The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-09-21
NAMES MIDDLE.
LET THE BOOSTERS KEEP SILENT,
Things Getting ShaiGy for Both sides
The Official Count Necessary
Davis claims n Majority OF from
500 TO 400-Blaine Tells
what He Knows, Etc.

Boston,. Mass. Sept. 2O,-A special to
Herald last evening, from Portland, says
the latest returns received at Democratic
headquarters from i96 towns give Plaisted
79,403 and Davis 1852. SIX towns to be
heard from gave in 1879 Fusion majority
Of 1857. Returns win give Plaisted plural
lily of IFS, if towns to BIO beard from vote re-
thev did last year.
boston, Sept. Ex-Governor DAYS, of
Maine, telegraphs hero from Augusta, the
following: 81 shall be elected by three or
four hundred plurality without doubt"
Senator Blaine who is in this city, sent
tho following telegram to Hon, Marshall
Jewell to-day:
| Hon Marshall Jewell, Cha IN an Matt, Isl
Republican Committee,
eft Maine on Friday last. Intelligence
reached me here indicating that the toll,
eaphlc repo,,s Of The votes as published by
the associated press were in some cases mod,
| fled by the clerks. These mo lifcations are
of such characte, ms to render the contest
between Davis and Plais' extremely close,
possibly reQu ring the Official returns to de.
] teTmiue which Is elect1d. Official returns can
not BIO cor I'd or even opened until the
meeting of the legislature in January. The
cry Of aud in the count, etc, by Mr.. Chair
man BatnuT is sufficiently answe. ed by the
fact lat both parties In Maine
have recourse to precisely the same authority
for their figures as first ''eg. ms Of
the associated press, End second, in the
cler'' retrrns ..om several towns. The
agent of the ISOLATED press at Portlsnd,
Mr.. STEPHEN Berry, is implicit trusted by
all part, and IS Incapable OF V,lful mis-,
statements or evasion. His experience
and as varied as any man in the country.
Up to this hour thereis not particle of dis
pute betw; m the parties in Maine, touching
returns om.a single county, and the only
possible opportunity for frauds in Mrine un-
der our laws, is in the French plan.
tat'ons of Aroostook county,
where assessors sign returns expressed
in a language of which they are entirely I'M
ncquanted. The Democratic English speak.
| irg agent who makes out the returns, me- a
good opportunity for insisting facts. |
do not assert that the returns fon these
| plan' ATOMS are fraudulent for do not know.
1 do assert aud know that frauds have been
committed there in past years by
DerqtFs Tic agents, and | rep at now
whOra llse 10 Marie is frNud>fslcticablcs
| Tho fraud OF last year WIS not N tho retproe
at all, but consisted wholly in Governor
Garcelon and his k3nncl rejecting returns
that were hone 'tly ALL Nssulsrly made. Mr..
| Cheiiman Barnum !. ago inertor when no
assumes that I've election returns should bo
| at AuL lsta the day al.er tie electson. He
| 4 La iar M n thai, q
ofthe other q, Q New Eoglandstates,an and in the
seuthw IN par most any tow i IN Tue sta'
is nearer to any point in the state OF Deh'
ware--ner er, indeed, to we Guy OF baltl-
more thin it is TO the French plantations on
the upper st. Jobn'sby any practicable route.
| j this statement sneak Of actual distance
in point of time. Lac compai IN Will be
still more strik Nc and significant for a man
20 from Augusta to Fort Rent, Inc TAX
\ of Barnum about the Fusionis OF Maine
being counted cut is bosh. There 10 not
Democrat OF Greenbacker in Maine
who has the slightest fear OF such result
The late Governor Clfiord,o of Massachusetts,
used to boz It that the Wing party wra the
onlv one then in eyiste ace that would count
itself out ofpower aud surrender to It's OPP
ponents the majority of the vote
| AlluC Dg TO TIE chseOl Mhrllus INoIton, W
governor, the Prpublicans Of Meme
when beaten in 1878, could hsSe
rets ned power on two or three
technical points n the count. Those who
planned the Garcelon count.out Of q year
later, expected the Republicans to do 1t, and
suggested fear of it, but there was not q
single member of tie party. that ever
/ pprbolpd such thought. If Governor
Plaisted shall have sirgle vo', more than
Governor Davis, the executive chair OF Meme
f /. the uoSb two years iss- well secured 70
him. ms though his msioIity were ten thou
nd. JAMES ". BLAINE,
Portland. Me- Sept. 2O.--An Augusta dis.
pa n saws election Ieturns 60 far as received
give Davis plurality of about 200 votes
D., There are 'iill several towns end p,antationf
to her from, Andthere are some dlscrepan'
cies in tho returns received by telegraph
which mike 1t difficult to ascertain OK ct ~
sulfs OF tue eltc iion, aad it is quite probable
that ot)y he official canvass of the seturns
y II decide who il elected.
Hartford, Conn, Sept 20-The Green.
backers OF she first congressional district
baVe nominated George II. Hewitt, Of Rock