The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-12-03
Editorial Notes.

OF State Canvassers. showed no votes cast fol
Aaron 2. Turner, although he received l6,l51
votes. The vote for Auditor General was re-
turned az cast for Washington Irving Latlmer
whose ,rue name is William, and the ballot:
were e. actually cast Tor W. Irving Latimer.-
A boy ten years old would know better than to
make such egregious bunders. II the fellow
was not drunk (and he probably was) he ia
entitled 20 wear the be-: as the champion block
head os the s,s5s.
Indiana can furnish about the worst set Of
Marsha. Of the 9Th district, whose duty 1t was
to collect the returns from his district and
carry them to the Secretary OF State neglected
TO DO 80, and thereby cut down Gen. Garfield )
plurality about $500 votes. Some of the can
vassing boards of the state in their pig-headed
stupidity, returned ballots cast for Benjamin
q. Parker, Republican elector, as cast for
Thomas -. Bennett, who was not candidate,
and whose name was not on the ticket At ALL
This b.1nder, If il cannot be corrected, VII
elect Democratic eiector from that State by
about 1900 plurality. This result can work
no harm this time but if the election had de-
pended on one vote the consequences might
have been very dsastroU: 10 the county.
I 81. presidents 0; the United States never
received a college education, VIZ: Washington.
Jackson. Van Buren,. Harrison, Taylor, fillmore,
Liuco!a and Johnson. One, Grant. was edu-
Gated q. West Point. The rest have been COL
lege graduates. Including Gen. Carried. the
roll o. college graduates stands u to g.
The Ic3iana trouble over Elector Parker
must be added to the California case. making
pair OF strong arguments in favor OF some
early and radical amendments in the electoral
system
Watterson remarks 10 his Louisville organ.
both reAec;iyely and accurately: 4: would
have been vel had Democratic newspapers
and speakers paid less attention to 1893 a1d
more 60 issues ana IDEAS
The counsel for Philip sing very different
song la.e.T. They are trying to find tie or
iginato-. Ct the Morey letter"
The IGdianopoiis Journa! announces that
mos. J! rot all, OF the wrongly credited re-
Turns e. he electoral vote are simple clerical
errors G: -hs county clerks, AMI Will be coz
ree1ed.
-Four e he Republican candidates for Con
gress in south Carolina Will contest the seats
Of the Z emocrats who got the certiicates
Seve:a. Of the Fusion town: o: Maine have
made brngliDg work IA their returns for seca-
tors and representatives. There would have
been ro-t.e justice n administering their own
Garce,oa medicine 70 them, bat Republican
governor and coGnci, with higher sense OF
justice, have notified them Of the mistakes /.
and permitted them to make corrections
The Republicans OF Tennessee may possibly
elect nited states Senator because all thing.
are possible. but it IS now quite safe to predict
they vii not 60 it.
vIcEsnuE5, Miss. November 25.-The War
rem county election commissioner, the char
man OF The Democratic executive committee OF
the sixth cor ress.onsl district, and the chair
man Of he warren county Democratic e1ecu-
tive committee were arrested to-day by order .
of Judge H. Of the United States court for
charges made against them relative to the late !
election n this county. They go TO Jackson
to nigh: and VIII probably have hearing to-
morrow.
The envelope enclosing the Chinese forgery
was addressed originally to " Edward Cox" or
|" Fox" bat the address was erased. It is now
discovered that there is an Edward Fox" en-
ployed in The Office Of the Truth, the paper
which published the forgery. Is this coin
or is i link in the conspiracy?
WASHINGTON, y. c., Nov. 26.-General Raum,
commissioner Of internal revenue, furnishes
for publication the following extract from a
letter received by hin from a gentleman in
South Carolina: During the excitement OF a
political campaign prescription, intolerance and
outlawrg axe pushed 20 the axtreme, but this
trouble il among the least OF our sufferings.-
What is hardes. to endure is the deprivation OF
political tights and personal insecurity. The last
sleaaon was new revelation OF fraud, vio-
lence intimidation and murder. It surpassed
Its predecessors in the systematic way in which
the vlainies and excuses were practced.-
There!vas simply carnival OF wrong, outrage
and injustice. Are these poor, helpless, de-
voted. long-sufer.ns freedmen to be called up
on yeahai;er year TO exercise their political
privilege. at such peril and with such conse-
quences while the general government stands
by almos. unmoved? At present the south is
simply, fo- Republicans, organized damnation y
And s.il Barnum is not happy. The morey /
thinks and hears about the Morey letter the
morey hates 1t.
When Bill English heard that Porter was
elected Governor Of Indiana, he feelingly re-
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