Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-09-21
THE EVENING STAR
TVESDAY.....Se September FL, 1850.
The Maine Election.

Inc MAINE EleCt1Ons
BOTH sIpKs STILL CLAIMING THE VICTORY
gusta as follows: az shall be elected by 500 ,r
400 plurality without doubt
A dispatch was received at the headquarters
OF the democratic national committee in New
YORK last night from Fort Ment Me-, giving
Plaisted l6o majority. making his majority Ia
49, towns Ia Five towns still to be heard
from gave In 1876. Talbot DENY 60, Conner
WHAT Mr. BLAINE SAYS
Senator Blaine, who is In Boston. sent the
following telegram TO Hon. Marshall Jewell yes
teIday: Il lelt Maine on Friday last Intellt-
that the Geographic report OF votes. as pub
lished by the Associated Press. is In some cases
modified by the clerks returns as they reached
are open to the inspection OF the public. These
notifications are OF such a character as TO rem
der the contest between Davis and Plaistei ex-
tremeiy close, possibly requiring the Official re-
turns TO determine which is elected. Official
returns cannot be counted or even opened
untll the meeting OF the legislature In
jan uaIy; The cry Of fraud In the count,
GENTLY answered by the fact that both par
ties In Maine have recourse TO precisely the
same authority for their figures-nrst. The tele.
grams OF the Associated Press and second
the clerks returns for the several towns Tn
agent or the Associated Press at Portland. MIR.
Stephen Berry, is implicitly trusted by al par
Ties and is incapable or wfful MEASUREMENT or
evasion. His experience In summarizing cleo
ton returns is long and as varied as that OF any
ns-n III The country. Up TO this hour there is
10 particle OF dispute between the parties in
Maine touching the returns from single town.
The only possible opportunity for frauds 10 the
election ieturns under our laws is In the
French plantations OF AFRO )stook, where the
assessors sign return expressed 10 a language
With which they are entirely unacquainted.
The democratic English speaking agent
who makes out the returns has abundant
opportunity for misstating the facts do not
assert that the returns from these plantations
are fraudulent for l do not know It. bur do
assert and l do know that frauds have been
agents, and repeat that nowhere else in Maine
is fraud practicable The fraud OF last wear
was not In the returns at all. but consisted
wholly In GOV. Garcelon and his council reject
Ing returns that were honestly and regularly
made. MI. Chairman Barnum is also in palpable
error when he assumes that all election returns
Should be at Augusta the day after election
He loIgets that Maine Is larger In territory than
the other five New England states together and
that the SouthTesternmost town In Maine is
nearer TO any point ia the state OF Delaware
nearer Indeed to the city of Balttmore-than it
Is 10 the French plantations on the upper st.
John. by any practicable route. La this state
ment speak OF actual distance. In point oftlme
the comparison would be still more striking and
significant, for man can go from Augusta toChi.
cago as quickly as be can go from Augusta toFort
Kent. The talk OF BaTnum about the fusion
ISIS OF Maine being counted out Is mere rant
Inele Is not democrat or greenbacler In Maine
VINO has the slightest fear OF such result
The late Gov. Clifford, of Massachusetts. used
to boast that the wing party was the only
one then In existence that would count Itself
out OF power and surrender to its opponents on
an adverse majority CT one vote, alluding to the
case OF Marcus Morton as governor The re.
publicanS OF Maine. when beaten In ISIS, could
have retained power on two or three technical
polHtS In the count Those who planned the
Garceion count out OF year later expected
the republicans TO do it. and suggested fear
OF II, but there was not single member OF
,4CrlNt
IL Gov Plaisted shall have a single vote more
than GOV. Davis the executive chair or Maine
Tor the next TWO years is as well assured TO him
as though his majority were heightened"