Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1859 — The Connecticut Triumph. [ARTICLE]

The Connecticut Triumph.

This most singular victory astounds our opponents as much as it rejoices the Republicans all over the land. In truth it seemed as if every one of the four Congressional Districts were seriously imperiled. But the very danger set eveiy one to work with a will every town in tie State was thoroughly canvassed—one of the fullest votes that e\ er v, as polled in the State was drawn out. and the result is a sweeping victory. The Republican State ticket has 2,000 majority—the Legislature is Republican in both branches—and all four Congressmen. We have had good fortune there as well as success In the first District, a Republican is elected by 65, (not 650 as erroneously tele-' graphed) ami he won it by the votes of the Germans of New Britain, who went for him because he was sound on the Homestead. The Democratic State ticket had 76 majority there, while Loomis carried it by two. Ezra Clark, bolter, had 282 votes in the District, just enough to throw it away, as he intended but for this unexpected gain. In the second Distr ct the Democratic , State ticket had a majority, but Woodruff, the popular Republican nominee, and one who works twenty hours out of the twentvfour in a canvass, ran 350 votes ahead of his ticket in New Haven amongst his brother mechanics, and redeems the District by 330 majority. In ’he third District Sidney Dean, bolter, rec 'i - about 200 votes from his old constiii. n s. but in spite of his defection Burnham. R ?p. is elected by 620. And in the fourth, Ferry, Rep. after a most exciting contest runs out Bishop, Lecompton, (who beat him sixteen votes two years since) by about 560. Nobly demo, old Connectici t! Later—ln the second Congressional District (New Haven and Middlesex counties)the Democratic State ticket has 319 majority. Woodruff, (Rep.) lor Congress has 330 majority. Runs ahead of his ticket 649. The sneer by Woodruff’s enemies about his being a “working man” proved to have considerable truth in it, after all, much to their chagrin.—South Bend Register.