
man of sterling character and uprightness,
a thorough Republican and most valuable
citizen. Even the opposition have no word
against James Graham" His victory was
brilliant one and look at the figures is in
teresting. He was elected Senator by 528
majority, the largest ever known in that
senatorial district, and in his own town,
Orange, had 154 majority in the face of the
towns losing its first selectman at the town
election few weeks ago. The Republican
majority last year was 112 and this year the
majority for Republican representatives was
81. The highest Republican majorities in
the town election went over 90 or 81.
In Branford Mr.. Graham heavily reduced
the Democratic majority given for Senator
last year, or from 1919 last year to so this, a
gain of '139 votes. Derby gave Graham
double the Republican vote given at the last
town election, and in all the Republican
towns in the district the senatorial majorities
are increased and the Democratic majorities
lessened. The success of Mr.. Graham is all
the more brilliant, he having had for oppo
nent Royal M. Bassett of Derby, confessedly
one of the strongest candidates the Demo-
Gratis could put up in the district. Mr.. Ora
ham also ran in his own town 108 ahead of
Mr.. Lounsbury, all of which is record sell
dom equalled in the State.
There was much talk about the bor-
eugh yesterday over the actiol of the
Democrats on Tuesday in depriving
the two young Messrs. Peet of their
votes. Much indignation is expressed. The
Poets are students at Yale. They have both
voted at elections in West Haven for several
years, and their mother resided there and
they own the Peet homestead in the borough,
where their trunks and other effects are.
They live in their house in the summer.
There is one place which it is commonly said
is dear to all, that place is "home," but &C
cording to the ruling of the West Haven
moderator the Messrs. Peet have no home
except their room in college, and are worse
off than ''the wandering minstrel in the
song. New Haven Democratic officials take
just the opposite view. They rule
out all students from voting here unless
they reside here, but kindly allow that they
have right to vote somewhere and that
somewhere is their home. The Messrs. Peet
were made voters in West Haven. They
have voted there at several elections, but the
good Democratic brother rules them out
from having home there and decides that
they can vote in New Haven. The Supreme
court, by the way, has sustained the claim
that students must, if entitled to vote, vote
where their home is, and that while at Yale
New Haven is only their temporary home.
Does the moderator fly in the face of New
Ravens selectmen and the Supreme court, is
a question now being asked. Senator elect
Graham entered a vigorous protest against
the Acknowledgement of the Messrs. Peet and
the Poets themselves stoutly and indignantly
assaulted the ruling of the Democratic Off
Gals, but to no purpose. Mr.. Graham has
determined to contest this decision in the
courts Mr.. Lyman Peet, the elder brother,
is in the middle class and Edward W., the
younger, in the junior class in Yale Theo-
logical seminary. Their mother removed
from West Haven to China two or three
years ago and has become the wife of a
missionary in China.
The moderator, David S. Crane, appeared
at one time when the protests were being
made as if half persuaded to yield, but his
wavering was quickly overcome when
federal officeholder, James Peck, threw the
weight of his opinion into the scale. All
objections had been squarely answered and
met by the Messrs. Peet