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University Daily Kansan Monday, April 26, 197
Election Melee Recalls Another
The to-do in the recent campus election over certain ballots that should have been clipped but weren't brings to mind what was perhaps the most controversial of all election quarrels, the Hayes-Tilden dispute of 1876.
Samuel Tilden, the Democratic candidate, received a clear plurality in popular votes. Not counting 22 contested electoral votes, Tilden led the Republican candidate, Rutherford Hayes, 184 to 163.
An electoral commission, however, voted on strict party lines to give Haves all 22 of the disputed votes and the presidency.
The dispute arose when four states—Oregon, Louisiana, South Carolina, and Florida—all filed two different sets of electoral returns.
There was no precedent to follow, and there was nothing in the Constitution about it, so Congress decided to choose an electoral commission to make the decision. Apparently no one considered invalidating the election, as was done by the All Student Council elections committee this week in the University dispute.
Ten congressmen and four Supreme Court justices were chosen for the commission, but seven were Democrats and seven were Republicans. To break the tie the four justices picked another member of the court, a Republican who had not expressed any prejudices in the matter.
South Carolina and Oregon, according to the popular vote, should have gone to Haves, and it was so decided by the commission.
Florida and Louisiana, however, had given more popular votes to Tilden. Furthermore, a Republican counting board had rejected several thousand Democratic votes in Louisiana, and the Democrats clamored for correction of what they called an injustice.
The commission upheld the Republican viewpoint that the state action was final, ruling that interference by the commission might be an invasion of state sovereignty.
Then, as eight Republicans voted in favor and seven Democrats opposed, the commission gave all the electoral votes from Florida and Louisiana to Hayes, making him the President by the margin of one electoral vote.
There was much excitement over the nation following the decision. Democrats claimed Tilden should have won, but the losing candidate advised his party to accept the decision.
Even today many historians contend that Tilden, not Hayes, was entitled to become president of the U.S.
They may be right. But if an injustice were done, not much can be done to correct it. It's a bit too late to call for a new election.
—Sam Teaford
...SHORT ONES...
The rains came just in time this past week for the annual campus political mudsling contest.
We now know why the drum major stepped so high and fast at the football games this past fall. He was in training for the steeple-chase.
Psychiatrists should investigate these persons whose car window stickers tell us they have been everywhere from Signa Phi Nothing to Provo, Utah. A suggested name for those suffering from the malady: decalcomaniacs.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler
"He's worried about breaking up his beautiful Teacher-Student friendships—He has to turn in final grades today."
I wish to express to Mr. Peter G. Earle, graduate student, my heartfelt appreciation for his wonderful letter endosing my defense of Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy. It is the steady, firm, unwavering support of fine, upstanding, patriotic Americans like Mr. Peter Earle that makes it possible for Senator McCarthy to carry on his work inspite of the terrific abuse that is heaped upon him.
...Letters...
To the editor:
Respectfully yours,
Howard L. Lydick
1st Year Law
I hope that my next statement will be taken as it is meant, as a sincere and well meaning constructive suggestion. With all due respects for Mr. Earle and his supra-suggestion, I would like suggest that he see a professor in the University English Department about his punctuation and spelling.
To the editor:
(And especially to Mr. Clarke Keys)
There is a limit beyond which no one with any respect for the democratic ideal can keep his mouth shut. Mr. Keys has gone over the limit.
If he honestly wants clean student government, he as a newspaperman as well as a student could and should have been doing something about it long before this. Editorial fire and brimstone is a little tasteless when it's manufactured out of the ashes of a corrupt mess.
It's a little late, Mr. Keys.
Respectfully, Jim Baird journalism sen
To the editor:
I have just read in the new issue of "Trend" magazine that the free film series has been abolished for next year.
This strikes home to me, since I am one of the many University students working their way through college who cannot often afford to spend the 60 or 70 cents and up for downtown movies.
