Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-10-20

ted the murder and put the bloody knife in
the pocket of neighbor. In this case
there is the circumstance of the borrowing
of SS29 from Oakes hmes, which the DEM
ocracy have declared to be part of the fund
arising from the ownership of Credit Mo-
biiier stock. They have
ANOTHER PoIsf.
They say Tilden was cheated out of the
Presidency. That Is not true. They say
that he had majority Of the popular vote.
Well, that is true. Rut President is not
elected by the majority vote; be is elected
by the electoral vote. Tilden had major
ity of the popular vote of 100000, but
Hayes had one of majority of the electoral
vote, and that was constitutional majority
and made him President. James Buchan-
an lacked 377 900 of having the majority OF
the popular vote, but he had the majority OF
the electoral vote. and that is the constitu-
tional way OF electing a President. The
electoral vote of Georgia is IL; the bull
dosed Democratic majority in that State was
eighty thousand. The electoral vote of
Pennsylvania is 90, and the Republican ma
iority for Governor Hoyt was seventeen
thousand and some hundred. When the
electoral votes Of the two States are con-
sidered, that of Pennsylvania is nearly three
times as large as that Of Georgia, but when
the majority vote of the two States are
counted, that of Georgia is four time great
er than that of Pennsylvania, and that is
how d President may be elected end not
have a majority of the popular vote. Pres
ident Hayes had not majority Of tie pop
ular vote, But he had majority of the elec-
toral vote. The Democracy say that there
there was fraud in Alabama, Georgia, Mis-
sissippi and other Southern States, where,
if the fraud could have been reached by
State laws as in Louisiana, the fraudulent
boxes could have beer cast out and the
States could honestly have been declared
for HAYES. In Louisiana the State laws
were peculiar; they gave the returning
boards of that State the right to reject all
return of votes that had Been polled under
intimidation and under the practice of fraud
In 1876 they did throw out a number OF
boxes where large number of illegal votes
had been polled. When the Democracy
found that the election between Hayes and
Tilden was close and learned that the fraud
ulent votes had been cast out in Louisiana
under the operation of State law, they for
got their STATE right theory and practice,
and said We will not stand it, even if the
returns from Louisiana to Washington are
correctly signed. They proposed an eiee-
toral eommi,ii5n. The Republicans said,
any way to satisfy you. The bill to create
the electoral commission was passed through
Congress. The Democracy had heard Gar
field say that the bill would give the COM
mission the right to go into lie States and
examine the returns. He denied the right
he hssi said the bill provided for going into
the States to gruE among the returns
the Democrats thought that he would vote,
at the right time, to go back of the Stase
returns. Garfield was one of the Electoral
Comr-ission. ani when the time came to
Soce as TO whether the commission should
90 back of the face of the returns and ex-
smine the votes in the election districts OF
the States, of course he voted No, aad was
consistent in iving SO. Phere is another
phase to the electoral business. The cipher
dispatches reveal that from the house in
which Mr.. Tildeu Ives dispatch was sent
offering $50 ,CO0 for the electoral vote OF
South Carolina, s50,OOO Tor the electoral
v3te; of Florida, and IS .oeS for The electoral
vote of Oregon, aud yet the Democracy talk
about