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Show T1IE "LIBERAL' TRICKSTERS IlEiEATED. Tut decision of Judge Zane ia the mandamus case, whhh will be found elsewhere in this aper,is lu effect just what might have been, and was, generally, auticljated. His reasoning Is cogent, and S3 clear that no explanation or comment is required. The Board of Canvassers need not 1,0 to the ballot box to find out whether tlie disputed votes were cast for J. II. Runiil or J. H. Rumel, Jr., because tbe preponderance preponder-ance of evidence and the weight of legal presumption are, that only J. H. Rumel, Jr., was a candidate for election, and that the rotes at one poll being all cast for Rumel. Jc and, at the other In tlie same precinct pre-cinct for Ru-uel,they wereall meant for one and the same person. This gives the Recordership to the Pee.-pie's Pee.-pie's candidate. It is well that thbiolnt has been judicially determined. The Board of Canvassers has but quvsi-Judicial (lowers, and a competent court having hav-ing ruled on the question, it is settled set-tled in an authoritative as well as convincing way which ought to be the end of controversy. The course of tbe "Liberal" conspirators con-spirators and casuists in this proceeding pro-ceeding have been in keeping with the trickery and meanness which have characterized their entire ac tion in election affairs. What will be the next dodge resorted to by the political charlatan who imIIj the strings in this scheme to swindle Iieopie out of their rights? And what Just man who has tlie welfare of society at heart, can hereafter support aparty that has beat Its way Into jwwer by the methods of iiolltl-cal iiolltl-cal blacklegs, and tries to extend its encroachments by the manoeuvres of iwlltlcal sneak-thieves? |
