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Show im: ilmtioiiu. itiu in iiiiiriiN. A ciiti-.c-n'OVijR.sT writing from Loudon lo the Jl ston IteraUl Myi that thu llrltlsh electoral s) ileal aVeiuudt with anomalies, and It uven riots In contra llcllont. Hence, it li said to work with moderate easu and decent il-i ed. Two great theorlea obtain with re-gird re-gird to the franchise, one that It Is a natural right, the other avilviitgu Thu advooatci of tho former, though having gained many poluts In, thn way of oxtcudlng nud pjjsilirlzing the franchise, yet arn far front realizing their tiolltlcal Idr.l. The others still hold thu b.iilo point of their theory, lu the exercise of Ihe plural vote, a survival sur-vival of the old doctrine of aristocratic-selection. aristocratic-selection. At tbu eleetloui mw In progress It seems strange to thu Atmrlcau oh server to sto thu modern ballot with Its marked democratic iharacterltllca idu by si lo with thu privileged 1 luial votn nf thn rich man. One lua meat uru re i retentlmr. In Idea, If not In sub itancu, universal adult male franchise, the other properly InlertsU. The law rovldti that election mutt le held within a e-erlalu number of date alter thu dtsiolutlon of I'arlia ment, but thu actual day of polling Is not the itnie throughout the country The day Is detormlued for each district by the ofllcer who supervises the election elec-tion lu that district. Thli It done principally prin-cipally to nccoinmodatu the plural vote. A eltlzen holding property lu thre-u ot more counties could nol exerclto lilt full franchise piltllez.es If elections occurred In the dlUerent eountlei on Iho tame day. It Is not unusual un-usual to tee a man vole In Mlddletex ono day, lu Lamashlro tho next, In Midlothian the nextnnl wind up In Ualway day or two after. Hut war lilelng waged directly on tills syi-temby syi-temby thellallcils, whoiocry lj"oue mm ono vote," Another nnomily li thu unequal distribution of retrisrnl.itlon. for Instance, one borough returning one member Ij I'arliauient may have 60)0 voters, w hllu another with iqutl rtpre lenlatlon has only ISOi), Tho C lithe rou division of Lautasblre, tho inttern dltltlon or Kent, thu ltomfcrd dlvl. slon of l.iiex and thu Handt-worth Handt-worth dlvlslot uf Utallordshlre, each hat 15,WW electors, and only ono rc nsentatlvn each, wlillo llulland, South Kerry aud llittllilto with an nvtra.u of about 4J0O each Iim equal repriseutatlou. riio smallest borough Is lliitof Kll ken n, with ISfrlelutou. Tholargist county constltucnry li the partially melropolllaii ell.lrkt of Ilomford, with II),?:m tlscton. The House of Commons, when full, Is c imi ostd of Oil) members. At most the parliament ehsmbur hat only tint lug caaclly for CilO. Hut, perhaip, not tnciu than t.ilcu In a eetelop Is the Rrtmnt laxed to IU utmost, The members) who can not find lusts louugu In thu kl.lilis, lu the smoking rooms or lu the rifrethiuuut dcart ment. rim llrltlili member of Parliament reteivri no Hilary, It costs on an average about $.l to couttst an clt o-llon. o-llon. Un thu eandldatut fall thu ex I onn of all tho msehlnery of volliif. Ill lact a vahdUstu Ilka lo deposit a hauJtomo turn In ndt auco of th campaign cam-paign us ii security fur eipenseo. The ro oru 7,1)0(1 voters at tho unlvt r-sllles, r-sllles, which tead ninu uiembers to ratllamiut. Moil of Ihesu voteM, n not nil, aro pli-ralltts, lint Is they ix. erclso franchlst rhil.ls, toinew lit ru t l,i als , Tliu iiuleo ally me mbera are. u,i Con ervallen ei'u.tiiiii, and hu la q.po.ol to huiuu rule fur Ireland |
