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Show THE SCHEME PKU. THBODGB. The (rovornor's message acconipauy-iur? acconipauy-iur? the veto to tho election bill, railroaded rail-roaded the legislature for the purpose of gagging the. electors of this city, is terse and to the point. "Tho time," he says, having arrived for holding the elections, ami the terms of the officers having expired, the people have a right ' say who shall succeed them." He j also shows up the trickery behind the j measure so plainly that he who runs may read. The backers of the bill have all along claimed that the people were I only waiting a chance to make a change and then, at the last moment, seeing j certain defeat stariug ihey in the face, j they ask to have tho very officials whom they have so bitterly denounced continued iu ofliee for nearly a year beyond be-yond the time for which they were elected. The scheme was too thin. |