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National Gazette
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
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Extract of a letter from New York details the controversy in a recent Otsego county election, centering on whether Richard R. Smith was sheriff when ballots were delivered to the Secretary's office, determining if canvassers properly rejected votes. It accuses opponents of using artifices and false rumors against the governor.
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"The whole business of the late contested election rests upon this question—Was Richard R. Smith sheriff of Otsego county when the ballots were delivered at the Secretary's office—Upon this point entirely depends the controversy.
If he was sheriff then, the canvassers were wrong in rejecting the votes; but if it should be proved that he was not, then all will agree that they acted with propriety.
A number of individuals have uniformly endeavored by every means in their power to bring about a change in the office of chief magistrate of the state.
No artifice has been left untried to bias the minds and prepossess the judgments of the electors against an old, and staunch servant of the public.
Numbers are led away by idle stories; one in particular, which ought not to have met with the least credit from the most credulous, 'that the governor had bought up several millions of acres of land at an inadequate price, and had in contemplation to surrender up the state into the hands of foreigners.'"
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Otsego County
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The Late Contested Election
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the controversy depends on whether richard r. smith was sheriff at the time of ballot delivery; if yes, canvassers wrongly rejected votes; if not, they acted properly.
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The contested election hinges on whether Richard R. Smith was sheriff of Otsego county when ballots were delivered to the Secretary's office. Opponents have used artifices and rumors, including false claims about the governor buying land cheaply and planning to surrender the state to foreigners, to influence electors against the incumbent chief magistrate.