The free films are to us luxurious entertainment and I have enjoyed them more than anything else I have attended on the campus.
I certainly hope this decision may be retracted before next fall rolls around, so we can again have the opportunity to making forward to these Friday nights.
I especially enjoyed the last film, "Keepers of the Night" and the many Walt Disney wild-life films.
Doris Cherniak
Ed. Note: Rest assured. The Film series is continuing.
We predict that Correlation will be scratched from the Kentucky Derby. After the horse won the Wood Memorial Saturday, he was described as "raw-boned." That was the adjective applied to that man Sears, proposed special counsel for the McCarthy-Army hearings, and look what happened to him.
Elmer Curtis, Topeka radio announcer who is bidding for a Republican nomination to Congress, says he plans to campaign in a large hat, boots, and a bright shirt. And when he gets to Washington, he can encee a rodeo show featuring that new woman senator from Nebraska who we understand, ropes calves.
Also, we would look nice for the Life photographer, if he should ever come our way. Remember those Notre Damens?
Not only that, they (the teeth) will be easier to find after they're knocked out.
Our football coach tells the players how to brush their teeth. We wonder if he told them about standing for the Alma Mater.
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POST.HALL GYNOICATE
Flashbacks in History From the Daily Kansan
In 1944, the U.S. and the University were in the midst of wartime living. In 1929, the events and personalities were much the same as today; march units, film censorship, the Relays, and John Ise.
Several hundred ASTRP students arrived at the University on July 1 to begin training, the War Department announced. The total number will depend upon the number of 17-year-olds who qualify for the program. Kansas came out second best in a dual track meet with Oklahoma over the weekend. Score: $70_{1/2}$, $60_{1/2}$.
10 Years Ago
On the European front, between 750 and 1.000 U.S. bombers were over Berlin early this week, and the Red army is fighting desperately to regain Sevastopel.
Forty-two class A and B high schools have signed up to attend the 40th Annual Intercollegiate Track and Field Meet over the week-end. 1,110 RAF planes have bombed Cologne, and the Germans are broadcasting that invasion of the continent is imminent.
The campus is having a drive to collect tin cans, and a Kansan editor has decided that collegiate life is a thing of the past.
More than 8,000 rebels have engaged in a pitched battle with some 8,600 federal troops in Sonora, Mexico. Five KU women have been invited to watch the steeple-chase at Fort Riley this weekend.
Top grip of the week was directed at the ROTC drum and fife unit that chose 5:30 Saturday morning as the time to march up and down the Campus drives.
Installation of a large reflecting telescope will be installed at the University observatory. It will rank twelfth in power in the United States and will have a 27-inch reflecting mirror.
25 Years Ago
Tom Churchill of Oklahoma has established a new Decathlon record at the Kansas Relays. Kansas came out with three seconds and two fourths in races.
Kansas motion picture, censors have no authority to censor the spoken word in "talkies," the Attorney General says, but the board can pass on all scenes depicted.
Take a Look at Our Elders YoungPeopleTooApathetic?
Many are the words that have been uttered in disgust by our elders concerning the fact that this "younger generation" refuses to take anything serious and doesn't pay any attention to the affairs of the world.
We would like to take issue with this for a moment. It would seem to us that it isn't indicative of a complete apathy toward world developments that causes students to pack the lobby of the Union to watch the McCarthy hearings on television.
Another indication of the feeling concerning such subjects is the reaction, pro and con, to editorials in the Kansan on that illustrious Senator.
Much of that comment, we admit, was caused by a letter taking issue with the Kansan and supporting McCarthy, but the fact still remains that the interest is there.
For another example, the interest shown in the CCUN would seem to indicate that students are interested enough in what is happening to our world to spend considerable time and effort figuring things out.
If we are truly the lost generation, it is yet to be proven to us. After all, if you want to look at it this way, our elders aren't handing us such a "bed of roses" to play in when we take over from them.
—Don Tice