The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-11-07
BEFORE THE BATTLE.
All Signs Point to Victories for the
Republican Hosts.
THE LAST DEMOCRATIC OUTRAGE
In NEW YORK.

| What Is Said There of Maynard's Chances
-Massachusetts Republicans Figuring
on the Size of Their Plurality-Neither
| Party Making Official Guesses in Ohio
But the Outsiders Busy Estimating
the Size of McKin1ey's Triumph.
New York, November 6.-Interest in
| in the revolt in the Democratic ranks
against Isaac H. Maynard, candidate for
judge of the court of appeals, and the
man who stole the Dutohess county
election returns 1t is the general opinion
that the Democrats will carry the state,
but that Maynard will certainly fall far
behind his ticket and may be beaten.
His opponents claim that his defeat is
almost certain. The Republicans hope
to carry the assem- bly,.
Some light ON Democratic campaign
methods in this state is afforded by an
incident described in today's papers.
The series of registration outrages
that have been perpetrated in the last
few days in Gravesend, under the guild
ance OF John Y McKane eliminated at
midnight on Saturday in one of the
uOSG NlOlciU llllTIlS6u0lltS OIL uuc III
alienable rights of American citizenship
that have been visited upon the people
of the state of New York since British
tyranny was overthrown over one hun
dred years ago. Twenty-Five respectable
citizens took the train in Brooklyn for
Gravesend about midnight with manda-
muses. i'll their pockets from Judge Cullen
Gravesend boards of registry to allow
copies of the poll lists to be made, and on
arriving at Gravesend they were arrested
bysa-gang of men, hoscarried no insignia
of Office except clubs, headed by John Y.
McKane, and were thrown into Jail on
such charges as vagrancy," drunken
ness" and disorderly conduct"
In vain the men attempted to show their
mandamuses; in vain they protested that
they were not vagrants, not disorderly
and not drunk. In vain they asked to
be allowed to telephone to or in any way
to communicate with Brooklyn to get
counsel and bail. All proper and lawful
requests were denied, and the men were
ruthlessly thrust into filthy dens with
the lowest class of prisoners, where, as
more than one witness can testify, the
vermin was SO thick that it covered their
bodies and clothing.
But this was only the beginning of
this conspiracy for revolution" as it
| was aptly called by one of the witnesses.
Wnen IL was unally KNOWN on SUNDAY
morning in Brooklyn that the outrage
had been perpetrated, Henry W Maxwell,
Elijah r. Kennedy, E. H. Sayres. James
Matthews, JIG. Dettmer and e. E.. DON
mellon, who easily represent ss$5, 1000, 900,
hastened down to Gravesend and offered
bail in any sums to release the prisoners.
But all in vain. The justices of the
peace had all mysteriously disappeared,
and when finally the men from Brooklyn
unexpectedly came upon one of them,
Justice Newton, coming out of liquor
store, he said that he knew nothing
about the casel
As mandamus writs were imperative
on Sunday the men were kept in conine-
ment until today when they were liber-
ated. They were sent to Gravesend by
WI. Gaynor, Republican candidate for
justice of the supreme court, who is en-
deavoring to get an honest vote in the
region controlled by M Kane.