Show A FOOLISH ERROR Our morning contemporary discusses the Dean election contest In the Second municipal ward from the standpoint that the City Council in making its canvass had determined or could determine deter-mine the points in controversy This is ar error The Council in acting as a canvassing board could merely perform per-form the minlstrlal office of passing on the returns as received it had no authority au-thority to go behind them but was obliged to lake them as them were certified cer-tified up For Instance It was admitted by all that the returns from the Fifteenth election district were wrong that they deprived Dean of ten votes which he had received and Hint should have been credited to him but were not yet he Council had ndfyowcr to correct the returns re-turns or to have them corrected There J ore the talk is mere frothy nonsense which iMys that the Council that canvassed can-vassed the returns from the Second prccirtct contains a heavy Republican majority That majority surely could be depended upon to safeguard the rights of a fellowRepublican Mr Dean Silly stuff for that is precisely what It could not do |