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M e d ic in e
A lw a y s
•liown lu the latter day mode e f elect­
ing the vice president. In the first
uatbaiul election« held the man re­
ceiving the largest number o f votes lu
the electoral college became president,
while the man who got the second lar­
gest number o f votes became vice prea­
ldeut regnrdleas of party Thus In the
early days o f our country we had a
president from one imrty and a vice
prealdent from another. That system
Methods Followed by the Electoral College In Choosing the . | was terminated, however, at the open­
Chief Executive and Vice President— Development ¿ i * ing of the last century, and today
there ts but the remotest possibility
of a System That Has Been the Center of
that the vice president wtll be of a
Various Momentous Disagreements.
*>'o different party than the prealdent.
,/T here ts one phase o f the eleotoral
ieoaoeoeo*oeoeoeoeo*oeo*o*o*o*o*o*o*o*oeoeo*o*oeo*o*o system that has been attracting con­
siderable attention o f late. That la the
By rR-tnBRICK R TOOMBS.
Union. After election the electors on Inequitable degree o f representation
HAT thing« are not al way« what the winning ticket are required t,o had by various states tn the electoral
they aeem la very well exetupll- meet at som e place designated by the college. H<>me «fates have far greater
tletl by the luuuuer lu Which the legislature o f the sta te on the second proportionate representation than oth­
American people elect their Monday In January and then and there ers In respect to population. Thus the
president aud vice president. If you cast their vote by ballot for president citizens o f those Statea so favored have
were to tell the average experienced and vice president, one of which na­ a larger voice in the choosing of a
voter that he haa never legally uud tional candidates at least shall not be president and vice president than the
technically voted for either a presi­ a resident o f the sam e state as the voters of less fortunate states. Foe In­
dent or a vice president he would electors them selves. As a result there stance, seventeen states can be group­
probably claaa you with the people never will be a national ticket imide ed having a total popular vote of prac­
who still believe the earth la flat llko up o f two men from the sam e state, tically the sam e as that of New York,
for the electoral vote of the candidates’ yet the electoral votes of these seven
a pancake.
The fact that a candidate for the state would be lost to them. At the teen states are alm ost twice those of
presidency la uumed at a national con­ appointed time and place each body of New York In number. Nevada, with a
vention and that his name la placed at elector« makes up a list of all the can­ popular vote o f 12,000 In 1904^ has
the top of the ballot on election day didates Its members have for presi­ three electoral votes, or one to abbot
baa no relation w hatever to the con­ dent and vice president, with the num­ every 4.000 voteys. Indiana, with a
stitutional provisions regulutlng the ber of votes each receives. Every mem­ popular vote of 682,000 In 1904, has
mode of choosing a president. The ber of the college signs and certifies only fifteen electoral vote«, or one to
namè of the president or vice presl- the list, the governor o f the state certi­ every 45,400 voters. New York Is in
deut would be left off the ballot If the fies It, and the report Is transm itted to other unfortunate state In this respect,
actual Intention of the framers o f the the president of the 1’nlted States sen­ having one electoral vote to every
constitution were followed, and In ate. Both houses of congress assem ble 41,400 voters.
aplte of the "unwritten law" which In the chamber of the lower house on , Adopted after a prolonged and lm-
haa developed the placing of the na­ the second W ednesday o f February. blttered dispute In the famous consti­
tional candidates’ names on the ballot The electoral votes are then counted. tutional convention of 1787 In Phlladel
phla, the electoral college system has
since Its Inception been the center of
various
momentous disagreem ents
When W ashington was first elected to
the presidency the legislatures of New
York and New Hampshire were torn
by dissensions which reached so far
that no electors were choeen. and
Washington consequently did not re­
ceive any votes from either of these
states. At the second election, how
ever, W ashington received the unant
mous vote of all the electors.
In
S to c k
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Notable Hutorioal Episode.
At the second election Jefferson and
Burr appeared as candidates, Ken
tucky giving the former four votes snfi
South Carolina giving the latter one.
