The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1877-02-15

cate read from this State showed eight
votes for Hayes and Wheeler and was
received in duplicate, by mail AND
messenger, and authenticated by
Kellogg as Governor. Another GER
tificate, signed by McEnery as Gov
ernor, gave votes for Tilden ana
Hendricks. Still another, regularly
received and endorsed, when opened
proyed to be the record Of an Electoral
College of John Smiths, who all voted
for Cooper and Carey. When 1t trans
pjred that the grave body had been
imposed upon by cheap bnrlesque,
the Speaker proposed to dispense with
further reading, but Mills, Texas
Democrat who probably thought he
saw in it as good Tilden documents as
Louisiana affords. objected, and the
reading was completed. Objections
being next In order, three separate
sets thereof were filed against the
HAYES and Wheeler certificates. These
objections respectively specified that
the certificates were void because the
Hayes and Wheeler electors had not
been elected: because they were in
eligible; because Governor Kellogg
was not Governor; because the Re
turning Board was an illegal body
whose proceedings must be void; be-
cause the Board knew true compila-
ton of the vote would have shown the
election ofthe Tilden electors because
said Board had offered to sell out be-
cause no canvass was made, etc, etc,
very like the lawyer who was going
to clear his client by proving, LIST, that
he was not present when the crime
was committed: Cd, that he had then
been dead two years: and third, that
there never was such man. Objec-
tons were also submitted to the
Tilden certificates because there
twas no evidence that they had
"been appointed a. the law direct
led, while there was evidence that
they had not been SO appointed.
There being no further objections, the
joint meeting adjourned.
The Electoral Commission assem-
bled Immediately upon the adjourn
ment of the joint convention, but ad-
journed, after receiving the papers and
ascertaining the order of procedure,
until II A. ~, on Tuesday, at which
time the argument on the part Of the
democratic directors was commenced
by senator Mcdonald, representative
jerks concluding. He was followed
by Hur.but and senator Howe for the
republicans. 1t was then announced
that judge Campbell, ex-senator Car
penter and judge Trumbull, would act
as counsel for the democratic, and
Stoughton, Shellaharger and Evarts
for the republican side. After recess,
the Commission re-assembled TO hear
the arguments of the attorneys-four
and half hours being allowed each
side. Mat. Carpenter opened by a
personal explanation, saying he had
voted against Tilden and would again,
as he considered the accession topow-
of the democratic party the greatest
calamity which could befall this coun-
try except one-iis defeat by fraud.
With that he 'waded in, just like
any other attorney who wished to
earn his money.
Carpenters argument was the latest
thing in the kilograms TO yesterdays
papers, and we shall not probably he
able to follow the fight further nor to
give the result in this issue. The Lou
isiana case, however, il devoid of sew
eral complications which obtained in
Florida, and under the previous rul-
ings OF the court there seems little
doubt but that the Hayes certificates
will be accepted as the only legal ones