, 1908-12-30

KHLiV0S \u O0uhI0 HLu mousse OF heihSS6uId-
tives) sitting in the Congress at Washington.
The great political parties, before each
election, hold conventions, at which the
President and Vice President are nominated.
Besides these National Conventions there
are conventions f'the parties in each State,
and by these the Electors for the College
are nominated. In the State Of New York,
for example, before the recent election each
party nominated 80 such Electors. These
are printed on the ballots Of the parties
along with the nominated Governor of the
State Cf his election comes on at the same
time) and certain other officials. The whole
list rs called the "ticket" of the party, and o
j., good partisan is expected to vote for all Us
they stand, in which case, he is said TO vote
the straight ticket
After the popular election has decided
which ticket wins, the chosen Electors IN each
State must make their choice of q President,
(which, as will be seen, has been settled be-
fore hand, )and must send their votes to Wash
ington. Since the popular vote in each
State has already decided what its electors will
say, the Electors votes are known in advance.
and this part of the election is a mere for
'mality. Q.
Hence we see that the popular voto chooses
the Electors, and the electoral cote chooses
che President land Vice President, since he
is nominated at the same time as the Presi.
dent, and it is understood that they go to-
gether).
The popular cote has IT'S interest in this
way, that the Electors of the winning side, say
the Republican. as in the recent election, give
She same number of votes for President whe.
Their they themselves are elected by q small or
by a2large majority. II by only o small majority,
the winning party is shown. after all, to be
weak, but If by q large majority the party
may be proud Of its strength and may look
forward with more confidence to the future.
From recent kilograms We learned that
some American journals had circulated a
scandal in regard to the forty millions Of
dollars paid by the United States to the
Panama Canal Company for it's pro pertiea
and rights in Panama.
The scandal was to the effect that the
money had not been paid TO the Canal Com
pany but to an intervening syndicate, which
had made immense profits out Of the transs
action, and Mr.. Charles Taft. the broth
er.of the newly elected President. and Mr..
Douglas Robinson, President Roosevelt's
brother-in-law, were p)iutel out as partici-
Uators to a large extent IN this fraud on the
American taxpayers.
president Roosevelt was naturally very
Indignant, and in self-defence sent a long
message to Congress. with an abundance OF
papers bearing on the question. He used
some strong language Aoutr the newspapers,
especially "7he World", which had made
the accusations, or perhaps insinuations.
> Newspapers received here by the Guian0
give the message in full, but '~"'9 crt, of
course, the numerous documenty by which
it is substantiated, whose ~conten( p, however.
are sufficiently Indicated in tn message
itself.
AS far as the two gentlemen acc cd are
concerned, the following, which we nd in
the NeD York Times and also in t. lie
raid, is conclusive.
PROVIDENCE RI Ttesday.-Tbe Provi-
dence journal tomorrow morning will
print this telegraphic correspondehce:-
:CHARLEs P. TAFT, Cincinnati. Ohie;-
. "Will you tell the Providence Journd1 for
publication whether YOU ore now or have
been at any time in the past a stakeholder
in the new or the old Panama Canal Com
pany and whether you 4ave ever HELM any
shares in either company -
"rHE PROVIDENCE JOURNAL"
THE PROVIDENCE JOURNAL. Providence
r, I.