Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-10-25
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ASTONISHING PROPORTIONS OF THE PuRcHAsABLs
VOTE IN THE srArE-THE POLITICAL COMPLEXION or
TIE VIEW VOTERS
Special Dispatch to THE EVENING STAR.
NEW HAVEN, CONN.,, Oct 25.-The board Of regis
tration In this city has settled vexed question BY
voting to admit Alexander Milne as an elector.
Mr.. Milne Is q theological student at Yale. Ac-
cording to the Yale catalogue he Is q resident Of
Westerly. r L But In making his application to
the board he said that he had been pursuing his
studies In New Haven for four or i've years, and
| own living and was Independent Of his parents
There are forty or more other theological students
sl%ost an Of sbs rsnneicans Sns the hera a.
registration, which Is Democratic feels compelled
TO let them In, because OF decision OF the Su-
A student from Kansas was refused the privilege
OF vote here, and brought suit against the board
claiming damages The court decided that the
board had erred In refusing TO admit him. but gave
him no damages. The decision 70 put Mr.. Mines
name on tue list will not be made a precedent in
that would add 10 republican strength by several
hundred votes The work Of making new voters
continues oriskly throughout the state, and the
republicans claim TO be holding their own. Their
organization is vastly superior TO that OF their op
ponents Here In New Haven, Chairman Daley,
OF the republican town committee, believes that
45 per cent OF the new men thus far placed upon
the list are repuD tcdnS
Col. N. g. Osborn, editor OF the New Haven Reg
through Ltchneld and Fairfield counties, which
constitute the fourth congressional district While
on the trip he talked politics with farmers and
others The one thing which astonished him was
the strength OF the purchasabie element in the
district. Twenty-Five per ceut OF the voters, he
was informed, were for sale and expect TO be
bought or this 25 per cent, 90 per cent are Amer
leans by birth. Votes are quoted at from S up
ward. In the town OF Sharon, with only 900
names on the registry list, $1,000 Is used Tor
campaign purposes" in presidential year. That
Is about what Is used BY one OF The political
parties on election day In New Haven, a city OF
10000 population. In New Milford, Lltchneld
County, the case OF a farmer was cited, worth
$4,000. He never votes unless paid TO do So His
claim Is that his time on election day is worth s.
TO him, and he Will not leave his farm unless
assurei OF that amount similar state or things
exists througho the district, and TO some extent
In the country towns In Eastern Connecticut.
There Is comparatively little buying OF votes In
the cities.
The betting on the general result is even in this
city and quite lively or late ODDS have been given
In some instances that Harrison viii carry Con-
necticut.
The fourth congressional district is exceedingly
close. Judge Granger democracy carried IL two
years ago by plurality OF 321 out OF total vote
OF s., 149. Ex-Congressman Frederick Miles, the
republican Candidate last year, Is again a candi-
date, with good prospects OF success He Is close
friend aud business associate OF VIM. L. Barnum,
chairman OF the democratic national committee,
and like him a protection1sL E W. seymour, the
democratic candidate, Is pronounced advocate Of
tarln reform. and was forced out OF the race two
years ago because or his support in the Forty
ninth Congress OF the Morrison bill. IL was feared
by democratic leaders that he would lose votes In
Danbury and south Norwalk, where the hatterS
control elections, because OF his tariff views. He
Is one OF the ablest lawyers and debaIers in the
state, and would have been nominated for COVER
nor this year had he been willing to run. Repub-
lcans In the district predict that he Will run be-
hind his ticket in the manufacturing towns, and
be defeated because OF his position on the question
The tarin-