The Republican journal., 1880-09-30

The clerks returns of the vote for Governor.
nave been nearly ali received and opened at the
ollee Of the Secretary OF State and foot UP as fol
lows
Daniel F Davis Observation-Disclosures. 3. 1856
Daniel +. David Observation-Disclosures. 10
Harris NJ Plaisted .....--.. .. : :. ,.l3
Harrison Paisted Observation-Disclosures d
Hiram NJ. PiaIsted. --...--.-... .....-- 20
Harrle NJ Plaisted. Recommendations. POI
Harris Il Plaisted Observation-Disclosures 2o4
haras NJ PIdlsted. --..---.--. 100
harms flalsted ------------ --------- -
Aarras NJ Plaisted Observation-Disclosures 53
Harris N. Pialstais ted. Observation-Disclosures. -
Morris NJ. PlaIsled Observation-Disclosures. 1873
Harris NJ Plasded Observation-Disclosures 1872
Taking them as they stand, Daniel T Davis has
over thousand votes more than Harris NJ Plais
ted But there are 50 votes returned for Daniel
r David, and l47O votes returned for Morris, Il lar
rison and various other Plaisteds. If these shall
be counted for Harris NJ. Plalsted then he has
Id plurality over Davis providing 10 error shall
appear in the figures when the Official returns
shall be opened in January by the Legislature.
therefore when Fusion papers claim that Plalsted
has plurality, they assume that votes returned
for Morris, or Harris or Harrison Plasted,
ought to be and will be counted for Harris NJ Pais
ttd. when they have been defending GOV. Garcelon
and Council for refusing to count votes for Repub-
Ilcans returned with wrong initial. even when
inc ballots and records were correct and asserting
that such refusal was constitutional" Exactly
" Nat thls CONSTITUTIONAL law was, we learn from
the defence Of the Governor and Council which
we cOndeDse as follows:
BY errors in the middle initial of the names of Re
publican candidates in the returns of Somervlle
NoblebOrO, Exeter, GOudsboro, Sherman Danfortli
ana Robinson, five Republican representatives and
one senator lost their election Returns fOrG 5. Hill
or 4. X. Hail. or John b. Bragdon, cannot be count
Ell for Geo. >. Hill, Edward X. Hall or John L.
BragdOn, because there may be two men with these
initials or names We cannot how any fair
minded man say that the governor and council
Of Office when they counted returns from these
various towns for all the persons named in the re-
turns
If the returns for governor shall be canvassed
according to the above rule which Gen Plaisted
the Argus, Standard and other Democratic papers
have been defending, then Gov Davis has large
plurality. Do these papers still claim that these
rules we're legal and constitutional! Do the men
who voted for the tabulators and shouted them
selves hoarse in defence of their count want the
same rules applied to themselves2
Republicans take the same ground now which
they took last December,-that errors in returns
can be and should be corrected by the ballots and
records If the ballots returned for Norris Harris
H and other Paisteds were all actually cast fol
Harris NJ. Paisted then they will be counted fol
him by the Republicans, notwithstanding this may
count in political opponents who recently counted
out Republicans by pursuing exactly an opposite
course. Lewiston Journal
One of the neatest little Republican cam pagn
documents is the Record of the Statesm anshiI
and Political Achievements of Gen Winfield
Scott Hancock" The pages of the pamphlets are
all blanks