The Portland daily press., 1893-04-08

simply upon an improved suspicion of
fraud in Ward 1. Now we will prove
out of Mr.. Ingraham's own
mouth that this is utterly at
variance with the fact. We
will show that it was not until fraud had
been mathematically demonstrated that
he resigned his Office, and that while
there was any doubt on that point he
held on to it. Some days after the
fraud was proved, Mr.. Ingraham made
which statement was published and
which has remained uncontradicted and
unquestioned by Mr.. Ingraham up to the
present time. This is the statement;
He Mayor Ingraham said that on
the night of election day, when the
Ward / figures were brought to him, he
would not accept them at first as correct
but they were afterwards said TO be
right He said to several people that it
was not reasonable to think that he had
received so great a majority there. He
told Alderman Guptill something to that
effect. But number of Democrats
called attention to the fact that the par
ty was united in Ward l and that several
elements had worked to the advantage
of the Democrats, which they had never
had before He tried to think that the
result was right.
On election night, he went directly
home after the city meeting, being tired
out. He stopped at the Cumberland
club and there remarked to several people
that he could not believe Ward figures
When it was suggested that fraud had
been practiced there, he caused an inyes-
tigation to be made, resulting in the as
pertaining beyond doubt that the check
lists fell far short of the vote as returned
by the warden. Then he decided to send
in his resignation and did so
Here is an explicit statement from the
Mayors own lips that he suspected that
the count was wrong on the night of the
election. He says he told several mem
bers at the Cumberland club that he
could not believe Ward 1 figures. OF
course if he could not believe Ward 1
figures he must have had doubt as to
his title to the Office. Nevertheless the
next day he accepted his certificate from
the board of aldermen. According to his
own statement then he accepted
| his certificate while he enter
tanned doubt of the correctness of
the count in Ward |. He kept his certi-
ficate through Wednesday and Thurs
day, though the air was full of doubts as
to the Ward count and fraud was open
| ly charged. When did he surrender it?
!. At midnight on Thursday. Under what
circumstances? He tells himself in the
Advertiser i'll these words:
| When it was suggested that fraud had
been practiced There Ward ! he III
caused ian Investigation to be made, re-
| sulting in the ascertaining beyond q
| doubt that the check list fell far Snort of
| the vote as returned by the warden.
| Then he ri decided to send IN his [myl
resignation and did so.
Here is an explicit statement from the
Mayor himself that he decided to send in
his resignation after and in consequence
of his ascertainment ''beyoaed doubt, y
that the count in Ward was fraudulent
For three days, according to his own
statement, he held his certificate, doubt
| ing all the while the correctness of the
count, and only surrendered it when an
examination of the checklist had put the
| incorrectness of it beyond all question.
| In view of this deliberate statement
by Mr.. Ingraham himself. what shall we
say of Mr.. Franks resolution, which the
Democratic convention adopted? Either
that Mr.. Frank was ignorant of the facts,
or that he sought to deceive the voters
in regard to them.