The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1889-02-21
HARRISON AND MORTON.

In the joint session of Congress
Thursday the formality of declaring
the result of the electoral vote of the
States for Harrison and Morton as
President and Vice-President was
carried through in accordance with
the law, and now the Inauguration
on the 4th of March is the only act
remaining to be done before the
country passes again under the gov
eminent of Republican admins
tration. In connection with this
change it is important to bear in
mind that while the electoral vote
gives Gen. Harrison IS majority,
the popular vote gave the defeated
| democratic candidate 94,761 plural
ity over the President-elect. But this
is not all. The figures fromthe State
Department records show that in the
total suffrage of the country, footing
up 11,396,554 voters, Gen. Harris
son received 5,445,OO3, while there
were 5,951,551 he did not receive.
The President-elect is not a plurality
President by 1851, and not ma
jority President by over halfa mil
lion of votes. OF ali the elements
represented in the tabulated returns
of the election in November last the
Democrats lead numerically; the
Republicans come next, while the
Prohibitionists form phalanx $780,
53S strong, and the aggregate labor
vote, both wings, was 1854. Be
sides these we find exclusive Amer
icanism represented by 1915 voters
in Pennsylvania and California, and
the socialists by ZOOS in New York.
For Belva Lockwood and the equal
rights of women New York alone
CALAMITY responds with one vote. 1t
may be, however, that in the total
of 1851 returned under the heading
of scattering there are concealed
other equal rights votes, but if SO it
is a wrong for which there is now no
remedy.
THE CHAPLAIN'S PRAYER.
Rev. DIR. Milburn, the eloquent
blind chaplain Of the House, who
recently lectured so acceptably in
Winston, offered up the following
beautiful invocation:
GOOD of our fathers, as the Senate
and Representatives of the people
will presently assemble in Congress
to announce and record, according
to prescribed form, that BENJAMIN
Harrison and Levi Perry Morton
have been chosen by the suffrages of
their fellow-citizens to the offices of
President and Vice-President of the
United States. we humbly and de-
vontly pray that Thou wilt have
them and their families in Thy sa-
cred care. Guard them from all
peril and danger and prolong their
lives, grant them health and peace
and everlasting blessing. Standing
as we do on the threshold of the sec
ond century of our national history,
when the brains of the masses of
men are touched by finer intelli-
gence and possessed by a more SEN
sitive feeling, when mans monarchy
in nature and the masterdom of it's
laws and energies are charging,
when industry and inventive skill,
the means of transportation and
communication are increasing, when
populations all are charging and
men are coming closer together, and
questions-civil, social, spiritual
are being agitated as they never were
before-in this time of universal
ferment and agitation, Thy servant,
the President-elect, has been called
by his fellow-citizens to one of the
most solemn and honorable posts to
which man could be summoned
to bear the sword, to guard the treas
ury, to maintain the constitution
and to execute the laws of the nation
within the united brotherhood of
sovereign States, and SO we humbly
and earnestly pray that Thou wilt
Undue him and his advisers with an
excellent spirit and understanding !:
and may the peace of God, which
Passeth all understanding, keep his
heart and mind in Thy knowledge
and Thy fear, and SO make the land
have peace and prosperity, and the
benediction of our, God rest on us
ai' we ask through Jesus Christ our
Lord"
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