The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1870-09-15
THE ELECTION LOCALLY.

The Democrats who were present at our
County Convention will remember the scene
which took place when the subject of the ad-
mission of the Belfast delegates came up
Our readers will recall the statement which
we made last week, of the attempt by the ed
itor Of this paper to reconcile the difference,
and the spirit in which il was met. IN con
sequence of the determination of cel ,an men
to have it SO, their purely causeless quarrel
was carried into the election of representa-
tive. AT the caucus in Hayford Hall, W. ii.
Burrill, Esq, an able and honorable gentle
man, and a lifelong Democrat, was unani
mously nominated. The boiling mal-con-
tents, however, insisted upon raining the
candidate of last year, even after he had de-
clined peremptorily, on the ground that he
is to be absent the coming winter, and the
declination, in the form of Il handbil, had
central wards Of the city, where the cheat
was understood, the impressed candidate of
the boilers got Just Ia votes, in ward none,
and in ward 5, where the deceit could be most
readily practiced, 35-total 40. Mr. Burrill,
the regular candidate, received 3OS. lIarri-
man. the radical candidate, by straining to
the last man, got 357. 1t will be seen that
had Mr. Burrill received the boiling vote, as
he ought, he would have just tied Han imam,
and there were Democrats enough within
reach to have given him a handsome major
ity. The boilers gave W p Hartman his
election just as effectively as though they had
voted directly for him. And while even Ban
gor, Lewiston, and Portland are filled with
rejoicing over the election of Democrats,
Belfast is cheated out of a similar result by
this manifestation of pure malice
Evil is seldom unmixed with good. BY
this mannuvre the boilers have show II their
strength. With all the deception they We're
able to practice upon Democrats whose inten-
tions were right, they polled just 49-or less
than one sixth of the Democratic vote of the
CITY We think our friends in other parts of
the County and State now understand where
the party of this city is to be found. There
is really less than a bakers dozen of these
irreconciables, who will hcncefolih stand in
their true light before the parry and the
public.
An incident Of the election in Stockton af-
forded some amusement to those who gather
ed about the house wherein the tug of war
took place. An honest farmer of the vicri-
ty, thinking that Il cooling mug of new cider
might refresh the combatants in the lulls of
the fray, drove his wagon to the town house
and did quite a thriving business IN retailing
his apple juice at three cents a glass. A pro-
minent radical seeing this dcmoralizing
traffic taking place upon the sacred soil of
his native town, ordered the vendor off. The
farmer, who thought that perhaps natdre had
made a mistake, and that his apple t.ees
were producing liquid damnation, prepared
to obey. But two stalwal young Democrats,
opposed to an unlimited monarchy in that
village, hoisted the barrel out, set it in Il con
venient place, and "let her lun' for the good
of the crowd. They think that the clause in
the Constitution which guarantees a free
press, includes the cider press. Undoubted-
ly the boys are right.