The Portland daily press., 1879-11-18

The following are the revelations in full,
up to date, concerning Cumberland county,
published in yesterdays Boston Globe:
Early in the progress of the investigation in
Maine two gentlemen, we'll trained in the bust
ness of ferreting out crime, visited Portland
and other portions of Cumberland county to
ascertain the trnth of the rumors which had
become public in relation to frauds perpetrat-
ed i'll that county They travelled together
and made the most careful INJURY into every
case of bribery end intimidation which came
to their knowledge. We present the first por-
ton Of their report herewith emitting some OF
the names which they give, which are reserved
for future use, and will be printed, together
with the names Of the investigators, whenever
it shall become necessary.
In Portland we'll known business man was
met who, in the course of conversation, made
substantially the following statement:
81 have been public officer in this city in
years past and am now member OF the Re-
publican city committee. l have done more
hard work for the Republican party than any
man in this state, for this reason-that | car
ried this county by getting Democrats to vote
the Republican ticket. Last year Ward gave
only little over 200 Republican votes, while
the Democrats mad nearly 800 The plan |
adopted was first to get the assessor to go to
every house and get every mans name wheth-
er trey were voters or not; but finally was
obliged to do the work myself, because the as
SCISSOR went out in the country with his family,
on account of his wifes illness, and could not do
| the work ] had laid out for him. went to
| every Irish family and got their names. L
would tell them it was only a matter OF curios-
ity on my part to know how the ward stood.
| Then, when / got their names, would say,
| Now, want you to tell me just how you are
gong to VOTE Some would say, We'll, Mr..
= don't know; l always have voted the
| Democratic ticket Then [ would say. Don't
you get all your work from Republicans, and
don't you know that, if you expect to be kept
at work, you should vote for the Repnblicans?'
| If | found that one was hard to convince,
just said, We'll, you vote the Republican tick
ct this time, and viii see that you are paid
for your days work. When | am
settle with YOU By that kind of work
l carried this county which gives the Senate
to us. Now we have nineteen Senators, and
the Democrats and Greenbackers have only
twelve; whereas, if l had not gone to work
as | did, right away, the Democrats in this
county would have elected four opposition
| Senators. which would give us only fifteen to
their sixteen, and thereby give the Democrats
a governor, because the Senate would elect the
| Democrat or Greenbacker from the two names
sent up by the house, Davis, Garcelon, Smith
| and Bradbury being the only constitutional
| candidates, the latter having received lew
| scattering votes for governor es sir: went
to work six weeks before election, and hired
another man to stay here and run my business.
You can see what did. carried the county
by hard work and putting out money enough to
buy voters. tell you it just saved the State,
but it took hard work to do so. Why, over In
a little town in York county there was
mighty good fellow up for the Legislature, and
he came to me and said: II have the Republic
can nomination for the Legislature, and must
be elected, 1 have got $1,000 to spend, and
you may put out all that Is neces-
sary to get the votes. will pay whatever
! YOU have to give for them. don't want to be
beaten. Well got Mr. -, who works in
the custom house, and we went to work. LII
we found a man who could not be bought for
S. we gave him $40, and we paid as high as
$50 for some, but we carried enough to elect
him; and recolect it was strong Democratic
town. Well, when we called on him to settle,
he found that we had spent only $500. tell
you this custom house man IS smart one.
We were bound to carry Cumberland county,
and we did it. You know you can go amongst
those Irishmen and just use LITTLE battery and
tell them you will see him all right, and give
them a couple of dollars and inst tell them
that you viii watch them if they don't vote
right you will recollect it for them and you
have got them all right. Yes, sir, we just
fixed them in this county, and L can justly
say l was the one that did it, l am worker,
l am"
Among those said to have been controlled
by the money of thssbusiness man was man
by the name of Kerrigan, the witnesses to the
fact being two men by the name of Hassett
and Parks, while man named Desmond
can ticket. A father and two sons also
| voted the same ticket under similar induce
ments. Another voter bought was named
Libby, and another Alexander, MIR. Reardon
being witness in the last named case The
purchasing agent had a regularly established
headquarters short distance from the polls,
with two or three men upon the lookout SO that
he might pursue his business in safety.