At the third election they appeared
again and this time much more promt
nently, Jefferson receiving •» votes
and Burr 80. John Adams, with a vote
of 71, Just one over the requisite ma­
jority, carried off the presidency, and
Jefferson became vice president. North
Carolina, Pennsylvania and Virginia
each gave Adams one vote, giving Jef­
ferson the rest, and tbeee three scat­
tering votes made Adams president.
At the fourth election Jefferson and
Burr appeared again, aud the vote in
the electoral colleges was a tie, 73
each, which led to the famous election
by the house, an episode occupying a
prominent phice In American history.
In 1825 there was another election
by the firftiae. For president Andrew
Jackson had 99 electoral votes, John
Quincy Adams 84, William H. Craw­
ford 41 and Henry Clay 87. and. nei­
ther candidate having a majority, IX
devolved upon the house to choose a
president from the three highest. Tbs
election came off on Feb. 9, 1825, and
on the first ballot Adams wag e le cte d -
for Adam«, 13 states; for Jackson, 7;
for Crawford, 4. In this election Clay
threw his vote to Adams, who In turn
made him secretary of state, and the
resultant cry of bargain and sale ruin­
ed the great Kentuckian’s preelden
tlal prospects.
T H E D A L L E S H O S P IT A L ^
A modern hospital for the treatm ent of all medical and eurgica
diaeaiiee, except Mach as are oontagious.
R a t e s , f r o m S IO .O O t o $ 2 1 . 0 0 p e r w e e k , a c c o r d i n g t o r o o m
Ambulance will meet all trains and boat« if hoepital is notified.
For
F u rth e r
In fo r m a tio n
A d d re s s
Drs. Ferguson and R euter,
M e d ic a l
D ir e c to r s .
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Nearest Hotel to Bueineae Center, Banka and Depot.
Sunday D inner 35 cents. .
F irs t Class B a rb e r Shop in the H o tel.
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H O T E L R A T E S TO S U IT Y O U .
All O R & N Trains Stop at Front Door
Railway Ticket Office in the Lobby.
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All kinds of Reaervoir and Cistern work in con­
nection with water systems installed in first
‘ class style and all work done .guaranteed.
Dynamite and powder work on all kinds of Rock Excavations
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fact, ow ing to a radical change In the
theory of governm ent In this repub­
lic. Each state has as many electors
and electoral votes as It has members
In the senate and the house of repre­
sentatives, and these men were origi­
nally Intended to exercise their own
Initiative In voting fbr president and
vice president after the election o f
their ticket at the polls. When the
electors were given constitutional ex­
istence It was never designed that they
should ever act as a unit, according to
their party affiliations. That Is exact­
ly what they do today and have done
for a century. Each elector Is today
In honor bound and pledged to cast
his vote In the electoral college for
the presidential candidate at the head
o f his party column.
ilects the president, voting by states.
•a< h stute having one vote.
When a tie occurs for vice president
it Is the senate that has the privilege
»f deciding the question.
Votes Cast at State Capital*.
The celebrated Samuel J. Tilden-Ruth
erford B. H ayes controversy occurred
In 1876.— A violent partisan dispute
arose over th e electoral votss of Flori­
da, Louisiana, Oregon and South Caro­
lina. The entire matter was referred
by congress to an electoral commis­
sion composed of eight Republicans
and seven Democrats.
As a result
by a strict party vote 185 eleotoral
votes were sw arded to H ayes and 184
to Tilden. Home of the supporters of
Mr Tilden became so aroused over
the decision that they openly talked
pf “taking Tilden to W ashington and
«eating him anyhow," and threats of
bringing about a civil war were bruit­
ed about.
The ablest men o f the new ly born
United State« founded the electoral
college, choosing a system tU»t was
but one of a doeen advanced for the
purpose of deciding the presidency
and vice presidency. To Alexander
Ham lltou Is given moat of the credit
for bringing about the adoption of the
system as originally created b> the
constitution.
