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Show '. ELECTION SUPERVISORS. It may Lesetdovta as a certainty that wben the democrats assume control con-trol of centres tho office of federal supervisor o! elections will be promptly prompt-ly abolished, and the duties attaching to the pUvco will be given into tbe bauds of tbe state or local autuorities where tiioy belong. Tbe business of preventing frauds at elections very properly .belongs to tbe people and not to the federal authorities, and tbe bUtory of the government super-, viiorahip does not Bhow an improvement im-provement iu election moral' it. Indeed, this snpervisorthip iu a mjjriiy of msUoces, has been tho tupervisorsbip of fraud, bcaidis bfchii; the worst kind of par-, tistiuttiip. The hff wjd dieigned for fraud uKL. purposes, and fraud has characterized it) operation frotn the first. 11 iw tnai'ttd by a republican cuugriOT lor the sole purpose ot d.-francbuing d.-francbuing democrats, and bus done its work fiihfu:!y. Now, however, on wo aro awu to have a democratic congress, we may expect t ie abiluh-nicot abiluh-nicot of tbe !:iw, and with it the disgraceful dis-graceful frAutis and roguery that Johnny Davenport of New York and election supervisors uverywhero have b?en guilty of. |