The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-01-25
Political.

The discovery of those vote stealing
dispatches puts Zach Chandler in a
tight place; but loose as his habits are,
he is habitually tight.
Rscy testimony and surprising de-
velopments are promised in the suit
commenced by President Grants
brother against Philip W. Schneider,
the holder of the fat contract for
the st. Louis custom house.
"He has not one friend who is an
honest man." said Gen. Sheridan of j.
Madison Wells. Senator Sherman's es-
TEEN and friendship Cor Wells give ad-
ditional force to Sheridan's remark,
says the Cincinnati Enquirer.
The New York Nation is Republi-
can paper which now and then has in
tervals of sanity. 1t says: ''For our
own part, we say unhesitatingly that
if we have to choose between the carl
cature of constitutional government
which has been carried on at the South
since 1865, and frank abandonment
OF the theory that the Southern States
are States i'll the Union; between sham
State government and the government
of colonies like India and Algeria, we
vastly prefer the latter, and that we are
totally opposed to the plan of DISCUS
ing the nature Of the late proceedings
In South Carolina and Louisiana with
the phrases of moral philosophy"
Among the prominent Hayes men
who declare n cho!ls elected, and rec
ognIze the Nichols government, are
Ex-Governor Warmoth. p. j. Kennedy,
Mr.. Barrett and Mr. Estopinal, mem
bels of the Legislature; Geo. l.. Sher-
idan and Geo. w. Carter, who can
vassed the North FOR Hayes; James
Casey, brothcr-in-!aw of Grant; Pinch
back, J. II. OLlesby, president of the
Louisiana National B.uk; Ellington
Lawrence, eX-member of Congress,
Philip Hickey Morgan, and Judge Wi
ley, late Justice of Kellogg's Supreme
Court. Warmoth is still working to
secure following in his contemplated
secession from. the returning board
Legislature.
The Burlington Hackeye had per-
fected, and intended TO publish, plan
for counting the electoral vote, and
choosing president, but on looking
it over very carefully it discovered
that by is provisions the two highest
candidates would be obliged to have
one-third more votes than each other,
and the third candidate must have at
least as many votes less than the two
highest, as the candidate receiving the
next highest number of votes has more
than the other Two combined, before
there could be an election. The ap-
parent discrepancy and contradiction
of this plan, while easily harmonlzed
and explained, cannot be rectitied
without some little time and trouble.
and it therefore reluctantly consented
to postpone the publication of the en-
tire plan until some future time. In
the meantime, however, it trusts no man
will be mean enough to steal its plan
by using and celebrating the synopsis
given above.
Under the statutes of the United
States the naturalization of father
clothes his children with the rights of
citizenship if they be minors at the
time anu residents OF tue OQltcQ
States. But If q young man born
abroad attains the age of twenty one
years before his father is duly natural
Ized, the son must also take out natu-
rsliLAtion papers to become a citizen.
One of Minnesota's electoral votes for
Hayes was cast by A. Il. Finseth, q
Scandinavian, who came with his ia
ther to this country at the aye of seven
teen, some twenty-three years sgo. and
q diligent search of the records of all
the counties they have lived in fails to
show that either he or his father was
ever naturaliZed. So here is another
HAYES vote which cannot be counted,
unless Mr.. Finseth, who admits that
he never was nAturalized, can show
that his father was naturaliEed during
the first four years Of ais residence in
this country. Where they lived the
local law conferred suffrage upon resi-
dents, whether naturSliZsd or not, and
the probability is that one of Minneso-
ta's electoral votes is SGsgespiel.