The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1879-12-27


the state of Maine, a Washington dispatch
Of the 22d says: The administration has
loaned itself to Senator Blaine, and will as
sist him actively in his effort to keep pos
session of the State Government of Maine.
a dispatch was sent from here to Senator
Iamln, last night, which read substantial
ly as follows: General Garfield advises
resistance, even to bloodshed. He saw the
President to-day, and says the President
will recognize tho Davis Government, If it
is legally established in Maine" Tho sig
nificance of this dispatch lies in the fact
that Senator Blaine and his allies in Maine
haye fully determined to establish "rump"
Legislature in that state and elect Davis,
the Republican candidate, for Governor.
Ills programme is to induce the Supreme
Court of Maine, if he can, to issue certificates
of election TO those Republican members Of
the Legislature who were refused certificates
by Governor Garcelon and his council. If
the Supreme Court is not willing to issue
the certificates direct, the Republican county
officials will issue them, and the Supreme
Court will hold that the certificates SO OBJ
tanned are legally issued and that the men
SO holding them are entitled to seats in the
Legislature. The Republicans will then de-
mand admission to the Legislature for the
men holding these. certificates. If the Flu
sionsts refuse to admit them, as they al
most certainly will, the Republicans will
then withdraw and organize a Legislature
OF their own, to which the men holding GER
tifcates. from the Supreme Court or the
county officials will be admitted, and this
Legislature will procede to elect Davis Gov
ernor. The Fusion Legislature will probab-
ly elect Smith but if it elects him, or any
BODY else except DaYis, there will then be
in Maine two State Governments, as there
were in Louisiana and South Carolina.
The question will then arise as to which
shall be recognized by the President. Sena-
tor Blaine is already assured that the Prcsi-
dent will recognize the Davis Government.
That is what this dispatch means, and l am
credibly informed that the dispatch is au-
thorized, and that the matter was discussed
informally at the last Cabinet meeting, and
that every member of the Cabinet, with the
exception of Secretary Evarts, ovowcd him
self in favor of recognizing the Davis Gov
ernment when the question OF recognition
shall come up. General Garfield and the
Republican lawyers have been looking up
the law and the precedcnts to sustain Blaine
in the step which he contemplates taking,
and they claim that the situation in Maine
is very fully covered by the decision oi
Chief Justice Taney, in the famous Rhode
Island case of Luther VS.. Borden. Just how
this decision is to be Interpreted to fit the
Maine case docs not appear. In that decs'
ion the Chief Justice held that the President
had the power and right to recognize which
was the legal State Governmentwhore there
was conflict of authority, and that tho
courts were bound to follow his recognition
and the law of February 2S, 1895, is cited t.
show the Presidents power to call upon th'
militia and maintain the Government whicl
he has recognized, if need be. Trouble i
certainly brewing in Maine, and some yer,
conservative men who are conversant witt
the state of public feeling and the situation
Of ah.1xs in that state predict that there vii
be blood shed in Maine before the difficult
is settled. Senator Hamln and Congress
man Frye, Reed and Lindley were sum
moned by telegraph last week to mec
Blaine in Augusta Monday, and Congress
men Ladd and Murch both left on Frida
night 20 take part ip the contest and to ad
wise with the Fusionists in Maine.