The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-10-20

posed of the counties of Columbia. Put
nam and Duchess. This district was
close, Deane, the Republican candidate,
having received IA, 5S1 votes, and Osborne,
Democrat, IA, SOP. In New York there
is more ceremony to the canvassing of
the vote than in Maine. The returns of
a county go TO board of supervisors, to
be canvassed by them. These supervisors
then make their returns to the State au-
thorities The supervisors of Duchess
county were Democratic, and to them
Maynard went Immediately after the re-
suit of the election was known. The SUI
pervisors, in looking for some excuse for
reversing the result, found thirty-one
ballots that had been marked by the
slipping up of quad" in printing. A
"quadn is blank space used by print
ers to space out an incomplete line. In
some way one of these quads" had
slipped up, so it was touched by the ink
roller and printed black mark on the
ballot. With this accidental mark for
an excuse the supervisors robbed Deane,
the Republican candidate, of 81 votes,
and sent to Albany an election return
which showed the election Of Osborne
The Repu blicans, realizing what was
going on, took energetic steps to thwart
the conspiracy. They went before JUS
tice Edwards, of the Supreme Court, at
Troy. and obtained an order of court
directing the State Board of Canvassers
to suspend canvassing the fraudulent
return. Justice Edwards is Democrat,
but he issued the order readily. They
then went before another Democratic
Justice, Judge Barnard, at Pough-
keepsie, and obtained from him an order
directing the Duchess county supervisors
to reconvene and make new return of
the vote, giving the actual number of
ballots cast. Maynard had endeavored
to coerce both Judge Webster and Judge
Barnard, but they thought more Of their
incorruptibilty as jurists than of the
ephemeral success of party. Reduced to
desperation Maynard determined on
nothing less than actual theft to carry
out the policy of fraud he had begun.
The order of Judge Webster directing
the Board of State supervisors to suspend
their canvass pending the arrival of
corrected return from Duchess county,
had to be passed upon by the Court of
Appeals. This court unanimously sus-
tanned Judge Webster. So the State
Board of Canvassers were obliged to
await a certain date before they could
canvass the vote. By extraordinary ex-
ertions, hanpered by Democratic opposi-
the corrected returns of Duchess county
sent to the State House at Albany in
time for the session of the State Board
of Canvassers. Apparently Maynard
was beaten. But he was not the kind of
rascal to give up. He went into the
office of the State Comptroller and de-
liberately stole the corrected return, so
that when the Board of Canvassers met
they had only the false return before
them. The majority of the Board were
conniving at his rascality, and they
readily canvassed the false return, thus
seating the Democrat Osborne.
This was what Isaac II. Maynard did.
By his act in this case, and by other acts
as bad, the Democrats secured control OF
the Senate, and of all branches Of the
New York State government. TO reward
him the Democratic machine has nomin-
ated him for high judicial position.
If the Democrats Of Portland should
bring forward ex-Warden Harper as
candidate for Judge of the Municipal
court of this city they would not be
violating decency whit more than has
been done by those who have put for
ward Isaac H. Maynard for a place on
the bench of the New York Court OF
Appeals.