The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-12-25
Voice of the People.
What the People Say Concerning the
Steal.

The more fully the special facts are made
known the more incomprehensible does the &C
tiou anpear unless it be classed in the category
of the deeds of the Mississippi Democrats, who
make ssno bones about it, but openly declare
their purpose to rule anyhow, and by whateV-
err means NAV be necessary Jour
nal.
The more this inquity is examined the worse
II looks. The Republicans have been counted
out on the most frivolous pretences. Inc Dem,
ocrats of Maine are planting Republicans, and
the crop will be splendid all over the Union
next acknowledgement Standard
The action of the Democratic Governor and
Council of Maine does not entitle them to rank
as political conspirators. They are simply low
swindlers and confidence men. They have
worked panel game on the people of Maine
and made their own political damnatlon sure.
St. Adams (Vt) Advertiser.
The thieves will not help their case by try
ing to explain and Justify the theft.--Hartford
Post
The Democrats don't seem to know how to
steal artistically In Maine they've simply
put their foot in it.-Chicago Times (Dem.)
The people of the entire North regard it with
disgust and horror, as characteristic act OF
the Democratic party, and there is hardly any
reason to doubt that Garcelon in trying, by
fraudulent means, to give his party success in
Maine, has struck it a terrible blow III other
parts of the country. Even patriotic Demo-
Gratis will realize that, If this example IS 20 be
followed, if the beginning i'll Maine IS to be
initiated in other States, the end will certainly
be the destruction Of popular government and
the disintegration and ruin OF the Republic:
The shortest road to civil war that we know OF
is for governmental authority to try to MAN.
tain itself by fraud and force in aposition from
which the people have demanded Its with
drawal.-Phiadelphi Bulletin.
The Maine thieves may not get away with
their booty after all. The two Houses are still
Judges of the elections OF their own members.
If none of those counted in are honest enough
to decline to sit, it may be that enough OF
those whose seats are undisputed will be honest
enough or prudent enough to refuse to receive
the pretenders. How cheap Garcelon and his
crowd would feelif to all this disgrace should
be added failure. Talleyrand once said of a
similar act: sit is worse than a crime-it is a
bluder''-St Adams (Vt.) Messenger.
There ought to be an Indignation meeting OF
all honest citizens, without respect to party in
Faneuil Hall, to protest against the fraud In
Maine The Post might well have left the
dirty work of defending the Maine rascality to
the Globe. The bust of Franlin fairly blushed,
yesterday morning, for very shame, when the
exponent of pure Democracy deliberately Jus
titled the steal-Boston Sunday Times.
An appeal to the mob, neither Mr.. Blaine
nor the Republicans of Maine ought to or would
tolerate. There must be some method by
which, in legal and constitutional manner,
this and kindred difficulties can be met. Has
not the State judiciary? Has not the Judi
ciary right to make inquiry into this allega-
ton? We are not familiar with the laws of
Maine, but it seems to us that they cannot be
SO loose and imperfect as to allow a few men to
steal the State without furnishing means OF
prevention and redress. Press.
The more that is known of the fraud, the
more evident it becomes that the course pur-
sued by the Governor and Council was alto
gether infamous, and that the theft of the
State was deliberately planned before the cleo
ton was held.-New London Telegram.
The receiver is as bad as the thief, and both
Garcelon and Smith will make their names in
famous in the estimation of all good citizens of
whatever party by this cunningy devised plot
to steal the Governorship of the State of Maine
and defeat the clearly expressed will of its
voters.-Sprfngield Union.