Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1893 — THE ELECTORAL VOTE. [ARTICLE]

THE ELECTORAL VOTE.

Balloting In the SeveralnStates—North IVkota’g ■Triumvirate. The formality of voting for and Vice-President was carried out at the various State capitals, Monday. The electors met, cast their ballots as directed by the people at the polls in November (except in North Dakota), signed three certificates to that effect, and selected a messenger to carry one of the certificates to Washington and deliver it to the President of the United States Senate. The second certificate was mailed to the Senate and the third was deposited'with the United States Judge for the district in which the electors met. The three electors in North Dakota evidently wanted to create a little sensation. It was understood that two would vote for Weaver and one for Harrison, but when they met each cast a vote for different candidates—Harrison, Cleveland and Weaver. Proceedings in the other States were not marked by unusual Incident, unless the •‘firing” of reporters from the Illinois electoral college could be regarded as such. The Suckers preferred to cast their ballots in secret, and they did so. The result of the ballot In the several States was Cleveland, 877; Harrison, 145; Weaver, 22.__