Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-01-07
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senator Bradford Claims his Seat.
The following letter was sent to the Gov
ernor and Council, yesterday, and similar
ones we're sent by other Senators
Augusta, Jan. 6. 1850.
To HIS E1eeiieney. -4ionzo Garrelon, Cor. Of
Maine:
At the election held on the sth day of Sep
TENDER, 1879, was duly chosen Senator
from the county Of Washington. The certi-
ficate Of my election has been withheld from
me. By the recent opinion of the Supreme
Judicial Court, it was decided that am en-
titled to that certificate; and l therefore re-
specially request that it may be issued to
me, and that the Secretary of State be direct
ed to enter my name on the Secretary's list
among the members-elect to be called on the
assembling Of the Senate
Yours ETC..
ALDEN BRADFORD.
A Lying Charge Of Bribery Answered.
To the Editor of the Journal:
1t is to be presumed that the papers and the
men, who are trying to bolster up the infa-
nous scheme to foist upon the people Of this
State bogus legislature will stop short of
nothing, no matter how dirty or mean, to car
~ out their plans. The Portland Argus of
yesterday says:
IS. X. Soule, of Winthrop, deputy sier-
if OF this county approached Mr.. Wendall,
member from Hartford, in the State House
to-day and asked him how much it would
take to induce him not to take his seat in the
House. Mr.. Wendall told him that he and
the whole Blaine crowd hadn't money enough
to keep him away an hour. After receiving
most severe drubbing from an enraged man
whose honor he had insulted, Soule struck
away TO his masters house to report prog
ress."
pronounce the above an infamous lie. made
up out of whole cloth, without the slightest
foundation to rest its Shiny form upon. When
a paper with any pretentions to decency, ma
liciously attacks citizen of this State in so
wanton manner, it would seem that decent
people should utterly refuse to patronize it.
wish to say to the Argus man-retract, or
I'll make you "give BEAM S. SouLE.
Deputy Sawyer's Mission.
A telegram from Pennington says that
Deputy Secretary of State Sawyer made his
appearance in town Monday night, in hot
haste in search of Captain Voter. He told
the Captain how bad the republicans had been;
how the greenbackers thought they had car
ried the State till the clergymen used their
pulpits against them on the Sunda, before
election; how Blaine's money had depleted
their ranks and that the fate of the democracy
depended upon the Captains presence at
A. Dat uoIita1x in
formed Sawyer that he was not going to Au
gusta unless he was forced to go, and he was
satisfied he could not be forced to go. Saw
yer brought him a letter from Gov. Garcelon
which urged Captain Voter to be sure and
60 Early Tuesday morning Sawyer left
town, but Capt. Voter stays at home, he hav-
ing surrendered his certificate two days ago.
G;arliner's Quota to the State Bummers.
Gardiner has furnished her quota to the
Macedonian Phalanx at Fort Garcelon, and
as it will be interesting to Gardiner readers
we furnish their names without remarks
Regular police, Daniel Burk; special spies
and footstep dodgers, Fred Weber and
Harrison Potter.
Military News Of Importance.
Aformer member Of the State police says that
before the guns arrived from Bangor they were
poorly supplied with pistols, knives and shot
guns, and that when off duty they were en-
gagged in cutting lead pipe, taken from the
capitol, into slugs.
Fusiomists Muster but Sixty.Eight Votes
At Caucus.
Mr.. Voter of Pennington having surren-
dered his certificate, Mr.. Sproul having acted
with the repu blcans at their caucus last even
ing, and others. who have been wrongly
counted in, having refused to take their seats,
the number of fusion representatives is thus
reduced below the number seventy, and it is
said that only sixty-eight were present at
their caucus last evening.
Not the City Police.
Strangers unacquainted with the facts must
not understand that the force Of police at the
State House is one belonging to the city, for
such is not the fact, as Governor Garcelon
refused to accept the city's tender of such a
guard.
A story OF s.Ktngheld" and Things at the
state House.
In the afternoon Mr.. Bray entertained
large audience in the reading rooms at the
Augusta House with graphic account of
Mr.. Pillsbury, when he was making treason
odious' a: Kingfeld. As Mr.. Bray was per-
sonally acquainted with the facts Of that riot,
and, though life long democrat, was will
ing to set the arch conspirator in his true
colors, he had many and appreciative hearers.
From the Augusta House one would natural
" follow the tide to the State capitol. There,
in the rotunda, was another assemblage of
both parties, talking over the state of affairs
Conspicuous were the State police, yesterday
supplied for the first time with badges. This
may have been for the purpose Of deceiving
the visitors, for naturally one would think
that there were no other guardians Of the
State property present. Yet it was not So.
DIGGING the footsteps of every stranger was
one of those spies. 1t is pleasure to know
that one or two of them are not so far gone
but that they blushed at the meanness of their
occupation. Busily running to and fro, or
engaged in a whispered conference, were
many of the originstors of this plot, whom