The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-08-16
PARTY TICKETS ,fs-,s9.
Strange Devices and Emblems That Have
 Guidad tha Votars

Heclcut, anu Wluely- known tnrOuSnout | the state, has, a curious and interesting scrap-booll, the like of which Is prob | ably not to be found elsewhere. The most striking feature of the contests consists in sample tickets of political parties in Connecticut, national. state and town. for every year from 1S4S down to date. First on the list is a ticket which was cast for the Demo- cratic state candidates i'm 1S4S, as fol- lows;
 For governor-Georg s. Catlin.
 For lieutenant t-governor-Origen S. Seymour
 For treasurer-Alonzo w. Birge.
 For secretary-Charles w. Bradley.
 For mptroller-Frederick Croswell.
 For sheriff-Henry H. Fitch.
 For senator-Royal S. White. H The Whig party for the same year was as follows:
 For 'governor-Clark Bissell.
 For lieutenant-g -governor-Ch Charles J. McCurdy!
 For secretary-John B. Robertson.
 For treasurer--Joseph B. Gilbert. { For Abljah Catlin.
 < For ssheriff- Solomon L. Briggs.
 ' For senator -Elthu F. Buell.,
 Both the Democratic and Whig tickets carried the picture of a flying eagle at the head, the eagle bearing in the mouth a streamer on which was the legend, ''E PluMbus Unum." The. Dem ocratic ticket was about by inches, on white paper, with a heavy fancy hOrHpr Ina ticket was a trifie smaller with lighter border. This was the general style of the tickets of all parties for several years thereafter.
 In 1850 three tickets were in the field the Democratic, headed by Thomas H. Seymour for governor; the Free Soil Democratic, headed by John Boyd boiling in Vernon only twenty-four Yotes), and the .Whig, headed by Lafay- cite ,S,Foster.
 On the Whig ticket in 1851 the name of Dwight Loomis is found as one of the candidates for justice of the peace in Vernon. In 1852 J. Hammond Trum- bull was the Whig candidate for secre- tary of state.
 The beginning of war feeling is indi- cated by larger and more rampant eagles on the tickets In 1853 there apr pears a Temperance Ticket" headed by Francis Gillette, and which boiled sixty votes in Vernon. In 1854, and for three successive years thereafter, the Democratic ticket bears the name of John T, Wait for lieutenant governor. In 1864, the. same name appears head ing the Lincoln and Johnson ticket for | ;o1 o11 1o+ | Wait for many years represented the Third district in congress as a Repub- 1 lican. 3 Two particular curiosities in tickets about this time are, the Temperance | Union" ticket of 1854, headed by Charles Chapman for governor, and with two l eyes within circles about the size of q cent steadily gazing at the conscien- | tious voter; and the American ticket | C'Knownothing" of 1855, headed by l William T. Minor for. governor. and 1 which showed in dark relief a striking | landscape picture of ''the birthplace of | Washington" with the tombstone in scription legible.
 l The national Democratic ticket of I 1856, for Buchanan and Breckinridge 1 shows a furling national flag with | tHirty-one star points on the union ar ranged in star form; while the Fremont ticket of the same year shows an eagle stalking, rampant and screaming "E Pluribus Unum" The Union I ticket of 1857 had Alexander H. Holley as candidate for governor, Alfred A. Burnham for lieutenant governor, Orr | vile Fl, PlattSfor secretary and Dwight Loomis for senator. The Republican ticket for 1859 is headed by a spear. and a sword crossed, with the American I flag wound around them--the emblems of the coming war. The Democrats that year displayed an eagle protecting a shield and flags. In 1860, the Bell and Eyeret ticket for presidential electors bore at the head a picture of the God dess of Liberty waving a streamer bear ing the legend Constitutional Union' while with shield she protected the American eagle from attack. For sev- eral consecutive years at this time the | Democratic tickets declared in legends for "The Constitution" with clasped hands as an emblem; while the Republi- can tickets grouped various emblems and weapons of war-muskets, spears, bugles, drums-around the flag, and above all the eagle with a rapier Ori- gen S.Seymour and Alvah P. Hyde were ] prominent Democratic names at this time; William A. Buckingham, Chaun- cey F. Cleveland, Augustus Brandegee, the leading Republicans.
 The Union ticket of 1867, with Joseph R. Hawley for governor, Oliver H. Perry for lieutenant, William T. Elmer for secretary, Henry G. Taintor for treas urer, Leman ". Cutler for comptroller, Henry c. Deming for congress, showing a returned soldier sitting upon drum, waving his cap and holding flag la- beled Victory while at his right was seen an anvil with an arm uprising to beat the weapons of war with the plough-shares of peace.
 From '75 to 'S5 a regular epidemic of curious and fantastic typography seems to have broken out on the tick cts of all parties. The Democratic party for representatives from Vernon and Liberal ticket of 1875, with Charles R. Ingersoll for governor, showing at its head ship under full sail in peace ful waters, while the ticket of the same showed a Continental cooked hat rest ing on crossed swords. Samples of the l Greenback and Prohibition tickets are
 carefully preserved by Dr. Goodrich also various Labor tickets, and are to
 be found with all their curious memo
 ries in this remarkable scrap-book.