New-York tribune., 1879-11-12
,ru vorx p.uy TRIBU =. WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER I2 1879

but that they clearly indicate their purpose toex
anime into all alleged Irregularities III the cleo
ton. Their partsans loudly assert that bribery
ona large scale was rcsortcd to by the Repubh-
cans. and on this allegation it is proposed to
declare the election in certain towns and coun-
ties to be null and void and by beautiful
and fortunate coincidence the counties and
towns thus marked for destruction all gave
Republican majOritIes. To prepare the pup
lie mind ittIngy for the atrociOus conduct tH's
proposed. the Democrats have raised cry OF
"fraudn in all their papers. and special cor
respondent Of General Buffers organ. Ihe Bos-
tom Globe. has printed several columns III con-
secutivc numbers of that journal, giving
alleged details of these Republican outrages.
ANY one i'm search of amusement III pollti-
cal journalism will find it in these GtoOe
letters. They are filled with staring capitals
and abound with allegation, vOclferatlon ana
Imagination, but in every instance they lack
snbstantiation. In reading them one can
hardly resist the inference that the writer
was a humorist running at large and engaged
in selling The Globe and the public. From his
DESCRIPTION of the gigantic bribery committed
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the sickening details, and he waits as the
reader of Knickerbocker's history of New
York does for the ghastly victims III that
tempestuous war; in which the sword of Won
ter Van Twiler did such terrible execution.
After sundry airmations of the widespread
use of money in Maine by thousands and tens
Of thousands, The Globe correspondent IS
finally compelled to come down to facts, ana
then we are horrliied with the following naI-
laiiye, viz: He found from the alleged MEM
oranda of a Republican committeeman
that i'm the town of COdyyille eight dol
laIs were spent for political purposes;
in Eaton, ten dollars in Topsied. ten dollars;
in Waite, ten dollars in inforth fifteen dol
lars ; in an adjacent plantation, fifteen dollars;
IN another plantation, eight dollars. In other
words, in five towns and two plantations the
Republicans spent sixty-eight dollars Tor poilu-
cal purposes and in addition 10 the inghtiui
corruption which this lavish expenditure oi
money implies, the correspondent found tnat
one King, in Codyyllc, gave to Lewis Cross
can order on the store Tor par OF thick
"b0ots,r and the correspondent assumes that
thcv'wcrc given for CrOsss vote. Wise Mr. Cross,
who. on selling his vote FOR pair Of boots,
stipulated. rs Winter was impending In tho
far North, that they should be thick ones'
The same correspondent got scent, rs he
thought, of an important letter written by
Mr. Blaine, chairman OF the Republican State
Committee, and hc very naivey tells the pub
lie how he tried 10 steal the letter from the
postmaster supposed to have it; how he acted
as "conidence man," as pimp, az spy, rs
thief and then failing I'm any and every one
of the capacities 10 get hold of the coveted
document. he exhibited his enterprise and
genius as newspaper man by turning forger
invcntins letter and signing Mr.. Blaine's
name to it. To be sure. Mr.. Blaine immedi-
atcly wrote to the Editor Of The Globe that
the whole thing was forgery, but it did not
appear to harmonize with The Globes sense of
prop!iety to have its own correspondents ex-
posed as fOrgcrs IN its own columns, and so
Mr. Blaine Was compelled to publish his note
In the other Boston papers. And yet cor
respondent that writes down his own infamy
and confesses himself t. be ready for any
kind of rascality Is the person selected to ex-
pose Republican frauds in Maine.
Men who are bent on dishonest purpose
suffer from distortion Of mind, and these con-
spirators against popular rights and popular
elections fail to observe that they are really
establishing the fact-if proof thereof were
necded-that the election In Maine was singu-
larly and exceptionally free from the use Of
money. In the few places where they specif-
cally allege its use they do not find the sums
employed in those country towns sufficient to
nav the ordinary expense of wagons and teams
to carry to the polls those voters who are too
far away to walk and who do not own horses.
In short, their specification of the use Of
money, viewed in the light of accusation
against the Republicans, is beneath contempt
in It's paltrinessj viewed as a justification of
the Republicans, 1t is of immense value in its
significant inference.
We have made these remarks on the assump-
ton that the Democratic and Greenback papers
are reckoning with their host when they assert
that Governor GarcelOn and his Council will
adopt the course they advocate. But we
prefer ourselves to believe that Governor
Garcoon and his Council viii behave like
honorable men, and that they will administer
their great trust according to law and prece-
dent and principle. They will hear members
of their own party cry aloud that the Demo-
Gratis were defrauded by the Returning Board
of Louisiana, and that now is the time to pay
them back In like coin. The same code of
morals in private life will Justify you in
stealing Smiths yoke of oxen this year because
you suspect that he stole your horse last year.
Nor would even this code of political morals
find q ftting application In this casej for
whether the law of Louisiana were right OF
wrong, wise OF unwise, it did specifically confer
on its Returning Board the discretionary powers
which they exercised. But on Governor Gar
celon and his Council there Is no power
conferred save that which has been exercised
by his predecessors of all political parties.