Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-11-03
HOW MAINE WAS WON.

1he Most Shameless Intimidation EUer
Practiccd O~t Of mississippi.
Boston Special, Oct. 29I
The Globe will begin tomorrow to pub
lish series of articles forming the result of
an investigation into the methods employed
by the Republican party of Maine to carry
the recent State election. The assertion is
made that the most shameless intimidation
was practiced ever known outside of Missis-
sippi; that the courts and the famous Maine
law were used TO compel Democrats to vote
the Republican ticket; that the bribery was
both open and secret, and that repeating and
the colonization of voters we're systematized
and of enormous extent. The bribery, it is
said, was usually in the form of paying men
for their time, so that its authors are beyond
the reach of the law. The article to be pub
lished tomorrow consists of presentation
of the case mainly in the above lines, and,
from day to day, the results of the investiga-
ton in particular localities will be given.
The Globe says:
The public will be incredulous at first, but
when the
PLOT OF INTRIGUE
is unfolded in detail, with tho names of the
participants and their share in the work
given, there will no longer be room to doubt
the mind of any person who is willing to
believe the truth. Nothing so subversive of
tho will and the rights of the people and so
disastrous to good governement has been
spread before the American people since the
history of the presidential steal was given to
the world. The most Ubiquitous kind of
corruption which is alleged to have been
practiced was the joint use of the much:3
Wanted morality law against she sale of in
toxicating liquors. Men whose principles,
whose selfish pecuniary interests and politi-
cal policies would all tend to make them
democrats, or, at least, opponents to that
party which has kept tho prohibitory law in
existence, have, in large numbers, and in
some cities and towns wholly, voted the Re-
publican ticket, and as reward have had
their
FINES AND SENTENCES M1TIGATED.
say that in professional life the measure of
success which man may obtain in Maine,
or, at least, in some localities of the State,
is gagged by his rerublicanism; and the as
sertion is made that lawyers, physicians, and
clergymen have been pecuniary losers by
fidelity to greenbackism or democracy,
while employees in sawmills and other manu-
factories are said to have been
l. DISCHARGED PREVIOUS TO ELECTION
for having announced their intention to vote
against the Republican ticket. A Sunday
school teacher in Androscoggin county is al
legged to have been deprived of his class for
no other reason than that he was Democrat.
The article closes by asserting gross frauds
in the use of check lists, and in speaking of
repeating, cites an instance where man,
after voting at home, went to the next town
and voted, claiming citizenship, when his
only claim to residence in the latter place
was that his girl lived there.
Women's National Christian Temperance
Union.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Nov. 2.--The Woman's
National Christian Temperance Union spent
yesterday in discussing the plan of representa-
ton. The following was finally adopted :
The annual meeting shall be composed of the
executive committee, the State corresponding
secretary and treasurer, the chairman of the
standing committee, and the editor and pub
Usher Of onr union are delegates at large
from each auxiliary State, and
one delegate for every three
hundred, paying members of auxiliary unions
in States, Territories and District Of Columbia
will be represented upon the same basis, sub
ject to the approval of two-thirds of the or
ganized States. Delegates to-day filled the
pulpits of various churches, and several mass
meetings were held. The convention will adj
journ tomorrow, to meet either in Brooklyn