The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-12-20

ly selected SC as apparently 10 JUSTIFY INC
counting out of a large Republican town that
would destroy Republican Senator or Repre-
sentative To contrive all this required time
and SO the present Council worked over the
returns, cooking and doctoring them from
October 3Oth to December 10th. For this
period they did it openly. How long before
Oct. 30th the returns were surreptitiously
opened will never be known till the Council
grants the investigation asked by Mr.. Rounds.
Ordinarily in former years week or ten days
sutficed for an honest Council to count the
returns.
Sixth To make some sort of covering for
atrocious fraud they have committed a great
effort las been made to prove that the Kepub-
Iicans carried the election by bribery and cor
ruption This is Fictitious and fraudulent
pretense got up to cover q case. Why don't
they indict somebody? They tried 1t IN
September before grand jury two-th'rds OF
whose members were Fnsiohlsts ana t1ey
came very near ipdictng Democrats instead OF
Republicans. They have got up large num-
her of affidaYits from men OF q certain charac-
ter telling how they had been bought Tor one
or two dollars or some trltilng sum. Many OF
these afiidavIts have been recalled by the par
flies who made counter statements, declaring
they had mace the first affidavit when drunk
on the liquor which the Democratic agent
furnished If man will sell his vote for a
dollar or any other sum he IS hardly the wit
ness to appear as public prosecutor of great
party. The whole effort to sustain the bribery
! charge has been attended with disgraceful con-
duct by the men who started it and who have
systematically bribed their witnesses to commit
perjury These De mocratic and Greenback
agents have really been guilty themselves of
bribery, of subornation of perjury and of get
ting men drunk enough to be participants in
both crimes
Seventh. Some of the Democrats who
chuckle in private over this infancy and do
not wish to come out in square approval of it
are in the habit of charging it off against
Louisiana where they alege the Republicans
cheated the Democrats Well, certainly the
Maine Republicans did not cheat the Louisiana
Democrats, and even if somebody else had
done it the Maine Republicans ought not to be
made vicarious sacrifice. But there was no
cheat in Louisiana. The bulldozers and muir
derers of that State were warned by law that
wherever they wrought violence in parish
and destroyed the right and power of peaceful
voting, the parish should be thrown out. This
was the law, whether wise or unwise is not for
us to determine. But it was the law and the
enforcement of that law defeated Mr.. Tilden
and elected President Hayes. But where on
| earth is the analogy to sustain a fraud in
Maine, unless you consider it good morals to
steal my purse in Maine because you think an
acquaintance of mine robbed your friend in
louisiana
Eighth. And now we are asked with the in
science of the highwayman making off with
stolen property what we are going to do about
it? We are pursued with the taunt that we
cannot help ourselves and are boldly told that
the same tribunal that has done the counting
this year will be in apostion next year to repeat
the game, and such l have no doubt is the de-
liberate intent. Success always inspires cour-
age and if the people of Maine weakly submit
now they will be called upon for still greater
display of weakness hereafter. The prizes
next year, besides that OF State officers, are
five Representatives in Congress, Senator of
the United States, seven Presidential electors
and the undisputed possession of the political
power of the State till January, 1885, as We
are to have biennial elections hereafter. With
At. 10 l&oIo
into legislative and congressional districts to
suit themselves, gerrymandering at will; APP
point the valuation commissioners who would
punish certain sections of the State by an I'M
due and unfair share of taxation, and gener-
ally run riot after the reckless style OF the adj
fniinstration already inaugurated. This is the
treat to which the people of Maine are invited
This is the burden for which they are asked to
bend their backs. This is the degradation to
which they are expected to submit. A great
popular uprising will avert these evils and re-
store honest government to Maine,-and the
people are already moving.
TELEGRAM FROM GEN. j. A. HALL.
After Mr. Blaine's speech telegram from
Gen. James A. Hall in Boston was read as
follows:
"When the Louisville Courier-Journal sug-
gests hanging Garcelon, the New York World
denounces the Governor and Council without
reservation and every independent Democratic
NoSo
safely appeal to the people OF Maine who will
brand these conspirators as the blacklist
villains of this century,
LETTER FROM HON. A. P. MORRILL,.
Rev. Mr.. Ecob followed with capita
speech, after which the following letter by
Ex-Gov. Arson P. Morrill, was lead:
Fellow citizens-I deeply regret my inability
to meet with the citizens of Augusta this
evening to take council in regard to the great
I,,A,, hot -, 4J,n
pie of this State by the recent action of the
Governor and Counsel whereby in the most
fragrant and unprecedented exercise of power,
in open defiance of law they propose to change
the result of the peoples action as clearly ex-
pressed at the polls at the September election.
They are to do this by arbitrarily counting out
sufficient number of Republicans elect filling
their places with men on whom they rely to
aid them in carrying out their reasonable pur-
poses and thereby continue their own political
lives instead of giving place to their chosen
successors. To this end the Governor and
Council have finished their labors They have
notified persons whom they have selected 10
people and they now await the
consummation of this great crime on
the first Wednesday of January next. The
question arises are conspirators to be Permitted
to carry out their infamous scheme? To that
question there should be but one answer, an
indignant "No'' Every honest man. of what
ever political party, is interested to stamp out
this latest treason. Permit this move to be-
come a success, establish such precedent and
the end OF our free elections have come How
ever the air may have been filled with the cry
of fraud by certain papers and persons inter-
ested to pave the way for the grand larceny
which is now being developed, the Govern
or and Council base their action on no charges
of fraud. They do not pretend TO have dis
covered fraud in connection with any certif-
cate they have rejected. 1 cannot believe that
the conspirators are to be permitted to carry
out their wicked purposes. Our good State must
be saved from this infamy now threatened it
by the vile schemes of its rulers.
Truly
(signed) A. P. MORRILL,.
Speeches were then made by Mayor Nash,
Howard Owen, Rev. DIR. Butler, III. NJ Heath,
Rev. DR.. Kicker, j. Manchester Haynes, Geo.
Weeks, and letters were read from ex-Secre-
tary Of State Sumner j. Chadbourne and
Rev. DR.. Quimby.
The great meeting, after the adoption of the
resolves, closed with three rousing cheers for
Daniel F. Davis.
Indignation Meeting at Bangor.
BANGOR, Dec ia call for an indignation
meeting Saturday evening to denounce the
counting out conspiracy will be printed in the
morning signed by between 300 and 400
citizens including the mayor and members of
the CITY government, elSuI eA-nayOfS, ledulHS
clergymen and most prominent men in the
community. The number of signers is only
limited by the brief time of circulating the CALL
as the feeling continues most intense, and the
indignation is hourly increasing. Other indig
nation meeting already announced for
Monday evening in Dexter; Wednesday even
ing in Etna and there is evidence of a general
uprising throughout this section.
MAINE.
The Bangor Walking Match.
BANGOR, Dec. 19.-The walking match clos
ed this evening at ten O'Clock having lasted
twenty-six hours. At the finish the score stood
as follows, all but four contestants having
dropped out.
Jerry Hourihan, Boston, 115. 11-first money
1925.
Henry Redding Woonsocket, r. l., 1890
second money! $50.
Dennis Donovan, Natick, Mass, Hills,
third money, $40.
E. j. Condor, Allston, Mass, 112, $40 and
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