The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-01-28
IN MAINE.

Things are not lovely in Maine. A governor
and a Legislature IN possession of the State
House and the military sourc OF the
State in violation Of the constitution snd
laws of the State are carrying things with a
high hand. Armed troops parade the streets
OF the capital oIty and a Calling gun is
placed IN position to rain death upon the
populsce. The Republican oonspirators are
elated. They fiatter themselves that they
hold the fort, and Davis, the fraud
made governor, acting in concert with a gang
of INSCRIPTIONS knsves, threatens the peo-
Die with death. Blaine, the arch conspira-
tor. who, il the constitution and the laws
prevail, will be in dangerof eternal disgrace,
believes he has won the battle, and has re-
tired from the scene. A New York paper,
in commenting upon his Augusta speech,
says: There is very little but self gratula
ton in it. 1t is full of denuncistions of the
desperate men who sought to disfranchise
voters by the thousand, and to substitute a
false count for an honest ballot 1t is flu
rious in its condemnation Of the Democratic
and Greenback voters of the State, who are
IL q majority of nearly 1000. And 1t takes
infinite credit to himself and the Republi-
cans that they have accomplished the revG-
luton and trampled the constitu-
ton and laws under foot with
out shedding a drop Of blood. Blame
compliments Chamberlain for play
ing the part of dictator oro tenn. so success
fully, and almost split the ears of the audi
ence by the vIgor Of his denunciation of
freud in elections and the c%orrupting of the
baIlot-box. Very likely his partisans re-
garded his speech as timely and eloquent.
But in view of the facts in the case 1t is
simply amazing, not only that q senator OF
the United States could make such q.
harangue, but that a mob could be found IA
a New England State to listen TO it With pa
thence, much less with approval. The 'des-
peTate men to whom he referred are
intelligent and conscientious State officers.
The false count substituted for AN hon
est ballot was precisely the count required
by the letter OF the constitution, directed by
the decisions OF the supreme court and es-
tablished by Republican precedents. OF the
voters d~istranohised by -the thousand a
much larger number are Fusionists than
Republicans; and, according TO the declsrs-
tons OF the supreme court, the blame for the
DISTINGUISHING falls on the municipal officers
who neglected to do their duty"
The situation is we'll calculated to try the
pluck Of the Fusionists. They are in their
places by the operation of the laws of the
State, and there is no legal flaw in their
c sedentisls. These men DAVIS proposes 20
disDerse by force While the threat lasts the
Fusion Legislature Of Maine should remain.
Davis ram shot and shell upon them
let soldiers march upon them with fixed
bsyOnets. No matter what may come, they
stand their ground and meet force
with force. There may be other ways out
of the difficulty, but If the conspirators are
impatient OF delays and seek to solve the
problem by force, then il should be solved
only when the last true man IN Maine has
bit the dust. To back down or back out Will
be a crime against law and constitutions, and
to a mob of men whose acts, If
they could be brought before a proper tri-
bunsl, would send them to prison.