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Show How and Why? Corinne, all told,' has a population of less than a thousand. So ay good authorities' though some lay it as low as six hundred. hun-dred. Men who deal in taxes say it his about two hundred and twenty-five tax-payers. How say you, gentlemen of the tax-collecting persuasion ? What we want to know is, How this population popula-tion and these tax-payers polled S37 votes? And why Wa-atch with about a hundred of a population could oniy poll ISO votes? There must have been somethin? radically wrong about Wa-sa'ch Wa-sa'ch ! They may have voted early, but they evidently didn't vote much oftener than twice each, which was entirely too little considering their distance dis-tance from other places. Everybody Every-body with any knowledge of the situation looked for some pretty tall ballot-box stuffing, but these figures indicate & plethoric result, which must astonish even the ones engaged in it. One satL-faetion is, those who manipulated the matter hare only their shame for their labor. Poor pay ! Mighty poor pay ! |
