The Portland daily press., 1880-02-24
MORE EVIDENCE
Showing How Garcelon and Council De-
ceived the Republicans.

The following atfidavits found at the State
House need but a word of comment. 1t will
be seen that all but one of them bear Gdate be.
fore the Governor and Council met to begin
the count and that one bears date of the same
day. The endorsement on some of them show
that they were acted upon Nov. II by the
Council, that is on thevery day that Gov. Gar
celon told the Republicans that the returns had
been seen by no one. If this were true how
did it happen that the town clerk of Rangeley
knew that he had put an extra ''l'' in Ro-
dolphus and had prepared this affidavit as ear
ly as Nov. II, to be used in correcting it.
STATE OF MAINE, FRANKLIN SIS:
I certify on oath, that in making my list of
persons voted for, Sept. Sth, 1879, as clerk of
the town of Rangeley, 1 made the following
error, to wit: "Roldolphus P. Thompson"
when in truth and in fact the person voted for
was Rodolphus P. Thompson, and said error is
clerical, and intended and supposed at the
time recorded it correctly, but 1 misspelled
it in pu tting in the letter ''l'' twice when it
only appeared once
Dated at Rangely, Nov. II, 1879.
JOHN HALEY
Town clerk of Rangeley in Franklin county,
Me.
Franklin ss.-Nov. II, 1S79.-Subscribed and
sworn to before me at Rangeley.
B. EMERY PRATT,
Justice of the Peace.
Here is an affidavit which shows that the
conspirators had begun their work as far back
as Oct 6, less than month after election.
STATE OF MAINE, FRANKLIN SIS:
On this sixth day of October, A. D., 1879,
personally came before me, Justice of the
peace in and for the county aforesaid, Samuel
Look, of Jay, in the county of Franklin, who,
being by me duly sworn according to law, de-
poses and says as follows: "That ON the eighth
day of September, 1879, he was at the polling
place in the town of Jay, aforesaid, and was
standing about four feet from the box in which
the ballots were deposited, when man came
forward to vote, and when his name was
found and checked he put one vote into the
box; and before departing be had another vote
in his hand, and as he seemed to be reading it,
holding it over the box, he dropped it, and
that was also received into the box by the men,
Der of the board having the box in charge.
(SigneD SAMUEL LOOK,
Subscribed and sworn to before me this sixth
day of October, 1879. D. H. CHANDLER,
Justice of the Peace.
Here is the secret affidavit taken without
notice to Republicans, on which Pennington
was counted out:
We hereby declare and say that we are Sc
lectmen of Pennington, in the county of
Franklin, and State of Maine that we were
held Nov. Sth, 1879 (?) in said Pennington,
and we further state, that the record of the
meeting was not recorded in the record book
i'll our presence, or in open town meeting to
our knowledge, and we have never seen the
record and do not know that any has been
| made.
Dated and signed at Pennington, Nov. Is,
1879. G. 3. RUSSELL,
w. B. GILMAN.
State of Maine, Franklin aCounty ss.-Sub.
;had 70 hafO ,,on OF 1,otr
November 10Th, 1879. B. EMERY PRATT,
Endorsed as follows: :'In council, Nov IL,
| 1869. Referred to committee on elections.
P. A. SAWYER,
Dep: Sec. of State.'
| Here is how the troublesome Republican ma.
| iority in New Sharon was got rid of.
NEW SHARON, Nov. II, 1879.
/, Nathaniel Harding, am the Chairman OF
| the board of Selectmen in the town of New
Sharon in sthe county of Franklin, State Of
| Maine, and I was present at the polling place
| in said New Sharon on September Sth, 1879,
| and attended to the duties of my said office,
and did not see the Clerk of our town make
| any record of said meeting or the doings
thereat, but l since have had conversation
with the said Clerk in which he admitted that
| he took minutes at the said meeting and copied
| them into the record book at his own dwelling
house. The meeting aforesaid was held al
| Lancaster Hall, place other than said dwell
ing house aforesaid.
| Signed at said New Sharon on the date first
named NATHANIEL HARDING.
State of Maine, Franklin County ss.-Sun
| soribed and sworn to before me at New Sharon
this seventeenth day of November, A. d. 1879
| JOHN G.. BROWN,
Justice of the Peace
Endorsement on back: Gin Council, Nov. II
1879. Referred to Committee on elections"
| Don't Sacrefarv ~ Stafe