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of The N. Y. Tribune.

SOMERSET Co., Me-. Sept. 10, 1885,
Your statements in THE TRIBUNE of the 18th
inst in regard to the by which our State has
been saved to Freedom and Fremont are true to
the fullest extent. Many excellent meetings in all
parts of the State have been addressed by able
speakers. Men here have worked and talked for
the right as they never worked and talked before;
but after ALL the most powerful agent in securing
the astonishing result in Maine has been the news
paper and the documentary matter, which by or
ganizatOn and systematic effort have placed be-
fore nearly every voter in the State For instance,
the doubtful men in all the towns in this county
last year the hardest in the State, and having an
anti Republican majority of some fourteen hundred
have been supplied by our members OF Congress
since the organization of the National House of
Representatives last Winter with the right kind Of
speeches and documents from Washington. Our
Republican paper supplied all its readers with the
Kansas Report, as did every other Republican
paper in the State. The County Committee in this
county ordered for the Town Committees, to be
carefully distributed among our opponents ereta-
sirely sufficient number of the same document to
supply nearly every opposition voter; and they
have also ordered from Washington thousands Of
copies of speeches and other documents, to be dis
tributed in the same way.
Nor have the County and Town Committees
alone kuppUtu INC uuiillOTultu Wltu hiuu
of reading Executive Committees of Fremont
Clubs have collected in the villages Republican
papers after being read by regular subscribers and
placed them erery treek through the hands of
School District Committees, in the family of ecery
voter. Individuals, too, have ordered and distrib-
uted documents and campaign papers, and the re-
suit was that everybody in this county was
pending campaign. Thus it is, more than by any
other means, that the doubtful and candid among
the opposition have been induced to join the ranks
OF Freemen determined on Freedom for Kansas.
Old Democrats have told the writer that they
have read with the greatest interest the documents
and papers thus furnished them and that they have
been thus led to understand that the so-called Dem
ocratic party is not the party of Freedom.
All the young men have read, and nearly all
were found to be with US ON the day of the election
They could not and rOSld not be drawn by their
fathers and friends into the support of the Slave
Ohgarchy. One good result of so much reading is,
the people Of Maine have voted intelligently They
are thus able TO state the grounds of their faith
and therefore their votes are sure in the flu
ture than IL bought for the occasion or secured by
the popularity Of any particular candidate.
In addition to all that has been done by way of
documents and campaign papers gratutously dis
tributed IN all the schoOl-districts, every Repub-
lcan seemed to feel that he had something TO do
for Freedom and Fremont.
during the week preceding the election, mer-
chants, farmers and mechanics LETT their various
occupations, threw themselves into the field, and
worked as never knew men of any party to work
before, wherever they could hope to do good and
secure a vote for Hannibal Hamlin. They did this
hard work gratuitOusly, and with no expectation of
reward except such as shall come from the glorious
result which now thrills the hearts of freemcn the
nation over.
Thus have we Of little Somerset swept away a
majority against us of 400, and given our noini-
majority of 1875 over the fusion d ;ket nom
mated by the Democrats and Straight Wings
Thus have the Republicans Of Maine secured
their splendid triumph over the most corrupt dy,,
nasty that ever ruled the Pine Tree State, and