Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-01-06

Viewed from the Governors own stanopolus,
he NAV have been impolitic in putting MS
case to this test. but, having once taken the
risk. even though the result turns out 3D.
versely. there il no line Of retreat LETT open
10 him. In another aspect Of the case, We
look confidently for happy results. In the
face Of this decision, they will be bold men
Tho will undertake to assume seats In the
LEGISLATURE which majority Of the people
believe thew Are not rightfnlly entitled to.
II seems to rs that no man, ambitious OF fu-
,ure political preferment, or concerned Tor
his reputation, could, under the present cir
cumstances, do so unwise an act as to pre-
sent himself at the State House for qualihca-
ZION, supported only BY Gov. Garcelons
..couuted-in" certificate. The rumOrs that
this one and that one had resolved to decline
To be an alder and abettor in the desperate
scheme of the Governor of Maine. to which
currency was given in the telegraphic des-
patches Of Yesterday, do not in the least sur
prise us. On the contrary, we shall be aston
ished if any considerable number of ineh, IN
defiance of public opinion and IN contempt OF
the laws of the commonwealth. as interpreted
by the highest judicial authority, shall as
sumo to represent districts in which their
claims have been practically and legally re-
pudiated at the polls. We feel. therefore,
Maine is at an end. 1t may take few days
or q few weeks to settle the confusion, but
We cannot bring ourselves to believe that,
under the circumstances, the State govern
ment will be organized on the plan that
seemed probable two or three days ago. The
fusionists have pr,ded themselves all along
on their strict adherence to legal forms, but
now that this support has been knocked out
from under them-by their own hands, as 1t
were-there will be nothing LETT for them to
do but to retire from the contest As gracefully
a. they can.
From the New York Times.
Ingenious ~ may have been the pettifog-
cling by which the Governor and his advisers
attempted to obscure the true issue raised by
the Maine conspirators, the opinion Of the
court is . sweeping condemnation Of their
course, and NEST emphatic Endorsement of
the position sustained by the republicans.
The conspiracy may be carried out in spite of
the opinion. but, as it is, no more clearly rev.
dictionary act will have been perpetrated
since the firing upon Sumter, and no more
damning accusation can be preferred against
the democratic party than that they have APP
proved an assault on the very citadel Of free
dom, with As callous a defiance of the re-
Quirements Of equity as If the PRINCIPLES of
law.
From the New York World, dem.
The judges talk like judges. and not like
partisan politicians. They uphold the sound
democratic principle that the intention of the
voters. where it can be clearly made out.
must prevail, and that the duties of canvass
ers are ministerial and not Judicial. 1t is
not to be supposed that Governor Garcelen
and his Council, who, by adopting the meth
DDS of CIPHER alley, have brought this opin-
ion on themselves. will insist upon their po-
stion. in the face of the decision which they
have invited. There does not now appear to
be the slightest reason to fear for the pre-
servation Of the peace in Name.