Iron County Register

The New York Sun--an independent paper, and one quite ready to lecture the Democrats when it thinks they deserve it--in reference to the Maine question, says:

"There is no kind of similitude between that case in Louisiana and this case in Maine. Wells and the notorious rogues associated with him threw out the Tilden votes arbitrarily, corruptly, and in the very teeth of the law which made them a Returning Board. Gov. Garcelon and his Council, on the other hand, reject Mr. Blaine's returns because they are "fatally defective," not merely irregular, but illegal, against the statute, and barred by the Constitution. What else could they do? Were they to admit returns which were not returns? Were the Constitution and laws of Maine to be set aside in order to put Mr. Blaine's friends in office? Or were the State officers bound in this, as in all other instances, to obey their oaths and do their sworn duty? They did not, like Wells and Anderson, undertake to inquire into the charges of bribery and intimidation, because, like Wells, they had no legal right to do that. Had the case been otherwise, however, and had the law directed them to deal judicially with these questions, the judgment would certainly have cut deeper and hurt worse. Mr. Blaine should be thankful that he comes off so easily; he should, at all events, compose himself sufficiently to speak the truth when he has so little to gain by perverting it."