Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1884-08-07
pocrisy, and hypocrisy begets abun'
dant ills in the body polite.

dant ills IN the body polite.
MIR. Blaine Takes In the Situation.
When Mr.. Blaine cane to Main'
an ambitious young man, with
brilliant intellect and taste for poll
tics, he found prohibition allied t.
the infant Republican party. In EN-
bracing the one. he embraced thu
other, and however much his private
life may belle his conscientious belle
in the doctrine of prohibition, he ha'
held to it as a policy from first to last
He has looked to it as well as to hi
political creed to carry him through
and make one State a firm basis from
which to act on the whole country.
How well he has planted himself is
easily seen on every hand. If there
are any Democrats outside of this
State who have any sort Of faith in
Names going for Cleveland this fall
they are hugging delusion. Mr.
Blaine has spent his best efforts in
organizing his party here, and. while
the members of it do not as general
thing evince much enthusiasm for
him, they are certain, with a few
scattering exceptions, to vote for him.
If ever man carried The vote of a
State in his breeches pocket he does.
Not that many of them would not
like to revolt and see him defeated,
but they are afraid to incur the i'll
will OF him and his lieutenants.
Facts About Maine Politics.
To commence with, the State has
been strongly Republican from the
start and strongly IN favor Of prohibi-
tion. In 1858 when the question was
submitted to the people whether they
would have prohibition or license,
they gave $4,000 votes for prohibi-
tion and 5000 votes for license. Ere.
mont, the first Republican candidate
for President, got $4,000 votes in
1856, while Buchanan and Fillmore
together got only 5000. Lincolp got
62,0C0 in 1860 and Douglass got 26,,-
900, but Breckenridge received but a
handful. Tilden made an inroad in
1880 when he got $4,000 votes, but
Hayes was given 10000 mo.e. In
1880 Plaisted the Fusion candidate
for Governor, who has since been re-
organized as Democrat, was elected
by q little less than two hundred, the
Fusion vote being 1875, and the
Republican vote being 1886, but
Plaisted had himself beer a pioneer
Republican and carried many of his
old friends and supporters of the
ssme>faith. Two years later things
fell back towards the old ruts, Plaist;
= N gain, receI7ing e3, ,S52
" leStesY W6iTe Robie, his Republican
opponent received 72,724. You see
there are 10000 votes missing, the
Republicans having about the same
they had in 1880, but the Democrats
were short, showing that the 10000
missing votes were from the Demo
cratic side. While this is true, and
while it is true that all the opposition
elements in Maine are now about
equal to the regular Republicans, it
is not true that the opposition is or
ganized and effective, but it ie true
that the Republican organization is
under the most perfect discipline.
After the election of Plaisted in 1880
Mr.. Blaine got scared and went to
work to secure by organization what
he had before had from simple "bru.
tai" majority. He got an expert
manipulation appointed Collector OF
the Port at Portland, and through
him prepared the way for the Repub.-
lican triumph Of 1882. when the
Democrats came out with 10000
votes missing.
The Efficient Collector Of Portland.
This Portland Collector, whose
name for the time has escaped my
memory, made an exact enumeration
Of all the votes Of the State by town
ships and counties, and the day be-
fore the election in 1882 he and Mr..
Blaine knew almost bow the ballot
would atand for Roble. Thsy have
kept the compact organization In
hand till to-day. They know now
just what to depend upon and what
cant be done by threats Of rroscrip'
tion will be done by dollars and cents
In Maine it is good deal as Mr.
Elkins says: 1t is in Indiana large.
ly question Of finance. :" If you
have to buy the votes Of men, there
is a great advantage in knowing
where to go to find the men who
have the votes to sell. There are
multitudes of such men in Maine
have not been in any commrnlt,
where the purchase of voters was 81
freely talked of as right here in The
little city of Augusta, the home @
Mr.. Blaine.
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