Daily Kennebec journal., 1877-08-31

and fair Mr.. Hayes would have had an unques
toned ty.
Every intelligent republican in Maine and else
where believes that the democratic managers en-
tered into conspiracy to carry certain Northern
States by bribery and corruption. They know
that disciplined bands of roughs, msrshsled by
Holland and others IN Cincinnati, cast thousands
of votes in Ohio at the October election. They
believe that Mr.. Tildens bank put $1,000 at the
disposition of the leaders of this conspiracy, by
telegraph to pay these bands Of repesters There is
a deep-seated conviction that what has been
proved to have been done in Ohio was carried on
upon a much more extended scale in New York
New jersey and Indiana. Intelligent republicans
believe that the four States which we're carried in
the North for Mr.. I Tlden we're so carried by using
the great mass OF corrupt material in the cities
which instinctivey adheres to the democratic par
ty-that New York city and its democrutc sub
urbs carried that State, New Jersey and CoDnec-
ticut by fraud, and that the superfuous democrs-
cy of Kentucky were organized and sent across
the border to swamp the Indiana republicans
which could be easily accomplished where there is
no registry law. Republicans believe th is because
all facts in connection with the vote and all frag
mentary testimony point in that direction.
Republicans fully believe that an honest and
free vote in Mississippi, Louisiana. South Carroll
ma, Alabama, Florida and North Carolina would
have shown republican majority in each ranging
from 1000 to 10000. They are thoroughly con-
vinced that these States all the scenes of ter
rorsm, intimidation and sometimes Of outrage
All subsequent testimony has only tended TO
strengthen hat conviction.
Republicans, also, recall the disgraceful scandal
and telegiams which connected the household of
Mr.. TIden, if not Mr.. 1ilden himself, with an at
tempt to cheat the people of Oregon out of an
Electoral vote.
For republicans to vote for Mr.. Williams on the
reversal and fraud" platform is simply for them
to declare that they are willing to call that cleo
ton in which majorities are secured by fraud and
violence. To join the party which glores in these
crimes, and throws all its energy and enthus asm
into the declaration that a candidate who carried
States by corruption and violence is duly elected
is simply to unite with that party in declaring that
the counling-in of Rutherford b. Hayes is the
"most monstrous political fraud recorded in his
tory" To vote for Mr.. Williams on the Portland
platform is to justify the methods by which North
ern States were carried by wholesale repeating
and thousands in the South were disfianchised by
threats and violence.
Any Maine republican, therefore, who sees fit to
vote for Mr.. Williams on the Portland platform
and with the democratic party must find his rea-
sons for so doing outside of the fact OF his repub
lcanism aud least of all can an intelligent sup
porter of President Hayes enlist in the ranks of
the party whose chief battle cry is the angry howl
Of Fraud" He will also be the last man to
appear as the apologist for the desperate methods
adopted by Mr.. Tildens champions in the cam
paign of 1876.