Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-18
Republican Loss From $1,000 to $1,000.
Blaine's lightning Calculators.

A dispatch from Portland to the nation
al,,Committee last night said: ''Plaisteds
election is beyond doubt, although the Re-
publicans are making sickly efforts to afford
a pretext for claiming the election Of Davis
as governor. A despatch to the Boston
Herald says: The Republicans say that
Plaisted has $50 majority The French
district in Aroostook is not included in
any OF the returns. This has given Blaine
chill, as you will see by his telegram to
Garfield
Another special from Portland says {:
"The compilations Of returns made by the
associated press agent at this place, arc
wholly unreliable. They arc first sent to
Augusta and there revised by Governor
Davis himself before they are allowed to
be published. At least 700 Fusion votes
have been suppressed. The general opin-
ions is that Plaistcd has been elected, and
that the official returns will show it. The
feeling among Democrats and Grcenback-
crs here and throughout the state is in
tense, and Maine will give such a vote for
Hancock in November, that Corporal
Davis and Mr.. Blaine cannot count it out
A special from Bangor has it thus ''The
returns have apparently in many cases
been Intentionally delayed, and when given
out through the associated press, which is
bitterly devoted to the Republican cause,
appear very remarkable, especially when
compared with the earlier returns. In
several instances the vote us reported by
the associated press is known to be wrong,
and, singularly, the errors arc all in favor
of the Republicans. In Amity, in AroO-
stock, the Fusion vote was reported as
three instead Of sixty-thrcc; in Abbott
the Fusion vote was given thirty less than
it really was in Orlando there was mis-.
take of several hundreds. and in Corinna
another Of one hundred
True Inwardness OF the Delay.
HEADcr AErEEs ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS CONF
NEW YORK, Sept.E
The latest reliable and official returns
received from Maine are rs follows Re-
turns from 42S towns gives Plaisted70 ,O19,
Davis 70,G9S; Republican majority G10.
In the same towns in 1876 the opposition
vote was 57,49S, Republican 7s, 7G5, Re-
publican majority 1896. Republican
loss in 1880 from the corresponding cleo
ton in 1876, 1A,5S7.
There arc fiity-eight towns and six plan
tations yet to bc heard from. Relative
gains in these towns, Us compared with
1876, would give us at lowest estimate over
900 Democratic majority. Republican
manipulators in Maine arc pretending to
claim majority for Davis and are untloubt-
cdly trying to doctor the returns to
bear out this claim. 1t remains to be seen
whether they propose to begin in Maine to
inauguratc the frauds of 1876. For two
days Mr.. Blaine and the Republican lead
ers conceded Mr.. Plaistcd's election Us the
Republican party did Tilden's in 1876.
The entire machinery for counting the
vote is in the hands of the Republican
returning board. Usually in past years it
has only required about two days to asccr-
tain definite results in Maine. This year
all the first returns showed great Demo-
cratic gains, and it was only when the
Republican manipulators have stopped the
returns coming in, and delayed them
until they could be altered, that changes
were made in favor of Davis. For instance,
the county OF Kcnncbcc, which usually
completes its returns in one day, was held
bacl; until after Thursday, and it
is openly asserted by 4 former Republican
leader that the returns are kept back for
manipulation. Two of the Congressman,
Murch and Ladd, are conceded. Philbrick,
Dem.,) candidate in Blainc's district,
while actually elected, may be counted out
by fraud by a very small majority, un-
der 100 In the 1st district, Anderson
the Democratic candidate is practically in
the same position, as the Republicans only
claim 4 majority for Reed Of %, thus
showing that out of five Congressman
four Democrats were elected. This is the
best criterion by which to judge the
popular sentiment of the state.
Plaistcd is clearly elected and can
only bc defeated by fraudulent
count. The only gains shown by the
Republican party, or claimed by them,
arc in Democratic counties, inaccessible
by telegraph and away from lines
Of the railroads. The best evidence
Of the fraud proposed to be pcrpetrated, is
the fact that while the Fusion ticket
showed large gains all over the state in
Republican cities and counties, Republi-
can gain is claimed in Democratic counties
w. II. BARNUM, Chairman.
Ten Men Killed.
While 'tshift'' of ten men were ascend