Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-12-11

From the Inter Ocean.

states except Georgia, met on Wednes
day Dec. LIST and cast their votes TO
President and Vice President. Garfield
received the entire electoral vote of nine
teen states, and one vote from California
in all 214-Or twenty-nine more thai
the number required to elect. HancOcl
received the entire electoral vote il
seventeen states, and five votes from
CaifOrnia-in all IA. The eleven vote.
of Georgia were not cast, as the state
law provides that the Governor shall
notify the electors to meet on the first
Monday in December to be ready on the
Wednesday following to cast their vote,
Article III. of the Constitution of the
United States declares that Congress
may determine the time of choosing the
electors and the day on which they shall
give their votes; which day shall be the
same throughout the United States.
An act of Congress, approved March 1.
1892, provides that the electors shall
meet and give their votes on the said
first Wednesday in December, at such
place in each state as shall be directed
by the Legislature thereof" In the Re-
vised Statues this clause reads: 1.-THE
electors for each state shall meet and
give their votes upon the first Wednes-
nay in December in the year in which
they are appointed, at such place in each
state as the Legislature of such state
shall direct" mmee ayeE
The amendment to article II. of the
Constitution, ratified i'm 1904, did not
change the sense as to the powers of Con-
gress to determine the time of choosing
the electors, SO Georgia loses her cleo
tOral vote by the carelessness of her own
law makers. Should the month of De-
cember come in on Thursday, Friday, Sat-
urday, Sunday or Monday, the state law
in Georgia would not conflict with the
national law. Should it come in on
Tuesday or Wednesday, Georgia, by fol-
lowing the state law, would loose her
electoral vote. AS the case stands it is
agreed that somebody has blundered,
but as nothing is at stake, people are
only interested in knowing how Georgia
will escape from the embarrassment.
All the mistakes of the Presidential
election have been corrected i'm spirit
of fairness. In New York i'm one county
the votes cast for one of the Republican
electors were returned as having been
cast for man who was running as an
electOr. The tickets were right, but the
election blanks contained the name of
the man nominated for electOr, but who
had resigned. In Indiana a similar
mistake covered enough votes to defeat
one OF the Republican electors. As the
election was not close, no objection was
made to the correction of these mistakes, |
and the formal action of the electoral |
colleges on Wednesday caused little or |
no excitement.
All meetings Of the electoral colleges
have not been so devoid of startling incl
dent, or so free from complications or
embarrassments. At the first Presiden-
tlal election in 17SS the electoral vote of |
only ten states were counted, New York.
North Carolina, and Rhode Island not
having adopted the Constitution. All
OF the sixty nine votes, 40 from Massa-
chusetts, 10 from Pennsylvania, 10 from
Virginia, 2 from Connecticut, z from
South Carolina, 6 from Maryland, 6 from
New Jersey, from Georgia, from New
Hampshire, and from Delaware) were
cast for Washington. John Adams, re-
celvlng thlrty-fOur votes, was declared
Vice-President. In 1892 the fifteen states
Vermont and Kentucky east
l32 electoral votes, and all went to Wash
lngtOn. In 1896 the whole number of
electoral votes was 1873, John Adams re-
oil; Jefferson, 68; Pinckney, SO; Burr, 80;
Samuel Adams, 10; Oliver Ellsworth, IL.
Several other candidates were voted for.
Adams was declared President, and JEFF
fersOn Viee-President.
In loOO there was period of unprece-
dented excitement. In the electoral col
lege Jefferson and Burr each received %
votes; Adams, 90; Picnkney, GA, and Jay,
l: Inc tie vote on leading candidates ,
20 h. \ |
AFTER SIX days devoted to balleting ThOs l
emerson, On the thirty-siXth ballot, re- |
celyed the vote OF ten states, and was de- ,
clared President. This was on the 18th
)f February, 1901. Georgia, Kentucky.
Maryland, New Jersey, New York. North
Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee. YER I
mont and Virginia voted for Jefferson.
LID the electoral college New JERSEY had =
7Oted for Adams and Pinckney. Rurr re- c
;elved, In the House, the votes of Con- I
lecticut, Massachusetts, New HAMPSHIRE. /;
md Rhode Island, and was declared Vice
President. In the electoral college
and New HAMPSHIRE had '
Ioted for Adams. Delaware and South | e
CAROLINA voted blank. The electoral vote =
II the former was for Adams. and the
after for Jefferson.
The twelfth amendment introduced the
present mode of voting for President and o
and for several elections Z
here was smooth running. In 1904
jefferson and Clinton received 1852 votes G
0 Ia for Plnckney and King. In 1908 v
ladlsOn received 122 votes, s New York D
lectOrs declining to vote for him. and n
their votes to Clinton. the
andldate for Vice-President. Pinckney +"
md King received AZ votes. In 1912 s.
ladisOn received 1873 votes to SO for Gin q
on. In 1916 Monroe received 1873 votes \
nd in 1920 he had 228 votes, to one for =,
Ohm Quincy Adams. u
Inc second notable struggle over the tt
lectoral count occurred i'm 1924. Of the C,
oil electoral votes Jackson had 49,, John =,
.uincy Adams "a, w. III. Crawford Al. !.
nd Henry Clay 81. No one receiving a a.
laJorlty, the election went to the o.
louise, and on the first ballO. Adams was 81
eelared President.
There was smooth sailing until 1884,. 81
q That year Van Buren, had 10 votes, p
Y more than necessary, but Virginia p
olted on Vice President, and johnson G,
ecelyed only 147 votes. This sent The =
lection of Vice-President to the Senate. IL
mere johnson received 33 votes to rs III
u Granger. After this there were no e.
otlceable or unusual complications un- 81
i 1876 o
ANOTHER fire has heen kindled with IL
and another funorol foIIorrod D