The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-04-14
THE DEADLY PARALLEL.
Some Utterances of Prominent Democrats
Contrasted.

Cont1
We present below
ances of the Argus
ocrats relative to t
conveniently arrang
Some of the stateme
to especially direct
italics:
argus, March IL.
From this plain state
ment of facts brought
out yesterday the at
tempt to falsify the
election returns from
Ward one seems to be
placed beyond the
Shadow of a doubt.
Such being the situa-
ton no true Democrat
will for an instant hest
tate to denoatnce the
qOoatld-6e perpetrators
of the fraud and to hope
they will be brought to
justice and suffer the
penalty made and pro-
vided for such a crime
against the purity OF
the ballot.
Mayor hagrdhdna's Res.
ig1aatio1o (Mor. 10.)
To the Chairman of The
Board Of Aldermen,
| have received from
the city clerk a certifi.
cate informing me OF
my election on March
9th inst, to the office
of Mayor for the ensu,
Ing municipal year.
Entertaining o. doatbl
as to the accuracy Of
the returns from Ware
one, and not being will
ing to hold office unless
the title is undoubted
l hereby respectfully
refuse to accept the
Office of Mayor under
such election.
l am, SIT.
Your ob't Serv't.,
Darius II. Ingraham
-4ryats Commend Mar
III
1t will be seen from
Mayor Ingraham'S com
munication to the chair.
man of the Board Of
Aldermen published in
another column, that
he refuses to accept
the Office of Mayor fol
the coming year, il
consideration OF the
doubt that exists to {
considerable degree as
to the accuracy of the
election returns from
Ward one. The certi
fed lists returned tt
The city cle1Ic from
Ward one last Mo7ldd2
night aotU be opened to
dag, and the result o.
the 60lloti1lg IN thai
aOard verifed by er
alderman Thompson
and the city clerk. Flu
ture proceedings viii
depend upon the result
OF this official examina.
alton of these lists. M,
Mayor I1agr0haAd
| Statement to the
Vertiser Mar. 11)
The Mayor said tina
he would positively re
| fuse to again be a can
dldate for mayor, blu
he could not say wheth
er some one would b,
nominated in his plac,
or whether the Demo
Gratis eooatId c0ncede Nh
| B0Iter's election by put
ting no candidate In tn,
field against him.
press Mar. 11)
| Last evening Mayo
Ingrahaln was seen
He aOGs Thoroughly dis
| gatsted. and declared
that in the event of
new election he slloult
not be q candidate, AM
that the Democrat
might get some one els
for a standard bearer.
| Evening .EGpress Ma
15.)
| To the query as t,
what he had deter
mined about his candi
dacy, Mr.. Ingraham re
piled: "Oh, Pm out O
the race. / have no
seen any reason t
change my mind on tn
matter"
| alderman GalptiU's Lei
ter OF DectinGtioi
Mar. 11,)
| PORTLAND ME
March IL, 1898.
John S. RatsseU Esq,
City Clerk of the CIT
of Portland:
Sill nereWlGn ell
close my certificate o
election as alderman o
Ward 1, and hereb,
notify you that / shal
decline to accept tina
office, owing to the fac
that l disapprove O
the manner in whicl
that election was cor
Quoted.
l desire, in justice t6
myself, to add, tina
while / am Statistic,
that the Democrat
ward ticket was cleo
ed. independently c
the at,elGacfttJ count, b
a considerable majorit!
get mig sense of publ
duty. and nay self y,
spect will not allow me
by retaining that pos
ton to appear to ca
cuSe or cOat1oten01a(
such acts, nor pdrtic'
pate IN any benef
auI,ich may groaO out {
the same.
Yours Respectfully.
Chas. F. Guptil