The sun., 1891-06-27
Tho Defeat OF Evarts.

We observe with regret the defeat Of the
Hon. WILLIAM MAXWELL EyARrs as can
didate for an elective office. He has ocou-
t1ed many public posts OF honor and renown,
but thcy have all been attained through
appointment and not through the suffrages
OF his fellow citizens. His election In 1885
as Senator for New York is hardly an excep-
tion; he owed that Office TO the decree OF
legislative caucus, and not to popular votes.
For the first timo in his long and viciss-
tudinous career, Mr.. EvARTs has been rum
ming for an Office on his merits, so to speak;
that Is to say, he has appeared as candi-
date depending for success upon the prefer
enco of II majority OF large body OF quail
fed voters. For member Of the Corpora
tion of Yale College for the SIX years term,
Mr. EvARTs received SS2 votes. His COM
petitcr. Mr.. EDWARD g. MASON Of Chicago.
received 1349 votes, n majority OF 461, or
more than fifty per cent. of Mr.. EvARTs's
entiro vote; aud, upon count OF the ballots
by the inspectors of elections at New Haven,
MIR. MASON of Chicago has been declared
duly elected.
II our eminent iurisconsult were as active
and H. .senious in his own behalf Us he was
some fifteen years ago in behalf OF another
defeated candidate for another Office. we
should still expect to SEQ him sitting as
member OF the Yale Corporation for the six
years term. The triiling circumstance Of
an adverse majority OF less than five hun
dred. in total vote Of less than two thou
sand, would present noinsuperablc obstacle
to his peculiar genius. Having procured
the establishment OF tribunal OF appeal SO
constituted that no was sure in advance ofa
majority OF at least one, he would proceed
to overthrow and demoish the count already
made at New Haven, and to apply to this
case the PRINCIPLES so lucdly set forth in his
great argument on the Florida returns, be-
fore the Electoral Commission of 1877:
~ attach no Importance to the word count
claim from the nature OF the thing from the laws
inwrounht into the constitution OF human beings and
governing human transactions, that those who have
thus act officially tho count are the persons who
must do what is needfu for the purpose of enabling
to be made. Those who bound to act In the
ono direction In tho other, the may require
nust possess tho power OF making any preliminary In
vestiga,ion that may become necessary. They
investigate a po.itirai and legislative bodies
may. all the facts and circumstances that
necessary to be known in order TO eniighten
their judgment and guido them to a just and
righteous decision What is tho objection to this
oonstruciont The whole argument against resolves
who would seek grasp high office BY Illegal irregu
lar and fraudulent claim that would be incon
vsnent tako much trouble mil ght become
sary order to investigate rightly and rightly to deter
mire proofs the question of their delinquency and
the faaoy OF their claim. This Is the plea Of
persons who falsely and fraudulenty oontrved
Sitla When effort is made to strip them Of their
pretended authority by demonstrating before
other appro tribunal the fallacy Of their clas
and tho necessity the ends Of Justice OF having that
fslacy declared and their pretensons set aside they
peint the trouble involved in the task But Let
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But why quote any further? No patriotic
New Yorker doubts the ability OF tho Hon.
WILLIAM MAXWELL EvARTs to prove that
tho New Haven count was no count, to
demonstrate the justice Of throwing out the
entire Illinois vote for MASON and declaring
EvARTs elected in the face Of the revised
returns. providing that sufficient latitude is
allowed to his learning, his logic, and his
foreinger. and providing likewise that the
tribunal before which he argues is a tribunal
made up on the good old eight to seven
principle.
Let the friends OF the defeated candidate
rally around him. He can do the rest.