Show THE MINER LAW constitutional the supreme court of the united unite states has baa affirmed the constitutionality of the miner electoral law of michigan an account of which appeared feared in these thebo colu columns rank a few days day ago the chief justice delivered the opinion of the court the entire bench banch agreeing with him in the opinion that the law is in accordance wita the con atit ution of the united state at that time the NEWS announced that all ail the he probabilities were in the direction of what has hai taken place claiming that there wax was no other position for the tribunal to take and quoting the constitution itself to show it still there WM was in the light of history especially the more modern chapters chaett n ot of it no absolute certainty that bat this would be the case cae for courts of last resort and sometimes sometime some others read and ou construe metrue the words of a statute or a charter differently from what people do whose minds are not trained in and whose methods are not directed constantly by the law jaw itself even allowing for this though it Is in difficult to see how bow the portion ot of the great instrument which the NEWS copied could be construed otherwise than we construed it even after apply ing all the reft ments of legal philoe ophy phy and procedure it ii was observed that in the argument before the supreme court the attorneys for the law rested their cae cabs briefly upon the grounds already stated in this paper the enactment itself and the section of the constitution on which it depended while counsel fur for the objectors adur addressed essed themselves more to the popular and equitable the case their claim was hat it was time the bessec bos sec 0 who thought themselves smart enough to take away from the people the necessity of the latter doing anything what ever for should be brought to a halt or words implying kb as much and while in a general way this is undoubtedly right the bosses whenever they get a hold treating the maesas as though they owned them still this is in not the law of the ease case and being a matter with which the court could not deal ws was irrelevant and immaterial the effect of the jhb ruling to is of course a gain again fur for the democrats who think they can now confidently coun count on at least leant seven of tho electoral votes ot of michigan which state under the th old system would undoubtedly have given its entire vote to the republicans |