Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-09-21

Denial Of Chairman Jones.

NEW York, September 20. George 0
Jones, chairman of the New York State con.
mittee Of the National greenback labor party
denies the assertions in the New York paper:
of yesterday, that he had held consultation
with Gen. Jewell in company with the mem
bers of the Washington greenback con-
mittee, after which the latter went to Maine
TO prevent the fusion of the electoral ticket
on Presidential electors by the greenbacS
convention.
Jones never interviewed Jewell on politics
and knows nothing of the aforesaid alleged
agreement, and SAYS the statement is entirely
false. He further states that all Information
| regarding Maine affairs he obtained from
Gen. Weaver, who opposes this. as he has
throughout the campaign. any fusion on the
National ticket, as well as opposing anything
calculated to interfere with the integrity Of
the greenback party as distinct National
organization.
New York Democrats.
Albany, NY. September 20. The democracy
of this county have united On the following
basis Anti-Tammany democrats are awarded
the congressman. county clerk, district attor-
new, one assemb!yman. one coroner, and
nine delegates to the State convention.
Kelly democrats are awarded three assembly
State convention.
Telegram from Governor Davis.
BosroN, Mass, September 20. Governor
Davis of Maine telegraphs here from Augusta
the following -
II shall be elected by 800 or 400 plurality
without doubt"
Senator Blaine ON the Maine Election.
Senator Blaine, who is in this city, sent
the following telegram to-day:
BosroN, September 20.
To Hon. Marshall Jewell, chairman republic
can National committee.
left Maine on Friday last. Intelligence
reaches me here to-day indicating that the
Geographic report of votes, as published by
the Associated Press, is in some cases mod
flied by clerks returns as they reach the
Office of Secretary of State, where they are
open TO the inspection of the public. These
notifications are of such character as to
render the conts ST between Davis and
Plaisted extremely close, possibly requiring
the official returns to determine which is
elected. The official returns cannot be
counted or even opened uutl the meeting of
the Legislature in January. The cry of fraud
in the count, as pat forth by Mr.. Chairman
Barnum, is sufficiently answered by the fact
that both parties in Maine have recourse TO
precisely the same authority for their figures.
First, the kilograms OF the Associated Press
and second, the clerks returns from the sew
eral towns. The agent of the Associated
Press at Portland, Mr.. Stephen Berry, is i'm
plicitly trusted by all parties, and is incapa-
BILE of wilful misstatement or evasion. His
experience in summarizing election returns
is as long and as varied As that of any man
in the country Up to this hour there is not
particle of dispute between the parties in
Maine touching the returns from single
town. The only possible opportunity for
frauds in the election returns under our laws
is in the French plantations of Aroostook.
where the assessors sign a return ex-
pressed in language with which they are
entirely unacquainted. The democratic
English speaking agent who makes out the
return has abundant opportunity for mis-
stating the facts. do not assert that the re-
turns from those plantations are fraudulent,
for do not know it. But | do assert and
do know that frauds have been committed
there in past years, by democratic agents,
and repeat that no where else in Maine is
fraud practicable. The frauds of last year
were not in the returns ut all, but consisted
wholly in Governor Garcelon and his Council
rejecting returns that were honestly and
regularly made. Mr.. Chairman Barnum is
also in palpable error when he assumes that
election returns should be at Augusta the day
after election. He forgets that Maine is
larger in territory than the other New Eng
land States together, and that the SOUTH
western-most town in Maine is nearer to any
point in the State of Delaware-nearer indeed
to the city of Baltimore-than it is to the
French plantations on the upper st. John,
BY any practicable route. In this statement
| speak of actual distances. In point of time
the comparison would be still more striking
and significant for a man can go from
Augusta to Chicago as quickly as he can go
from Augusta to Fort Kent. The talk of
Mr. Baruum about the fusionists of Maine
being counted out is mere rant. There is
not democrat or greenbacker in Maine who
has the slightest fear of such result. The
late Governor Clifford of Massachusetts used
to boast that the wing party was the only one
then in existence that would count itself out
of power and surrender to its opponents on a
diverse majority of one vote. alluding to the
case of Marcus Morton as governor. The re-
publicans of Maine when beaten in 1873,
could have retained power on two or three
technical points in the count. Those who
planned the Garcelon count-out of year
later expected the republicans to do it, and
suggested a fear of it. but there was not Il
single member of the party that ever harbored
such thought. If General Plaisted shall
have single vote more than Governor Davis
the executive chair of Maine for the next
two years is as well assured to him as
though his majority were 10000.
(Signed1 JAMES G.. BLAINE.