The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-12-24
Voice of the People.
What the People Say Concerning the
Steal.

The Republican party in the long run must
be gamer by this transacton.-New York
Tribune.
The whole affair BODIES the rapid progress we
are making in Observation-Disclosures
Republican.
There must be q stern retribution in store for
the authors of this mischief and injustice
Lowell Citizen.
IT is a disgrace to the State which Democrats
can no more afford to let stand than Republi-
cans.-Newburyport Herald
There must be some wayto defeat the plot
of these insolent usurpers, and the Republl-
cans must find it.-Worcester Spy.
If the Maine conspirators had been bribed to
do it, they could not have devised better
scheme for helping the Grant bCoHl NOV
Haven Palladium.
Just as it began to look as if the Democratic
leaders in Congress had finally got a little
common sense hammered into them, Gov Gar
celon and his Council come to the relief. of the
Republicans.-New London Telegram
The disclosures in Maine go to prove the
charges made some days ago that the Demo-
cratic candidates were secretly given opportn-
mites for correcting all clerical errors IN re-
turns affecting them, while tho Republicans
were denied the privilege guaranteed by law.
Hartford Post.
The men, professedly Independent or other
wise, who compare this deliberate Maine out
rage with the action of the Louisiana return
ing board in 1876, in checkmating proven out
rage according to law, are idiots or worse
Hartford Courant
There is one name which overtops every 9TH
er infamous name in the country just now.
The name is not good straight Yankee name,
it is Garcelon. There is widespread impress
sion that Samuel j. Tilden had finger in the
Maine pie, and it is by no means improbable.
1t is like that eminent strategist, and reminds
one of Cronn and Oregon.-Lowell Courier.
1t is fact that political trickery is viewed
differently in Louisiana and Name lt IS
taken as a matter of course in the one State,
but in the other, the tricksters know better,
and are held responsible. Love of decency
and fair pia has not yet ceased to be
strong sentiment in New England, and Garce-
lon & Co. have made mistake in supposlng
that we have become so familiar with crime as
to embrace it.-Waterbury Comm American
Is it any wonder that the people OF Maine
are holding indignation meetings and talking
| about ightin?-Burlington (Vt) Free Press.
The confederate brigadiers have got away
with Blaine, and the rebel flag waves over the
| capital of Maine.-New Haven Register
| Dem.)
The vote elected Republican majority, but
| the count elects Observation-Disclosures ma
| jority. III the Fusionists can get any credlt
| out of aping the tricks of Republican return
| ing boards, nobody need grudge 1t them, 1or
they have paid for no less d price than the sac
! rifice of manliness and honor. 1t is dearly
| bought victory. Philadelphia Chronicle-Her-
| aid Dem).
| The press is very emphatic in its comments
l on the Maine outrage. We have seen nothing
like il since the war We have had no such
| episode in the course of events in this country
l since Anderson was fired upon under the float
| ing flag on Fort Sumter. And it concerns US
| all. Rights are struck down in Maine that are
| common heritage of Americans; without
l which we are all at sea, and adrift.-Lowell
| Citizen.