St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-09-08
MAINE ELECTION TO-DAY.
Republican Preparations for
Showing Apparently Very
Large Gains.
A Trick of Comparison and q Desper-
ately Managed Campaign.
Probability That the State Will Give Not Less
Than $4,000 Majority.
paper Credit Frauds of War Time and
BIaine's Part of the job.
Especial Telegram to the Globe |

publicans to increase the plurality which
Gov. ROBBIE had in 1882, from $500 to 49,
900. In 1880 the Democratic-G Green back
fusion carried the state by 226 plurality, but
the vote of 1882 is the one which the asso-
ciated press will use in its campaign Monday
night. The Republican tactics have been
very shrewd, and the chances greatly favor
their success in Increasing the plurality Ga
plurality elects in MaineJ, say 1900 and per-
haps little more, the represented
army of stump-speazers has been
from the first stoutly fighting Chinese
fashion-raislng clouds of dust about the
tariff question, and hurting rhetorical stink
pots intended to brighten the farmers and
laboring men into the belief that their very
existence depends on the perpetuation of the
protective system. These have been the tao
tics everywhere, from Eastport 70 Kittery, as
they were in 1882, and the Morrison bill has
been held up from every stump as warning
of what is to be if the Democracy gets con-
troll of the national administration. The
voters of Maine are very intelligent class,
and without distinction of party are protec-
tionists. More than that, the starch, hay and
lumber interests, to say nothing of ship
building, would undoubtedly suffer tenn
porary check in the event of reduction of
duties on these articles. There is therefore
no room to doubt the wisdom of the Repub-
lican managers. The Irish American element
has also been adroitly addressed
and direct appeals to the factory OPP
eratives in the seaport cities have been
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protection to American citizens issue. City
Solicitor Looney, of this city, an Irish Re-
publican, has been stumping with George
Pepper, of Ohio, among these people. Mr..
Pepper was sent on by Patrick Ford, of the
Irish World, and the results of the labors of
these speakers are seen in the formation of
rish-American Blaine clubs in Bangor,
Portland and one or two other places,
The Democrats have devoted themselves
chiefly to combating this threatened deser-
ton of the Irish, and their few speakers have
eloquently proven the fallacy of Blaine's
claim to be the protector of American citi-
zens abroad.
Another skillful trick on the part of the
Blaine managers has been played with the
Prohibtionists. These people are pretty
active in Maine. While the great majority
their own ticket polls about 700
each year. This year the friends of
constitutional prohbitory amendment
have been putting in an unusual amount of
work until within week, the Republicans
have coddled this movement thus keeping
Neal Dow and the other radical Prohibition
lists quiet. Now, however, Mr.. Blaine, for
reasons which are perfectly obvious in the
west, has given the word that the alliance
must be foresworn. If the amendment is
adopted it will be charged to Democratic votes
| by the Blaine managers in the October
states. If it is defeated it will be charged to
Mr. Blaine, for effect on the Germans. The
whole thing shows Blaine's shrewdness in
trying to catch the Prohibition and anti-pro-
hibition vote. How it will work remains to
be seen, but the chances are that the trick
has succeeded. Extraordinary measures
have been taken to bring home absent voters.
In one case it is said man is coming all
the way from Minnesota, at the expense
of the Republican state committee,
which has all the money it needs. The rail
roads and steamers have been prevailed on
to reduce rates from Boston, where there are
hundred or two voters of this state. The
attempt is to be made to bring the total vote
of the state up to 146, 900, which will be
within 1000 of the vote of 1880, which was
the largest in the history of the state. The
Republican claims at first were 10000 plu
rality. Now they are reduced to $4,000.
Chairman Wing, of the Republican state
committee last night publicly claimed TO-
600, but this was bluff, and intended for
4 quotation in case the figures were higher.
The democratic estimates are very vague.
OF course they expect defeat, but they ex-
press confidence that several thousand Re-
publicans will not the bow knee to Blaine,
Their most powerful bomb was thrown
yesterday in the shape of an exposure of the
''paper-credit'' frauds of 1864 and 1866
whereby a ring, of which Mr.. Blaine is sup
posed to have been member, enriched
themselves by getting several thousand
fraudulent names credited to Maine cities
and towns as volunteers in the army and
navy and pocketing from 800 to $500 fol-
each name. This matter has never been in
tempts were made. Two of the alleged
members of the ring Zone Of them Mr..
Blaine's partner) have died rather than face
the charges, but somehow or other the of
ficials at Washington never permitted the
frauds to be exposed
The story of the ''paper-credit frauds'' OF
Maine, which is published by the Herald
| mid of
will probably injure Mr.. Blaine il
distant states. The story in brief is this
During the war when the drafts were in pro
gress, a conspiracy was forme in Maine anC
in Washington, having for its object the fur
nishing for money of spurious list of name;
of alleged volunteers in the naval service
from Maine which were detached from tLC
quotas of volunteers or conscript!
to be furnished by the cities and towns, as i
they had been genuine. The desire to evadt
the press was nowhere greater than in some
districts of Maine and the towns were glat
to pay literally for those spurious lists O
naval volunteers, viii CHI relieved them of
large part of the consequences of the draft
To make these lists was an easy matter tt
get them accepted at Washington was
totally different thing, and involved
so the story goes, the collision of many pub
lie officials IN Maine and in Washington
This conspiracy was headed in Maine, so the
published statement reads, by Mr.. V. Sam
uel Cary, whose son-in-aw, J. H. Manley, Il
said to have managed the business, and t.
have received very large sums of none,
from tie brokers who furnished the lists di
rectly to the cities and towns. Manley wa
possessed of large fortune after the war