New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-09-03
part of the trade of politics. how do yol think the
fig lit is coming out 7"

hg ht is coming out y
After little hesitation. one man SAID, well. it's
going to b. close" yes" said another "t's IN ghty
close The other two reechoed this opinion. As l
left the room, one of the Democrats q TALL good
humored man, with a ruddy countenance, followed
me ont into the hall and said: " I'm Hancock
man. We know well enough that there's nothing
left of the Greenback party outside of Maine. 1t
has all fallen TO pieces. But we are keeping it
up pretty we'll here and we think we'll be able to
start 1t again two years hence by raising the bank
question. Look out for a big fight against the
banks at our State election of 1882"
DEMOCRATIC EDITOR DEFENDS THE STEAL.
Back Of the Fusion headquarters room is the office
OF The Standard Democratic weekly paper.
found the Editor, Mr.. Warehouse. in his sanctum,
and asked him what he thought Of the prospects Of
the election He said there wers seven thousand
Democrats in the State who did not vote last year.
but who would come out and vote the Fusion
ticket this year because of their interest in the Ma
tional contest and of the importance of giving Han
cock a start by victory In Maine. As the total
vote last year the largest cast in the State
at any election, these thousand stay
at-home Democrats are probably about as
real as Falstaff7s men in buckram. The
FusIonists all placing great rell-
ance upon them, however. Mr.. Naterhouses ;
calculation was that the Republicans could get out
no larger vote for Davis than they got last year
that the Fusonists would combine upon Paisted
the whole vote then thrown separately for GaIcelon
and Smith, and that those seven thOus md probe
matical Democrats would come out of the weeds
and settle the contest.
asked him how he managed III his paper to de-
fend the attempt of Garceon, Plsbury and Fogg
to steal the State Government. In reply he made a
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general and Mr. Blame in particular said they bad
corrupted the politics of the state; that there had
been no honest elections of late that there we're five
thousand purchasabe voters whom they bought
every year a performance the Democrats were
too poor and TOO honest to initiate; that Democratic
liquor sellers prosecutt I'd and Republican liquor
sellers let alone or let off with small fines; that men
under indictment could escape trial by voting the
Republican ticket and great deal more in the
vein.
Then if understand you. you think that be-
cause tho Republicans unfair means TO carry
elections your party is justified in frandulently
counting in a majority in the Legislature"
well. we did 1t IN accordance with law and Re-
publican precedents and supreme Court decisions.
Perhaps it was not fair, but there's no fairness on
the other SIDE"
The editor was mistaken in saying that the
counting out was done In accordance with KePuuH-
precedent. Up to 1879. III the fiIIy-nlne years
the State OF Maine has been in existence. there
were but fifteen cases where the right of members
to sears was challenged account of the illegality
of election returns All at ouce. in 1870, GarcelOn
and his Councillors found they pretended thirty
seven cases of irre4ulariy IN the returns for a SIN
gle Legislature. and. by remarkable coincidence
all those cases were Of Republican members, while
the Democratic and Greenback members returns
were perfectly regular. The fraud was too glarIng
for intell gent TO undertake to defend The Flu
sionists of Maine are defending it, however. IN their
papers and Oh the stump. We shall see on tuesday
week what the people have to sayet the polls about
the rascally transaction. EV. s.