Show political i I 1 I 1 IN IK t the he remote possibility of there being DO choice of president by the people next year through no one ene of three or more adlee candidates having a a majority in ia atiq the electoral college the election would thus be thrown into the house of e representatives ind and that thai lor for V vice ie present into anio the senate in in such event w we would be brought face to face with an another kotlier palpable absurdity if nothing ift worse in our system a by meau of which the minority would be enabled to compass the defeat ot of the majority this has been done sever several 4 times in other ways the latest instance ot of the kind being when hayes ws was counted in over tilden who had bad reca received ived a majority of alt all the votes cast if the house should be called upon to elect the general supposition is that the party controlling that body would elect its can or at least a man of the same asame political faith as itself but such would not bo be the ease case as things stand now As it 0 make the procedure as cumbersome and complex as possible the conate provides that when voting for president ent each state shall cast case but bat one boj TO manifest in justice injustice of such a plana to b begin egbu wm with ai is apparent for it not only gives nevada with less than wt halt the population necessary to entitle A t to its one member of Congress equal power with new york which nas has more titan than enough for its thirty four me but gives a state whose congressional del I 1 rhose ega tiou Is 8 equally equall d divided politically no voice at all ail this flats state of things would ac actually twilly exist in the case of new hampshire which has two depre enta senta tives one democrat Demo erat and one republican this is a small state and its its fa failure illare to be represented in the presidential election would sot not bi be so serious in point odthe of the numbers dis franchised but the principle represented isasca is as bad elliteen pa as though the empire state had sev seventeen of each party and tto ra eight millions of people were thus practically unheard in 10 the contest setting aside this plan of at injustice and nullification for the time being however land and taking di up jhb question ti estion of the election itself we and find the ahe democrats Demo prats have a ma majority on the rolls 01 of the tusa house of about ut eighteen but ehdy the dave majorities jori ties in seventeen state dele gatio usi while the republicans have twenty and one ix ia a tie as above stoL stated stilted ted vow now suppose by some chance the united labor greenback and prohibition hibi Albi tion parties were to come to an ag understanding and i fuse they would have an even chance of carrying four r states iowa tennessee kansas and west virginia and aad U H they did there would be bobbing accomplished by the college as the element would have a sufficient lent representation to prevent either of the great PA parties from froia having a majority over al with Witti such a com combination drawing to ff ait it would more strongly from be republican publican than democratic sources a PI ordinarily operates as a m majority or the reason that it t lepre gentl more voters than any kot otocar kor would be secured to the democrats sed and any kind of law logic or ethics would seem to suggest that they wort were to it aud and ought to take the fruite of it butchey but abey would be esto es topped from so ap doing by the means previously stated and the republicans who were voted down dawn by tha people would take the places and bold bol them notwithstanding the recorded will of the majority the other way A rather anomalous condition of things and yet it ic is permitted to remain long ions after its evil possibilities are discovered and the election clause of the constitution has BBS aude undergone gooe revision and amendment article xia ot of amendments of 01 course the party chiefs and a great rest many who are not chiefs have bad ad their eyes open to this con contingency ever since the last elections tor for the house honig of representatives the republicans public ans quietly rejoice over ver the prospect and well they may by diverting their forces to a third party candidate in the southern states all of which aich are democratic they could make a possibility a certainty by carrying enough of them for such party to defeat the election by the quorums of electors and thus place the contest where they could decide it but the democrats are not napping meanwhile en enough c contests are now before the ho house anglo to enable them to cha political complexion of the delegations from two states indiana and ca 1 by afis un seating esting two republicans jint in each and giving the places to contes contestants which they could do having a clear majority they would have nineteen states and the republicans eighteen with one a tip tie this would not be an election as a majority of all the states is needed and the democrats would have only halt of them in which w h event the person perso u who was elected as vice pre president adea t by toe the senate would be president and he be would be a republican ot of course it would in that view be necessary to fix up a contest in virginia and arbitrarily put democrat into a republicans place to enable the former element to win they may inay do this and may not it would certainly qi on its face be transcending the axiom that all is fairlie politics but would it be any worse tor for the democrats boundo to undo the will of the people in 4 a lew few congressional districts than it would for the republicans to set aside the choice of the whole nation that is the question |