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Show OREGON IilCiHT 10 8VEN. 'Mm llirco tVr.ti.r-t! vol.- of (Jmxoii I have followed the laio ul Ui...,o ul I Florida and Louisiana -t.i, ha'fl 0 onli ,, d l.y II, i. ,:,.,, a j t., ,e i H-H-. m,J ttWIr. I Oil 'I'-cinloO llll Cn .lit. ;o n;f(ji,e in ll.o i,ul,lic loii.d, unilwjl0ri-a,. owed in the Florida cue iiad fully K.rrulmrat.il l,y iie a(,(;un r,f t(l(! (.oinriiiMoion in rfK':tnl lo J.oiiMmria'. Jf the foul and rotffin result.-) of the returuinK hoarcln of the tivo southern Stat' must bo m.-ci-ptal a.i aar'rrrd if aninrmm hut, no rifrht or power to save tho country from tho perpetration of Bilch infamies as have heeu proved in the canvass o( fc'lorida and Louisiana, Tory few democrats either oxpectcd or wcro inclined to liopo for any relief from the Oregon tcchnicalily, although al-though the arKumenla of tho democratic demo-cratic counsel havo made out a very strong caso against the elitjil.ility of Watts, and ayainat tho power of the majority of tho doctoral colleo in that state to fill a vacancy thus arising. Tho Oregon caso h:i?, howevt r, boon useful in a moral point of view. It bus proven tho inconsistency of a majority of tho ulcctoral tribunal and cloarly exposed their thorough partisan par-tisan motives and nction. Under s lob ruling no tltree-oaril-inoote jrame could be suror of onlrappiub' its victim! vic-tim! "Now yon see it and now you tlcu't" is the trick which eii-ht mem bers of this body of fifteen indicia minds resorted to in settlors; a question ques-tion of continental importance, in-Tolviug in-Tolviug the interests of lorty million of people. Thoro has been throughout through-out its deliberations not only an utlci auienco of Indicia) mothods on the part of the majority, but a disregard of tho principles of common right and common honesty. Partisanship has governed without intermission and the stereotyped vote of S to 7 will stand forever as an illustration of the governing motives of men who were expected to rise above the iiiah ambitions am-bitions and intrigues of the hour and decido tho questions- befmo them without regard to the parlies or per- i sons at issue, and with u single view to the principles of eternal justice. jus-tice. A decision by a throw of dice or the iliutlliug of a pack of cards, would havo been more satisfactory to the losing parly than a mcro parly volo of tho tribunal which was established estab-lished to avoid the dangers of a partisan parti-san collision. Why, if the partisan opinion was to prevail, was tho judicial judi-cial olemont incorporated in the commission? Filtoen men picked up on the streets of any city could have settled tho election from their own political views as well as the high legislative and judicial functionaries that compose this body. We place lcurno.l judges on the bench as the imperial arbiters of law and justioo, forbidding them to grovel as parties in tho disputes brought btforo them. Wliy, in this momentous question of tho legitimacy of tho executive of tho great republic, should tho people expect or be content with a partisan decision at tho hands of a body which thoy placed as lar as possible above I .........jg.iiiiu ut parlies. That the democratic members ol tho commission have not adhered closely to party is shown by tho vote repudiating tho Crouiu cleDlor, while the republican majority has voted as a unit on every important question arising, lust denying the authority of congress to go behind or disturb the action of tho state canvassers, when such action would defeat Haves, and then to complete their par'tisan job claiming the right of congress to in-"stigate in-"stigate the nction of the canvassing office of Oregon, to determine the rote of the stato and decido in opposition oppo-sition to the governor's certificate wjo wero chosen electors and entitled en-titled to cast the vote. It will cer-tainly cer-tainly require tho exercise of large judicial functions on tho part of the eisht rcoi,hli,.a,i --r . u wLmtiissioners to make their consistency apparent to the common sense ot the country. But tho die is cast and it is useless to further discuss the question of partisanship involved, which should have been considered more carefully by the house be foro framing t,e CJU. mission act. That body having been deceived in in estimate of the trihu-nal, trihu-nal, upon it devolves the rcspousi-iKhty rcspousi-iKhty ot future action. Its leading democratic members have u full undeistandiug of tho questions in-volved in-volved and a knowledge of the history of tho means resorted to to secure the adoption of the act creating the Cl):u. mission. |