The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-11-11
Electoral Votes.

The Philadelphia Inquirer, in answer
10 a question in regard to a States divid-
ing its electoral vote, as did Michigan in
1872, giving ) Democratic and Republic
can: North Dakota l Republican. l DEM
ocratic and Populist; Ohio Democratic
and - Republican, and Oregon Repub-
lican and Populist, gives the following
explanations:
The Constitution of the United States
provides that the President and Vice
resident shall be elected as follows:
Each State shall appoint, in such man
ner as the Legislature thereof shall direct,
A mum Der Of electors equal 10 the whole
number Of Senators and Representatives
TO which the state may be entitled in the
Congress"
After the electors nave been appointed,
the manner of their appointment being
left 10 the Legislatures of the respective
States, as we have seen, the Constitution
requires that the electors shall meet in
their respective states ami vote by ballot
for President aud Vice President. and
that they shall name in their ballots the
person voted for as President, and in dis
tinct ballots the person voted for as Vice
President.
The two points to bear in mind are,
first, that the electors are appointed in
such manner as the Legislature of each
State may direct. and second, that each
elector. when 50 appointed, may vote for
whomsoever he may see fit. The Demo-
Gratis carried the State election in Michi-
gan in 1880, gaining the Legislature and
the Governor They passed a law divid-
lug the State into two electoral districts
10y a line running north and south. each of
which districts was 10 choose or appoint
a Presidential elector, aud provided that
the rest Of the electors should be chosen
ia thevarious Congressional districts. one
elector in each Of such districts. The re-
suit was il ls92 as stated by our CORES
pondeut.
In all the other States the Presidential
electors n 1892 were, As they VIII be this
year Ia all the states, chosen or appointed
bv the popular vote ~ 'la STATE. North
Dakota was eatitlea n three votes, the
same as this year. OIi of the candidates
voted for. the three who received the
highest number Of votes were chosen. the
resul; being that each n1-ty got one. In
Ohio twenty-five Republican Candidates
Eor Presidential electors received more
votes than the candidates of any OF the
other parties, but one Democrat. who re-
ceived more votes than any other candi-
date for elector on the Democratic ticket.
received more votes than the Republican
candidate who received the lowest num-
Der on the Republican ticket. Thus TWEEN
ty-two Republicans and one Democrat
were chosen electors. In Oregon one Pop
ulist candidate for elector received more
votes than the lowest candidate on the
Republican ticket, the result being as
stated.
Generally speaking. the electoral vote
OF q STATE goes all one wsv. f,r the States
hrve come . appoint electors 10y ne pop
ular vote II RIO Stale, bu; oven hen, as
Eve ha0e seen in the eases aI lio and Or
EXON e. iSe2, tle vote niav be 50 Sc that
sa e,ectcrof the minority parry nay slip
sh-e1En. Each clector IS voted g. singly.
anj uey le scratched the same 8 a can
diiate for any other Office. M much
scratching Of electors is darr. i.u. is not
unknown, - the instances relateI above
show