The Portland daily press., 1880-08-09
by TELEGRAPH.
A FOGGY SPEECH.

A Section of the Tabulators at Topsham.
Especial Despatch to the Press.l
TopsHAM, Aug. IF. NJ. Fogg spoke here
this evening at an outdoor fusion meeting
held near the residence of Col. Wi,des P.
Walker, who presided. There was but small
attendance, not over one hundred voters be-
ing present. Fogg devoted his entire speech
to the count-out, commencing by saying that
he is pround to be spoken of as an ex-member
of Garcelon's Council. Exceptsthat Plaisted'wlll
be elected by 10000 majority and that every
Congressional district be carried by the fusion
ists there was nothing to the first half OF his
harangue except rehash of his articles on
the tabulation and of his editorials i'll the
Chronicle. He said that the Hale committee
had endeavored to injure the character OF
eight innocent men, the late Governor and
Council, by charging them with forgery and
with altering the returns, and that it was
mean attempt to reduce them to the level of
the Supreme Court; and Mr.. Fogg added that
the Supreme Court is no court for him either
in criminal or political case. He became
somewhat confused over the Oliver p Brag
don case, charging the Republicans with hav
ing scratched off the curve of plain "B'' SO
as to make it APP He said that the name was
receved;as Oliver B. Bragdon, was tabulated
as Oliver b. Bragdon, and was changed by the
Republicans to Oliver p Bragdon for the adj
vancement of their own purposes.
He claimed that under the Republican adj
minstrations the returns were not counte but
that bushels of them are still at the State
House with seals unbroken, and also that the
Republicans were constantly in the habit of
sending back returns, twenty at time,sto be
corrected
For himself and his brother tabulators he
could say that they had labored in the interest
of a pure ballot. He advanced new theory
to account for Republican success in this state
in past years by saying that the Republicans
have been in the habit of counting 25 out of
every 100 Democratic votes as if cast for the
Republican candidates. He regarded the fact
that the Republicans charged Garcelons
Council with forgery and altering the returns
as evidence that they that had been gin the
habit of doing it themselves. He gave a re-
view of the count-out saying, among other
things, that he should never forget how Cap'n
Chase looked when A. A. Strout asked to
have the amended Portland record received by
the Governor and Council There he sat with
Que eye closed, and the other fixed on Strout,
winking, and with his hands in his peck ets"
He claimed that fve-eightS of all the sol
diers of the late war were Democrats, and said
that the Republicans hired substitutes and re-
manned at home. He said that Hancock and
w cdNcT dIo oiu0 ny clu0, anu tudJ cllucT Ol
them, or Harris M. Plaisted, might be cut in
to 10000 pieces and out of each piece much
bigger man than any the Republicans have got
could be made.
He claimed as specimen of the economy of
Garcelon and Council that they got Henry W
Paine and A. P. Gould for counsel for only
about $3.50 forth, although each is in the hab-
it of asking for $1,000 retainer. He endorsed
Joy of Ellsworth as his second choice for Gov
ernor.
Mr. Fogg thought that such resolution was
more honest than the one adopted at the Re-
publican State Convention held this year in
Portland, a convention at which he was pres
emit as spectator and where he was, probably
also the entire convention as well as the band.
Fogg warmed up at last, and Col. Walker
called for three cheers for Fogg, and Fogg
called for three more for victory in September
and united rush all along the line in Novem
bers. The cheers were family given, and
Fogg closed the performance by wildly yelling
Victory! Victoryl Victory!!P' The meeting
was far from being success
The old line Democrats present were dis
gusted with the exhibition that Fogg made of
himself, and Fogg can hardly fail to loso votes
as the direct result of his attempt to vindicate
the late Governor and Council from the clear
ly proven charges made against them.