The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-06-12
NEW HAMPSHIRE.

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ing.p ,Sc have been favorite headings IN
radica, papers for the past week IN referring
to the seton Of the democrats in New lamp
shire IN admitting couple OF members TO
seats in the State Senate whom the radicals,
NV their usual trickery, proposed TO count
ont The case is simple enough The New
Uanrshire senate consists of ~ members.
The democrats had elected OF them and the
radicals 5, while in the other house the radi'
calls had a small majority, They set their
hearts on having majority in the senate
also. Now there were two democratic seha
tors fairly and honestly elected whom they
proposed to deprive of their seats. THESE
were Priest in the I'd district, and Proctor
10 the 4th The vote in the Cd district STOOD
1884 for Priest, 3,77l for Matt Head, ana
1O1 scattering. In the 4th district 1t stoou
3,495 for Proctor, 3 ,467 for Todd, ana OF ior
Deerinr. The law requires majority OF all
the illegal" votes to elect The law also re-
ouires that the full christian name ana sur
name of every person voted LOT snail NC
piyep, otherwise the vote shall not be count
ed, 1t also requires that votes cast for candl.
dates not eligible shall be void and not count
ed. This is all the law on the subject; ana &C
cording to this law the yo:es cast Tor Na"'
Head. his christian name being Nathanial,
and the votes cast tor Deering, he being a
non. resident of the 4th district, where clearly
void and ought not to have been counted,
thus leaving the election of Priest and Proc
tor clear and indisputable And so the Gov.
ernor and Secretary Of State, before whom
the returns were laid in due course, decided,
and gave Priest and Proctor the certificates.
But when the Senate met the radical mem
beers insisted that the Governor and Secretary
had no right to decide on the returns in any
respect, but ought to have reported them to
the Senate without awarding the certificate
to anybody, for the action of that body; and
senators withdrew and set up a trump" with
which the radical majority In the house pro-
posed to act, and thus ignore and rule out the
true senate, or, in other words, disorganize or
revolutionize the state government. But I'm.
happily there was no Gen. Trobriand in New
Hampshire, and Grant, whatever he may
have no scruple of doing in the South, lack
ed the necessary courage to send Sheridan
or Trobriand to the Granite State Accord,
ingly the question, instead of being decided
in the usual radical style of q resort TO the
bayonet, had to be submitted to the Supreme
Court; and that body on fair and full state
ment of the case, decided without hesitation
that the Governor and Secretary of State had
done right IN awarding the certificates to the
men who, according to the returns, were
clearly elected, and the only way to get be-
hind their decision was by a contest in the
usual way
This settled the "hash,' and the revolu-
tionary senators have got down from their
high horses and meekly rcjoined the dem.
ocrats and organized the senate in the regu.
lar, legal way.
The incident illustrates how Unborn and
inveterate is the lawless and revolutionary
faint in the blood of every radical Organiza-
ton in the country. Rule or ruin is the
watchword alike in the north or south, and
if they dared to do in New England as they
have no scruple of dong in the south, a file
of soldiers would ere this be strutting as pom.
peously in the streets Of Concord as Sheri-
dan, a few months ago, strutted a handy
legged would.be Mars in New Orleans.