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The Daily Dispatch: November 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], Puritan Consistency. (search)
ing in regard to the elections in that State, which came off on the 6th: We are yet unable to give the entire vote of the State on the different candidates, or the exact majority that the Union State ticket has received. The vote throughout the State has been very light, and we predict will be found to be less than two-thirds of the vote polled one year ago. The indications are that William W. Wright, the Democratic candidate for Canal Commissioner, has slipped in between Talmadge and Bruce, although the friends of the latter still claim his election. In this city the returns exhibit a mixed and jumbled up mess, and that but little attention has been paid by the voters to the regularity of the nominations. Contrary to general expectation, Woodruff and Hoffman, of the Superior Court, have been defeated, and C. L. Monell and J. M. Barbour elected in their place. This shows very plainly that it takes something besides a nomination to elect candidates in New York. Hoffman