The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1880-09-25

Boston, Sept. Ex-senator Blaine, who
is in this city, sends the following tele-
gram to Hon. Marshall Jewell to-day:
BosroN. September 10Th 1850
| To Hon. Marshall Jewell Chairman Republican
National Committee
left Maine ON Friday last. Intelligence reaches
me here to-day indicating that the tcegraphic
report of votes. as published by the Associated
Press is in some eases modified by the Clerk ;
returns. as they reached the office of the Secre-
tary of State. where they are open to the
inspection OF the public. These notifications are
OF such character as to render the contest be
tween Davis and Plaistcd extremely cosc-possi-
bly, requiring the official return to determine
which is elected. Official returns cannot he count
ed. or even opened. until the meeting of the Leg
lslature. III January. The cry OF fraud. as put
forth by Mr.. Chairman Barnum, is sufficiently
answered by the facts that both parties in Maine
have recourse to precisely the same authority Tor
their figures: first the kilograms OF the Associated
Press. and. second, the Clerks returns from the
several towns.
The agent Of the AsSocisted Press at Portland
MI. Stephen Berry. is implicitly trusted by all
parties. and is incapable of wiliul mSstatcncnt
or evasion. His experience in summarizing cleo
ton returns is as long and varied that of any
man in the country. Up To this hour there is not
a particle OF dispute between the parties i'll Maine
touching the returns from a single town. The
only possible opportunity for frauds in election re
turns under our laws is in the French plantation
OF Aroostook, where the assessors sign Il return
expressed in a language with which they are en-
speaking agent. who makes out returns. has ubun-
dant opportunity for missating the facts. l do
not assert that the returns from those plantations
are fraudulent. for do not know it. but do as
scrt and do know that rauds have been commit
ted there in past years by Democratic agents and
repeat that nowhere else in Maine is fraud prae-
ticabc. The fraud OF last year was not in the re-
turns at all. but consisted wholly i'll Governor
Garcelon and his council rejecting returns that
were honestly and regularly maic. Mr.. Chair
man Barnum is also in palpable error when he
assumes that all election returns should be at
Augusta. the day after election. He torgets that
Maine is larger in territory than the other five
New Englnnd States together and that the south
wcsternmost towns in Maine nearer to any
point in the State OF Delaware. Nearer indeed
to the city OF Baltimore. than it is to the French
plantations. on the upper st. John, by any prac-
ticable route.
In this statement speak of actual distance In
point OF time the comparison would be still more
striking and significant, Tor 20 from
Augusta to Chicago as quickly as he can from
Augusta to Fort Kent The talk OF Barnum
about the FuSionists of Maine being counted out
is mere rant. There is hot u Democrat or Green
hacker in Maine who has the slightest fear OF such
result The late Governor OF Massachusetts
then i'll existence that would count itself out
of power and surrender TO its opponents an adj
majority OF one vote--aliudinr the ease of
Marcus Morton as Governor.
The Republicans Of Maine, when beaten in 1873,
could have retained power on two three techui-
cal points in the court Those who planned the
Garcelon count out OF Il year later expected the
Republicans to do it. and suggested fear OF it.
but there was not a single member of the party
that ever harbored such thought VI Governor
crnor Davis. the executive chair of Maine for the
next two years is well assured to him as though
his majority We're ten thousand.
(Signed) JAMES q. BLAINE: