Show a president representative springer characterizes the present electoral collego college system as a 4 miserable irand HO he advocates its abolition and recommends a change in the law by which vach the president and ates president shall hereafter be elected by popular vote A system which gives all the electoral vote of the great state of new york to one party by to 00 votes he ha says is a great fraud on the tha el electors actors of 0 the country he says that the proposition he submitted on this subject has been misapprehended apprehended mis my proposition he added is ia that thattie the popular p vote contemplated be confined to each state the states will have the abe oame game number of electoral votes that thy they now have in tho the election of president and vice president there thera will bo be no persons ru running aning as aa candidates for electors but the electoral vote of each state will be ba apportioned among the several candidates according to the 60 number of popular votes each receives in that state the odd votes going to the candidates having the largest fractions this will prevent the videos vicious practice of gerrymandering and give exact weight to the tha popular vote tote which each candidate receives in the tha state detate it will nationalize nation aliza the presidential election and render contests for t the he succession next to impossible politically it would give effect to the popular will limited only by the just represents tion to the tha electoral college and would not spread large majorities in one locality beyond the limits of the ilie state besides it would malra make vote buying ineffectual and therefore inoperative washington letter |