Hamilton devoted the paper known
as the LXV III Federalist*’ to the
apbject of the presidential electloa,
and In It he urged many forcible rea­
sons showing tbs a d v a n ta g a u f sub­
m ittin g the choice to an Ind^M teent
body o f men.
Among other things be eald: “It la
equally desirable that the Immediate
election should be made by men most
capable of analysing the qualities
adapted to the Ration and acting un­
der circum stances favorable to delib­
eration and to a Judicious combina­
tion of all reasons and Inducements
that were proper to govern this choice.
"A small number o f persons selected
by their fellow cltlaens from the gen
ersl mass will be most likely to poe
sens' the InformatloA and discernment
requisite to ao complicated an Inves­
tigation.**
George W ashington w as chairman
e f the convention, and active parts
were taken by each men as Benjamin
Franklin, Jam es Madison. John Dick
lneon o f New Jersey, Pinckney of
The successful electors of each state
.nvnrlably meet ut their capital to
•ast their votes. Three copies o f the
result are made, one being mailed to
the prealdeut of the senate (vice presl
dent), the gecohd being dispatched to
W ashington by a trusted messenger,
and the third as a precautionary meas­
ure Is deposited In care o f the fed­
eral judge of the circuit In which the
electors meet. The copies received by
the president of the senate are pre­
served In a specially constructed safe
ind additionally protected by an elab­
How to Secure the Presidency.
orate system of burglnr alarms. When
Each state having a definite number the prealdeut o f the senate receives
of electoral votes. It becomes the ob­ the scaled envelopes from the messen­
ject of the heads o f presidential tickets gers conttolnlng the certified votes he
to carry a larger number of stages or delivers to them u receipt couched In
the states having the largest number the follow ing guarded and noncom­
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of electoral votes rather than to obtain mittal terms:
the votes o f the largest number o f the
clHgens o f ¿he country, for, as readily
Vine President'« Chaipber,
seen. It Is possible for a presidential
Senate U n ite d State«,
candidate to receive more Individual
W ashin gton , D . C., ----- . 190®
votes than any opponent and yet lose
Received o f
• , claim ing
to be a messenger to deliver the
the presidency. This has occurred
same, a sealed package purporting
tw ice In the history o f the country.
to contain a certificate o f the vot««
The constitution (article 11 and
given fo r president and vies presi­
dent o f the U nited State« by elect­
am endm ents and article 12) prescribes
or« of the s tate of
—
a l­
the number of. electors nnd the partic­
leged to have been elected Nov I.
ular’ manner In which they shall per­
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form their duties, but the states have
C H A R L E S W . F A IR B A N K S
Vtee Prealdent o f the U n ite d State«
absolute power In designating tbs
and
President o f th e U nited State«
method o f their appointment, and con­
Senate.
gress nam es the tim e when they shall
be chosen and the day on which they
shall form ally m eet to cast their votes.
N e tt to the thrusting aside of the
system In which the chosen elector»
Method of Election.
The electors are chosen the first exercised their Individual choice for
Tuesday after the first Monday In No­ president and vice president the gr«at-
vember every four years, on presiden­ eet change from the original eonstlt*» South Carolina.
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grotebty toM
tial election day, In every state to the
has been Identified with union labor.
Many a tim e he could have had posi­
tions which would have paid him a
larger salary than that which he re­
ceives ns president of the American
Federation of I .attor, but hts sympathy
with the cause of labor prevented him
Samuel tampers and His long l a ­
Chanler as a Campaigner fugene
front accepting them. He Is a poor
bor Record Other ligures
V. Debs and the Soclalst
man. Is proud of it nnd expects to die
poor
He lias no ambition to make
In the Political
System of Winning
money and chooses rather to devote
Battle.
