Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-11-28

the names anil circumstances will
not be made public. In professional
life the measure of success which a
man may obtain in Maine, or at least
in some localities Of the State, is
gauge 10y his Republ. .canism. Ply
sicians of undoubted character and
skill have lost their practice for no
other reason than that they voted
the Democratic ticket. Lawyers of
profound learning and good address,
honest and Jealous in tn :ir devotion
to their clients interests, have seen
case after case with the equity all on
their side lost, because of the juries
on which Democrats are not drawn.
Good lawyers in Maine have lost
cases, and their clients suffered in
person and property, and justice has
been masked simply because the ad-
vocates differed in political opinion
from their colleagues; they were un-
der the unholy ban of Democracy.
Cases have been lost because of the
influence of the administrative de-
pandents upon the courA directly or
.nairecfiy ayainSt tn ilwyer~. L"
such an extent Is this true that in q
prosperous AMI popular city in
Mime, men who have cases to argue
or cases to defend hestai- about
euAuying Democratic lawyers; and
500 of than, the peers OF any of
th9 obican associates IN all
TIT 1thtes man or lawyet,
ha& ne absolutely impovished
tHf 6sa evils. In soma local
itil I'LL 0stracism has grown to be
a. 0xism, the wretchedness of
WI ~ is hard to conceive Of in q
lace scity whore no one dares to
IA MAmannfacturing town in Maine,
wh9fe II wonld bo likely under Or
diubxy circumstances for the en-
ploysS|to vote with the Demo Gratis,
mead III vote the Republican ticke..
Ia thopase Of this town nothing is
said td them By their employers or
by th6 Republicans concerning poll
tics. They 3re not requested to vote
the Rspubl;&ap kticket. They ara
not ordered ado so. They are not
threataned With discharce if they do
,or<l0 not but before election came
tas9h enly declared that
they would vots the Democratic tick
'et or the Greenback ticket were
quitely discharged. After the cleo
ton those who had been known to
thus vote we're also discharged, one
or two or three day, until the pro-
cess of wedding out was completed.
One of them, who voted the Repub-
lican ticket, explained the matter in
this way: They don't talk politics
to us, but we knew we have got to
vote as they vote. We have seen
enough men thrown out of work to
know what it means, and therefore,
if we want to support our families
aud keep them from being paupers,
we know that we must vote the Re-
publican ticket" On the Saturday
preceding the election, in another
town, a gang of about twenty men
at work on the highway were called
by the foreman or superintendent,
and told that they must not only
vote the Republican ticket, but must
furnish evidence to him that they
had done so, or they could not ex-
pect work there. Business men and
merchants have had such intimations
in words and actions that they knew
it was useless for them to expect q
living custom if they opposed by
their votes the Blaine Ring in Maine.
Intimidation has reached the church
and an instance of this is found in
the case of a man who was q Sun
day school teacher in Andros-
coggin county. His class was taken
away from him for no other reason
than that he was a Democrat. The
laws of Mime provide, as is usual
elsewhere, that paupers shall not
vote, and yet in one of the wards OF
the poor house of the largest city
in the State, not only were those al
lowed to vote who had been fur
nished with outside aid, but actual
inmates of the poorhouse were taken
to the polls and there made to de-
posit their ballots-Republican bal
lots. And this is not an isolated
case, but the laws of Maine provide
that soldier cannot be deprived of
his vote. II he is furnished aid by
the town for him self or his family,
his name cannot be stricken from
the polling list until notice is given
to him that he may come and show
cause why he should not be deprived
of his ballot, 1. e., showing that be
served honorably in the civil war.
This becomes a passport to the bal
lot box despite the aid he has received.
and vet, in a city controlled by Re-
publican officials many names were
left off because, of aid received with
out the required notice being sent
and many soldiers when they came
to the ward room We're first informed