Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-01-26
REBELLION THREATENED.
The State House Garri.
6Oncd.
A Town Clerk Gives SAWYER
Some Advice.


perficial. There has been coming into
headquarters for some time past information
that the fusionists were organizing men into
clubs, resembling the democratic rife clubs
OF the South, whose purpose it was to seize
the State House at an unguarded moment
and raise the
Standard of Revelation
among the quiet Maine hills This is nc
Newspaper story, no canard, but the Observa.
ton Of men in various cities and towns OF
the State, who have been sending in dis.
patches to the Governor, informing him OF
mysterious movements on the part of the flu.
sionists, and warning him to be prepared.
Desperate Fasionists.
In Biddeford, Portland, Lewiston, Angus
Ia, and other cities of the State there are
organizations Of men who, at few nome nts
warning. would be ready to proceed to this
city with the intention Of retaking the State
House, which has been garrisoned BY a small
force of about fifty special policemen, good
men and true, but not sufficiently strong in
numbers to hold that building against des-
perate mob
On Friday the Greenback Labor Chronicle
of Auburn was issued, and the edition fairly
reeked with treason. 1t advised the capture
Of the State House at all costs. 1t is we'll
known that club has been drilling in a
downtown hall here nearly every evening of
the past week One night a special policeman
assembled the stairs and knocked at the door,
He heard drum tap inside, and the tramp Of
feet on the floor, the door was opened, and
when the custodian of the hall saw who his
visitor was he refused him admittance.
Was IL . Plot
Friday evening a man named Cowee was
discovered lacking triangular pieces of buff pa
per upon the residences of prominent republi-
cans, and upon their stores on Water street
The triangular piece Of buff paper is an old
know nothing device, and means a call to the
headquarters.
The Militia Sent For.
The militia companies of the State have
been ready to respond TO moments call for
a week or two past When Gov. Davis was
inaugurated, and the legal State government
set in motion, Mayor Nash wished to be re-
lieved Of the responsibility of guarding the
public property any longer, thinking it be-
longed more to the province of the State than
to the municipality but Gov. Davis did not
wish to take any action which would possibly
be construed by the democrats as looking
towards intimidation or violence, and request
ed Mr.. Nash to keep his police force on duty
for while longer.
On Friday evening, on account Of the ru-
mors of armed bodies of men in various places
and the report that Capt. Black had received
a case Of arms, it was deemed expedient to
telegraph at once to Gardiner, Lewiston and
Auburn, for the military companies there un-
der arms The Capitol Guards, forty-one
men. Captain Ballard; the Richards Light
Infantry Of Gardiner. forty-three men. Cap
tain Berry; the Auburn Light Infantry, forty
three men. Captain Merrill. and detachment
Of ten men with Calling gun under Captain
Mennealy from Lewiston, responded prompt
" to the summons, and the Capitol now con-
tains some two hundred special policemen and
soldiers who are not disposed to be driven out
by anv mob that can be assembled.
In Union Hall.
Forty-fve members of the House, few
senators. half a score of loafers who had gath
cred. as one of them remarked. to see that
the legislature was not "ovcrtimidated by
republican hirelings." and two or three re-
uorters made up the congregation which as
.embled in Union Hall Saturday morning.
Praysrless.
Aswe predicted in eur Saturday. issue,
Row Mr.. Wales Of Biddeford being absent,
there was no one present who had experience
enough in praying to present petition io'
Divine aid and assistance. Accordingly the
f,.;onists proceeded at once to do business
without letting any one experiment 10 the
matter.
Memorial 70 Congrsss.
Mr.. Dickey introduced the following
Ordered, That committee of one from eacf
county be appointed by the House with sucf
A. the Senate may select, to prepare memo
rial to Congress and an address to the CHI
,.ns of the State. fully setting forth all the
facts relating to the organization OF the h"u''
and Senate on the first Wednesday OF Janua
~ and all facts relating to the choice o.
cox.rnor Of the State and also members o.
tho Council and State officers, and all otne'
f,c,. connected with the legislature WHICH
may be deemed of Importance by the c'"
,;,,ce. This was passed.
The sapreme Court.
At their meeting on Friday it was vo'eo -
Law the matter Of submitting certain que'
lions to the Supreme Court, on tue '."'<
un,i, Monday, and many of the fusionist' ~n'
we're bitterly opposed to having anything =
do with the body had gone home for o.0oA'"
I'M, on motion, the questions we're taken u
the table, and the House proceeoeo u 'e'~.'
the propriety of leaving the matter 70 '"-
tribunal.
Amer an Animated Diseasssen
~ .bout an hour it was decided 10 se"' Wv
,u.st;on. on and let the judges be the .r''
tors in the matter. Some OF the me"oe'
cal, =. little homesick, and one gentie"A'