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CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1856
Abstracts 2241 - 2248
POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS & ELECTIONS - State (Cont'd)
2241 - L Oct. 7; ed: 2/1 - "By telegraph report it will be seen that the
town elections in Connecticut have all gone Republica.l. So the ball rolls
on." (1)
2242 - L Oct. 8; ed:2/2 - "Our Ruffian opponents, aware of their lack of
votes, are plott ing a Republ ican defeat by a system of most damnable frauds."
Men are to be transported from Kentucky and Missouri into Indiana and Illinois,
and from New Jersey into Pennsylvania to carry these states for the
Democratic party. "Ballot-Boxes have been stuffed in California, and Ruffians
have said who should and who should not vote in Kansas. But death
awaits upon the wretches who attempt such games in Ohio." (6)
2243 - L Oct. 9; ed:2/3 - "'Michigan all Right! Unexpected Triumphs! •..
The tide is turning,' says the PLAIN DEALER.
"Such is the flapdoodle that Gray spoons out to his patrons. The Marquette
election turned wholly on a railroad question. We know not how it
was with the Representative. but both candidateS fOl Senate were Democrats.
It is a mere triumph of one Buchanan man over another on a railroad question.
But Gray suppresses a11 the important facts of the case, and humbugs his
readers with the idea of a political triumph. Hard pushed!" (3)
2244 - L Oct. 11; ed:2/3 - The Fillmore and Buchanan men instituted a close
alliance against the friends of freedom in the Connecticut election. Yet
our friends were strong enough to win over their combined forces. The result
is most promising for Fremont in November. "So Connecticut has spoken.
Iowa, Vermont, Maine, Connecticut, push on the column! Crow, Gray, Crow."
(4)
2245 - L Oct. 13; ed: 2/4 - "The campaign has so far given us the following
glorious Republican Pyramid: Iowa, 8,000 majority; Maine, 24,000 majority;
Vermont, 21,000 majority; Connecticut, 7,000 majority. Thus the people in
four of our smallest populated States have spoken out in a voice of thunder,
denouncing the terrible atrocities committed in I{ansas in the name of a proslavery
Democracy by giving a Republican majority of sixty thousand." (9)
2246 - L Oct. 14; ed:2/1 - "The small fisted farmers and greasy mechanics
must take care of themselves today. The Ballot is sti 11 theirs, and if
they will not use it for their own protection they deserve to be owned."
2247 - L Oct. 15; ed: 2/2 - "We have this morning but few returns from
Indiana. A dispatch from Schuyler Colfax's district says he is making a most
glorious run." (3)
2248 - L Oct. 15: ed:2/2 - "If our dispatches from Pennsylvania are correct
and are specimen examples of what are to follow from that region, then Mr.
Buchanan's friends have swept the State.... It should be borne in mind
that these returns are almost entirely from Democratic counties. We shall
wai t wi th a good deal of anxiety for further returns from Pennsylvania."
(11)
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