The daily gazette., 1879-11-18
From the Phil. Telegraph, (Rep.)
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The charge is made, and with such DIS
tinctness and circumstance as to entitie II
to credepce, that the Governor Of Maine,
assisted by his Council, composed Of
Democrats aud Greenbackers, Is about
to transfer to Northern State line OF
policy which few years ago was pursu-
ed with most distinguished success IN
certain Southern States by cliques OF
Northern adyenturers popularly known
as carpet baggers. Exactly what the
Governor and bis Council Of Maine pro
pose to do is to steal a Legislature first
and afterwards a Governor. The Idea
is not at all new, nor does 1t owe It's in
ception to either Democrats or Green
hackers. 1t had its being in the rather
too active brain Of an unscrupulous Re-
publican, and while IL was put Into exc
cution by Republicans, only the MAORI
ty of Republicans regarded it as all un-
mixed political good. To steal both
Legislature and q Governor does not
seem at first glance to be easy OF accom-
plisbment, but with the machinery at
CON mand and sufficient amount Of un-
mitigated rascality to operate it. the bus
mess is not SO fun Of obstacles as 1t ap-
pears to be. Last year the Democrats
Of Maine elected majority OF the Leg
stature, and AS neither OF the four can
didates for Governor had majority OF
all of the votes cast by the people, the
election was, by the law of The State,
thrown into the Legislature, which, by q
coalition of the Democrats and Green
hackers, chose Democrat. The Gov
ernor thus selected and his Council are
a sort OF Louisiana Returning Board,
with absolute power, this side OF Judi
cial revision,to declare what candidates
were elected members Of the incoming
Legislature. The facs Of the return, of
The late election shows that the Republi-
cans elected constitute majority OF
in the Senate and 80 in the House, and
to negative this there must be counted
out Republ can Senators and ~ Rep
resen;atives, and as many Democrats or
CIR enbackers counted in. This WORK OF
counting out and in, !. is declared by
those who are in position to know, the
| Governor aud his Council are fully de-
termined To do; and the ground upon
VIII ch they are to do it is that supplied
by the Southern Rturning Boards, viz,
alleged frauds, with this diflerence-that
while in Louisiana and Florida only the
Democratic districts were throw out, in
Maine only the Republican districts are
to he d sfranchised.
This plan, If attempted, as It is so con
tidenlly repo ted 1t is to be, is as sname-
less and Infamous a one as was ever per
petrated upon people-as shameless, and
infamous, indeed, las was ever perpetual d
uponth people of louisiana or Florida
and nothing could be said of it worse
than that. Throughout the Eastsrn States
the leading Republican newspapers de
nounce the projected fraud upon the
ballot in the most just and indign AN
terms, and so does the Tribune an,
Times, of New York. Their indignation
is perfectly proper, for the crime is ont
that cannot be too severely denounced
but when the same crime was perpetrate'
year after year by the INSCRIPTIONS po
Utica, adyenturers, " no called themselve
{, Republicans of louisiana and Florida
! why was It not denounced by the leadin
journals of the Republican party? Th
s Erening Telegraph stood almost alon
J, among such newspapers In denDuncin
it, the Tribune aud Times, as we'll as il
Eastern coadjutors, boldly supporting /
II The Telegrdph pointed out at the tim
d that 1t was bad game, which could
10 played North as well as South, by Den
- ocrats as well as Republicans, If Il
10 Democrats happened 10 secure the pow
" TO play 1t. IL is no worse a crime bell
e. now committed by Democrats than
a was in Louisiana when committed
:. the carpet-baggers In the name of &
% Republ can party. It Is precisely I
10 same crime; and If the reputable Repu
til lican press of the North had five, six, Sc
ad en- and eight years ago denounced it VIII
committed in the South, IL would L
now be attempted in the North. Wh
N it carries with it Is the distPanchiseme
is Of great Commonwealth under
ga shallow false pretense OF correcting fra
in few legislative districts; and, as
efs have said, no more heinOus wrong til
I'd this can be done to a free people. Th'
an may be no truths in the reports that II
40 to be attempted in Maine, to-day but
'ie the same II is possible for it not only
Oh be attempted there, but executed. Il
c il so great an offense against our politi
, of liberties as to be impossible Of cOmu
n, sion solely by reason OF its enormity.
the old Roman laws there were no per
pes ties named for certain off.nses, beca
ing it was said no citizen could be 80 base
il to commit them. 1t ought to be that
laf, IhlS county, no Hlail cuuiu Ue even y
WV pected Of the infamy of disfranehis
the his fellow-citizens, but it is not so; /,
on, we owe this particular phase of the cri
ous to perverted public sentiment VIII
80 for years, permitted it TO be done in
Vi South in the name of Republicanism,
be is one of a bad brood come home
an roost among its inventors.
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her there iull in orders. but NO symp
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