| Show JN IN THE territories the DA dally daliy ly post virginia montana in all an article on presidential elections says that tho the exclusion of the people of the territories from any voice in the selection of president we have seen characterized as a singular anomaly in our constitution the causes that existed for the limitation of voice in the presidential vote to E electors in the states has hag passed away tho the post thinks thinka tha thai that the organization of territorial governments over all the government domain except new acquisitions and the facilities for the transmission of intelligence have rendered obsolete the arguments that might have been used when the tho constitution was adopted it can see no good reason why the restriction should bo be continued being subject ta tia government and its taxation residence in an a territory should not disfranchise it thinks ks that the constitutional provision that eith th citizens of each state shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several states certainly doe does doey not contemplate thu that aut lit there should bo boa a restriction of privileges or immunities to td certain citizens in the terna TerrA territories ories orles and their enjoyment by others who may have the money and the leisi leisure lre ire to leave the territories and go 0 to their particular home states to vote tote pith with kith iho present clot electoral dral drai system there is po io avoidance of this injustice but with its prospective abolishment it says pays there should bo be a provision of larger justice conferring the thea ight right to vote for president in the territories A registration act as a preventive of fraud the investiture of delegates with the right to vote in the house and the privilege of qualified electors in the territories to vote for chief magistrate it thinks are each worthy and ana proper measures which it trusts congress with an enlarged sense of justlee justice ustice and liberal government will give I 1 favorable consideration before another quadrennial quadrennial election occurs wo we like to see such articles in the columns olour of our contemporaries the apathy manifested by the people of the tho territories respecting this subject has been surprising under the present arrangement the reward held out to the hardy pioneers for their enterprise terp ter prise riso in subduing and peopling the wilderness is disfranchisement they sink their citizenship by leaving a state and settling in a territory Terri territory tor at and place themselves in a position where they have to endure the old oppression for which the revolutionary lutio nary fathers felt thein selves justified in declaring the thirteen colonies free and independent states namely 9 taxation without representation tiie the government of the territories as at present administered is a relic of colonial barbarism it is unjust and oppressive and should be abolished as a system unworthy of and unsuited to a republican people |
