Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1890 — “TWO” AND “TWE.” [ARTICLE]

“TWO” AND “TWE.”

Indianapolis Journal. | A Democratic exchange com- ! plains of the alacrity with which j the Republican members of the j House voted to eject Jackson, of West Virginia, when, as it plain-! tively observes, not one jn ten I had ever investigated the evidence | in the case. Investigation was I hardly necessary in a case concern-; ing which so much had been said | in the newspapers, and in which i the facts on which the contest was based were officially admitted by the Democrats. The election in i the Fourth West Virginia district was very close, and the result de- i pended upon whether the returns | of one couniy lead 802 or 812 , votes. In the returns the number ' was written out, and not given in) figures. In that State the returns are sent to the Governor, who is- ' sues certificates of election.—The ! announcement had been made, and was not disputed by the Governor, j that the vote from that county was j 802. Presently it was found that : these figures elected the Republic i can candidate, whereupon the in- j genious Democratic Governor de- ! dared that the word which had hitherto been counted as “two” j was not two, but “twe,” and there-; fore was to be regarded as an ab- j breviation for twelve or twenty, j No one had ever heard of such an i abbreviation, but as the number j 812, wouldj give the Democratic candidate a majority of three, | which was as good as a majority of eleven, the Governor decided that twelve it should be, and issued the certificate accordingly. Even the party organs that grumble over the unseating of Jackson do not undertake to offer proof that he is emit ind to the. seat 7