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Show The Utah Congressman. Maxwell, Max-well, the late lieutile candidate for Congress, in Utah, claims that there is not over 2,S00 legal voters in the Territory. Ter-ritory. The Salt Lake Herald, on the contrary, claims that there is not less than 20.000. Maxwell's figures are clearly absurd to any man who has been through that country. At the election last Summer, Maxwell received about 1,000 votes. Hooper, the dele eate for several years, received over 20,000. However, Maxwell means to contest the election. We always thought we wore defending defend-ing George; but it occurs to us now, for the first time, that we have been fighting agaiust him. State Re inter in-ter of Nevada contains the above. V,'c fear that, in T.ecoming the General's defender, we have become as absurd as himself. Geueral, how is it ? nave we blundered on you? Are you in a registerial point of view a first-rate homo, and as an electionist a huge absurdity? ab-surdity? How is it? We can't afford to be sold, even by a Federal officer. Here's a Nevada paper picks us up and floors us in the quietest manner. Who ever thought one thousand votes wouldn't beat twenty thousand? |