Morning journal and courier., 1880-11-09

common sense and equity, observed: ''It is
 not possible to admit the principle that a railroad, telegraph telephone company
 may avoid the performance of any part of
 the paramount duty they owe to the entire
 public by contract obligations which they
 may enter into, even with the patentee of an
 invention. If the principle were conceded it
 is quite obvious that such corporations might
 readily avoid the performance of any public
 duty that became inconvenient or burden
 some It would become possible to discrimi-
 nate at pleasure both against individuals and
 classes"
 The New York Journal of Commerce, which
 is strongly Democratic in it's leanings, has no
 sympathy with the attempt to disturb the
 public by dispute over the election, and it
 makes the following well considered remarks |:
 The claim that twenty or thirty thousand
 fraudulent votes were cast at the late election
 in New York and Brooklyn has not parti-
 cle of evidence to sustain it. If it
 is designed to prepare the way for
 some political action that shall seek to throw
 out the vote of New York when the returns
 are counted in Congress, it is stupid, and
 should be heartily denounced by all good cit
 1Z0GS. 1n0 u0dNy udlO OI RONSfHulSnb OI- fcials was felt in the disfranchisement of
 some legal voters and the intimidation of many others To this extent the supervis- ors' law and the interference of the federal government was felt to be menace to popu- lar liberty. We saw and experienced the in science that marked the canvass in this re- spect and hence our recent advice to the vic tors, now, in the hour of their triumph, to repeal these obnoxious statutes, and thus to remove grievance that is deeply felt and will otherwise mar the general harmony we would like to see restored under the new ad- ministration. But this was work of in- timidation and repression. The Republicans are not chargeable with any serious attempt to colonize voters, and to turn the scale in these contiguous cities by the of illegal ballots. There is no evidence whatever of such fraud, and we regret to see any at tempt to impose upon the public with state ment so wild and improbable. The leaders and managers of the Democratic campaign may look much nearer home for the real causes of their defeat.
 Other Democratic papers which know the l truth would simply do their duty by follow | ing the example of the Journal of Commerce. l
 Telegraph operators and printers make 1 queer blunders in their work, but their mis- | takes are not any queerer than those made | by stenographers in transcribing from short hand. Some of the best efforts of the latter were recently placed before a convention of the New York State Stenographic Association | by the reader of paper. Among them were the following Several years ago an eminent l lawyer employed stenographer to take tes- | timony in an important case. The tran l scribed minutes astonishedhim. patent" | al, Jal i1, 4ba emit | into ''potentate ; a "solid l frame' was turned into an isolated farm ;' | the furnaces of this country were set | down as ''Fenians of this country ;" "clerks | and bar-tenders" were made into ''clocks and | and the question, ''Were you | in the habit of visiting the house ?'' was writ 1 ten, ''Were you in the habit of fastening the | hose ?" An attorney asked witness how she l came to be employed by the plaintiff, and she l ''I saw sign in the window, 'Fe- | male clerks wanted here.'" The blundering | reporter rendered it: : Family color warrant ed here." A minister, preaching a sermon on the death of a person named Samuel, quoted ''And buds and blossoms in the 1ust'' He was delighted to read in the next issue of the paper ''And buds and blows Sam in the dust" An orator referred to the different religious sects or denominations | 'sgoing for one another throughout the | and said ''Here we have one sect | another,'' and was so reported, | put the transcriber rendered 1t "Here we nave one sick person feeding another, " and 70 it appeared in the morning papers physician under examination to his attend ance upon sick lady said ''he never exam ned her antecedents'' and was so reported by | stenographer. The transcriber, however, made it read, ''he never examined her intes- ines" 7" Another medical witness, speaking ,f the illness of lady patient, said the appeared to be somewhat unstrung and nerv- ous." The transcriber made him say, ''She appeared somewhat knee sprung and nerv-