Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-03-01
WASHINGTON COUNTY
The Plot to Count Ont
COUNTY ATTORNEY ROUNDS !
FRANK Foes's vow, AND HOW NEAR
IT GAME TO BEING FULFILLED.

1t 10 not pleasant to chronicle crime. but il
IL part of the province of the newspaper press
OF Maine to lay before the people of the State
every fact connected with the fusion plot to
seize the reins Of government, and to hold up
to
Everlasting Infamy
the men who were concerned in the con-
spiracy. Treason must be made odions /,
Day by day evidence accumulate. against the
iuslonist leaders, and day by day the circle
grows narrower and narrower. The end can
not be far of. Away back in November.
James u. Blaine told Boston Herald reD-
resentative that some of the fusionist leaders
would be lucky if they kept out of the peni-
Tertiary; and, in view of recent develop
ments. such seems liable to be the case.
Though the mills of the gods grind slowly,
ist they grind exceedingly small"
Yankee Traits.
1t was Shakespeare who said that ssvault-
ing ambition O'e'rleaps ITSELF" In their zeal
to capture the State Of Maine at all hazards.
the fusionists displayed recklessness, al
most incredible, as to consequences They
mad not calculated upon the men with whom
they had to deal; they had not correctly esti-
mated the public temper. Robert Collyer in
New York on Forefathers Day. read an ad
mirable poem on Saxon Grit, four lines of
which we reproduce as peculiarly applicable
to the people ofour State:
"Winning BY inches holding by cIinches
Slow TO contention, and slower to quit
Now and then failing, but never once quailing-
Let Us thank God for the Saxon g.it."
1t was this love of fair play on the part of
the people, this love Of justice which lies at
the root Of every true American, that, under
God, carried the Ship of State safely through
the breakers which threatened once to dash
her to pieces.
FoEEy WAKES Profane.
+. N. Fogg, the blatant editor of the
Observation-Disclosures Chronicle, and one of Gov
Garcelon's council, told the rightfully-elect-
ed county attorney of Washington county,
one day last fall, when that gentleman made
application to the authorities to examine the
returns: "G-d-d-n you, Rounds, we will
take your scalp if we don't count out another
man in the State.'
c. B. Rounds of Calais and E. X Smart
Of Pembroke, were the two candidates for
county attorney. The former gentleman had
. clear majority of 297 votes over his oppo-
Dent. To overcome this it was necessary to
do some
Rather Tall Contingent.
The city of Calais was the first place Sc
lected. This city gave majority OF 3l4 for
Rounds; but the vote was thrown out for the
reason that the return was not signed by the
city clerk. Chrryfed gave 23O republican
majority; but some one alleged that ont of
the selectmen who signed the return was
an alien, and Cherryfield was accordingly
deprived of its vote. The town of Eaton
was the next place selected. Eaton gave
Rounds majority: but was thrown out for
some alleged informality. Marshfeld gave
25 republican majority, but the whole num-
Der of voters were put in figures instead of
being written out, and SO Marshield had to
go. Vanceboro' gave32 republican majority;
but the town clerk was absent on election
day. and another clerk was chosen pro TEN.
And Vanceboro's voice was silenccd. Two
democratic towns (Topsfeld, 5 fusion MAORI
ty; Whiting, 9 fusion majority were thrown
out.
Now will the reader do a little example in
l. A.