Voles.
his energies to uplifting his fellow
workers nnd leaving them as a class
when he dies better off than they
T w as Indeed a corners In the large < ltles during the would bave I>een but for bis having
whirlwind tour state and national campaigns, outlin­ i lived.
that L e w i s ing the party principles ami selling
The political contest In Rhode Island
StuyvesantChan- the publications In which the party’s
Of has excited interest this year on ac­
ler made as Dem ­ recommendations are described.
ocratic c a n d i - course a radical party like the S»»clnl- count of the value to both national
date for govern­ lsts tins active opponents, and at meet­ tickets of the electoral votes of the
or of New York ings when these opjatnents arc present commonwealth and
lu the closing the speakers set aside a period In which the c o m p lic a tio n s
‘ days of the cam ­ questions may he aske«J. Sometimes a caused by local is­
paign. Aud no quick wltted Socialist Is able to make sues. The Repub­
lens arduous and the questioners appear ridiculous.and it licans n o m in a te d
energetic was the Is seldom that a meeting o f this de­ for governor Aram
tour of his Re­ scription term inates without a dis­ J. I’otbier of Woon­
socket and the Dem­
publican
oppo­ turbance of more or less Importance.
The size of the socialistic vote In ocrats Olney Arnold
nent, Charles E.
1-XW18 S. CHA.VI.ER.
H u g h e s . The this country Is rapidly Increasing, and of Providence. The
two men passed and repnssed each this, fact Is the more noteworthy be­ Demo« rats m a d e
other on the railroads, put up some­ cause the party’s organization Is by much In their cam­
Debs proudly paign <>f the charge
times nt the same hotel and on sev­ no means complete.
eral occasion« their itineraries coin­ atates that his party Is a volunteer that the Influence
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cided so closely that, w ithout any In­ party, making material progress with­ In Republican coun-
The paid « Ils o f th e b lin d h-ailer, C. R. B ray to n ,
tention of so doing, they found them ­ out office or patronage.
selves bolding rival m eetings In sm all­ workers of other parties have no coun­ w a s still p o ten t. C o n s titu tio n a l am en d
er tow ns of the state at the same tlpip. terpart In the district organizations of in e n t h as been on e o f th e Issues lu
Automobiles were preened Into serv­ the Socialists, and this fact Is one that R h o d e Islan d .
ice by both candidates In covering causes most worry to the Democratic
country as well as city districts, and and Republican leaders. They realize
TENNESSEE’S GOVERNOR.
In this way both were able to fill a that a party popular enough to attract
great many speaking engagem ents In hundreds of volunteer workers Is cer­ M a l.o lm R P a tte rs o n and H is A ctio n
the course of a day’s campaign labors. tain to become a national factor, wor­
R e g a rd in g N ig h t R id e r O u tra g e s .
While the two candidates conducted thy of serious consideration, If, Indeed,
G n v e n .r r .Mntcolm R ice P a tte rs o n of
so vigorous a canvass, both were care­ the Socialist party has not already be­
T enntiR seo. w h o has taken In hand vig-
ful to avoid personalities and to treat come such.
oromdy the àpi rvhenslon and punish
each other with unfailing courtesy.
Ramtiel Gompers has had plenty of meni of Pi > Night Riders In his state,
The campaign of two yeurs ago,
which resulted In the election of Mr. publicity In the campaign of ltK>8 on has h .m constantly under the protec
Hughes, the head of the .Republican account o f the controversy over the lion « f : heavy bodyguard ou account
ticket, for governor aud ofttfie Demo­ position tnkrfn by him In the support of tin-' danger lest lie should be at
cratic candidates for the other state of the Democratic national ticket. As tacked In some way .because of his In
offices, placed Mr. ( ’hauler and Mr
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Hughes In peculiar relations. As Uett-
teuant governor Mr. Chanler has often
been called on to appear with Mr.
Hughes at public functions or to con­
sider public matters with him as a
member of the state government. One
of these occasions was when, Just at
the outset of the campulgu, Governor
Hughes aud Lleuteuant Governor
Chanler met at a state fair and «i>oke
from the sam e platform on non political
subjects
Under such circum stances
It would be difficult for some tu^n not
to permit political differences to affect
their personal relations and their con­
duct toward each other In public.
