The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-09-17
THE Old Game,

In the next presidential election we are to
have something Of the old game, that we are
so we'll used to in Virginia, introduccd-thc
old principle of voting until the voters get
tired and until Republican majority Is s-
ser.ained. I'm the days Of reconstruction
nothing would satisfy the soul OF the
carpet aagger but day after day OF goou'
steady voting. one election lasting eleven
DAYS and another running for iour'ee,'
and for how many more the record sal's
70 show. but as nothing appears rs to
8 cessation il may be safely set down as on
election I'D hb. Heretofore, says the New
York World, these elastic elections have
been spared us in the choice of Presi-
dent. For years there has been o"'
one day, the well-known first TUESDAY
after the first Monday In November, Dut
this fall we are to have the tndtn'fubber s!S-
tenn of the flush times Of carpet-Mgism IN
troduecd. Voting for Presidential electors
Is TO begin In Louisiana on Monday the 4th
of November, be taken up by the other States
on Tuesday the 9th, and continued by Texas
throughout Wednesday the 9Th. Thursday
the eth, and Friday the Sth, thus consuming
about one entire week in the operations The
occasion of this elongation Of the election Is
written in two recent acts OF Congress. BY
that approved June !, 1872, and entitled
can net to prescribe the time for holding the
"election for the electors OF President
"and Yice-prcsdent in the State OF LOUISE
"ana,' 1t is provided THAT in the STATE
g Of Louisiana the election of representa-
tives to the Forty-third Congress, and the
appointment of electors of President and
"yice- president for said State, shall be on
+" the first Monday IN November, in the year
eighteen hundred and seventy-two; but
"thercafter such elections and appointment
shall be on the day designated by law for
"the other States" This year Radical VIC
tory in Louisiana on Monday may materially
assist the Radical candidate in the next days
election in the other States; thanks to the telc.
graph, which will convey the news to cveiy
breakfast-tablc in the country, and hence the
above quoted exceptional law. The second
act of Congress stretching tho Presidential
election after the 9th OF November, as the
Louisiana act stretches it before, is one APP
proved May %, 1872, and reads thus: "That
elf by the now existing laws of any State
"the election commencing on the Tuesday
"next after the first Monday I'm November,
"1S12, for the purpose Of choosing electors
"of President and Nicc>president in such
estates, shall be required to be continued
"for more than one day, then said election
"sball be continued the number Of days re-
"quired by the laws Of such State The
occasion of this statute is that peculiar pro-
vision of the reconstructed Constitution Of
Texas which requires that in all gene
raj elections in that State 1.-The polls
shall be opened for toHr days. from 5
"oclocL A. NJ. until o'clock Z. NJ. of each
"day" Ordinarily Texas has been quoted
as an anti-Administlation State, especially
since the handsome Democratic victory in
the congressional election of 1870 A.; but il
trotting the blacks for four days from county
to county and poll to poll can win the State
back, this fall will see it done From Mon
day to Friday, from The 4th to the Stli-both
incllisive---of November, beginning with
Louisiana and winding up with Texas, the
Presidential election is to continue this year,
and Il very pretty adaptation of carpet-bag
electoral elasticity the job is.