The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-08-14

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who promptly gave construction OF the law
involved IN the questions submitted, which |
construction was not in accordance with the
action that had been taken by the Council in
relation to the returns,
The opinion of the Justices that had been
asked for and rendered was ignored, and men
who were not legally elected to office received
certificates as Senators and Representatives.
and the Senators and Representatives duly
elected by the voice of the people of this State
as expressed at the polls were counted out.
Those persons who had received certificates
that had been illegally issued to them, par
ticipated in an attempted organization of the
Senate and refused to seat the legally elected
Senators. The House as certified by the Gov
ernor and Courcil, also attempted an organiza-
ton
The Fusion members of the Senate and
House who had received certificates from the
Governor and Council met in joint convention
and went through the form of inducing into
office the Greenback candidate for Governor
who had been voted for by the Fusionists, and
of electing State officers
The legally chosen Representatives and Sem
ators assembled and organized House and
Senate, and propounded questions to the JUS
tices of the Supreme Judicial Court who in
their opinion declared the Legislature organ
lied by the legally elected Senators and Repre-
sentatives to be the only lawful Legislature of
Maine. Immediately upon the announcement
Of the opinion of the Justices and the Legisla-
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convention elected State officers, and thus e.
ter many days of anxiety the State of Maine
had legally elected chief magistrate.
The Fusonist in the meantime were in Sc
sion in what they were pleased to call the l. a.
islature of Maine and they submitted ques-
tions to the Justices of the Supreme Judicial
Court as to their status as Legislature. And
the Justices after due consideration of all the
questions submitted declared that they were
not the legal Legislature of the State of Maine.
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Fusionists separated, some returning to their
homes and others who had been legally elected
took their seats in the legal Legislature of
Maine, and the warning elements that for
weeks had existed in our State subsidized
That direful results did not visit our State is
due in a large degree to the remarkable for
bearance of our people during the most veXa-
tious period in the history of the State.
That there was an attempt by system of
fraud to change the result of the election in
this State is fully demonstrated by the evil
dence taken before the investigating commit
tee selected by the House and Senate.
1t was natural to suppose that after what
had taken place, that the alliance that had eX-
listed under the name of Fusion would by the
Democratic party be forever abandoned.
But instead of an abandonment of their ne
farious course to destroy the power of the bal
lot in this State the two parties have united in
justification of the attempt made last winter
to subvert the will of the people, and thereby
buttons.
And the Greenback party in their conven-
tionS, and by their nominations have pre-
sented to the people of the State of Maine as
an issue for them to pass upon, justification
of the course pursued by the Governor and
Council, and the Fusion party in the counting
out conspiracy of last winter.
The Democratic party in this State have called
conventions not to nominate Democrats for
the suffrage of Democrats, but to endorse who
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And for the first time since the Democratic
party has had an organization in this State it
has failed to declare its political principles,
and to-day is party without State platform
whose only apparent aim is to meet the APP
probation of the Greenback party.
1t to-day cannot be said of the Democratic
party in this State that it is party of princi-
Piles, but it must be admitted that it has de-
scended from its once high position as power
full party to become the tender and servant of
the Greenback party.
To what degradation has the once glorious
old Democratic party of the State of Maine
fallen!
lecting its electors for President has conceded
itself to be but 81 of party.
1t is entitled to seven electors to be nomin-
ated in its conventions but in its present state
of subserviency to the Greenback party. it is
content to nominate three electors who as a
to the approval of that party.
And thus it is that in this year, $780, the
Democratic party in the State of Maine only
exists to do the bidding of the Greenback
party.
Tie once proud old Democratic party in this
State no longer declares its principles and sus-
tains them by the ballot.
1t has Joined hands with party radically
opposed to its teachings, and the fundamental
principles upon which it has rested from its
first inception.
1t has entered into covenant and become
the mental of the Greenbaek party in this
State, and its glory and power have forever
departed
and jackson fallen!
What position for a party whose boast has
been that it followed the hard money teach
ings of Thomas II. Benton!
And to-day the only alternative offered
Democratic voters in this State is to vote for
Greenbackers, their principles and the men
they nominate for Office
Men, who but few short months ago were
engaged in an attempt to subvert the will OF
the people as expressed at the polls.
And to vote for the nominees of the Green
back party is to give countenance to the most
heinous conspiracy ever attempted within the
borders of New England.
Or, by their votes and voice to send into re-
tirement these men who obnoxiously ask the
people to sanction their most Ubiquitous at
To vote for the candidates supported by the
Democratic party in this State for State offices
is TO commend the conspiracy to wrest from
the majority the right to govern.
To vote for the candidates supported by the
Democratic party for Office in this State. is to
sanction acts that in the opinion of the Justices
of the Supreme Court were in direct violation
of law-a court whose integrity is beyond
suspicion, and whose learning and ability is a
bulwark of safety to the people of this State
To work tor the candidates in this State sup
ported by the Democratic party for office is to
vote with one exception) in favor of the tinan-
cial hereses of Che Greenback party which if
put into practice would palsy the hand of in
dustry and prove blightipgecurse to every en-
terprise throughout our country
L, for one, am not willing to march to Flu
sion music under the Democratic banner into
the Greenback camp, to be subject to the be-
hests of the Greenback party.
I do not deem it the duty of Democrats to be
silent when within the confines of our State
fraud raises its head to the clouds. stalks
abroad and demands following.
L believe it to be the duty of Democrats to so
vote that this combination for power made up
of homogeneous elements may be dissipated.
I believe it to be the duty of every man to
oppose all attempts to deprive the people of
their constitutional right to an honest ballot
and an honest count; and so believing, shall
vote the Republican ticket, and against the
nominees of the Greenback party.