Mr. Chanler* Is an effective speaker
and a good campaigner, and he haa a
splendid physique, which enables him
to undergo prolonged strain without
Incurving great fatigue.
The F ield o f Politics
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Thomas D. Ixmg, Democratic noml
nee for governor In Montana, Is a law
yer and w a r bofn
In Columbus, lnd ,
Oct. 10, T867. He
was chosen assist
ant attorney geaer
al of the state of
Montana
seven
years
ago.
The
Democrats carried
the last state elec­
tion In Montana,
when J. K Toole
wae re elected gov­
ernor. He was the tiiomas n. loro .
first* governor and has been honored
with several re-elections.
Eugene V. Debs, who has made a
remarkable campaign as the Socialist
candidate for president, attracting
more attention for the principles he
represents than they ever before re-
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fcVrWaflM
HAMCKL OOMrEBS.
president of the Amerlcau Federation
of Iotbor Mr. Gompers Is alw ays a.
busy man, hut because of the active
part he has taken In politics this year
his dutli*s have been exceptionally
many nnd laborious.
For several
years he won re-election um head of
the American Federation of Labor
after contests which threatened the
continuance of Ills power, The next
meeting of the federation occasions
espeelal Interest on atvount of the Con­
troversies expected to arise over the
question of Indorsement of President
Gomticrs’ course In the campaign.
It Is hwenty-slx years since Mr. Gom­
pers was first chosen prealdent of the
Federation of Ijtbor, and every year
since, with one exception, 1894, he has
been re-elected. Under his direction
the order has Increased In uuuiliers un­
til it is now 2,(100.000 sffoh g and W ac­
counted the most Influential body of
organized wnge earneri» IB the wortd.
Mr Gompers wns horn In London In
1850 nnd for forty years nnd more
MALCOLM m c a PATTKaaON.
slstence upon the observance of the
law nnd preservation of the good name
of the commonwealth. He stopped his
campaign for re-electlou In order to
give his attention to the suppression of
Night Rider outrages.
" (T overn or Pattereon la a law yer by
profession and previous to election a s
governor served several terms In con­
gress.
Where the
Door Opens
Constantly
You can quickly kesl and keep
cozy the draughty hall or cold room
no nailer w hat Inc weather conditions
are-^ind il you only knew how muck
real comiorl you can have from a
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d im
PERFECTION
Oil Healer
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calved In thia country, claim s that
Abraham Lincoln would have «tood
for the same (hinge that socialism does
If he hsd lived at this time. In the
course of his canvass he paid a visit
to Lincoln’s tomb at Springfield. III.
Standing by the sarcophagus of the
martyr prealdent be delivered a eulogy
upon him, saying among other things:
"Slavs power, which loathed aud de­
spised Lincoln, was no more heartless
than the power of capitalism , which to­
day bolds the workingmen of the na­
tion In bondage.'* ,
Debs and bis associate« lay great
rees on “the slavery of today,” as
they term It. and they find arguments
on thia suhject particularly effective
among the colored voters. The Social­
ists count on gaining recruits from
the Democratic party among the labor­
ing men and from the Republican
party among the colored voters.
The Socialists, hesd«»d by Debs, have
a vast a r w j «< speekere.
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or as low as you please— there s no danger— no smoke no smell
— lust direct intense heal— ihal’s because o( ihe smokeless device.
Beaulifully linuhed in nickel and japan— orna­
mental anywnere. The brass font holds 4 auarts. giv­
ing heal lor 9 hours. It is light in weigh!— easdv
carried Irom room Io room. Every healer warranted.
T he
steady light— ideal In read or
study by. Made of brass— nickel plated, latest im­
proved central draft burner. Every lamp warranted.
II your dealer does not carry Perfection Oil Heater
and Rayo lam p write our nearest agency.
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