The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1880-03-04
The Progressive Age at Last Acknowledges

! the Legislative Committees, says this
Now the Republicans of the legislature have ID
! sututed an Investigating committee headed by Mr..
Hale to make a searching investigation into the
acts OF the Governor and Council in regard TO can
vassing the election returns, and they claim 10
| have already discovered gross frauds notably in
| the town OF Somerviile, where tie town clerk A.
| B. Bowler, has confessed that in December he
made ont supplementary return and signed the
seIectmen's names to ii, in which he changed some
of the initials OF the names Of the Republican can
| dldate for senator. And it is stated that this
forged retHrn was received and acted upon by the
| Governor and Council and by virtue d which the
| Republican candidate, Andrew Il q Smith,
| counted out and Isaac T. Hobson the opposition
| candidate counted III.
The act If committed, was fraud, and is not to
| be defended, and all who were concerned deserve
| to be exposed and punished. No Fuslonst meet
ing or Fuslonist paper ever intended to endorse
any such act, and they are as earnest in condemn
ing ii as the Republicans can be, and they pre-
pared TO bear all the censure that nghtuly at
tachts to them, but no more.
But how far are they responsible for the traudu-
lent acts Of a Governor whom they did NOT elect
| p,ofaied HAT Il Is 1hora Ma hca0d h, Go"ncti cJa-
4tc.d at iran" d, tbs %, IN aaa ohe' ctyf! MIR
lale ANA his committee can 90 on ana expose all
| the frauds they can lind and they will find the
Fusonists vieing with theIE ~ cuudemnug them.
And all the political capital they ran make they
are welcome a.
And the Age will tind that it can't
craWiish in this way, to make any cap
ital tor itself Or the party that il repre-
Sents. The Republicans, who 70 early
took alarm at the extraordinary procccd-
ings at Augusta, by the Governor and
Council, as we'll as by rllsbury and like
! leading Democrats, We're as wen con
WINGED then us they are now, that the
official proceedings in relation to The count
We're rank and rotten with fraud. These
frauds were openly and uubluShngly
sanctioned and in many cases advised.
! The Age itself, with full knowledge of the
fact that 4 large Democratic corruption
fund was expended III the State al soon
as election was over lcd the yelling pack
who bayed election frauds" at the Re
| pubhcans Attorney GEN. Mcclellan, the
head Of the Fusion department miss
called that Of Justice" openly and pub
licly sanctioned and advised the con-
templatcd steal FIN What way Shall it
be done A. asked some 81 thu parity.
"Way? Why find a way" was the rcck-
less reply.
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