The New York herald., 1879-10-30
DESPERATE MAINE DEMOCRATS.


BRIBERY AND INTIMIDATION IN THE LATE
ELEoTIoN--ABusE OF THE LIQUOR LAW.
BOSTON. Oct. %. 1879.
For four weeks the State of Maine has been over
run by detectives and newspaper reporters seeking
information against the managers of the republican
campaign. which would tend to show that undue
influence was used in tho recent election
to get a majority for d. f. Davis. the
candidate of that party. The Globe. which
is the organ of General Butler In this city.
and which mainly instruments tai in bringing tho
Wallace Committee to Massachusetts, to inquire into
charges Of buldozing &C.. has persistently worked
in Maine since the election to obtain evidence Of
bribery and corruption against Senator Blaine and
the rest of the State Committee, which could be
used pretext for excluding the votes for repre-
sentatives and Senators in several counties, and
thus throw the State government to the demo-
Gratis or greenbackers. The Governor and Council.
as is we'll known, are the counting officers of the
State and this year they composed of democrats
and greenbackers The majority for the republicans
in the Senate is three. and il the election OF of
these could be proven to be tainted with fraud
majority could be gained for the combination.
EVIDENCE FRAUDS
The Globe tomorrow morning will bring out the
first instalmcnt Of the evidence against the repub-
lican committee. Among other things, after detail
ing the manner in which the Information reached
its Office and the opening of it's secret investigation
1t will say
The search for evidence has been made in towns
and cities all the State and the result Is ap-
palling Evidence has been elected from a thousand
sources. Republicans themselves have made verbal
Gratis and green hackers have pointed ont facts to
prove the worst of bulldozng, the most debasing
documents of county courts sworn statements Of
soyerecn citizens written Instructions of repubi
can leaders and committees have lent their involn
farv aid in ferrettinC ont crime The res,,t hos
been the unearthinr of condition of affairs in n
astound the reader wa
USING THE IrouoR LAW
been practiced In the State of Maine has been the
Joint use of the much valnted morality law against
the sale of Intoxicating LIQUORS and the power Of the
courts In Cumberland and in Kennebec in Knoy
ana in Androscoeqln. in Sagadahoc and in penob
scot-in short ali over the State Iouor sellers Of
hioh and low degree who have until now unisorn,iv
voted the democratic ticket-men whose nr;ncinass
whose selfish pecuniary interests and politicai po
cies would nil tend to make them demacrats or ~
Least onnonents To that nartv which oi' has az
Kent the Prohibitory law in existsnce have
in large numbers and in soma cites Ia,s amS
towns wholly voted the republjkan ticket As =
reward for this service senterces imposed bv the
highest courts of the Commonwealth have been
miigated and annulled by the action of tho admins-
tratiye ofcers connected with the judiciary There
stand upon the records OF county courts TODAY SEN
a inn ri
onment and fine. and evidence eouallv stronn thst
indictments have been made but oiiietlv sheved and
% S oa s me or
have been as MANY as half q dozen different ndict
monts with several counts in each, that have thus
been disposed of without Punishment to tho pnrtv
prosecuted This It must be rcmembered fs in
the case of men who let the democratic party for
their own safety and voted the republican ticket.
under the stress of combined promise and threat
In the case of democratic or creenback men who
were uouor sellers IL was d1fferent They in thesa
hava haen pf.aha al
| heretofore and in some Cases oven more go a a
single we'll authenticated case in mind is that of
vota the rcnubcan tcnet AZ osst 1or no S %
| Der OF Congress and County Attorney and on his
refusal to do so nc was told that he would not have
| nm opportunity TO vote at all This threat was
| boldly carried out. The mans Independence won
| prisonment for q term Of months for this hia
! first offence which is an unusual proceeding even
| in Maine courts 1t is we'll understood nv demo-
| Gratis and republicans in his neighborhood, and it
| is made no secret by any party that he was i'm
na met tor yo,aon 81 ha @ ana acio
stood exactly similar. to his on the dockct of tho
| court up to the fact of sentence have been al
lowed to remain in abeyance with the understand.
| ing backed by verbal promise from the County At
torney himself, that they will not be further prose
| cuted. They ply their business openly while n
democrat has been driven out of the same Kind of
| business In another county almost i'm mmediatelv
aftcr election two men were arraionad on cn.ray
| of selling Intoxicating Houors. both were con-
yicted The Judge imposed a ike SENTENCED In tho
! case of each-a fine OF $50 and costs. Tho dem
ocrat was Obliged to pay his fine: the republican
| or rather the former Democrat who voted thc
republican ticket on this occasion, went himself
| to the County Attorney and told him in
| very plain and distinct words that he had
| been promised immunity The ane i'm his case
was RENTED and he paid s,mplv the costs or the
court-SG SO or thereabouts Parties compiained oS
or indicted and in some cases couyicted-and i'm one
or two even sentenced-ror other offences auch NO
burglary, assault and other misdomeanors arc al
lowed to 90 at large and they boast anopg their fol-
lows that they have been insured the IMMUNITY re.
rro,, Tho hocL. oe th. corr, ,sraa,s.,. :. y t s
stated and IL this has not been the practice I'm every
county 1t has been ut leastin many Of the Counties
of the State.
VOTES pouaHT
Political ingenuity has been taxed IN its utmost
1t would SEEM to devise ways and means TO hinder
reemen in the perform ance OF their rights of suf-
frage and citizenship aud coercion has been used
not only votes. but to compel more radical