The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-11-13

ate district, where JOHN McCARTY. DEM
oorat was returned, and which In
cludes the township OF Gravesend. the allie
cation Of frauds seems well supported, but
whether sufficiently 60 to overturn his
election is a question for tho Legis-
lature to decide. With less justi-
flcation, objection Is made on the
same ground to MICHAEL +. COLLINS. Dem
ocrat, In the Eighteenth, or Troy district.
| In this city there Is no claim by the Repub-
| licans that the solid Democratic delegation
OF eight Senators was not fairly and squarely
elected. But In the Thirteenth district
CHARLES L. Guy. the successful Democratic
candidate. Is alleged by them to be ineligl-
BILE under section Of Article III. OF the Con-
stitution. which Is as follows:
mo person shall DO eligible to tho Legislator. Who
the time OF his election is OF within hundred
days previous thereto has been member OF Congress-
civil military oicer underline United States or an
offcer under any city Government"
Senator-elect GUY, SO the Republicans
say. was. within 100 days Of his election,
the holder OF an office under the city Gov
eminent. So. too. they claim. were the
Democratic Assemblymen in the Seven
teenth and Nineteenth districts OF this city.
In Erie, Onondaga. Westchester. Albany,
and elsewhere there are projected Repub-
lican contests on various grounds OF objec-
ton under the present misiit ballot law.
In the campaign OF 1891 FRANKLIN ID.
SHERWOOD. Republican. was elected a State
Senator in the Twenty-seventh, or Steubcn
county district. by majority OF 1.G4l. He
was unseated and deprived OF his office on
the ground Of ineigibility because he had
been II Park Commissioner in HornelIsville
within one hundred days OF the election. In
the First Assembly district OF Onondaga
DAVID A. MONROE. Republican. was elected
by a majority of 560 votes. On technical
objection to the endorsement Of some OF the
ballots, 629 Republican votes were thrown
out, and MIR. MoNRoE's Democratic oppo-
nent got tho seat by majority OF 60.
The same construction of the ballot law in
Onondaga deprived, on account OF an en-
roneously printed endorsement. II. +. PECK.
Republican nominee for Senator. OF 1.2j2
votes; and. these being deducted from his
total tho Democratic candidate was cred
tied with 9O6 majority.
The provocation to retaliate in kind. now
that they have tho power. is strong with
the Republicans. and the obtainment Of u
two-thirts majority in both branches OF the
Legislature, enabling their party to over
rido the wishes and protests OF a Demo-
cratic Governor, stimulates their magma
tons. At tho same time. our Republican
friends are likely to go slow in the business
of unseatinS regularly elected representa-
tivcs Of the people, and the substitution OF
defeated minority candidates. They gained
little from tho adoption Of such plan in
the Fifty-iirst Congress; they lost much at
the subsequent election.
The Republicans will probably determine
that more rapid progress may be made in
politics by rounding sharp curves and
dangerous corners with care. They have n |
clear majority in both branches of the Leg |
islature. but they will have. too. n Governor |
to vote for in November. 1894. and tho pos
session Of a two-thirds majority in the |
present Legislature. which will add little |
to the strength Of tho Republican forces.
and yet imperil the party, is matte: not
much to be desired.