Author: Lathers, Richard
Title: Letter of Richard Lathers, Senator Elect of the Ninth District, to the Hon. Chas. S. Fairchild, Attorney General...
Description: n.p. [New Rochelle], n.p. n.d. [1877]. orig. wrappers. 22x14cm, 16pp, A 2cm tear to spine.. Cover title, small chip from cover, creased, Good. ¶ Protest by the Tammany Hall candidate for 9th Senatorial District [ Westchester County]. Full title concludes: "...Attorney General of the State of New York Reviewing his Legal Opinion & Protesting Against the Decision of the State Canvassing Board. The Proposition. One Hundred and Fifty-Five Illegal Votes Having Been Thrown Out by the Inspectors at the Polls & by the County Canvassing Board Because Not in Compliance with the MANDATORY Provision of a SPECIAL Statute of the State, Regulating Suffrage in that District: Can the State Canvassing Board Legally Exercise JUDICIAL Power by Setting Aside the Statute for the Purpose of Counting in a Defeated Candidate?". [(page 16:) "Extract from the N.Y. Daily Graphic...' It is well known that Governor Robinson was in favor of giving Senator Robertson his seat instead of Mr. Lathers...This has been taken as further evidence of his feeling against Tammany. The Governor, however is very bitter against members of the old Canal Ring, and when he took sides against Lathers he evidently did not know that, had it not been for the canal contractors Belden and Denison, of Syracuse, Mr. Robertson would not have come within several hundred votes of an election. Those Canal Ring contractors have a contract on the Reservoirs in Putnam County and marched their men all up to the polls with Robertson tickets..."].

Keywords: American Political History, New Rochelle, Election, Tammany Hall, State Senate, Westchester County, New York State, Elections,