Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-12-21
government to be regulated by popular

government to be regulated by popular
elections.
THE REPUBLICANS CAN hide THEIR
TIME.
Boston Advertiser (Rep.}
We trust the Republicans will not be-
have in the childish way suggested by
hasty advisers. The only dignlfed or rea-
sonable thing for them to do is to submit
and bide their time. Nothing could be
more absurd than for them to set up Leg
islature of their own. The State House is
are all against them. The Republican
members will have TO returns to examine !;
they can not declare that there has been no
choice of Governor, and proceed to elect
one, In short, there is nothing they can
do except as members of the Legislature
which Mr.. Pillsbury has, by his will and
pleasure, created. If they swallow their
vexation and JOY with the Democrats
elected by the people and by Mr.. Pills
bury, they can make matters very uncom-
Portable to the majority, if that is any sat-
isfaction. and will be at the point where
they can take advantage of every oppor
tunity to expose the infamy of the transac-
ton by which the will of the people has
been overturned.
Atlanta Constitution tDem) ElII61
Blaine will now be compelled to conduct
an anti-third-term. It is his only chance;
anu it is hardly a chance at all. for the
cards are stocked against him, and he will
be shut out from the rotten boroughs of the
party in the South. - - >A~ p
From the B -ngor Wing and Cou ;ier (Rep)
We have had some curiosity to ascertain
the proportions of this mOnstrous outrage
upon the rights of free people, and we
find by the statistics given in the Maine
State Year Book that the seYen cities
which these conspirators propose to dis
franchise and deprive of their, fifteen Rep
resentatives, cast tCtal Of l6, 1863 votes at
the last election, of one e-eighth of the total
vote of the State, with almost zoos Re-
publican majority. That they have an ag-
gregate population of 76, ,028,y or 3one-tenth
| of the total population of the State /! n That
they have. a valuation of S57,z94,758, or
more than one>quarter of the total Yalua~
ton of the State ACeA lowe % &GII
| From the New York Tribune (Rep.l VI D
Once more the Democratic party ap-
pears as the ablest campaigner for the Re-
| publican cause: 5EAAT Z
Chicago Times und.)
Where was Jim Blaine when the light
went out? @ @H
New York Tribune Rep.) s-.ar
What shall it profit party if it steal
one State in 1879 and lose whole Union in
$780,? G15101t
/ ~7 Baltimore GazeIts fDem) t.,ff
The venerable Hannibal Hamlin does
not take kindly to the news from Maine.
He is naturally astonished at the presump-
I tion of the Democrats in forcing the Re-
publicans to obey the laws. is
New York World (Dem,) >
Governor Gareelon and his advisers have
made serious political and q not less Sc
rious moral mistake. They have nullifed
the will of the people of Maine, as ex-.
pressed at the latest election, on account of
technical errors and oversights.- These
errors and oversights were committed, not
| by the electors but by the local canvassers.
| The votes were in fact thrown out on ac-
! count of informality in the manner In
which they were returned. There IS no
pretense that this informality was such as
| TO leave the intention CT the voters
in doubt. The, tenor of all the
statutes. Judicial decisions and
tons is that every presumption should be
made in favor Of giving effect to the real
intention of the voters. The canvassers in
Maine have unquestionably nullifed the
real intention of the voters There is no
lodging that fact, and with fair-minded
! people that fact will be of any controv ersy
that may be raised 1t IS plain that the de-
feated legislators who have thus been
counted in ought to refuse to serve, and
| leave the organization of the Legislature
| to the Republicans who were elected TO i.
From the New York Tribune (Rep9
Don't call the NJ aire theft fraud" It's
Reform"