The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE. Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning. Tuesday, December 13, 1887. THE BRYCE FIASCO.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 79, 13 December 1887, Page 2

The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE. Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning.

Tuesday, December 13, 1887. THE BRYCE FIASCO.

Be just and fear not; Let all the ends thou aim’at at be thy country’s. Thy God’s, and truth’s.

"The bottom has fallen out of it.’’ Such is the verdict of the Judges who have sat day after day in hearing the petition of Bryce v. Hutcison. Anyone who has taken the trouble to read the evidence which has been adduced can come to no other conclusion but that the petition was unfounded in every particular, and unworthy of a man of Mr Bryce's calibre. How he could ever have consented to have brought forward such a series of protests which have proved to be without the slightest foundation, is inconceivable, and goes a long way to prove that the petitioner is not the tar-seeing shrewd man he has always been taken for. The Chief Justice in reviewing the evidence, clearly points out, on every contention, that there appeared to be no corrupt practice. In fact it would seem as if the election had bqen conducted fairly and honestly right throughout—far and away more honourably than most elections. Although it will be admitted that Mr Bryce, as a politician, would have been more useful in the House at the presen t critical phase of affairs than Mr Hutcison, no one but can feel some sympathy with the latter gentleman at the trial from which he has so triumphantly come out of. He has been put to great expense—not alone he, but the colony also—through the vain attempt to prove that he had been guilty of numerous charges of bribery and corruption. Mr Bryce has certainly directed the attention of the colony to himself and Mr Hutcison, but has utterly failed to prove his case.