The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-11-02
ELECTIoss TO-DAY.


F,xe national Iick cts In the Field.
Elections take place in every State In
Tho Union to-day for President and Vice
President Of the United States. The cleo
tors who choose the President and Vice
President are chosen by the people.
Hence although the names o. the candt'
dstes for President and Vice President are
on the tickets, yet they are not chosen by
the people directly. 1t is the electors
underneath the names Of the candidates
on the ticket who cast the vote oil the
State, II they are elected by the people
Many persons, tolerably intelligent, do
not undsrstand the modus operandi oil
eleclipv President and Vice President
For their benefit we will explain that tho
theory Of the Constitution OF the United
States is that o body Of men unpledged 70
any set Of candidates should be chosen
by the people in each State, the aggregate
If whom in all the States shall form
what 1. known as an Electoral College,
and thew, voting by States, shall choose a
President and Vice President Of the
United States. This theory Of
the Constitution has not worked
ont IN actual practice. The people might
as we'll vote direct for President and Vice
President, as TO vote the way they do
The men whom they choose as Electors
arc pledged beforehand to the nominees
Of the party they represent, and their
meeting afterwards as an Electoral Col
leye to cast the vote already cast by the
people is really an unmeaninS iormsllty'
There are FIVE Presidential tickets in The
field to-day. Some Of them will not be
voted for In many Of the States, They
arc as follows:
E' '7 i REPUBLICAN.
Il For Pr.sideut-Gsu. James A. GatGeld, Of Ohio;
Vie PresldSnt-Gen. Chester A. Arthur, Of Ne"
York. ...,.
For pr.ssdent-Gsn. WINFIELD seOtt Hancock, o.
r VIZ: Iesiient-wllliam H. English, Of Indiana.
.5,.,,-5 OREESB ,cE-LABoR. IL a4sI
For Prt,Idsut-1hO Hon. James B. Weaver, o
Wa PtelIdspt-BcuIamIn J. Chambers, Of Texas
avn PRoHufrIoN.
For Prt,Ideni-Eell Dow, Of Maine
Vice Pr sdOnt-HenTy A. Thompson Of otio'
AN1EMAsoElc.
FOR Preidsnt-John W. Phelps Of Vermont.
YIse PreHdent-Ex- Senator samuel @. Pomeroy 0
Kansas, .t.f.. {
The Republicans and Democrats have
electoral tickets In all the States, the
Greenback party in 80, and the Prohibit
iopisss in 10 or more. The nominations o
the Anti Masonic party, which cast 52t
votes In Illinois, Kansas, Michigan, Ohio
Pennsylvania and Wisconsin in 1875, have
attracted very little attention. OF the 20,
members OF the XLVIIth Congress, 81
have been elected in four States, and to-day
o5i members will DO elected In "a States
two vacancies in the XLvIth Congress-
one In New York and one in Alabama-wil
be filled at the same time. Twenty-ont
States will elect members OF the Legisla
ture, and in IS Of these States the new
Legislatures will be called upon to elect
United States Senators for the terms be-
ginning next March. Governors will be
elected in Is States, and minor State
officers in four States. Constitutional
amendments will be voted upon in
States, and in s. States the question oil
calling Constitutional Conventions will be
acted upon.
The Republican and Democratic parties
have electoral tickets in every State. In
Virginia the Fuuder and Readjuster fac
lions Of the Democratic party have each
an electoral ticket; the Funder ticket has
been recognized by the Democratic Ma
tional Committee. In Maine there is q
Fusion ticket (Greenback and Democrat
icy and straight Greenback ticket. The
Greenback party has tickets in all The
States, except Florida, Georgia, Nevada
North Carolina, Oregon and Virginia
Early in the campaign the Prohibition
party expected to have electoral tickets Ii
at least twenty States, but thus far public
attention has been called only TO the tick
dts in the following States:
Connecticut MiSslnippi.
Indiana, rev bhmhhhe
KMEal. tStg JErsey.
KsptuCky. NST York
Maine. cOhlO.
MsSScAus,tt,, 6Pennsylvania.
Michigan, ~
West Virginia will elect three Congress
men to-day in addition to Presidential
Electors. The nominees Of the three par
ties in the field are as follows:
EInT DISTRICT.
RepubIlesn-JOhn Hutchinson, Of Wood county
DeinOeIAl-COl BsrI Wilson, Of Harrison county
Gtcenbatk-GUl James halsell Of Harrison county
SEcOND DisTuCr,
RepublIean.-JOseph 7 HUke, Of Mineral county.
DemOCIAl-JOhn hlAir bOge, Of Berkeley county.
Gteenbaek-D b T FarnlWOfth, Of upshur county
1IlIED DISTRICT.
No RcrubllrRn candidate.
DtmociAt-JOhn KennA, Of KAnaWhl county.
The Presidential Electors to be voted
for in West Virginia to-day by the three
parties are as follows:
REPUBLICAN,.
Al L1TS.
Archibald W. Campbell james Mclean.
i@jo6a A. Campbell. 81. 3. Msnag.r.
IA. 81. Poundjt nc.
pExocRATic.
~ LdrO.
ElbrldgO @. CracrAn. WIN, Ia wilson.
Districts, districts.
i-panIsl D. Johnston. s-EutAee Gibson,
9-JIL Morrow, JT.
GREENWICH. LABOR
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