Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-20
WHY HE CROWS.
Because Plaisted is Elected.

A correspondent OF the Boston Globe,
who went to the state house in Augusta,
Me-, and examined the returns, tclegraphs
to his paper as fnllows:
All arc there with the exception Of
those from twenty-five places. The towns
reported give Davis 72, 1O4, Plaisted n ,4O2,
showing plurality of ZOE for Davis. The
twenty-five towns to hear from last year
gave Davis l 1,40j Garce!on and Smith,
2,17l, being a Fusion majority of 7GG. If
those towns come in as they did last year,
and learn that Union net gains have been
made in them, Plaistcd will have
plurality over Davis Of GJ. am convinced
that the figures arc correct, for care was
! taken in the compilation. The clerks
| returns arc not, rs 4 general thing, models
of accuracy, and if the official returns are
no better, there will be some difficulty in
their tabulation. For instance, the clerk
OF Nassalboro returned tho Plaistcd vote
Of that town as being cast for Hiram NJ.
Plaisted, and it is said that il the towns
record is in the same shape, the votes can
not be counted for Harris NJ. Plaistcd. To
offset this, however, another clerk returns
the Davis vote of his town rs for Daniel
W. Davis. Similar errors are noticed
throughout.
| ''Thc Republicans arc now claiming Da-
vis's election if the towns unrepOrted hold
their own, but are hoping against hope
that they will gain enough to wipe out
Plaistcd's plurality rs ut present indicated.
Among tho towns to hear from arc the
| Cnionist strongholds Of Cape Elizabeth,
SebagO, Bremen, Prospect, Turner, Mill
Bridge, Van Buren, and others.
''Thc evidence is now clear that Plaisted
is elected governor Of Maine, whatever
may be done toward cheating him out of
| it,
BY midnight Saturday all except seven
towns i'll Maine had been heard from, Civ
ing Davis %, 542 and Plaistcd 73, 493. The
towns to come i'll gave last year 1G7 Fusion
majority. This would now give Plaisted
lis plurality. 1t is expected they will
show Fusion gains, rs have all the towns
in that vicinity.
Edmund Wilson. member of the national
committee from Maine, says: "Thcre is
not the slightest reason to doubt that we
have carried the state. Blainc's first de-
spatcll to Garfield alarmed the Republi-
cans and rendered some desperate remedy
necessary to let them down easy. So, OH
the second day after the election, the re-
turns, which had been coming in regularly,
suddenly stopped, and there were many in
,lications that fraud was being committed.
But they cannot succeed. The count of
the vote will show that Pkisted is elected"
Mr.. Wilson believes that Hancock will
carry Maine in November.
\ despatch to tho Democratic national
committee from Portland, Me-, says: Re-
turns from 49G towns, mostly from Repub-
iican sources, carefully revised, give Plais
| tc,1
Davis, 40. Same towns in 1876 Rcpub.
lican, 75,SOs Opposition, GO, 7GO ; Repub-
lican majority, 15,O42 Republican loss,
1895. Seven towns to Je heard from
which voted in 1876, Republican, G5
Democratic, III and in 1879, Rcpubli-
can, CT ; opposition, 22S. They will elect
Plaistcd by about 200 majority. There
arc about 500 scattering votes to in
crease the majority against the Republi-
cans. The best proof Of the dcmoraliza-
tion Of the Republicans is shown by
the fact that they threaten to have Blainc's
supreme court declare that it requires
majority of lll votes cast to elect the gov
ernor. Republicans have carried tho Leg
!slaturc by rcsOrting to the most desperate
means in close towns and counties. OF the
% senators, they elect Is, who have each
less than 100 majority. Great joy is felt
that Gen. Anderson, Il staunch Democrat,
is elected to Congress over Reed. Reed
claims 100 ma jOrity, but many more votes
for Anderson were rendered by citizens
whose names vera surrcptitiously omitted
from the lists by Republican election
officers. In Blainc's district, Lind
scy, Republican, claims about 100 ma
will contest and expose the reckless bribery
| nI IIp
and Ladd and NIurcl. opposition, are
elected by large majOrities. The bull.
doZin:s' OF factory hands throughout the
state was open and violent. In Biddcford
Democrats were compelled to vote the Re-
publican ticket or leave their work, and
those who did not were discharged. In
south Berwick Democrats were not al
lowed the mills to vote, and similar cOcr-
cion WAS used in other factory towns, but
the people have triumphcd. The prcsiden-
tial campaign will be prosecuted here with.
out regard to minor differences, to rescue
the state and county from Republican dcs-
potism.''
The Union forces of Bangor had grand
celebration there Saturday evening in
honor Of their great victory at the recent
election. An imposing torcllight process
sion paradcd through the principal streets,
WHclC many SCOfCS anu rcSlIcnccS were
brilliantly Illuminated. Congressman
I.add, Scnator-clcct Jennings and others
We're scrcnadcd, big bonfires were lighted
i'll the squares and the booming, of cannon
resounded from the heights.
Last night the political situation was
not materially changed, an uncertainty
existing in regard to the result of the GU
bcrnatorial vote, which may require the
official count to remove. The opinion is
rapidly gaining ground among all classes
that General Plaisted really received a |
majority, or ut least n plurality Of the |
votes cast, and that the Republicans will |
not be able to change the result, but arc
simply trying to keep up the appearance
OF Davis's election in the hope of influence
ing the result in the doubtful states soon
to hold elections. The Republicans wear
especially sorrOwful faces since the impOs-
ing demonstration of the opposition which
in its magnitude surpassed any former
political celebrations in that section. The
Democrats and Grecnbackers in other por-
tiOns Of Maine arc celeb, ating their great
victory with enthusiasm. It is the current
talk among conservative men that Maine
will now he ready for an anti-Carfield ma
.jority in November, and that the Repub-
licans will find it a hopeless contest to stem
the tide with a fusion electoral ticket in
the field. During the summer the under
standing was that the ticket should EN-
brace three Democrats and four Green
hackers. The Democrats ut their state
convention put in nomination their elect
ors, and the Grcenback state committee,