Popular and electoral vote of the United Statesfrom 1788 to 1869.



The committee must now conclude their examination of a most important subject. State conventions shall be made in County Convention. Lots of block parties and neighbors looking after neighbors around here. Marshall in the pamphlet I have already referred to, and by Mr. Here but 6 voters are unrepresented instead of 300. Russell, Earl, proposition for limited vote, 119; remarks on, 120. Councilman is voted for by the same body of electors. Committee of Senate, Report on representative reform, 65. My advice would be to come out and check out the areas before making a final decision.

Whenever their vote shall not exceed threefourths of the whole vote of the district, they cannot reasonably or safely support three candidates. State mentioned below, and carried their full electoral vote. And if a proper measure were vetoed, its discussion would secure a two-thirds vote for it in the Legislature, or an abandonment of objection to it by the President of the Senate. Then follows a provision that each Inspector, so chosen, shall appoint a clerk. There is hardly a State of our Union in which the congressional districts are not gerrymandered in the interest of party. They obtain not only the power appropriate to themselves, but also the power appropriate to their opponents or rivals. October election, 1870, there was a Republican majority of 10 for Burgess. Bloom Poor District, election of Directors for, 154, 237, 253.

Great complaints were made in this matter, espe cially in the interior of the State. Northumberland borough, election in, for councilmen, 251. Adams only 105,321; yet by this mode of machinery the public will was violated and Adams chosen.

Government, that it is quite needless for me to argue the question as one of principle. Senators and Representatives, minority representation is obtained, to some extent, in the Legislature. It renders elections more independent of each other. Kentucky over the other would represent two mem bers.