Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1869 — Cause and Effect. [ARTICLE]

Cause and Effect.

The Republicans carried Philadelphia fin Tuesday by aliout 4,000 majority. • At the October election last year tho vote stood ns follows: Republican Wl.fi3-1 Democratic ; It was cliarged by the Republicans that frrim six to eight thousand fraudulent votes-were polled by the Democrats, and, to put# stop to such practice, a stringent registry law was passed by the Legislature, by means of which only legal votes can get into the ballot, and we now see the effect—the Republicans carry the fcity by four thousand majority without putting forth anything like their still effort. — Exchange.