The daily gazette., 1880-01-08

MAINE ALL QUIET So FAR.-The
Republican newspapers and orators de-
serve some credit for abandoning their
thrests defy the laws in Maine and
plunge their State in blood and war.
But 50 long as there was a prospect of
HIccce4s by brow w-beating and bulldozing
the Governor and Council into surren-
dering the peoples rights they did not
do so, and therefore only made virtue
Of necessity, fearing they might get
whipped physically as they have been
politically. The New York Herald
correspondent says: "Both branches OF
the Legislature to-day organized on the
basis established by the official count
made by the Governor and Council. A
President of the Senate and a Speaker
Of the House have been duly installed
In Office, and all the machinery of the
legislative department of the State gov
ernmentin 1880 is in working order.
The Republicans were beaten at their
own game. Contrary to general expec-
tation they went into both houses and
tried to defeat an organization in each,
but the manpuvre was failure. 1t fail
ed to accomplish the object desired and
gave the Fuslonists what they most
wanted--a full bench.
The n. Y. Sun intimates that Blaine
and Hamlin were 10th beaten by the
willy Fusionists. It says:
"Both branches of The Maine Legsa-
ture were organized yesterday. In the
Senate, the Republican members pro-
tested and refused to serve on commit
tees or vote when their names were
called. But they sat passive while the
= Fnsionists transacted the usual routine
business of the opening of the session.
"In the House Eugene Hale made a
speech. He also made a quorum. If
he had held aloof with the other Repub
lican members and the two or three
Fusionists who had conscientious scru-
pies about availing themselves of their
certificates, the House, according to the
Republican lawyers, could not have been
organized.
"Eyen Eugene Hale, bumptious as he
10, would hardly act upon his own mo-
tlon and responsibility in matter of
this Importance. If he has qualified as
member 1t Is because Blaine and
Hamlin and Morrill, and The other b "a DIS
Of the party have deemed it expedient,
all things considered, that he should do
30.
After Governor Garcelon had pro-
nounced the House duly constituted, and
had invited it to carefully consider tie
opinion of the Supreme Court and the
petitions of the counted-out Republ-
cans, the Fuslonists proceeded to choose
aSpeaker and other House officers. Eu-
gene Hale making the point in each case
that the vote did not show a quorum
present, and being steadily overruled.
"Both the members and the on-Iook-
ers were in noisy mood, and the pro-
ceedings were at times rather tumultu
ous than otherwise; but there was no
breach of the peace, and not a single
bayonet glittered in the sunlight from
first to last. Even the policemen on duty
around the State House judiciously kept
their weapons, If they had any, out OF
sight"
The New York World says
The bedlam at the State House OF
Maine yesterday was the natural result
Of the behavior OF the Republican lead
ers in that State ever since Governor
Garcelon's deeisi on was first made
known. 1t is quite Of piece with the
riot instigated by Senator Blaine in the
streets of Bangor on Christmas Day, by