The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-01-08
S A Sort Of MildeW."

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Governor of Maine by virtue of having
been third on the list of candidates vo-
ted for at the election in 1873, and
having been selected by Republican
State Senate as choice of evils be-
tween himself and Mr.. Smith, the
Greenback candidate. One cannot help
wondering what sort of man Smith
must be, that Garcelon should have
been preferred to him. Doubtless
Garcelon has developed his capacity
since the choice was made. Holding
an office for which only a pitiful minor
ity of the voters of Maine supported
him, it is not strange perhaps that he
should hold majorities in something
like contempt. Being Governor in spite
of them, why, he reasons, should he
not continue so? Or if not he, some
other representative of beaten minor
ityP And if the people of Maine have
submitted for year to the rule of q
minority Governor, why should they
not submit to the counting in of mi
nority Legislature, the election of mi
nority State officers and minority
United States Senator? So Garcelon
and his co-conspirators have counted
out the Republican majority in the Leg
islature and made their arrangements
to steal the State. All within the forms
of law, of course, and upon ltechnicali-
ties which, with rolling eyes and hands
upon their hearts, they solemnly VOW
they cannot conscientiously disregard.
That a Republican Legislature was
elected they do not deny, but there are
is not dotted and is not crossed in the
returns, which they say makes them by
the Constitution &c fatally defective"
I" We could not trample on the Consti-
tuition, you know" say they with a
leer. And when their attention is
called to statute law which meets the
case and empowers them to amend the
technical defects, they answer at once,
{" o, that law is unconstitutional"
1t is an old habit of those people to
use the letter of the Constitution to
stab the State. They tried it on large
scale in 1861, when they clamored that
the Federal Constitution not only did
not contain the principle of self-pre-
servation, but that it actually offered
shield and defense to its assailants.
But even under this claim of consti-
tutional right to defeat the will of the
majority, it is not believed that they
can sustain themselves. The whole
business has been characterized by such
indubitable signs of rascally plot on
the part of the Governor and Council
to steal the State; they all point SO
clearly to a premeditated purpose and
prepared plan; and the condolences
are so striking and significant, that
even upon their technical defense they
feel that the weight of public opinion is
overwhelmingly against them. They
have been especially called upon to ex-
plain the remarkable fact that the re-
turns have been found fatally defective
only in such cases as would result in
the defeat of Republican candidates.
The latest effort in this direction is In q
letter from Governor Garcelon, pub
lished yesterday, in which he says:
Every year there have been detective
returns rejected-thatis is. not counted
for Noncompliance with constitutional
or legal provisions" He neglects to
state the fact that this is the first time
in the history of the State that legally
and fairly elected majority in the Legis-
lature has been reversed upon such tech
nicalities; perhaps because it is so well
known. ssBut this year." he adds, in
addition to the usual occurrences In
this direction, sort of mildew or cpl
demic seems to have infected several OF
our large cities" GA sort of mildew!"
Well, we should say SO. And he might
have added that it was " a sort OF mil
dew'' that was engendered in the filth
of the Office of Eben +. Pillsbury, the
chief functionary of the Maine Democ-
racy, and its expectant candidate for
United States Senator. 1t was sent out
from there like the yellow fever germs
which another Democrat, now Cover
nor of State, undertook to distribute
throughout the North during the war. 1t
went in the form of blanks for returns.
printed under Pillsbury's directions, in
a manner purposely intended to mis-
lead returning officers, so that there
should be just these technical defects
upon which this gang of eonspirators
could defeat the will of the majority
and steal the State. go
1t was Garcelon and Pillsbury and
the rest of the gang who used the OPP
portunities of their official positions,
who set these traps and put ou them
the seal of the State. And now that
they think they have sprung them and
caught their victims, when anybody
comments upon the singular circum-
stance that all these defects turn to the
advantage of the fellows who discov-
cred them, and asks an explanation,
this man Garcelon looks up moment
from the grand larceny he is trying to
consummate, and says: go, it's q sort
of mildewr Maybe it is; but it is 6 a
sort of mildewh that is much more
likely to rot the party that invented it
than to damage those whom it was in
tended to infect. Y. Tribune.
PARIS has now 500 metres of tubing
laid down under the main thorough
fares, for the purpose of unifying the
time of all the public clocks and setting
them all by Observatory time. These
pneumatic clocks will also be placed
in private houses, and in future the
time of day will be laid on just as is
done with gas and water.
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