Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-11-16

shown in the latter day mode of elect
ing the vice president. In the first
national elections held the man re
ceiving the largest number Of votes ii
the electoral college became president
while the nan who got the second lar
gest number of votes became vice pres
ident regardless of party. Thus in the
early days of our country we had n
president from one party and Il vice
president from another. That system
was terminated. however at the open
Ing of the last century, and today
J there Is but the remotest possibility
that the vice president will be OF
different party than the president.
There is one phase Of the electoral
system that has been attracting con
siderable attention Of late. That is the
| inequtable Gegrce OF representation
had by various states in the electoral
college. Some states have far greater
proportionatc representation than 9th
ers in respect to population Thus the
citizens IF those states so favored have
a larger vni'e I'm the choosing Of q
president and vice president than the
voters of lees fortunate states. Fer IN
! stance. seventeen states can be group
cd having n total REGULAR vote Of rrac-
| ticully Tie same as That Of New York.
yet IL" electoral Votes Of these seven
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Notable historical EPISODE.
At the. second election Jefferson and
Burr appeared as candidates. Ken
tucEy giving the former four votes and
South Carolina giving the latter one.
At the third election they appeared
again and this time much more promi-
ncntly. Jefferson receiving CS votes
and Burr so. John Adams. with vote
of II. lust one over the requisite ma
iority. carried off the presidency, and
Jefferson became wee president North
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A Celebrated Controversy.
The celebrated Samuel ]. Tilden-Ruth.
erfor6 r HAYES CONTROVERSY occurred