Daily Kennebec journal., 1879-12-20
What is Said About the Outrage
I'm Maine.

Secretary Sherman, speaking of the Maine
Returning Board. says "Those fellows are
idiots. They are burning their own fingers
by this move. If the published reports are
true as to the methods by which they have
obtained contnol of the Maine Legislature,
Garcelon and his crowd are unworthy to be
the associates of decent men. | would as will
ingly form an intimacy with house-breakers
or sneak thieves as with them--that is, if we
are correctly informed with regard to the mo-
tives and methods of their proceedings" 1t
having been suggested that some republicans
were considering the propriety of having the
New York Legislature choose Presidential
electors in case the democrats should proceed
with their policy of revolution, Mr.. Sherman
said that if that is what the democrats want,
and are going TO do, 81 should favor the adop-
ton of the same plan by the republicans.
There is an undoubted constitutional right to
d, so, and the State elections Of last fall give
the power to do it. should, however, coun-
sci our people to keep cool and await devel-
opments. The democrats are working for
u.s."
The Bangor Whig says: "The Maine
Standard parades list Of eight towns in Pc
nobscot from which returns were rejected to
furnish basis for a claim to mpartiality. The
transaction is so gauzy that even a blind man
would see through it, OF the eight towns three
gave republican majorities and the whole
eight gave only "A fusion majority distributed
in districts not one of which were affected by
the rejection, while the same informalities
were used to unseat numerous republican
representatives elsewhere. No such dust can
be thrown in the eyes of an outraged peo-
ple."
The Piscataquis Observer says: "Never
since the early days of the war have we seen
SO much Indignation manifested by our citi-
zens, as has been over the report which came
from Augusta observation-disclosures lay. 1t is
not confined to republicans either but there
are mutterings among the respectable demo-
Gratis, that such monstrous infamy should
not be allowed
The Bangor Whig says: "Pillsbury and
Gove's trick with the election blanks might
have been successful in Bangor also but for
the vigilance and exactness of Mayor Brown
and City Clerk Brett. The blank had but
three spaces for Aldermen and when the re-
turn was handed to the fourth he said the
spaces were all filled. Mayor Brown, however,
insisted that all should put their names on,
and thus the miserable fraud was foilcd of its
purpose in this CITY,"
The Albany Journal says of the great
steal: at will be the most costly political
gain ever accomplished in this country. II
will bring down upon its perpetrators the in
dgnant reprobation of every honest man
throughout the land. There is no fair-minded
democrat, however attached to his party, who
will net condemn and repudate this mon.
strous wrong. 1t is amazing that any set OF
men could be found so demented and besotted
as to carry such an infamous scheme to its
conclusion. Never did conspirators pay so
high price for so transient an advantage.
They gain their object for the hour, but they
arouse an incensed public feeling which will
overwhelm them and their party in destruc-
tion."
The Eastport Sentinel says "The action
of the Governor and Council in counting out
sufficient number of republican Senators
and Representatives to give a working fusion
majority in both branches of the Legislature
is the most outrageous and glaring fraud on
record in this country. The fraud has been
accomplished by crime equally grave. The
law Of 1877 provides for the correction of re-
turns so that the will of the people as ex-
pressed at the ballot box may not be thwarted
by error of town officers in making returns
If this law had been observed the republicans
would have had a majority in both branches
of the legislature. BY disregarding it the
Governor and Council have obtained a fusion
majority. The Governor and Council have
laws. They have violated their OATH
Representative Lowe, the Alabama Green
backer, says it will be an exhibition of gross
political immortality on the part of Smith to
accept the Governorship Of Maine under cir
cumstances so suspicious of fraudulent deal
ing. AS a national, greenbacker and re-
former he would leave double dealing to the
old parties. He dees not believe the Fusion
lists have carried Maine at all, and any pre-
tension on their part that they have done SC
will react with fatal effect upon the party all
over the country.
Representative de La Matyr of Indiana,
thinks that the equities have been sacrificed
to technicalities, and that great moral wrong
has been consummated.
Mr.. Lee Crandall, editor of the National
View, national greenback organ at Wash
ington, deplores the action of Governor Gar
celon and his fusionists. He regards the
claim that they have elected their ticket as a
piece of transparent effrontery, and said he
would not on any account have Smith take his
seat as Governor. He takes refuge, howev-
er, in the pretext that the theft has been ac.
compished by the simon-pure democracts and
not by the aid of the greenbackers, who he
thinks would be incapable of such palpable
l..l1 l,a. kaI xc.rn al.