Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1876-11-30

says: Dr. a. j. Glover, supervisor OF
elections at Swan Quarter, Hyde county,
N. G., was drowned on the night of No
vember 6, with the Republican tickets
for that county In his possession. He
was found some days after, nearly up
right in the water, with his coat drawn
over his head and other evidences of
violence. The election tickets were
never found. :;'.,,.....:::
Warning The man who entered Q
newspaper office yesterday and asked
with confidential air and persuasive
smile, "Judging from your latest advices
who do you think is elected?" has not
been seen since.-N. Y. Tribune.
1t is discovered that the law of New
York allows presidential electors s'the
pay and mileage allowed at the time to
members of the legislature. When
this law was passed legislators received
| So a day, now they receive $1,000
year, so the electors can demand this
amount if they please, and thus put the
State to the expense of $50. 500.
The constitutional amendments in Vir-
ginia have been adopted by large ma
jority. They provide for biennial SEES
| sions of the legislature and for the dis
| reimbursement OF voters for petit larceny
and non payment of their poll tax. 1t
| is reckoned that the costs or the sessions
of the Virginia Legislature will be re-
duced $3.50, 900 by the amendment, and
the State school fund, 10 which the re-
ceipts from the poll taxes will be trans
ferred, is sure to be largely increased.
The returns of the vote cast for Mr..
Green Clay Smith, Prohibitary candi-
date for the Presidency, are beginning
to come in. They are not so favorable
as might be wished, and he is so far be-
hind Peter Cooper that he will not
think of contesting the thing with him.
In his native county of Kentucky he re-
ceived only twenty votes. By the way,
Kentucky was an odd State to furnish
ProhibitorY candidate. Boston Jour
nal.
"You can't believe anything you see
in the newspapers nowadays" said a
Respondent Lawrence Democrat. Just
then cheerful Democrat said the morn
ing news from louisiana was favorable
to the Democrats, and the Respondent
man went up to Colburn's and bought
the Democratic Post, the assistant Dem
ocratic and bloody-bones Herald, and
patronized that s. lying black Re-
publican Boston JO,Lr7aGP' three cents
worth. Laurence american.
There is every reason to believe that
Connecticut, which gave Tilden less than
1000 majority, was carried by fraud.
The vote aggregates nearly 122, 900, aud
, is ont of all proportion TO the popula-
tion of the State, being 81, 900 greater
than the largest vote ever before polled,
which was in 1875. The Democratic in
crease is confined to the large cities and
chiefly to Hartford, New Haven and
Bridgeport. Taking the basis of voters
to the population shown by the. census
of 1870, the increased vote of Hartford
shows an increase of "a 600 in popula-
ton, IN New Haven of % Geo and in
Bridgeport of $4,000. Thee has been
little or no increase of population In
these cities since 1870. The explanation
of this increase is found in the fraudu-
lent naturalization papers and repeating,
which were made easy by the election
law passed by the Democratic legisla-
ture of 1875 s5..t..s
| The safety of the country depends not
upon the assertion of Congressional
power, but upon Congress keeping hands
off the Constitution. Why, it is as plain
as daylight in the open field, that the
Constitution expressly cuts off all Fed
eral authorities from having anything to
| do with the formalities regulating the
Presidential successiop. The Constitu-
| tiou commands t'the presence of" Con
gress while call" the certificates are
opened and all the votes counted, and
/ the candidate who has the majority OF
| all ''shall be the President u There is
no more requirement. that the Presi.
dent OF the Senate shall declare who has
been elected President than there is that
the Chief Justice shall swear him IN.
| The Constitution itself declares the re-
suit. No officer is delegated to perform
| a duty of declaration. The candidate
who gets 1876 votes ''shall be the Presi-
dent" and on the 5th day of March
next he can go before a Justice OF the
Peace and be sworn inland the Con-
gresham who NEEDLES is a revolution
list and would precipitate anarchy by
| violating the fundamental law. .t