The Republican journal., 1880-09-16
The Election.

The Election
The result of Mondays election is a
disappointment not alone to the Republi-
cans of Maine, but to all honest and pa
triotic citizens. The State steal was an
infamous affair. 1t involved violations of
law which should have subjected those
concerned in them to criminal prosocn
ton and more than that it furnished the
hitherto fair fame of the State, and cast
a reproach upon the upright. intelligent
and God fearing people of New England
To ITS credit be it said, the Democratic
press throughout the country, with few
and insignificant exceptions, was out
spoken III its denunciation Of this crime.
1t was felt that the infamy of Garcelon &
Go. was not only too heavy a load for the
Democratic party 10 carry, but 50 rank
an offence against the spirit of our inSti-
buttons, as we'll as the laws Of the land,
that It should receive the promptest and
most decided rebuke Last Monday fur
mshcd the opportunity: but We regret to
have to say that it was not availed of.
Maine was expected 10 redeem herself in
the eyes of the nation; to show to the
world that the descendants of the Puri-
tans retain the intolerance of crime and
the stern integrity of their tolefathers
and this could only be done by burying
the party which was responsible for. and
had assumed the responsibility Of, count
ING out those chosen by the people.
Were our citizens not pre- cminentlv law
ABIDING, the consprators would have met
with summary and condjgn punishment
last winter. In other sections Of the
country 4 rope and a lamp post, OF at
least tar and feathers, would have been
brought INTO requstion. Even in some
Of the New England States the Tabula
tors would have Jared badly Does any
one suppose they would have been al
lowed to 60 unwhipped of justice in Mas
sachusetts! But lynch law is not approx
ed here, and through mistaken leniencv
the conspirators escaped a legal penalty.
That they should now have failed to re-
ceiye a rebuke at the polls is altogether
incomprehensible.
That Maine would return a verdict
against the State steal party had been
accepted everywhere as Il toregone con
clusion No one doubted it. The Flu
sionists conceded it. On the eve of cleo
ton there was no doubt in any ones mind
of sweeping Republican victory. The
most careful and complete canvass ever
made in this State, was the basis for this
belief The New York Herald, one of
the. few really independent journals in
the country, said, in its issue of Monday
morning last:
Nothing remains to be done in Maine but the
casting and counting OF the ballots which is the
work OF to-day. The result will be spread before
the country to-morrow morning The Republicans
are sanguIne and the Democrats have no real hone
although, like all parties in all elections they re-
luSe TO own that they are to be whipped lest they
should discourage their supporters and fail TO bring
out their full vote. Tomorrow they will probably
assert mat they have never expected to carry the
State III this canvass
And in conclusion the Herald said that
lit is improbable this election will be a
drawn battle like that Of last year." that
''the Republican prospect seems to have
improved within the last three weeks
and the increased Republican majority in
Vermont strengthens the party in Maine"
And these were the conclusions of all in
dependent and impartial observers. How
comes it then that these conclusions were
at fault that the promise of the canvass
was not fulfilled, and that the party of
law and order, of honesty and intelligence,
SO narrowly escaped a terrible defeat
There is but one answer to make. and
it is one calculated to bring the blush of
shame to the cheek of every honest man
and to oVerwhelm him with mingled feel
lngs OF indignation and disgust. The
unexpectedly large Fusion vote is due to
wholesale bribery.
1t is credibly reported, and is unques-
tionably true, that large sum of money,
said to be Sl0O,0 600, was sent into the state
a few days before the election, for the Dur
pose of corruptng voters whose necessities
could be taken advantage of by unscru
pulous agents of the Fusionists. Twenty
thousand dollars is said to have been sent
into the First district to defeat Hon. Thos.
B. Reed, the Republican candidate for
Congress ten thousand dollars to Bangor,
to be used against Capt Boutelle; while
one thousand dollars is alleged to have
been expended in this city, and smaller
sums in various towns of this county. On
election day the market price of voters
was currently quoted on the streets -rang-
ing from five to twenty-five dollars, the
price increasing as the time drew near for
closing the polls In one of the back