Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-08-24
Are there any Honest Democrats
mr. GrcenlDacEerS?

II there are greenbackers and demo-
Gratis who are possessed Of any honesty
they will surely hesitate to vote The fusion
ticket, loaded a. it Is with the infamy OF
the attelnp; To steal the State
The ticket through and through. from
skin to core. from head Ia foDi, j, -atura-
ted with the ietid corruption Of the Gar
coleman Steal-tie greatest piece OF po-
litical villaimv known to any Northern
State.
The political crimes of Tweed sink in
to insignifcance when compared with this
Ballot-box stuffing and repeating are far
less criminal than for the Governor and
Council OF State to set TO work deliber-
ately to defy the constitution they have
sworn to obey. to defraud the people who
have trusted them with high Office, and to
make popular suffrage a farce and null
lily.
Gases have occurred where isolated in
dividuals have unjustly been deprived OF
their seats, but the instance is not on
record, save this in the State of Maine,
where one fifth of the whole number OF
persons elected to the Legislature were
counted out of their seats by downright
fraud. and as many more persons who
were not elected were counted in, for the
avowed purpose Of stealing the control OF
the government another year, and if sue
cessful in this attempt Of keeping 1t until
the people rose with arms in their hands
and hurled the usurpers down.
Remember that there were Thirty-seven
republicans counted out, who were
elected by the people, and Thirty-sever
democrats and greenbackers counted III
who were not elected. In every case IN
which the returns were found so fatally
defective" rs to count out Il man the vic
tim was a republican. Not one democrat
was counted out.
The manner in which this was done Is
well known The Council Chamber was
closed against the republicans until the
villainy WAS ABOUT completed. There IL
secrecy frauds, forgeries, substitutions
villainous changes We're made until the
fluctuations were caused to show fusion
majority in Senate and House. No repub
lican was permitted to see the returns un
til the conspirators thought they had theil
work so far completed that there was no
a possibility of defeating them.
Now these men whose souls are BLACK
with the great crime against the State ASK
to be indicated for their outrageous con
duct in this election They have uomina
ted Harris NJ. Plaisted Tor Governor be
cause he endorses the fraud, and every vot,
for him is a vote endorsing the Steal.
Fogg who is the fusion nominee in the
Second district for Congress was one o
Garcelon's Council, the most unyieidine
in that body to any demand for justice
the most ardent rs he sthe most brainl.ss:
and constituencies defender of the Grim
of all crimes political.
Philbrck, the fusion nomiuee in tn.
Third Congressional district. was enlisted
in the conspiracy ut its very birth. ant
succeeded in having the Town in which h,
r, sides DISTINGUISHED and counted out
1t is fou bird that dtfiles its own nest,
and base man that will deprive the tow
in which he votes of the right to have :
voice in the election of State, county ant
town officers.
In the first, fourth and fifth districts tn,
fusion candidates are endorsers of iht
Steal. They uphold it. They never ut
tered the fir-t word condemning it. Thu
men most prominent in it. Fogg, Foste
and Brown. are speaking in those districts
defending the villainy of which they wer'
part. and urging the voters to endors,
the fraud by voting for it. and thus share
the shame and disgrace OF the origina
rascals.
Thus it is that the whole ticket uhicl
the fusonists are asked to support is reek
ing with the corruption of the Garcelon
ian Count-out. No man can vote it or an,
part of it without becoming sharer il
the infamy which attaches to Garcelor
and his Council.
Honest men will not do this disgracefu
thing. They will do as thousands di,
when they were asked to to endorse rebel
lion by voting for John W. Dana for Gov
erncr-they will either stay away from tn,
polls or vote the republican ticket
If this plot against the people of tn
State had succeeded the liberties of tn,
people of the state of Maine woulH b,
blotted out. and we should now be in tn
power of a usurping government. If tn
crime is not condemned at the polls thi
year, we may conclude that public virtu
and manhood have fled the State. and it
citizens are unworthy to have a free gov
ernment.
Remember that every man who vote
tor Plaisted and the fusion ticket en-
dorscs the wicked Count-out Young
men. will You soil Your character by cas-.
ing your first vote for such wicke,
and rascally cause? Your vote ut the poll,