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Show OUR DELEGATE AND HIS CERTIFICATE. A recent Washington dispatch states that our Delegate, Hon. (Honorable) Geo. (George) Q. Cannon, has expressed himself as follows regarding his certificate of election: "I think the governor will delay as long as possible in giving me the certificate. I doubt if he will give it to Campbell. No one disputes my majority, nor the fairness of my election. The governor is only a ministerial officer and he cannot be the judge of my election. The house is the only body empowered to judge the election and qualifications of its own members. Campbell, will, in all probability, contest my seat. He claims I am not a legally naturalized citizen of the United States. That question was settled by the Forty-fourth congress. My seat was contested at that time, the question of my citizenship being the principal one involved. While no report on that question was ever made to the house, the members of the committee were unanimously of the opinion that I had been properly naturalized." |