The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-28

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1T ls not necessary to inquire into the motives
Of Governor Weston and his associates. Their &C
ton speaks for itself. 1t is worse than crime it
bhnder ut that-4which the New Hampshire DEM
ocrats and the party at large will be very sorry for
presently. That party Is not in position at pre-
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Let us see about the ''laaosr' ;.
The General Statutes of New Hamp-
shire say, in the chapter prescribing the
manner of conducting elections for State
Senators, that: a.-.....
THE full Christian and sur name of
every person voted for, with the initial
letter or letters of the middle name, and
"the usual abbreyations for junior, second,
third and the like, shall be written or
printed upon every ballot; and every
ballot not thus prepared and cast shall
''6e regarded as blank and not counted. I"
Another section directs that the moder-
ator of the meeting wherein votes for a
Senator are cast shall SORT, count and pub
licly declare the same with the name of
every person voted for and the number
''of votes for each person." and the town
clerk shall make fair record of the
same, at large, in the town book, and
shall make out fair, attested copy
thereof, to be by him sealed up and
| directed to the Secretary of State"
Another section declaresi that ''the
governor and majority of the council
for the time being shall, as soon as may
BE, examine the returned copies of such
records, and fourteen days before the first
"wednesday of June he shall issue his
summons to such persons as appear to be
chosen Senators by majority of votes to
attend and take their seats on that day."
Another section directs that the Sen
''ate shall be final judges of the elections,
returns and qualifications of their owp
| members, as pointed out in the constitu-
''tion.
Now in the examination of these r.
turns OF the records sent up by the town
clerk it appeared to the governor and
council that on certain ballots was the
name Matt. Head" and on certain 9th
ers was Nathaniel Head" and they, in
deciding on the person chosen in that dis
trict as senator, did not count the votes
for "Natt. Head" and did not deal with
them as cast for Nathaniel Head" They,
after due inquiry, decided that, although
Matt" and Nathaniel might in the
voting refer to the same person Nathan.
iel calling himslf or being called, for short,
Matt. J, yet, as Matt. Head was not ''the
full Christian and sur name" of Nathaniel
Head, the law was peremptory that every
ballot cast for 'Natt." must be regarded
as blank and not counted" What :else
could the governor do, if the name of Mr.
Head, the contestant, was and is ''Na
thaniel?" how can Matt" under the fore
going law claim as cast for himself the
ballots thrown for Nathaniel? In either
event the aforesaid contestant has not beer
legally elected senator.
| Will such independent journals as tn,
: Republican, in Springfield, and the IIi
bune and the Post in New York, condo
scend for once not to be independent
of the plain statutes of sovereign state
even though they be independent" o
every healthy political organization. Thes
independent" creatures always teel bad
ly, we know, when Democrat enters upol
Office, unless he be Democrat who offer
to independent (?) Republicans back-stair
influence over himself; but, really, in tn
case Of Matt. we don't see how we ca
comfort them except by pointing to tn
plain, simple laws of New Hampshire-N
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