The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-11-14

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of East Feliciana.
ELECTORAL VOTE OF LOUISIANA.
1t seems that politics and truth are
opposites, and that either, or both, are
made use of for deception. The North
ern press and Northern orators, too,
have raised the hue and cry that under
the proposed new constitution the
Louisiana Legislature can choose Elec-
tors for President next year. Article
l91 of the new constitution reads:
Until otherwise provided by law,
the general State election shall be held
once every four years on the Tuesday
next following the third Monday in
April.
Presidential electors and members of
Congress shall be chosen or elected In
the manner and at the time prescribed
by law.
The object OF our convention was to
free our State election from Federal in
reference, and to do 80 changed the
time of the general election from the
first Tuesday In November to Tuesday
following the third Monday In April.
An election for President on that day
would be in conflict with Article 131
Revised Statutes of the United States :
The electors Of President and Vice.
President shall be appointed in each
State on the Tuesday next after the
first Monday in November in every
fourth year, &c.
South Carolina, alone of all the States,
adhered to the right of the States to Sc
lect Presidential electors by the Legis-
lature. The right was undoubted then,
and is yet. It is q matter of general
legislation and could be adopted by
any State.
It would be an astonishing exhibi-
ton Of consistency for the Democracy
of Louisiana to have opposed consoli-
dalton and Capitalization In every man.
ner and form, up to this time, and
now to take step that would be In
advance of the pretensions of the most
despicable theories of stalwartism.
The Democratic party may be censura-
BILE for many unwise intentions, but it
has yet to commit itself to doctrines
like this.
Sec. 1928 of the Revised Statutes of
Louisiana reads:
In every year in which an
election is to be held for electors of
President and Vice-President of the
United States, such election shall be
held on Tuesday next after the first
Ss>f oF
such year, In accordance with an act of
the Congress of the United States, ap-
proved January twenty-three, eighteen
hundred and forty-five, entitled can
act to establish uniform time for
holding elections for electors for Presi-
dent and Vice-Presldent in all of the
States of the Union" and such elec-
ttons shall be held and conducted in
the manner and form provided by law
for general State elections.
Sec. 1924. Every qualified voter In
the State shall vote for electors as fol-
lows: Two persons shall be selected
from the State at large, and one person
shall be chosen from each Congress
sional District in this State; and in
case any ticket shall contain two or
more names of persons residing in the
same district, except the two chosen
SuS osaSe AZ larSe,) the nfSC Oh
sucn names only shall BIO considered
as duly voted for,
sec. 2s25. No person shall be con-
sloered qualified elector who Is not q
9oaiined voter In the District for which
ne as chosen, or In case of being "a.
lected for the State at large, then OIL
some parish Of the State.
The law Is anexceptlonable, no
change is contemplated. Besides that,
1t Is totally unnecessary a Demo-
cratic State has no need of trickery
or strategy OF any kind to main
tain Democratic ascendency. The