Daily Republican., 1880-01-19
The Right Triumphan

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The Right Triumphant.
Time that makes all things equal ha
brought justice to the people Of Main'
and saved them troma dastardly attemp
ocratic Governor to deprive them of th'
honest results of the late election helC
! in that State. The patience exercised
by the Republicans under such trying
circumstances was commendable. Know
ing the justice of the course they will
ingly submitted all their grivauces to
the decision Of the Supreme Court the
highest judicial tribunal in the Slate,
and by the decision of that body they
were willing to abide whether render
I'd in their favor or against them. 1t is
difficult to see how the Supreme Court
could have decided otherwise than
they did and the unanimity of the seven
judges gives great moral force to the
decision. The desperate character OF
the fraud is shown by the unwilling
ness of the Fusionists to abide by the
decision, and even after it was render
ed the Fusionist Governor proceeded to
discharge the duties of the Office which
he was subverting. Happily however
the rebellion has been scotched before
it had gone 30 far as to shed blood for
which the people of the whole United
States should be devoutly thankful.
The Republicans and the honest people
Of Maine when once fully assured that
they were right, lost no time in putting
the machinery of the State government
in motion. With an enthusiasm wort y
of the great victory they had gained by
their GOODNESS and prudence, the right
fully elected Legislature assembled and
elected the man Governor who had re-
ceivsd over twenty thousand more
votes than any other candidate
had received, though lacking a
few hundred votes Of majority
of all the votes cast at the
election. One of the char
acters most to be honored and an
mired in the whole movement is Gener-
al Chamberlain, once himself Governor
Of the State, but now Major General
commanding the militia. With that
sturdy and infexible devotion to prin-
ciple for which he was always noted he
disregarded the paper phillipics and
windy mandates of both Lamson and
Smith, pretended Governors of the
State, the first for week and the latter
for only a day. The moment that
Governor was elected by the Legislature,
and recognized by the highest oourt of!
the State, that sturdy commander turned
over his authority to the rightful Gov
srnor and once more the military be-
came subservient to the civil power of
the State.
He must read to no purpose who
does not understand in the result in
Maine that the first game in the Presi-
Dental contest of 1880 has been played
and lost to the Democracy. Had the
attempted subjugation of the State sue
,eeded, there can be no doubt that it
Vas to have been the key note of mum.
Dsrless frauds to follow. The Democracy
ire in desperate straits and will stop at
nothing short of outright rebellion to
accomplish their purposes, but with
he cards in their desperate game sx.
'osed, they will meet an igneminious
lefeat of which their overthrow in
laine is but the forerunner. All honor
the honest patriotic people of Maine,
nd no less honor to Senator Blaine,
x-senator Merrill, Eugene Hale, Cen
raj Chamberlain, Mayor Nash of Au-
'usta, who have been the cham pions of
ight and justice, and who have saved
the people Of Maine the. results of r
he victory achieved by the Repu bli- {
ans at the ballot box, and not least
ave saved the honest people of the
tate from one Of the most gigantic
'auds ever concoctsd by wicked men.
he victory is another feather in ssua-
'r Blaine's cap for the Presidential
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