Show contradictory Cg tax wires furnish us with the information that senator quay and the notorious ex senator mahone are after the electoral vote of virginia and intend having baring the governor lo vernor of that state enjoined from freih issuing certificates to the cleveland electors until the legality of the whole question can be determined the official count gave the democrats a majority of 1535 and though not large it ought to be enough to remove all technical grounds for objection being greatly in excess of the majorities in some other states almost as great as that for harrison in indiana and about more than the number that made cleveland president that Is the new york plurality I 1 in a 1884 of course nothing of a character is to be gained by such proceeding as harrison has a large majority without virginia and it is therefore a case in whick a real or an assumed principle is to b be settled it the old dominion has in fact pronounced ro in favor of the republican candidate tor for president and its voice his has been stifled by its agents who do the counting and this can be clearly shown no reasonable person can off offer er an objection to the point which the gentlemen seek being made and scored on the other hand the supposition that a state like virginia jn in the minds of whose people is deeply fixed a love iov of t home surpassing that of almost any other section sect ioa and which affection has by reason of the state rights issue become inextricably blended with democratic principles his has gone too the other way is abrupt almost to the point nt of violence people like those of virginia do not dream away their convictions nor can reasoning or er the logic of events drive them in a day from a position which they fought and many died for and which they have inculcated in their children as the first political lesson to be learned it without other warning the electoral vote belongs to the republicans on OB a fair count it is certainly n y one of t the e wonders of the day out t its eing being so is ia no reason why it t should not be recorded along with the events that are not wonders virginia with its rock ribbed traditions giving a republican majority will not figure as a paradoxical condition however any more toan than many other instances occurring at every election for instance it if it shall be shown that the state stale of texas has given cleveland as large a majority malo rity as it did lour four years ago a careful estimate based upon the figures at hand bund indicates that he be will have a popular majority over harrison thus showing that he is the preference and according to the principles upon which a democratic republic rests rest should be declared toe me winner but he will not under any circumstances but oven even this instance is not striking when compared with the election of twelve years ago in which tilden had bad a popular majority over hayes of over a quarter of a million votes and the returns as received on the papers s an electoral majority of thirty seven but the representative system upon which chour our government rests was still further pushed away and the question of supremacy delegated delena ted to the govern anent itself it selfa bill being passed and approved which made committees from the two branches of congress and the supreme court the arbiters in the ease when the constitution plain ly provides that if the el electors estors elee tors make no choice the house of bf Represent sr fives shall perform that duty daty as to the president and the senate as to the vice president these incidents serve to show the wonderful elasticity and recuperative power of our government it endured one of the tae fiercest longest and most expensive civil wars recorded in lits tory and e emerged from it stronger than before besides which it received an impetus through the conflict a such tu ch as greatly enhanced its ratio of increase in numerical and financial strength any nation capable of such an experience with such an outcome is not likely to be seriously shocked at merely political disturbances dist urb even though they go to the limit 0 of I 1 our nat national tonal au authority bority and in places proceed beyond it and though the will of the majority may be overcome by the forms of law as relates to the nation there is no reason why that should be the case to in virginia or any other state in which such forms do not exist if mahone mabone and quay find and anything wrong in their investigation and aad dissection of the old Domini dominions onla vote Yote let it be exposed to the public lna and rast cast out by all means |