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Show n BW i okk roi.iTlfs. Many people would like lo know why Now 5fork will bo assuredly democratic this presidential year. Thero is but ono way in which to make the electoral vote of the Umpire itate certainly and solidly democratic, and that is for the present legislature to change the electoral elec-toral law so that body and not the peo-plo peo-plo may make choice of the presidential electors. The legislature might legally assume the prerogative referred to, but it jis doubtful whether its democratic majority would care to arouse the storm of indignation gudh action would assuredly provoke, because of the effect it would have upon the voting masses of other states. A gerrymander of the legislative and congressional districts of the state may, of course, bo anticipated, and just here comes the thought that tho stale might bo "Mlchi";:ini.ril," luit thut socms rather ImproWbla, beoMM the stato. may at least lie regarded us donbtfo) in relation to its popular vote, anil all the line work possi ble in the way of manipulation manip-ulation of districts could not, under the Michigan plan, be made to deprive tho a republicans of tho choice of at least tea of the presidential electors. It is safe to assume that the proceedings proceed-ings of the New York legislature during tho present and a few coining months n ill be watched by the, puoplo of the ntire country with far more than ordinary ordi-nary interest. |