Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1880-03-04
Stealing States.
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Defeat she Wtll 81 the People.

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Defeat she VStH 81 she People.
Chicago Times.
The preparations for capturing the White
House without regard to the result of the
Presidential election go bravely on. One
thing which may become necessary in order
to effect the capture is a Bourbon majority
by States in the House of Representatives
and Mr.. Springer's committee on elections
has in hand the important work Of securing
this majority. 1t is part of the programme
to unseat Washburn. Republican, of Mime.
sofa, and seat Donnelly, Democrat. That
done, the Minnesota delegation will be
changed from two Republicans and one Dem
ocrat to two Democrats and one Republi-
can. Then, should the election of President
be thrown into the House. the State of Min
nesota, which is Republican by more than
10000 majority on the popular vote, will
east its vote in the House for the Democrat
ic candidate for President. The sub-com-
mittee which has the Washburn- Donnelly
case in hand has decided to report in favor
of carrying out this part of the programme.
and IT is altogether likely that the full com
mittee will do the same and that the House
will complete the work of counting out.
| On the face of the returns Washburn's
majority was 3,0l2. This is pretty large
majority to overcome bv the counting out
process but the subcommittee has proved
itself equal to the emergency. 1t has sue
ceeded in figuring Donnelly in by majority
Of l6j or more. To begin with, 200 votes
east in Minneapolis are thrown out for the
reason that they were numbered. A law Of
the State requires election officers to num-
Der ballots in cities having population of
more than 10000. This law has been pro-
nounced unconstitutional BY judicial decis-
ion. upon the ground that il provided for a
violation of the secrecy of the ballot 1t
seems that this decision was disregarded,
and the ballots were numbered in six pre-
cincts of Minneapolis. and i, is for this rea-
| son alone that the 200 votes are thrown
out. Tha, number of voters are TO be dis
tranchised. not because of any fault of their
| own, but because their agents, the election
officers. numbered their ballots, in disregard
of court decision. Fair minded citizens
will have no difficulty in arriving at a con-
cluslOn a To the justice of this performance
They will agree with the Supreme Court of
Maine. that citizens cannot be justly dis
franchised through the neglec, or errors of
their agents whose duty it is 10 see that their
votes are received and given full effect.
There is no doubt whatever that the 700
votes were cast BY qualified electors, and
there is no reason TO suppose that they did
not express the will Of the persons who cast
them. To reject these votes is simply an
outrage.
But it was not enough to throw out the
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