The Portland daily press., 1877-08-30
THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 80.

the conspiracy OF 1870, were again at Portland
this year. They did not dare to propose open
ulsDanoment; but they sought TO effect their
purpose by another scheme. They had reSo'ced
70 HayeSlze the party-in other words to deliver
u over soul and body, to the Great Fraud.
Mr.. Pillsbury, the Chairman of the Demo
cratic State Committee, and his clique, were
most earnest and persistent in advocating the
nomination of Mr. Williams. They vouched
Tor his Democracy as thorough and genuine.
They collared and button-hOled delegates sim
gly and by scores, and told them of the most
accurate knowledge they had of great mass
Hayes convention that would be holden on the
18th of August, which would certainly either
adopt Mr.. Williams, if nominated by the De-
mocracy, or would nominate Gen. Chamber
lain. Either course, they maintained, would
result in the certain election of Williams.
In WORD, majority Of the delegates were
impressed with the idea that Williams was a
good enough Democrat, and that his nomina-
ton would secure for the Democratic ticket the
support, direct or indirect of thousands upon
thousands OF Hayes Republicans.
such were the means and such were the in
huences and representations that effected the
nomination of Joseph ii. Williams, Repub-
lican of twenty years standing, by the Demo-
cratic State Convention at Portland. Naturally
enough Democrats were anxious for success
and being without sufficient time to weigh and
consider the roseate views Of the Augusta
clique. they fell into the trap laid for them, and
eo-o"y onOia oAiJ Aopo is bue reWaTU Inat ever
attends folly.
Where now are the glittering inducements
by which Mr. Willams's nomination was I'M
posed upon the late Democratic State Conven-
ton? Where now is that most formidable
break which his candidacy was to make in the
ranks of the Republican party? What COM
pensation have the Democracy for the most
humiliatng and stultifed attitude in which
they have been placed by their candidates
letter of acceptance?
We ask Democrats of the respective cities
and towns of the State to look about them and
put their finger upon the Hayes Republicans
who propose to vote for Mr.. Williams or Gen.
Chamberlain. We undertake to say that there
are not fse hundred of them in the whole
State. Bangor gave Hayes nearly 1000 votes
last November. There are not fUe of the whole
number that will be given to Williams one
week from next Monday. We have yet to
learn OF the first Republican who voted fol
Hayes in Bangor last,November. who proposes
to vote for Williams on the tenth of September
II there are any in other cities and tow ms W.
shonldlike to hear of them. They. certainly dc
not exist in the Penobscot Valley.
By his most extraordinary Interpretation O
the second resolution of the Democratic plat
form Mr. Williams has pres snted one para
mount question for the decision of the Demo
cratic voters of Maine. That question dwarfs
all others into insIgnifcance 1t is this
"Shall the Democrats of Maine condone the
Great Fraud"' Mr.. Williams calls upon then
to confess and proclaim that Hayess title tt
the Presidency is valid. and that the infamous
decision of the s to z of the Electoral Com
mission was judicially right, by voting for hin
on his Interpretation of the second resolution
of the platform.