Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-07-30
General Weaver and Counting
ont Frauds,

Out IIduuSs
II find that il Is conceded everywhere IN
your State that the independent ticket VIII
be elected in August if the people can only
haze fair count. This and all other coun-
ties in the black belt are Overwhelmingly
against the Democratic Party BY more than
three to one, vet l am told on all sides by
most respectable persons that you uniformly
count ont By fraud the men who are honestly
chosen, and install in Office the candidates
who are confesseiiy defeated. This Il the
end of all free government. Ii you strike
down free ballot in Alabama, you strike IT
down in Iowa, and New York. and every
other State in the Union as well as in Ala
bama-T General Nearer at NoafgomeTy,
alabama.
Thus spake General Weaver. the green
back candidate for President. at meeting
recently held at Montgomery. Alabama
They are noble words, true and weighty.
so far at least az they relate to the practice
OF counting out majorities in the South
and the importance Of a free ballot and
Al fair count.
But while General Weaver is speaking
in the southern States for free ballot
and fair count. what are his greenback
supporters in Maine doing2 Are they up
holding free ballot and fair count?
1t is now known to every person of in
telligence in the country that the late Gov
ernor and Council OF Maine counted out
by fraud men who were honestly chosen
to the legislature and counted in to their
seats candidates who were confessedly
defeated. They did precisely what Mr..
Weaver saws he understands the demo-
Gratis are in the habit OF doing in Alabama.
Now, We ask again what are Mr.. Weaver's
friends doing about the great fraud per-
petrated here, which he says sis he end
of all free government?
Why Mr.. Weaver's supporters in Maine
have made the counting out fraud the chief
issue in our election. They have nomi-
mated as candidate for Governor man
who never opened his lips against the in
famous acts Of Garcelon and his Council.
and who to-day endorses and defends
them. His name is HARRIS NJ. PLAlST-
ED. They have even nominated as a can
didate for Congress a member of the in
famous Council, +. NJ. FOGG. and every
other man whom they have nominated or
will nominate for Congress is an endorser
Of the contingent fraud. They have de-
clared everywhere that if they succeed in
this campaign it will be a complete vim
dication of the course pursued by the con-
spirators against fair count. The head
and front of the fusion combination in
Maine is found among the members OF the
old Garcelonian cabal. They have fixed
things so that Mr. Viewers friends in
Maine cannot vote in the State election
without voting for the very fraud which
Mr. Weaver denounces in Alabama. How
can grecnbackers vote the fusion ticket in
the face of the following brave words ut
tered by their candidate for President in
his Alabama speech?
II nm told on all sides By most re-
specialize persons that goa uniformly
COUNT OFT by FRAUD THE MEN WHO ARE
HONESTLY CHOSEN, and install in Of
fee the CANDIDATES uhO are CoNFEssEDIY
DEFEATED. THIS Is THE END OF
ALL FREE GOVERNMENT"
Greenbackcrs of Maine, which will you
do, heed the words of General Weaver.
YOUR candidate for President rebuking the
opposers of free ballot and a fair Count
or will you vote tor Plaisted and the fusion
combination ticket and thus endorse the
great fraud of Garcelon and his Council