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Show G0VE3S0E G30VER AND ELECTOR CHONIN. The San FranciiCo CV1 of We Juts-day Juts-day contains the f'Til eUtement ot Governor Grover in tho Origin electoral elec-toral matter aa a special U.-ifgram from Salem. It is a very lr,ng, clear and conciuaivc argument iu favor of the ineligibility of Watts, tho poet-master poet-master elector, who the governor shows could not have been Ifc'i voted for aa an elector any more than 'an alien, a woman, a person insane, a non-resident, the 'man in the moon,' or a dead man." It is a!.- e'uown that that this ineligibility of Watts created no vacancy which couM ! be legally nllcl, ai nn-lcr th? laws of 1 Oregon there can bo no vacancy in office unless there bM been an incumbent in-cumbent and thit incumbent ha-gone ha-gone out of office. Watts was never an incumbjnt of the office of elctnr aul could not be. The qurntion whetiiti Cronin, the highest remain-ir;g remain-ir;g candidate on the electoral ticket, takes the office dicn?if (1 at groat length and with much ability, mny legal decisions ar.d rpinious being1 cited from American and Knglii'n ' coutU. 'I he senatorial ewe of Vane; and Abbott, relied upon byr' publi-l cans, ii reviewed and shown not lo bo parallel with the Cronin case. The language of the 1 (th amendment that no "pereori shall bo a senator" who labors under tbc disqualification mentioned. Vance wag not ineligible to bo elected. Tho volr-a cast for Vanco wcro legal, and tho tier lli was not void , but voidable only. In thr cane of Watti tho constitution strike at the election itrfelf. It declare that no person holding an office of trust or profit Khali bo appointed an elector; that is, no nuc.li person Jtiiall be clioien or elected. Tho governor fortifies hia argument throughout with copious legal authorities, and thcro cm bo little doubt when tlie lawyers of the senate have examined liia document, that oven tho republican republi-can ncnatom who havo ho lufdily condemned him will find it nccr-sary nccr-sary to modify tlitir hanly and violent denunciatory Opinions of hirf action, j wiiicii seems nencrally to be b,is d on legal principles, thoiigli ol wutbr any legal rjiifcHtion of this wrt U liable to ba controverted. The BcriaUj judiciary comrnitteo will awn prr 'jnt the republican side ol the (piention, arid up'-n both us well as the aeti'Ti of tho bo'U'i public opinion will be made up- Wo venture (o n;iy trial there will bn no rcpelion of the foolinh partisan a';t of burning and hanging Governor Grover in effigy, and tbe fjr'gon r''"bicarn who ho viol'fi'ly d'-rioiineed their governor will soon bn Jienrlily (whani'il of IIioiuh'-Ivc |