Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-09-17


Maine, that is to say, assuming that the Repub-
ican party has been defeated. Some sanguine
Republicans still insist that Davis will pull
through with the aid of the back towns and
plantations. This ia the line of reasoning
The Democratic gains are in the cities and large
towns, and they have been made through the
liberal use of money: but it is of no use to
attempt to disguise the fact that the Republi-
can party has suffered defeat. Even If Davis
should pull through bya few hundred 1T is
practically defeat ali the same. The State
has been claimed by the Republicans by from
5000 to ZOO, and conceded by the Demo Gratis.
The Republicans have been deceived, d,-"sold," !"
to use slang phrase. Ten days ago it was
publicly announced that the Democrats had
given up the State, and sent their speakers to
Indiana. It was a campaign dodge, lie.
When it was published to the country that the
Democrats had given up Maine they entered
upon tho last heat of the race with new oour,
age and vigor-the courage of desperation and
the
vIaoR OF A REpLENIsHED TREASURY.
Senator Blaine was anxious to show that his
defeat at Chicago entailed DO soreness. He
bent all energies to the prosecution of the cam
paign. He forced the fight. The Garoelou
fraud and attempted steal was preached upon
the Democrats without mercy. They WINGED
unQer IL, Dub WcIO given " 0OoPOAoe1oh' ~
was a question of life or death, and they raj
lied every energy for self-vindicatiOn. They
appealed to the Democrats of Boston and to the
National Democratic committee for more funds.
They had already raised an enormous sum at
home $3.50, 900 it is said three times the or
dinary sum raised in the Pine Tree State for
annual election pur poses by the Democratlc
party, and they did not appeal IN vain. The
Boston Democrats responded In large sum;
the National committee responded handsomely
also. The money went to Maine, and with it
the Democrats bribed the State. They put it
into the large cities and towns and
awamped the responsible vote with the votes of
purchasable vRgabonds. On my way to
this city over the Eastern railway to-day, /
met a man from an interior town, who de-
scribed
SOME OF THE SCENES
which transpired in his district. He said that
he had never seen in all his experience anything
to match the drunkenness which prevailed at
the election. In Prohibition Maine there was
Saturnalia of whisky. Every Democrat had
concealed about his person bottle OF lire
water" with which he was prepared to debauch
brother OF weakened Republican. In the
evening the whole town was drunk. Every
prominent Democrat in Maine was involved in
the attempted steal of year ago. and coDse-
quently every prominent Democrat IN Maine
strained every nerve to induce the people OF his
State to vote that he was an honest man, and
the would-be thieves have been vindicated.
There is the humiliating feature of the result.
The people of Maine have voted that Garcelon
and his hackers are honest men. and that the
Judges of the supreme court are fools and
knaves. The history of politics IN this country
never developed more complete surprise. The
Democrats of Boston 60 about huggipg them
selves as men do who have fallen heir to great
tafo evpocfed fo / met
Congressman Moss, the genial and popular Is
raelite, this evening, and
he FRANKLY ADMITTED
that the election in Maine has entirely aston
ished him. But" he said, we need vic
tory. After the nomination of Hancock we
had boom, and were jubilant, but later there
was reaction in favor of the Republicans, and
if Maine has gone against us We should have
been in a sad plight now. If We carry Indiana
do not see we can fail of electing Hancock.
The Republicans are pushing English to the
wall in his own State. They have denounced
him in way that would rouse all his man
hood, Think they are OVERRIDING 1t, as they
did in Maine.'' The implication of MIR. Moss
argument was clearly that the personal attacks
on EBglish would induce him to knock the head
out of his barrel and buy Indiana in October
as the Democrats Of the whole country had
bought Maine in September. Among Repub-
icans the opinion seems to prevail that there
has been much soreness in Maine over the de-
feat of Blaine at Chicago; but am OF the
opinion that this is a mistake. I have
met several of Senator Blaine's most intimate
admirers and supporters and
HAVE SEEN NOTHING
of the feeling so for. have observed they ac-
cept the defeat of the great commoner philo.
sophically as to the fortune of political well
L..
elusive that Mr.. Blaine himself has devoted all
his great energies to the campaign just closed.
It will be difficult to convince the country that
MIR. Blaine has been outwitted in the game of
political tactics, but the conclusion that he has
is irresistible. The fact is the Republican canvass
practically ended ten days ago with publicly
proclaimed majority Of 5000 to 1000, and an
admitted defeat by the Democrats. When it
was announced that the Democrats had given
up Maine they renewed the fight in the form of
Tilden still hunt. What they could not gain
by persuasion they undertook to secure by pur
chase, and they have succeeded. That they did
succeed is marvellous. In New England, the
supposed residence of culture and intelligence
and superior political virtue, Ignorance and
vice have prevailed over the higher orders of
society. Barbarism has achieved victory
over civilization, for it is indisputable
that the ideas of the oldest regime.
WERE prrTED IN MAINE
against the instincts and ideas of the progress
sive spirit of the age as exemplifed in the most
striking manner in the great centers of thought
and culture in the extreme East. What will
be the effect of this Republican disaster? M
thoughtful Republican doubts that it will be
good rather than evil. The Republican party
was too confident; it rested its hopes of success
in the Justice of its cause The result in Maine
shows that there is a barbarssm of ignorance in
Maine as intense as the barbaiism OF hate in
South Carolina and Mississippi. 1t shows that
the price of good government is eternal vlgi-
lance now az it was in 1861. The Republicans
of Boston are alarmed but not discouraged.
This defeat in Maine will nerve. the Republican
party to new energy and increased vigilance.
The lines must be reformed. There has been q
skirmish and the advance guard of the Union
armv has been driven back. The nation. is in
danger. The men who tried to shoot it to
death and to starve it to death now threaten
to vote it to death. The rebels vote as they
eh,t, and the majority of the people of Maine
vote with them. The situation is alarming,
but not disheartening. The great battle is yet
to be fought Close up the columns.
Ho,u 1t Looked the Day Before Election.
Especial Dispatch to the Chicago Tribune.l
WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. l2.-There proba.
bly, is not man in Washington, Democrat or
Republican, tonight, who does not believe
that the result in Maine will be victory of
substantial proportions for the Republicans.
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