Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-12-20

him majority Some of these gentlemen
admit that his majority, if the law were
strictly complied with in throwing out
illegal votes, would be larger than the
Board, owing to its desire to keep within
the line of unquestionable right, were
likely to return it. 1t was supposed that
telegram announcing the result would
reach Columbus that day, but none came
The ight passed and part of the next
day and the Ohio Electoral College had
already assembled for preliminary organi-
cation, andIlo news from New Orleans
Some time in the afternoon the messenger
brought telegram into the Executive
Office and handed 1t to Capt. Lee, who
opened it, scanned the contents, and,
hastily passing to the table where the
Governor sat, handed him the message
The observer must see that it contained
matters of the highest importance.
watched to see the effect of this reading on
a face that a romantic correspondent had
described as turning pale on receipt of
the news of the Cincinnati nomination.
The Governor, with no affectation of in
difference and no trace of excitement,
glanced through the lines, then re-read it
with deliberation, rose and walked over
to the seat of the correspondent
This, | suppose, is news proper for
the public as he handed the paper,
which read
CHICAGO. Dec. s.
"Result Of the Louisiana Returning
Board, Hayes Electors 400 to 800 majority
Packard, 1900 majority. -
Still Florida had not been heard from
Then, too the latest kilograms had been
ominously burdened with accounts of the
active presence Of the Reform barrel of
money Wednesday morning came, and
with il telegram from Atty. Gen. Little,
npidly followed by one from Gen. Noyes,
announcing the Hayes Electors chosen
by sufficient majority.
The portrait-room in the Executive
office is one of the pleasantest in the Cap
itol. Here, in pursuance of a design first
suggested by Gov. Hayes in his earlier
administration, have been gathered the
portraits of all of the Governors of Ohio,
from Arthur st. Clair to Rutherford =
Hayes. Here the Governor received the
committee of thirty eight who officially
announced to him his nomination at Gin
cnnali. Here the Electoral College for
Ohio made their preliminary organiza-
ton. They had gone TO the Senate cham.
Der to east their ballots. The Governor
received callers in the portrait-room that
morning, and 10 each inquiry as to the
situation he replied, substantially, that
We know now that we are entitled to
lS5 votes. Any other result of the vote to-
day would mean that some Teachery, or
some other revolutionary act, had oc-
cured
But what about Oregon ?"
"There can be no trouble in Oregon,
take it, if the Governor simply does his
duty. The law is explicit. Under the
law he can do nothing but give certificates
OF election tn persons having the MAORI.
ty OF votes. IL is ministerial duty with
no discretion as to the discharge of it, If
the ballots are for Queen Victoria for
Elector, it is his business to issue the GER
tihcate to Queen Victoria. If there can
be any contest about the matter, the Gov
ernor certainly has no power to entertain
the question"
Then, do you doubt that the Governor
OF North Carolina has given certificates to
all the Tilden Electors in that State ="
know it is his duty to do it, as the
law stands"
The Governor spent the day in his office,
now attending To some matter of routine
duty, receiving the call of visitors, now
stepping aside To listen to the pleadings
of the sorrowful- faced woman who comes
to plead for pardon for graceless son
or husband inCarcerated in the Peniten.
uary, now examining the last papers in a
pardon case, and now receiving congratu
lations from Electoral Colleges of other
States by telegraph. One of the first of
these to arrive was from South Carolina.
signed in full by eight Electors.
lie retired from the Executive Office AT
the usual hour, and when, far in the even.
ing, the friends who waited around the
table of Private Secretary Lee. heard read
the dispatch announcing the only case of
untatltulncss to duty in connection with
the important proceedings of the day, in
the attempted usurpation by the Governor
of Oregon, it was deemed useless to send
II across the street 10 his residence, be-
cause, rs Lee said He's gone to bed
long before this - ColumbM (Ohf0 Letter
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