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Show ANOTHER WAV. Tho Delnwnro leg'ltthuure hns nd-Jnttrned nd-Jnttrned without electllig u United SliUes Se on i nr. As the Ueliiwnre leg Isliliuru was llcpuldlcan, this stands nif liie blutllitr li-stitt lit Utuli, in faut me two btntes tuny bo said to be nulled. Deadlocks arc not u pectill- rlty of uny prtloulur political party, In fum ihey may occur with nny leg-mluturo leg-mluturo nnd any pmiy, under tlm pie-itent pie-itent law no mailer what tlm mnjorliy li. Uullfoiina it rut lVnnsylvmilu bmh huvti lurgu llepiibliciii majorhlus In their legislator.-, yet both appear io Im hopelessly deaillocked. The iroiib e Is 'but the entire syslom of elecilug United Stutos Senaton Is wrong. We Imvo huruto fnru expressed our rrgict lliui lliu Iiieu8iirts Introduced Into the iffgliiltitiiro providing that prospective Heualoilal vniidld iie-) should announce themselves ui.d that their ilnini'S sliouid be placed on Urn ticket tti allow iho people to oxpross their choice did tioi become a law, because that method did allow tin opportunity fnru near approach ap-proach to popular choice and morally bound lliu legislating elected lo that choice. There is yet number method which also conies close in popular elee-iliiiii elee-iliiiii and mirfht be adopted with prollt ly parly Stnie conventions. In lbll.'i ilm lltl Uumocraiie Stsuo convenllon noiuliiiiled M isus Thatcher mid J. L. Uawdiis for Uoliud ijtaies Seuutors and their names appeared for ilntt olllee on theflllcial hailolH, thus iltidnig the Democratic legislators If elected lo vote for tlicsg two gutillcuiisn. We regret Unit the siiinu action was not tttkeit In the Democratic State convention In I8tld, but there is no use 'crying over spilt milk." We trust i lint in the Siale cotnetitlon of 1900 the plmi of the Demoerutic ejiuvetitlon el 1BI." tvlll nu fidlowed and that ciiinli-dales ciiinli-dales for United Stales Senator will bo chosuii nnd pat ty candidates for the legislature pledged to their muppqrt. Tills will do away with delay, bribery charges an J Interminable deidlocks In time wo hope u constitutional nineniiuiejit will be presented to the people providing for a direct popular vote fur seuutors, but that time is In tlio remote future. |