Michigan is not the only state with a di...

Michigan is not the only state with a divided electoral vote this year. ühio electedone Democratie elector, North Dakota elected onc and the vote of California is probably divided. AVith the Miner electoral law or without it, the states seemed bound to split up their votes this year. The Republicans demand the repeal of the Miner law. They cannot demand it on the original ground they took that the law was unconstitutional. Two Republican supreme courts, that of this state and of the United States, declared the law constitutional. There were nearly 1,500 more voters in this congressional district who desired Cleveland president than wanted to see Harrison president, and yet the Republicans contend that their votes should not have counted this year, but that the elector of the minority of the electors of this district should cast their vote for this district. That is not right. the majority should rule. The republicans are up to their old stealing tricks again. In 1876 they stolc the presidency; by throwing out the votes of a large number of precincts in three States. Two years ago they stole the governorship of Connecticut in this manner. The democratie candidate had an acknowledged plurality of 3,681. There wére nearly that number of scattered votes for the prohibition and other candidates. One branch of the legislature which declares the result was republican, aud it refused to declare the result, so that the old republican governor who had not been voted on at all in the election of 1890, held over two years. Not content with these two flagrant usurpations of government, the republicans have just stolen two-thirds of the electoral vote of North Dakota. The vote in this state was exceedingly close. If all the votes had been counted the three fusión electors vvould have been elected by pluralities of 229, 49 and 40 respectively. But the returning board, which was solidly republican, threw out the votes of one precinct which cas't 68 democratie and 3 republican votes, and declared the result as electing one fussionisi by 164, and two republicans by 3 and 16 majority. Hut nothing material was gained or last by this move. The republicans are now engaged, however, in the gigantic attempt to steal the United States senate by stealing the legislatures of these states. To show what high handed measures they resort to only one case need be instanced. It occurs in Kansas, where a populist was elected representative by a clear majority. The county clerk whose business it is to certify the returns certified, however, to the election of his republican opponent, and then disappeared so as to be beyond reach. This is not becoming conduct in the "party of great moral ideas. "