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Show ROOSEVELT NOT ELECTED ' And Will Not Be Until the Eighth Day of Next February. GREAT SYSTEM OF RED TAPE IN THE ELECTION. The Whole Story Makes Highly Interesting Reading For the Uninformed. "I wonder why people speak or Senator Sen-ator Fairbanks as the Vice-President," said a well-known Western Senator today. "Hcisnotct61ected, and, ror that matter, neither Is Roose-elt, Roose-elt, nor will they be until Wednesday, Wednes-day, the 8th day or February. Then, in tlie hall or the House, the Senators and Representatives, in joint session, will begin the count or the votes cast in the electoral colleges or the sevcial states. When that is completed tlie Piesidcnt or tlie .Senate will declaie Thcodoic Roosevelt and Cliailes W Fairbanks elected President and Vice-President Vice-President or the United States Not until then do the become olllcers-clect olllcers-clect ' The people never electa President or Vlcc-Piesident. Most persons believe be-lieve they vote ror tho Cliier Magistrate Magis-trate and his Vice, but they do not. They simply dhccl othcis. or rather instruct others, how to vote ror them. Voters Start Machinery. The voters In Hie United States at tlie recent November election started the election machinery. They pushed the button. L'lcctors Jn the seveial States were chosen. These electors were directed by the States to cast their votes In the electorcal college for Piesldent and Vlcc-Piesident The gieat machine began to move. On tlie 9th Inst., at the places designated desig-nated by the Legislatures of the States, the electors will meet and give their votes ror President and Vice President Presi-dent as directed by Mio pcODle in November. An elector may vote ror whomsoever he pleases. He Is left to his own free will, Hcwcver, no one disregards the Instructions or his people, peo-ple, but votes in accord with their directions. di-rections. After the clectois have recorded their votes, they make out and sign three ccrtllicatcs of alljthe votes given by them, each of which certificates, shall contain two distinct lists, one of the votes for President and the other of the votes for Vice-President, and shall annex to each of tlie ceitilicatcs one of the lists or electors, which shall have been furnished them bydliectioii of the necullc of the State Disproportion Of Certificates. These three ccrtllicatcs aie then sealed up and disponed of thus: One is given Into the hands of a special messenger who must deliver It to the Piesidcnt of the Senate of the United States: another is forwarded by the postolllce to the President of the Senate, Sen-ate, while tho third is deposited with the Judge of the United States court in the district wherein tlie electois assemble. In Utah, the custodian of this ccrtltlcitc will be .Judge J. A. Maishall; in Idaho, Judge James II. Beattie: In Nevada, Judge Thomas P. Hawley, and In Womlng, Judge John A. Rlner. Should theceititicatos foi wauled by special messenger (the messenger from Utah will, It Is understood, be Judge James A. Miner), or the ccrtllicatc foiwaidedby mall fall to reach the President of the Senate by tlie fourth Monday of Mils month, that is, the . 23 rd inst, the Sccictary of tho Senate IN will send a special messenger for the V J copy left In the custody of the judge of the United States Dlstilct court. All tills having been accomplished, and, b the way, tlie cost is not Inconsiderable. Incon-siderable. Uncle Sam, thiougli his Congiess. having appropriated $12,000 topiy the special messengers, their compensation being 25 cents per mile. Dignified Meeting. On the second Monday In next month, that Is, the 13th, the Senate and House will meet in joint convention. conven-tion. This convention is unusually dlgnllicd. It Is called to order at 1 o'clock p.m The President of the Senate picsides. He occupies the Speaker's chair. On his left sits the Speaker; on his light aie the Scnatois. The Rcpicsentatlvcssitby themselves. On the part of the Senate two telleis are appointed; a like number on tlie part of the House. To these tellers the Piesidcnt of the Senate, after all papers which purpoit to be certificates of tlie electoral votes. They are read in the alphabetical order of the States. The Joint meeting can not be dissolved dis-solved until the count of electoral votes shall be completed and the result re-sult declared; and no lccess may be taken unless a queston shall have V arisen with legard to counting the T votes. Under no circumstances may tlit joint body take a recess extending beyond the next calender day and If the count for any reason should not be completed by the firth calendar day after the meeting of tho Joint session no further adjournment or recess is possible. This is a safeguard against dilatory tactics that might prevent an election before the 4th of March. Declaration of Election. When the telleis shall have completed com-pleted the footings, they deliver the result up to tlie Piesldent of the Senate, who announces the vote, which announcement, according to law. "shall be a sutllelent declaration of Mio peisons, If any, elected Piesldent Piesl-dent and Vice-President of tlie United States." And Mien Roosevelt and Fairbanks become tlie President-elect and Vico-Piesldent-elect, respectively, and the gie.it political machine, having accomplished ac-complished its woik, stops and will not move again for four years. Tlieie isalw.is a gieat ciowd pic- , sent at the ceiemon, and tliisear It is predicted will not dllfer from the otheis. Indeed, it s expected that the crowd will be gieater than cvei. so th.it tlie authoiltlcs have decided to admit only those to tlie galleries who have cauls, and thus avoid the awful crush which lias heretofore marked tho conventions. |