Notonly was this trumped-up evidence i^worthless, but the county canvassers had no ^^|kiwi r in regard to the nlurns of votes ex- I^cept to make ^abstracts^ of them and as^^certain I he result indicated by their face.^They had no right whatever to reject them I^on any ground. One of the republican law- j^vers who argtnil beforetheni that they could^reject the return of a pn-cmct for ' fraud,^had previously, as a judge on the bench, ex^^plicitly stated in a similar case that nothing^of the kind coiil.l be done. It is plain from^the territorial law under winch the jjaojloii^was held, that the canvassers had m, Mid,^isiwer. I hey nevertheless gravely decided^to throw out pristine! No. and^immediately a writ of mandamus^w as served npon I hem requiring them^to show cause why tin y should not be com^^pelled to incluile tin vote of that precinct^and restraining them from proceeding with^the count until after the der ision of the^question. Nevertheless, it appears that^they made np and signed a return without^inciudiug that precinct. It will be remem^^bered that a how l was made for the removal^of Judge DeWolfe because he granted the^mandamus, that the state canvass was hur^^ried up to forestall a tinal decision in the^case, and that the proclamation admitting^the state and putting an end to the tern^torial court was issued m hot haste before^the ollicial messenger reached Washington.
