The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-01-01

and out by one wave of the autocratic
hand.
2. Of this entire number there was
not one case for which the law did not
provide and direct the mode of cor
rection. But the Council said the law
was unconstitutional, and they set it
aside. They gave out that Henry w.
Paine, of Boston, advised them that
this was their proper course. When I
see an opinion of Henry W. Paine that
the Executive department. may, at will,
set aside the laws they have sworn to
enforce, viii unite with his other Ken
nebec friends IN deploring the decay of
his splendid intellect and the loss of
his admirable judgment; until then
prefer TO remember Henry w. Paine as
[ have known him for a quarter of
century.
3. There have been ffty-nine annual
elections in Maine, carried in turn by
the old National Rupublicans, by Demo
Gratis, by Wings, and for twenty-five
years by the Republicans. In all that
time not so many fatal defects in the
returns have been found, nor SO many
Senators and Representatives counted
out, as Gov. Garcelon and his Council
have counted out this single year. I
will add, not half SO many.
4. And all the fatal defects are in
Republican Senatorial and Representa-
tive districts. Not one of the Demo
Gratis or Greenbackers elected to the
Senate or House was found to have
defective return behind him; of course
not, after the returns had been secretly
and surreptitiously doctored, as openly
charged by Hon. Charles B. Rounds.
These returns were cooked and made
over to fit the requirements, and the
Council never dared to accept Mr..
Rounds offer to prove his charges. It
is understood that they are taking char
acteristic revenge on Mr.: Rounds by
counting him out of the Office Of County
Attorney, to which he was honestly
elected.
5. A few Fusion towns have been
counted out here and there, but always
so selected as not to affect the result,
and still more cunningly selected so as
to, apparently, justify the counting out
of large Republican town that would
destroy Republican Senator or Rep
resentative. 10 contrive all this re-
CURED time, and so the present Council
worked over the returns, cooking and
doctoring them from Oct. 80 to Dec.
II. For this period they did it openly.
How long before Oct. 80 the returns
were surreptitiously opened will never
be known till the Council grants the
investigation asked by Mr.. Rounds.
Ordinarily, in former years, week or
ten days suffced for an honest Coun Gil
to count the returns.
6. To make some sort of covering for
the atrocious fraud they have com
mitted, a great effort has been made to
prove that the Republicans carried the
election by bribery and corruption.
This is factious and fraudulent pre-
tense got up to cover a case. Why
don't they indict somebody? They
tried it in September before Grand
jury, two-thirds of whose members were
Fusionists, and they came very near in
dieting Democrats instead of Republi-
cans. They have got up large number
of affdavits from men of certain char
acter. telling now they had been bought
for ST. to so, or some trifing sum.
Many of these afidavits have been
recalled by the parties, who made
counter statements, declaring they had
made the first affidavit when drunk on
the liquor which the Democratic agent
furnished. IF a man will sell his vote
for a dollar, or any other sum, he is
hardly the witness to appear as public
prosecutor of great party. The whole
effort to sustain the bribery charge has
been attended with disgraceful conduct
by the men who started it, and who have
Systematically bribed their witnesses to
commit perjury. These Democratic
and Greenback agents have really been
guilty themselves Of bribery, of suborn
alton of perjury and getting men drunk
enough to be participants in both
crimes.
7. Some of the Democrats who chuckle
in private over this infamy, and do not
wish to come out in square approval of
it, are in the habit of charging it off
against Louisiana, where, they allege,
the Republicans cheated the Democrats.
Well, certainly the Maine Republicans
did not cheat the Louisiana Democrats,
and, even If somebody else had done it,
the Maine Republicans ought not to be
made a vicarious sacrifice; but there
was no cheat in Louisiana. The bull
dozers and murderers of that State were
warned by law that, wherever they
wrought violence in parish and
destroyed the right and power of
peaceful voting, tie parish should
be thrown out. That was tho
law. Whether wise or unwise is not
for us to determine, but it was the law,
ard the enforcement of that law de-
feated Mr.. Tilden and elected President
Hayes. But where on earth is the
analogy to sustain the fraud in Maine,
unless you consider it good morals to
steal my purse in Maine because you
think an acquaintance of mine robbed
your friend in Louisiana?