The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-01-01
NEW YORK ELECTION CASES.

The court of appeals handed down,
Tuesday, their decision in the contested
election cases. OF the four caases three
were decided so that the State Board of
Convassers decided in favor of the Demo
cracy. The dispatches say:
The effect of the decisions appear to
give the Democrats control of the Senate.
The court decides that the State board
of canvassers shall issue certificate to
Nichols, the Democratic candidate for
Sentor in the Onondaga district, and to
Walker, the Democratic candidate in the
Steuben district. In the Dutchess case
the court holds that the Mylod certiti-
cate is sufficient, but leaves the question
open for the exercise of the judgment of
the State board of canVassers as TO
whether the certificate of election should
be given to Deane or Osborne.
In the Derby case the court holds that
the certificate of election should be given
to Derby, the Republican candidate in
the Rensselaer-W Washington district.
According to the returns as already
canvassed there are fourteen Democratic
Senator's elect with certificates, the Re-
publicans thirteen and one independent
Republican. The court of appeals de-
cision adds two or three to the Demo-
cratic list and one or two to the Republi-
can side. The prospects are that seven
teen Democratic Senators will be recog-
nized when the session of the Legislature
begins. This is a clear majority.
The Democratic programme, accord
ing to the Troy Press is as follows: "An
important feature of the Democratic pro-
gramme, is to have an enumeration of
the inhabitants of the State some time
next month, and before the legislature
adjOurns reapportionment of the legis-
lative districts. The last apportion-
ment was made by the Republicans in
1870 founded on the census of 1875. 1t
is also proposed to call a constitutional
convention and to reappoint the Con-
gressiOnal districts upon the new basis
of population. A large number of Re-
publicans, who have held State offices
for a good many years beyond the limit
of the terms for which they were
originally appointed, will find themselves
out of Jobs. Among them will be DR..
William NJ. Smith of Allegheny county,
who was appointed health officer of the
port of New York by Gov. Cornell in
1880. DR.. Smith was appointed for two
years, at salary of $4,000 year. He
has since occupied this comfortable berth
as "hold-over. "
The Telegram argues: ''The Demo
cratic possibilities from the decision are
tremendous They can have an enumera-
ton and appOrtionment of the Senate and
Assembly districts, so as to make it i'm
possible for the Republican party to re-
cover either House in the next ten years,
they can apportion the Congressional
districts according to the federal census
of 1890; they can hold the constitutional
convention and change our entire sys-
TEN of representation in the Legislature
and of the election of judicial officers
they can during the next three years turn
out Republicans and Cleveland Demo-
Gratis from all the important offices in
the State; they can go on and complete
the Capitol, start Hills long cherished
plan of building system of State roads,
sprinkle prisons, asylums and hospitals
all over the State, and tax the people to
death. The court of appeals has placed
Hill and Tammany in absolute posses
sion of the State.''