The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-09-09
MULLEN AND PiLLsRuRy.
Extract From Senator Hoar's Speech
to the Essex Club.

Il don't know but may as well give no.
tlce here to some critics who are displeased
with some utterances of my friend John Sher-
man, that upon all questions relating to the
casting of an honest vote, if Mr. John Sher-
man is an antediluyian want to be counted
as pre-Adamite. My Mugwump friends
seem to want to be told some new things all
the time. When any reference is made to the
principles upon which this government is
founded, they think it sufficient to say they
heard that as long ago as 1875. Well, if it is
necessary to talk of something new, will
state one or two things that seem to me to be
new. In the first place, in five of the States
no man can get an Office or receive any pub
lie honor under the present administration if
he was loyal to the country in the
time of her extremity. We don't COM
plain that men get office who served or SYM
pathized with the confederate cause; but that
the men who were on our side are excluded
that is a thing which never happened in this
government until the 4th of March, 1885.
That is not talking about old things, but
about new things, and if the American peo-
pie have any spark OF spirit in them they
will complain of it. Another new grievance.
We all know that whatever constitution or
laws you may write on paper, you have no
living republic unless the President and the
administration, las well as the measures of leg
islation, are the result of the will of the
majority of the people, and unless you are to
have honest elections and honest counts
We are willing to submit to Democratic rule
If the majority of the people are, but we are
not willing to submit to rule brought about
by the methods by which Pillsbury attempted
to steal the State of Maine, and by which
Mullen undertook to suppress Republican
votes in Cincinnati last year. Not what
has happened years ago, but in this
year of grace, 1885, under the power
which, rules at Washington. Mr. Pills
bury, known only for the service which he
rendered to the attempted usurpation of a
Democratic minority in Maine is honored
by the administration by appointment to the
principal federal office in New England. Mr..
Mullen, whose Offense was so rank that even
his counsel did not attempt to make any de-
tense, who, as policeman, locked up 100
Republican voters on election day so as to
deprive them of chance to vote, and who
was sentenced by the United States court, is
pardoned out by the President before an
Ohio election, and if the newspaper state
ment which have seen is true he has been
restored to his position on the police. If
President Cleveland were to write over the
doors of the White House, Frauds on cleo
lions welcome, profted by and pardoned
here, he could not make it palmer than he
has by the appointment of Pillsbury and the
pardon of Mullen. do not propose to hold
my peace onmatters of this kind to win back
any deserters, or to make the conscience of
any newspaper editor any easier. If the ma
jority of the. people disapprove of those
to desist from my feeble efforts until the
views and will of the majority have their CON
stitutional accomplishment If only three
men were in that way of thinking then it
would be my duty to form political party
to labor until we convinced the people that
yya far hoir into nd 4ho;r 81,
turn. | propose to do as you and the Repub-
lican party of Massachusetts have ever done
to find out Gods truth and righteousness
and stand upon it, and my confidence in hui
man nature and American nature is that the
majority will, in the end, come to my side. .