Show DEBaO democratic CRATIC rAI rAIB RUESS HESS A great deal has been sail said la in the democratic press about th tho unfairness f I 1 3 0 una r 7 and dishonesty ot of the republicans republican la withholding offices from democrats a and rid giving offices unjustly to republicans la in that regard thero there is no difference between the two parties they all ali III play y 1 lor r advantages bior instance in 1898 1888 there her was an election tor for Goer governor nor la ia west virginia the official returns showed a majority of 0 lor for GOFF a republican candidate bad the logala ture obeyed the state can st itu tion it would have bavo met in joint session lu in three weeks and declared tho the note mate but tile the democrats had a majority on art joint ballot and ud they refused to perform this duty and insisted upon appointing a committee to investigate the election tho the philadelphia li press says this earn com mitten took the pay rolls of 11 tho the manufacturing anu mi fac turing establishments as vid aud and when a colored mans name was found not to havo have boon been on tile tho com banys books a year his bis voto veto was do ducted from the republican total without how bow ho be iotes by such arid and kindred methods in an apparent democratic majority of was manufactured and the th democratic candidate fur for governor Is now flow in the executive chair on that boiling in connecticut the republicans dispute tho the legality of tho the election of a democratic governor in that state the democrats haie bate neer denied that the claim of the republicans that tho the count of tho the votes on which tho the election returns were based was fair there was till an error in printing of the ballots by a strict construction of the connecticut election cotton laws which forbids any distinguishing marks tho the ballots were all illegal and should havo have been thrown a out oat but that was as not done part of these ballots wore were rejected and part acro counted count pd the point on which the republicans aro are making a contest Is that all thebe ballots should be treated cil alike all counted or all rejected and they want to submit the question to the supreme court arid abado by its decision but tho the democrats claim exactly tho the contrary to w M hat their party did in west virginia that they cannot go backof back ol 01 the hie aco 0 the returns ro lurns that they must bo be and a as they show an apparent majority tor for tho the democratic candidate he most be inaugurated which la Is simply another proof that politicians count every trick la in their own favor and refuse to count any trick la is riot not in ill favor |