Daily Kennebec journal., 1880-01-01

| SAWS s.wher return Is 0ctsctlvc BY reason 0l
apy informeity, duly attested copy Of the
record may be substituted therefor and be
counted.
The Govanor and Council again repudi-
.,sd the stashte, counted in Stephen ID. Lord,
. democrat. and reversed for the seventeenth
time the verdict of the people.
THE SENATE.
The changes made in the Senate followed,
or rather accompanied the change in the
House, and are in great part covered by the
.ta,emea, already made efthe representative
districts.
| CuxBERLASi COUNrY.
| In Cumberland county, entitled to four
.ero,ors they deprived the republican can
dida,es of their large majority in the city Of
Portland. by the same decision made touching
| the representative vote. But something more
was needed than throwing out three thous-
| and four hundred republican votes in Port
land. The returns from the Cumberland towns
were very accurate, but they discovered in the
republican town of Otisfeld that the whole
number of votes had been omitted, and forth
with Otisfield was thrown out though the re-
turn was absolutely faultless except in this
one non-essential point. More reductions be-
ing still OemNuutu WI uIC EcpuOiIcdu vOtc,
the Governor and Council found Westbrook
to be the only available spot. Here they
found the republican vote was 36O. The vote
was given in full both in letters and figures
opposite the name of Joseph A. Locke, but
opposite the names of Mr.. Locke's republican
| colleagues ditto marks were used both under
the letters and fgares. On this ground and
this alone Mr.. Locke's three colleagues were
counted out The Westbrook record was
| correct in all respects. but the Governor and
| Council would not permit any reference there
to. The result was that in Cumberland three
fusion senators were counted in though the
republican majority against them was atleast
one thousand.
YoRR COUNTY.
In York county entitled to three Senators,
the large republican majority in Saco was lost to
| the republican Candidates because the alder
men of SacO fell victims to the trap laid BY
| Pillsbury and Gove, in the use of the mis-
leading lines on the blanks sent out for the
official returns. The town of Lebanon was
also thrown out ff the reason stated in its
representative vote, and with the reductions
| in the republican majority thus effected, and
some mistakes in initials which they refused
to correct, though the statute commanded it,
the Governor and Council counted out two
republican senators and counted in tive dem
ecratic senators.
FRANKuN COUNTY.
| In Franklin county, entitled to one sena-
tor, the republicans elected their candidate
by q small but undoubted majority. But the
Governor and Council slaughtered him by
| throwing out Pennington, Jay and New
Sharon, all giving large republican MAORI.
| ties, and declaring the democratic candidate
elected by large majority. The wonder
| is that they conceded any votes at all to the
republicans in this county. where they counted
out the republican senator and three republi-
can representatives. out Of four.
LINCOLN COUNTY.
In Lincoln county, entitled to one senator,
Andrew X. G. Smith. republican candidate,
was chosen by majority of two hundred
votes. The Council found some variation in
| the initial letters of his name in different
| towns, refused 20 correct them under the
statute, and declared Isaac T. Hobson, fusion
candidate. elected.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
In Washington county, entitled to two SEN
ators, Alden Bradford. republican, was
counted out and the certificate given to James
r. Talbot, by invalidating the vote Of Cher
ryfield, as described in the case of its repre-
sentative vote. The Council maintained that
if one of the selectmen was an alien at the
time of his election, the board could never
have been legally organized and could not
therefore make lawful return. But in the
town of Cutler, in the same county, it was
shown that one of the selectmen never quail.
fed at all, and that the board had been
organized by two selectmen only But Cut
l., L. - A.
Council decreed her vote to be legal. Vance
boro' was also counted out for the reason
given in the representative vote.
Thus were eight republican senators count
ed out and eight democratic and greenback
senators counted in.
So the axe fell on twenty-nine elected re-
publicans in the House and eight in the Sen
ate. As elected by the people, the House
stood ninety republicans and sixty-one demo-
Gratis; as reversed BY Gov. Garcelon and
his Council. it stood seventy eight democrats.
sixty-one republicans and twelve vacancies I,
As elected by the people, the Senate stood
nineteen republicans and twelve fusionists.
When the Governor and Council we're
through with the returns, the senate con-
tanned twenty fusionists and eleven republi-
cans.
The republic is indeed in peril, if the time
h@S SvshS iu ~A"issC Wneu DODuIaf p1pctiOn
has ceased TO elect
The startling character Of this re.,,. i.
only tempered by what Mr.. For, ~ rho
Council terms that special s.Prov;dence.
which has sprinkled with blood she intel. Of
every fusionist stronghold, that NE Ar.eI NJ
Death might pass it by. whik the e.ecu.
tive guillotine has had ro lack d victim. The
head of no single fusienist has &opped into
the basket.
/ During the sixty years that Ma,e In. been
State, her Governors have coused ont On
m average, one man in every foo years. on
technical errors. In this one va. under
democratic Governor, 'sfatal deAets" ,r;rv
mp in 81 different districts at ono. and IN on
the republican side. That this hS been done |
by cunningly devised blanks, pAssred an |
davits, secret protests and ille6l and ex-
paEte testimony is only cumulatiA evidence
Of the conspiracy to defeat and|overthrow
the will of the people - expressed ) the polls.
1t was reserved for Governor Geelon and
his Council TO be the first ExecutivA Maine,
who have ever been charged VI having
abused their great ONCE BY reversiS the re-
suit Of . popular election. distortin(she con-
stitution thev we're hOund n Obev Al t,,m,, |