The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-06-03

give the Democracy OF washington
absolute control over the choice of the
next President; and whenever the
Democrats find themselves on the
point of losing their majority they can
modify the joint resolution to suit the
new exigency. Under the famous 22d
joint rule it was possible for one house
to prevent the counting of vote. and
the rule was dropped because that was
considered dangerous. But in former
years there was a general respect for
the right of the States to vote for whom
they pleased, and most of the tricks
and outrages by which the Democrats
now try to vitiate Presidential elections
had not been invented. 1t is an un-
pleasant truth to contemplate, but the
probability of fraudulent objections to
an Electoral vote is tenfold greater than
it was ten years ago, and the chance
that the present Congress would decide
such objections upon other than purely
partisan considerations is almost in
tinitely small.
If we would realize what the caucus
resolution means we must call to mind
the character of the objections which
the Democrats raised to some of the
Electoral votes in 1877. They attempt
ed to throw out the vote of Mr.. Hum
plfreys, in Florida, because he had been
United States Shipping Commissioner.
1t was proved that he resigned that
office month before the November
election; his resignation was imme-
diately accepted by the Judge of the
United States Circuit Court, and an
other person was assigned to the duties
of the vacant place. Nevertheless, the
Democratic counsel before the Electoral
Commission insisted that the vote
ought to be excluded, because the ac-
ceptance of Mr.. Humphreys resigna-
tion by Judge Woods appeared to be
'the act of an individual, and not the
act of the Court % If this absurd pre-
text had been admitted, Mr.. Tilden
would have been made President.
Trivial objections to the eligibility of
Republican Electors in Michigan,
Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin,
or to the regularity of certain
appointments to fill vacancies, were
warmly debated in the Senate and the
House; and everybody remembers what
happened in Oregon when sham Elec-
toral College was set up with money
purpose of defeating the admitted
WiSuCS Va ehC pCOpiC oA Viz cesseS. L hS
whole Democratic party fought tooth
and nail for that piece of chicanery
and if the joint resolution now pro
posed had then been in force, with 8
Democratic majority in both houses
Cronin and "GObble," with the aid o.
Pe,ton's five thousand dollars, woult
have chosen the President of the United
States.
No reasonable being doubts that thu
same tactics will be pursued again. Th'
preparations are plainly visible. q L
would not surprise us much to hear ever
of the appointment of a Democratic
Electoral College in Maine by Governo
Garcelon's bogus Legislature resusci
tated for the occasion. If the Repub
licans should carry any Southern State
it is certain that competing college
would be organized and double sets o
returns transmitted to Washington
The people cannot be too careful il
watching the development Of the plot
The Democratic party is determined t
steal the Presidency if it cannot Wi
it; and it has nearly made up its min
that it cannot win.-N. Y. Tribune.