Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1876 — THE POLITICAL SITUATION. [ARTICLE]

THE POLITICAL SITUATION.

On Wednesday the electoral colleges of the several states assembled at their respective slate capitals and cast their ballots for president and Vice president. Those of SI states, making an aggregate of 185 electoral votes were .cast for Rutherford B. Hayes end W illiam A. Wheeler, candidates of the republican party; while those of 17 states, numbering 184 votes, were cast for Samuel J. Tilden and Thomas A. Hendricks, the democratic candidates. Thia was all done peaceably and in order. The showing is as follows:

REFTBUCAM MO. California a QiiaraiU 8 Florida 4 lllißoia ...' SI lowa. 11 Kansas. •* Louisiana 8 Maine V Massachusetts 18 Michigan H Minnesota * Nebraska < Nevadat » New Hampshire » „ Oregon• Pennsylvania » Rhode Island 4 Soath Carolina 5 Vermont * Wisconsin 10

.. nKMOOSATM 80I'Alabama >0 l‘Arkansas • I Connecticut 0 I Mawaiv. S 1 Georgia JI I Indiana IS < Kentucky 12 f Maryland 8 I Mississippi 8 I NiMvun . .. 15 (Now Jersey • I New York 35 I North Carolina 10 . Tennessee .... 12 I Texas 8 i Virginia 11 West Virginia 77.... <o'

Twenty-one states, 185 Seventeen states 184 Louisiana, Florida, South Carolina and Oregon each has two sets of electoral votes. A democratic candidate for elector in Vermont, who had been defeated by several thousand majority, assembled without the shadow of right, organized himself into an electoral college, deposited a ballot for Tilden and Hendricks, and appointed himself the messenger to carry his vote to the president of the senate at Washington.

The probebilitiee are great that thia election snarl, which has been wrought by the revolutionary democracy, will engage the whole time of the present congress to the exclusion of measures looking to the material prosperity of the peopie. Fraud, proscription, intimidation, murder, attempted bribery, and usurpation *of authority have all been exausted without success in a desperate effort to carry the election. Having failed in these, this unscrupulous political organisation has transferred its struggle to the national bouse of representatives, where it is in the majority, and now it remains to be shown what other scheme of rascality they will invent to defeat a fair expression of the people, and subvert state , laws and the constitution 'of the United States-