Daily Kennebec journal., 1880-03-23


;ruu,n orafory. without the redeeming fact
hat political campaign is in progress, wnlcn
Z direct insult to the republican memos
# this b.sly, and il intended, NOT ior TINS
House, whose dignity il concerned IN tn.
bar for the people OF MS parry -
he State At large. 10 whom he makes '"is
,ppeal. and having received what ne may
Deem to be q partial indorsement from the
fusion members of this House, lntenos 10
rlaim that this is mere partizan verdict ana
that he nav be- forsooth. a political martyr.
He NAV not fiatter himself. sir. that such VIII
be- the result. Il has always happened that
in the course of human events where men 90
evil deeds. ultimate history forms its just con-
clusion as to their character. and they take
their stand according to their merits. for good
or for evil. before the people Of the commu.
nitv where they reside, and the Judgment OF
the general public will in the end prove un-
erring in its conclusions.
Sir. hide them As he will. the acts Of the
conspirator will ultimately find the light soi
da,. Shroud them with secrecy, surround
them With mystery. guard them with oaths.
they will gradually creep to the surface, and
disclose all their ugliness and moral deforml-
". And il has ever been found true that
..Foul deeds will rise
Though all the earth o'erwhelm them in men eyes,"
And this case will in the end prove no excep-
tion. The plot and conspiracy of the mio-
night hour, when the smallest details Of this
vile business were perfected SO as to bear the
semblance Of probability, will in the coming
time be proclaimed on the house top. But
not more extraordinary is this action on the
part of the gentleman from Minot. who to-day
has the most interest in relation to this mat
ter for his own purposes. Of any man IN the
State of Maine. than the course which mas
been pursued ny his political friends, ana es-
pecially those who assume to be the leaders
of their party in this House. when the re-
port, which my friend from ELLSWORTH read
here last night. came In, not one word VI OPP
position was uttered by the fusionlsts IN tins
House. 1t was allowed to pass IN silence.
And sir, so far as the republicans were con.
cerned. we were willing that the evidence ana
this awful arrangement OF the fraud ana VII
lainy which characterized the TRANSACTIONS OF
the late Governor and Council OF TINS state
should pass without further comment from
us. We were willing to take unchaiiengcd
the judgment OF the people OF Name upon the
case as 1t stood on the tesumony. sat To-day
when this report cones IN anecting the char-
acter OF Wallace X. White. a private individ-
ual, you hear labored speeches made by the
gentleman from Lincoln and the gentleman
from Camden, written OUT carefully 10 De
published. for the purpose OF carrying Out the
original intention in this nefarious bus
iness Of foisting upon the people OF this
State this miserable plot and conspiracy upon
the part Of the gentleman from Minot and his
hoping thereby to touch IN some
degree and soil and oedraggle, the hem OF the
garment OF the republican party! Ihey nope
ff.
gigantic fraud. which. by persons OF alt po-
litical persuasions, under oath. we have
unfolaed and exposed before the people
of this State. 1t was an ingenious scheme.
They wished in some measure by these pO-
litical speeches made here to arrest and pal
late the blow which has fallen upon them
with such crushing force; and the gentleman
from Minot comes to their assistance, and to
his own shame, undertakes political speech
in which he assumes the leading role. Cen
llemen, You deceive yourselves. The people
Of the State of Maine have too much good
common sense to be misled one moment in
relaii IN to your purposes. They understand that
while the conspiracy which from the election
until it was overthrow was ripening to COM
pletiOn in wonder Chamber, when the peo-
pie, aroused with apprehension lest the last
vestige Of free republican government should
be swept away from amongst men were ut
tering their note Of protest, when bands of
armed ruffians were gathered by the conspira-
tors in this building, armed with guns loaded
with powder AMI cut lead slugs, arms that
have been borne in the war-the gentleman
laughs it was in testimony from your own
fusion superintendent, DIR. Lancaster, that
such was the fact, and that it was done by his
l say those arms that we're
carried by the boys that went out to fight
the battles Of the country. were loaded for
the purpose of sweeping down, of assassin
ating citizens Of this State, there was not
word Of protest. and never to this day has
been uttered one word of condemnation from
any member Of the fusion party, if / may ex-
cept the honorable gentlemen who were con-
nected with us in the work of inves-
tigation and who know these facts
Instead of condemnation they air their ora
tory and rhetoric in order to help out this
other conspiracy-ths cognate conspiracy
this sister plot which was Matched up in aid
Of and as q part of the machinery to carry
out this villainy BY diverting public atten-
ton from the awful crime that was about to
be consummated in our midst.
Now, sir. as have before said, no one can
be deceived in relation to this matter. There
was every reason existing why this should be
done. AT the time when this last conspira-
cy was undertaken, the fusion party had
the preliminary work of counting
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