The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-12-16

%Including $40 votes for the Beattie electors.
nominated by the Grant men: the vote for the reg
ular Republican ticket ranged from 1880 to
2S,294 and the vote for the Beattie ticket between
9,727 and 1O,34O; the votes given here (29,294
for Charles Dillingham; and 9,74O for Edward
Heath best represent the entire Republican vote.
Fusion vote (Greenback and Democratic). Vote
received by the three candidates on the straight
Greenback ticket, who were not on the Fusion
ticket: the Fusion ticket contained the names Of
Greenback ticket contained the names Of the
Greenback men on the Fusion ticket and the names
Of new men; the Fusion vote ranged between
straight ticket and s., 453 for Charles r. Whdden,
who was candidate on the Fusion and straight
tickets; had the Fusion ticket been elected. three
four t1 for Weaver For Americap Labor Ticket
96599 regu ar Tor Funder) votes and so, 800 Re-
adjuster votes, all for Hancock. rs President
voted for by the legislature; The counts made BY
1876 are given.
In the above table the popular vote this year
for president, as officially declared in most of
the States, and as reported in tho newspapers
IN the others, is given, with the popular and
to which each party is entitled according to the
returns this year. In the reports from the
several States there does not appear to have
been any irregularity in the casting of the cleo
toral votes on Wednesday, except in Georgia,
in which State the electors failed to meet The
crate constitution, provides that the electors
shall meet on the first Monday IN December,
and cast their votes on tho following Wednes-
day. The federal law provides that the cleo
tors in each State shall cast their votes Oh the
first Wednesday in December, which happened
this year on the first of the month. The same
conflict between the federal provision and the
Georgia law occurred in 1868. Previous to the
counting of the vote the senate adopted reso-
luton providing that, as the question whether
Georgia had regained her representation in
congress was still undecided, If the electoral
vote of the State did not change the result the
president of the senate should announce
that, including the vote Of Georgia,
the total was --; excluding the
vote of Georgia, the vote was -. The
house concurred in the resolution. In the joint
convention Gen. Butler presented objections to
the vote of Georgia, including the irregularity
ss to the date Of meeting, AID the two houses
separated The house voted not to count the
vote of Georgia; the senate declared the objec
tons raised were not in order under the con-
current resolution. When the joint convention
reassembled, appeals against the decision Of
the senate were not entertained, and the first
total of the table Of votes included the vote Of
Georgia, and the second excluded IT. Although
attention was then called to the imperfection
of the Georgia law, no movement to correct it
has been made. II the letter of tho law. is OBJ
served the vote Of Georgia will not be counted
In that case, Garfelds majority in the electoral
college would be increased from fifty mine to
seventy.
The e,1m Of the totals given above shows that
8, 2OO, 500 votes were cast for president this
year. The Republicans cast 4O4.O25 more
votes this year than in 1876, the Democrats
l5l $50, the Greenback men 223, 534, the
Prohibiionists 70. aud the Anti-Masonic party