A member of prominent business firm III
the seventh ward of Portland, bulldozed his
| ,Inx.hc hut tnnV voted
| the Greenback or coalition ticket, he would
discharge them and they would never work
for him again. The testimony of one OF the
men who was forced to vote the RepuDllcan
tichet is in our possession An employe OF an
other business firm paid money to man
named Reddy for voting the Republican ticket
A man named Harlow, who kept liquor store
and had no license, was prosecuted on charges
of selling. Three different men testified that
| they bought liquor of him. The case was not
prosecuted to conviction. He is Democrat,
but voted the Republican ticket. We have
| list of ten men in ward two who received
money for voting for Davis among them
| father and son; two in the fourth ward, and
| one in the seventh The cook in one of the
| Cumberland county institutions paid $3 to a
| man to vote in the same way, and the mans
testimony is available. A man who has charge
of gang OF city laborers compelled all his
| men to vote for the Republicans. He stood by
the polls all day and watched each man as he
came up, and gave him to understand that II
| he wished to remain at work he must vote as
| he was told
The following report is made OF the process
| Of electing Republican candidates in West
brook, Cumberland county: 1t appears by the
| town clerk report that one Joseph Dunnell, q
Republican, was elected to the Legislature by
a mai rity of two votes over Merritt w. Stiles,
a Democrat. We find On investigation that
there were more than enough votes to change
the result thrown by persons who apparently
had no right to vote in Westbrook. For in
stance, Frank j. Dana, a young man, who
is a clerk for his brother in one OF tho
mills in Saccarappa, voted for Dunnell,
He lives in Portland at No SO Deering street,
with his mother. The latter make state
ment about her sons residence to the effect
that he lives with her. and always has; that he
! is unmarried; keens books for his brother, VINO
runs mill in Saccarappa. but comes home
every Saturday night and goes back every
| Monday morning, and tina the has his washing
done at home. Frank j. Dana did not appear
| personally before the selectmen to have his
| name put on the checklist but it was handed
in by a man who lives in Saccarappa, a we'll
| known Rep lblican. We find on the Portland
checklist the name of Frank j. Dana, in Ward
| g. in which ward his and his mothers resi-
| dence onDeering street is situated. The name OF
| another Young man who has always lived in
| Portland, but whose father lives in Westbrook,
was handed in by the same man who gave
Dana's name the afternoon before election,
with the remark that he knew the young man,
| and that he had right TO Vote Inc names
of all the parties, with the direct evidence is in
our possession.
Adelbert r. Harmon has lived in Portland
| for a number of years. aud served his appren-
ticeship as a jeweller. His father, w. Y. Har-
mon IS reported to have stated to Divinal
Pride, one of the selectmen, in presence of M
w. Stiles, that he had reason to believe that
his son intended to vote inWestbrook on election
day, and if anybody would challenge his right
he (W. " Harmony would state publicly in the
| Town Hall that his son was not resident of
| the town and not claim to have residence
there for number of years, he having lived in
! Portland and not having come to his fathers
house since he (hs father had been married a
second time. All the claim, he SAID, that my
son has to a residence here is that he goes with
Young lady who resides in the town.
John II. Jameson voted the Republican
ticket on election day, and voted for Joseph
Dunnell. He has son, a minor, who is sup
ported by the town The town reports show
that $26 per quarter is paid to Joseph Barbour
| for his support. On on one of the Greenback
tickets put in the ballot-boX on election day
the name of Merritt w. Stiles was crossed out
with pencil and the name of ~. I'll. Don
nels'' written under it, This was counted for
Joseph Dunnell