Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-02-06
MAINE LEGISLATURE.
Continued from page 81.

IT Lambert nut into the box In one bunch
lyere found, and they were found In his
Ipossession, and he put them into the pox
land warden and Democratic police
man stood there and saw the thing done
land were cognizant of it, My brother
lsays that you must limit the fraud IN
that ward down to the place where my
brother saws a little Republican by the
name of Savers was indicted at some time
for selling liquor and he WAS the ballot
Iclerk there. Good Lord, gentlemen, III
That locality the fact that man mas been
Indicted for selling rum is a certiiicate
tof good moral character daughter anu
lApplauseD .fMelF
Where should you place the limit? You
lean place it with his disposition and de-
lsire and ability with the go Ballots, or
lwhere will you put it? The court once
told me in answer to question as 10
lhow much proof l would be required 70
produce il order to substantiate GER
ltain defence, You prove the disposition
land the opportunity and the Court VIII
lake care of the rest Gaughter)
In this case / claim that the disposition
lhas been shown. Down in this fertile
lfeld Of Ward 6, in the city of Lewiston,
ldon't you suppose that the purchasable
lvote in that Ward was manipulated
Iron one end of the 4E
Ibanots that my brother talks
labout here to the other? And when
at last Lambert got round he had the
26 votes left out of his 60 and he
dumped in the bunch. daughter)
That is the way the thing went. How
much proof do you want of limitation?
claim that this thing is amply proved
and the fraud is proved and it can
not be successfully denied.
The courts in this country hold to
this proposition, that when you have
established the fact of general fraud,
participated in by the officers of an
election, then the burden shifts upon
the party who would extract any bene-
fit from the election to show by other
evidence than his certificate how many
legal votes he actually received. |
fear no dispute about the law. The
law is settled and plain and clear, and
it is for you to apply it here and now.
/ undertake to say that from
the verdict which you give here there
is going out one or two things, that
either from this time on in the city of
, Lewiston-and not only in Lewiston
but elsewhere-you shall vote to con-
J, done this proven fraud by officers of
elections. you simply tell to every ward
and precinct, You put in any miser-
able devil you see fit for an official and
; let him commit all the fraud he can and
you can have the benefit of it if you
can cover up your tracks," That is
; what one verdict will say. The other
one will say, Gentlemen of Ward in
Lewiston, if you propose hereafter or
at this time to have anything to say
about the results of elections in the
city of Lewiston, you must purge that
rotten condition that exists there in
the body polite of that ward. If YOU
cannot select officers to run your cleo
tons who are above the commission of
absolute and actual fraud as has been
proven in this case, you cannot and you
shall not have anything to say about
the verdict That puts them back on
the ground of decent government that
we want to see prevail in the State
of Maine.
One word more. | have heard it
| said by some in the discussion of this
case that this is a local affair, that if
they have any dirty linen in Lewiston
let them wash it out. l want you to
remember that in Ward on that day
when this stupendouS fraud was under
taken, the blood of which today is upon
the hands of this man Lambert and
his colleagues in that affair, and which
the waters of great Neptune's ocean
cannot wash out nor all the perfumes
of Arabia swecten, say, that you want
to look before you act. They say it is
local, simply. Every ballot cast in that
ballot box had upon it's head the name
Of the Governor of this State. When
that political assassin Lambert threw
26 ballots into that box he disenfran-
chised me and you, did he not? He
nullified your vote and mine and made
it of the same effect as if we never
had gone to the polls on that day.
| And are you to say that that is a local
matter simply and affects nobody else
when every man in this State was at
fected by it? Are you to advertise by
your action that such things can be
carried on with impuny, or will you
set the seal of your condemnation and
| disapproval upon it and forever drive
out and bury these Ubiquitous prac-
| tees? (Applause.)
| Mr.. Allan of Portland Mr. Speaker |
| | move to adjourn. |
| The motion was lost.
| Mr. WIIATHERBEE of Lincoln: Mr.. |
Speaker | move that when we vote up |
on this question it be by yea and nay |
lvote.
| The motion was agreed to-
Mr.. L1TTLEEIELD of Rockland: | |
wish to call the attention of the Speaker |
land members of the House TO the misrcp- |
Presentations of the last member who
Ispoke as TO the position of the majority |
report in this matter. He insists on the \
same thing which | have attempted tc (
| show was not true. The majority arc
with you in furnishing fraud. If the
fraud is uncertain they are with YOU in |
stamping out the whole of it, The law
does not allow us to go any furthe- and
| the same case which the gentleman who
presented this case for the contestants re-
fers to, says the same thing. 1T has been
! settled that the allegations of fraud per-
petrated by the officers of election are
| not sufficient to authorize the court to |