This page has been validated.
168
THE GREAT AMERICAN CANALS
section which was in most need of some means of communication voted a much larger majority in favor of Mr. Granger than Classes I and II. The cities, however, gave a majority to Mr. Throop, Utica casting a larger and Albany a smaller majority than the class in which they are situated. Buffalo also cast a majority in favor of Mr. Throop, although the class in which it is situated cast a majority in favor of Mr. Granger. (See table.)
"Thus it is clearly shown that the people largely voted for the respective candidates because they stood for economic principles which were of direct interest to them.[1] The most densely populated east determined the election and Mr. Throop, the Republican candidate, was elected by
- ↑ This fact is supported by Mr. Jenkins in his Political History of New York. He says: "Mr. Granger received a very heavy vote in the sixth and eighth districts; and it is probable his friends had confidently expected that the Chenango canal interests would secure his election. "The sixth Senatorial district to which the feeling in favor of the Chenango canal was mainly confined, gave Mr. Granger more than 2,000 majority. Notwithstanding it had given 6,000 the other way in 1829." The majority for Mr. Granger in the eighth district was nearly 13,000.
