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Show B Q TIUI I.NHI (jUlSHOS. H Itlaastunlshlnghow ollen quistlona BftBH tegsrdlng the mannir of choosing thu BB I l'ntldent and Vice l'realdeut are BB itkid, there bilug scarcely a newt. Bt $ ' tper in the land a year old but BBBBI' (Mi 1 I ''feJL B--1bV what lit hsn requetteil to furn I ill tueh Informstho at least once, orna of them several tlm. One came, perhaps, la the ftot that. 16010 who eisty the task of anta erlut; do nat nlwaya take the trouble of look. Inn up the polnta oonoernlng which lufonuatlin Is deilred, and thus the qutttloner, aootieror later, finds thut ho Is la poiscnlon ol Initructlon which does not Instruct. Tho Ugden St an lard, of WedneaJay, contained a respnaa to a question ol tho kind apoken of, con-alttlop; con-alttlop; of an extract from Johnson's epitome of the constitutional and lejal provisions upuo tho aubjeol, of which tho following la a part: Tho Constitution ordains that theeloo-tnraahatl theeloo-tnraahatl meotlu (hnlr roM0ctlve ttM nnlho Drat V.'nJncvIir In leceuiber, and vote by ballot for 1'rcsl lent ati 1 Ica-rrenldenl, Ica-rrenldenl, nne of whom at least shall not bo an Inhabitant of the same sis to with thaintelrex! and they ahall make d Ml not lists ot all iwraoua voted rorai l'resl. dent, eta, and ol tho number of rotoa for each, nhlch lists they ahatt sign an 1 certify and transmit nested ti tbo arstt of sovomnient of tho llnlto.1 Mtatns, directed to tho presldont of tbo Henato. Tho electors of all tho atttca ronstuuto tho etnctoral rollego. A majority ma-jority of tho wholo numlor of olectoral votes Is ncftossary to ele. t the I'rosldoni ni VlT-1'rsvlIs.nt. Thoy moel at tho capitals of their rospoctho suiea Iho otoctoral vo m aro oH-nod andcoantei un tuofteoond Wodoaajay of IVbraary by tioth houses of Ooiitre, whloti m4t In the chnmlter of tho lteprosentatlros. In tho aettiat motlo of perrnrmlnt their duty tho doctor do not exerct'e any Jtidjinont or discretionary iiower In tho eholoe ol President and lco-1'resldent, but cist their -ioIos for the oandl Ittes pre vlotitlr nonilnatetl liy their nrty, usually In a national convention. If tlm Standard writer had relied upon hla own mind and ability to answer, Instead of trusting Impllclty toother authority, he woull not have been guilty of tho blunders which are thus given to n confiding rouJor In tho gutso of Information. The first stale mont lu the extract la untrue, as the Constitution doet nothing of tho ItlnJ; It mentlona no tlmo when the electors ahall meet, leaving that to tho law making power, which has provided that the electors shall meet at the time atated. The second tontence states but a email parlof the case, In that It falls to th'ow that tho certtfloatea are madu out In triplicate and doet not ahow by what meaca they roach the scat of gov eminent; nne tot la aent to the President of the Henate by mail, Another aet goca to him by a special inoaaongcr choeen by tbo electors, and the third la filed In the United mates court for the district In which the election has been held. The ttatiment that lhe tlectora meet at tho ca'llala of their roipcctlve states la not necessarily correct, the Constitution rovldln,. that they nuit at such placo aa the leglalature may direct; and the ussertlon that the dec-ton dec-ton exercise no Judgment or dlacretlon ary lower but vote for thu candidate of their party previously nominated, la misleading at least. The electors are not compelled by any law (except patty fcaltyj to vote for anybody who may be nominated; they are presumed t bo utterly unbiased In their action and In 'their united Judgment to eeleel auch men at tiro presumably lltteat. The fact that they have on marly every occasion oc-casion of Into years voted for the men prevloualy nominated by the national convention of their parly doea not ahow tnat they are bound to do to by any means; aul thu Implication Impli-cation that they aot llku ao many mar louctUa, limply raglstorlui the will ol their ptrty, hat a tondenoy to ileprlvo the exalted station of a presidential elector ol lta Importance and dignity and to mako of tho solemn aot of voting vot-ing limply the enacting of a role lu a not vory eorlout drama. It conveys a wrong Impression and I therefore not Information at all. The Nnwa recently published a lengthy article lu response to a quia-Hon quia-Hon ou this eubjuot, basltig lta reply 011 a Utile book lamed at homo and written writ-ten by a resident of Utah, ontltlid "Tho Practical l'olltlclon." Tbo fea-tureaof fea-tureaof that reply will bo found to bo correct In every luttanco, a itieaiiot appear to be tho case at nil timet with tiiobo which come from abroad. |