Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-03-24

Coona111s9 I0lwpp o1nnaA.
Aeodny rooms tzain tcoash1 70 Rostland
ex-0ov. 0asceloa and Messrs- 8. s. Brovr
q Fairfield, aad 7. n. Rses Il his Co.acil.
Ths Governor proceeded 70 tie Preble House,
II. Brown TO IL Faloosth Hosel and Mr..
foEg 70 4r. SPsinger's, edisoe a he New
Era Tie Press learning thas shese ex-on-
ciais we're N the city, dispatched reporters Il
,n.efv,ev then, and ascertain n possible vha1
ied 70 the honor Of their visit. The report
en- did not succeed in ascestainine the vkere-
aooets Of Alonzo, until il vas too late to in
tefview the fusion eAiefiain. However. slfef
efeas volumes Of profanity. IN which IL
fsess, IL attaches, and ether repuhliean nsvs.
Pape1s were roandly anatheaasi1ed .AroRR
unoosomed himself Of Considerable valuable
information.
Mr.. Gascelen," said Citise. Fosx. 'vas
mapped By legesdemaiu trick Of tie Hale
committee. and il seens to ne that Mr..
Moody must have had . pecuniazy eoasiders-
ton ! Am ready 70 testify that be told ~
thas he Vas offered 90, 900 to defeat the ~
s3it Of the tahalaeioa, and that the original
biotfef ~as worth $500. John Benson, Jr..
had . case in court brought ae.iust hin -
Messrs. Black and Channing. He testified
before the Hale committee and Immediately
verdict vas given in his favor All this l.
evidence to me that there il . conspiracy to
convict the Governor and Council. Unless
they can convict the Governor and Couneil
they will not dare to 90 before the people on
the issue of . revolusiouized State"
In general, Mr.. Fog expressed . determi-
nation to discuss nothing but financial mat.
tiers after the hrst Of June; that be means u
make the fight hot one; that be IL dead sst
against fusion" and that before the lrst Of
June be would be glad to come TO Portland
and discuss the State issues presented in The
late countinE-out operation With any ''Repub-
lican in the held or out Of it," "And," add
ed Mr.. Fogg, II want you to add that in the
event Of the arrest Of the Governor and Coun-
cil and their conviction - 10 possible, -
there IL no knowing what the courts may DO,
then there will be such . revolution - the
republicans will not want to see-in short,
civil war-and If civil war comes il will not
be fought with muskets, but With nitro-glycer-
Inc, dynamite and matches. Such 6nal re-
suit think 10 inevitable.
Zone thing more. Say that believethe NJ
rest Of Kearuey wrong, and hope that the
workingmen Of San Francisco will have sand
enough in them to take him out Of jail, even
il they have to face the whole United States
army. And had Sawyer been kept one week
in Jail, should have called on Joseph L.
Smith At all hazards to protect the rights Of
our fellow citizens and his Secretary"
Notwithstanding the meeting Of the Cover
nor and Council il said by Councillor Brown
to have been accidental. it 10 the impression
Of the Press reporter, that they came to the
city by preconcerted arrangement, to decide
upon some plan of action now that the Hale
committee has reported, and to take advice Of
counsel ~ to what that plan should be. 1t 10
possible, - Mr.. Brown limited, they will wait
until the evidence is published by the COM
mittee in pamphlet form and then attempt
defence over their own signatures. 1t il un-
derstood that Capt. Chase also denies. like
the others, that he ever changed . return or
believes any one else Of the Council did.