Show THE CASE OF THE MINORITY it appears that the tion la Is seriously put forth with reference to one council district in this abie territory that the ineligibility of the candidate who lieu i he be majority of the vote will constitute a cause wt wi y the carlial oate cate of election must be given to the candidate having the next hiXt iest of votes the case in all its la Is interesting and will admit of some gome comment roo hon orange seeley beeley is ie probate judge of eudery county cou aty he be was also tile te nominee of his bia party lor for the legislative anso bly the ninth counell council dietrict diet riot and 16 at present understood to have received a majority of the legal votes cast he would seem to be entitled therefore to the certificate of election and to bis big place in the upper house of the legislature but the objection that being a probate proba teJ judie appointed by the federal government be way may fairly be considered a federal official and bouce under the law disqualified from holding bolding the ibe office to the majority of f votes tn lu his district would otherwise have elected him the argument ot of his hie opponents is if that the phrase eligible for in the section of the edmunda act which directs the board ot of cau canvassers as ae to issuing certificates cert fixates of election will wiil act as a bar to the i suai ce to him of such much c aud and that the latter must be given to the person who dball appear to have hav been lawfully elected lion hon joshua greenwood titiri stat sia tent ent of the ca cane me will be com completed I 1 ted by noting that thai mr seeley beeley is a republican and mr greenwood a democrat though all this has really nothing to 10 do with the point at issue adt nearly so BO much space will his be needed to puncture the fallacy ot of mr greenwood green ai claim as aa has been du do to stating hia dobso it la is noi 1101 Deeb osary here to dai cuss whether mr abeley in I 1 eligible or not there is IM grave doubt in the minus minds of leading logs legal men in the community thai the mere fad fact ol of bis big being appointed by the president and cou con nr wed by the senate constitutes him a official in the ibe menee tu te oe given the term but no watter mailer about that granting for the m mat be iii ineligible inel gible now how t is mr breu wood itel peu was he h lawfully elected electa d J or Is in there a any ny appearance of such a thin thing 4 un on the contrary it if there is anything any ining plain at ai all it is that he was wae lawfully defeated that a minority candidate should try to clift into office over the mh ot 01 tn tb man who him on some real or alleged grorud of the ineligibility Is ig almost too farcical tor for people to consider cou eider anu and that auy ally attempt shoula be wade to justify such euch a in alao ferri territory tory in III view ot the congressional r rebuke b to a sometime governor who gave the certificate ot of ei eitO tation tion to a man who nad some lour teen or fifteen thousand votes less jess than his big opponent inui oates gross incon sib bentt tency ncy or a short memory minorities do not elect the will ot of the people as expressed by the majority of the votes voles must be respected the principle is as ag old us as our government overn meni and it is bustrin ed by an unbroken II alie e of precedents and all the authorities mccrary on oil elections election a standard dard authority in plain and explicit on the question section aud and so are all the ot others hert it if mr Bee See leyH leys dis qualifications disqualifications pie up biah as mt nebo the case cage as to u mr greewood remaina the same hf he must still consider himself as rejected tea by the people of his district and ane only thiva he be can hope for is that in the event of bee seeley leys s rejection through less jess popular man or a change in the of the voters at any rated rate a change in the result will give him the place we understand life big own conte nivon la is merely far for a new eleo election it Is to be hoped he will on no other view whoever holds out oui to him any other hope than this thin cannot be his hia friend |