Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1830-10-15
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SHchsoH majority oil votes FIFTY-SEyEN
Gag majority OF Delegates TWENTY-FIVE
This is curious result and shows how strong in the
popular vote the Jackson ticket is tho
very unlavorable result of the delegate election All
e coun'e ITO be heard from will probably give the
ahu-Jackson ticket majority of more than one tou-
sdnd and yet by their accurate mode Of con,pfofion
hey nave majority Of at least 40 against us. We re-
peat It, this exceedingly curious and must be placed
as one OF the most extraordinary in the CHAPTER of
accidents or one Of the extraordinary instances of
accurate political management record.
we lost candidate i'm Montgomery by sixteen votes
ana another by ftoenty-one; in Hartford by ffeen
one In Washington by aineteen two in Prince GEORGES
oy oghfeen; one in Annapolis by t,cenfyon wehear
also that one in Kent defeated by but screen votes
There are many such instances Of very small maiori,;e
ms Is another verse in the chapter.
uis the inequality OF our mode of county represen.
taon which has enabled our adversaries 10 o xhib;t
sicn change against us,-on paper. change of five
hundred votes would have placed them in the mnori,v
The single majority of Baltimore county, is enough
TO turn the scale of the State If had its relative e;L
But where such inequalities exist when AnnanoI;s viii
her three hundred votes destroys the influence of BAL
tmoro with her nine thousand, il is easy to make n,
aorues ny calculation and 10 make mnorities govern
we are however, but about thousand behind and the
deiusions which we point out and prove 10 have
been pracsed against undoubtedly worth double
ua' NUMBER oil votes The time is in the memory of
thousands when the republican party once before
IN minority Of the Legislature, nearly as lean as ours
yet they revolutonized the State in year The same
party can do the same thing with proper vigilance on
this occasion Principles and truth will triumph ulti
ma's'y in spite Of these temporary rcverses.
Republican.
THE ELECTION.
BALTIMORE, Oct live have carefully eolIocted
the complete returns of tho late election and repub
sh them to-day in as correct form "a practicabe-
The errors, Gf ANY, will be found very slight. We
nave also prepared average Of the given in the
several counties, which is ais, published to-day The
whole will form convenient table for future reference
After all the boastings of the Ant-Jackson party il
VIII excite some surprise in friends abroad TO find
mat the actual majority Of popular against us is
very small; and that with majority of FoRTY-rIGuT
delegates IN the lower house. they have less than fpe
hundred majority OF the people. For every ten pofes of
popular majority they have delegate maiortv-
Putting the case in another light and deductine the
eight delegates elected in St Marys and Calvert whore
the jackson party had ticket and zoe have majority
oil popular votes exceeding hundred, while thew
nave majority OF delegates amounting 10 fortUi This
Is owing TO the gross inequalities which exist in our
mode OF representation, the small counties CARRYING an
equal weight with the largest in the House of Dele
gates and double the weight of Baltimore Civ In
some OF the small counties, the Clay party have sue.
ceeded by such slender majores that notwithstanding
the vast majority which they have in the Legislature
very few votes would revolutonze the State
In 1928, at the Presden al eeron the votes of Ma
ryland, exclusive Of st. Marys County, were
For jackson 23,I75
TOT ADAMS 23,014
, 49, MAJORITY 16i
IL will he perceived that at the recent election ,b.
votes stood ST. Mary's likew excluded1
Anti-Jackson 23,32s
jackson 232l6