The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-09-12

TAMMANY TRIcKs.-Throughout the State
the Democratic-Liberal leaders used every
means to deceive Republican voters Here in
Portland the pimps of these leaders hung about
the office where the Republican votes were
printed to get copy to counterfeit in part and
in part insert the names of the Democratic can
ddates so as to cheat honest voters At yery
late hour vote was obtained and bogus ticket
printed containing the names of one Demo.
cratic candidate for Senator, Register of Deeds.
and one Representative.
The following from a Boston Adu.rtiser cor
respondent wilIgive some idea of the tricks
practised elsewhere:
Throughout Blaine's district tactic. quite
worthy of the once all-powerful Tammany were
employed by the Greeley managers to defeat
him, or reduce his majority, for it was well
understood that the effect upon the country
would be almost if not quite as great by a vic
tory over the Speaker of the House of Represen-
tatives as by reduction of the Republican
majority in the State OF Maine. In the county
OF Lincoln an infamous scheme was undertaken.
which, If it had not been discovered by one of
the most vigilant of the Republican MANAGERS
would have cheated Blaine out of more than a
Thousand votes and would have been adopted
in many of the congressional districts in the
country. This was, in brief, to get possession
OF the genuine Republican tickets by bribing or
otherwise, to have tickets printed exactly like
the real, substituting for the name of Blaine
the name of Lang, and to falsely distribute the
limitations for the genuine by neat trick of
sleight of hand The way the thing was to be
done was this: Agents of tie managers in all
the towns in the county were to be up and about
early ON the morning of the election day and
scoop up all the genuine Republican tickets: to
pack them with the spurious, and then prepare
to distribute and to engineer other. T'bou
were to display in their hands packages of
tickets, the uppermost genuine Republican
ticketS. Voters coming up were to be offered
Republican tickets and made to see that penuine
Republican tickets were before them, and then
given, by hasty man9uvre, which had been
thoroughly pract:ed before election, a spurious
ticket from the midst or bottom of the heap.
When the discovery of the plot was made the
piotters were not anprised, though a general
warning was sent out to voter. by the RenuhJ;-
can managers to look sharp at their ballots and
assure themselves that they were sennne he
fore they were cast. When election day came
the Greeley agents failed in tho ffrst Sten-to
get possession of the genuine votes~but thew
tried the game of distributing the spurious in
the manner have described, Tbis bounvar
was soon generally exposed and SO failed.
republican, aware OF the scheme, in some in
stances seized tho tickets held by these 'istrh,-
TORS, a9a turning them up like pack of cards
showed to the by-standers the nice arrange.
ment, the good above the bad: and in otbsrS
stood by voters to see that they were not misIed
Inc manager of this fraudulent vote business 10
most respectable resident of the countv an
ardent advocate and superintendent Oh the
SaoDath school, conspicuous member of sfhe
o ein,i radical temperance man. and great
clalnorer for reform in government and in the
management Of political parties! And his
chlet assistant is q prominent LAWYER who ;s
exceedingly chary of his reputation ' 10