Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-02-06

| loss of two. Morey received 21S officia
| and .1e on the recount. a loss of two
| Coyne received go on the official coun
| and 2l9 on the recount a loss of one
| Narcotic received 21S official and PIG or
| the recount. a loss of two. Three of til,
! Democrats lost two and one of them lost
| one, in thar ward, and every Republican
| gained except one and he held his own.
Now We come to one more ward, Ware
| 3, where It IS alleged these markings &C
! Cured. Haskell received IT. official II.
on the recount. Little received. 1863 official
| and 400. on, the recount. a gain of one
Kelley received IL official and 1863 ON the
| recount. a loss of two. Tremblay receiv-
ed 176 official and III on the recount, d
gain of one. Garcelon received 253 official
and 252 on the recount. a loss of one Mo-
| rey received 252 official and 251 on the re-
| count, loss of one. COyne received "A.
official and on the recount 24S. a loss OF
one. Narcotic received 249 official and on
| the recount 246 loss of three.
There in those wards where they claim
markings appeared on the ballots the
Democratic sitting members are the ones
that lost, and the Republican contestants
are the ones that gained, and now they
charge us with marking the ballots. CAP
plause).
Let us take the total of the official
count in this matter. and then let us take
the total of the recount in that city. We
feel indignant and hurt and ashamed
tnat we are Obliged to come here to the
members of this House and be gazed upor,
ana be treated by some of the members
as though we had done something wrong;
ana mat IS my excuse for going into de-
taliS. because | want to impress upon the
members of this House that when we are
done with the figures here this minority
report can only be accepted by the most
arbitrary usuipatlon of power; but l be-
iieve that the fair-minded men from
Aroostook to York in this Legislature will
never accept that report when they an
swer by yea and nay.
Look at the official count Haskell re-
ceived LIS his recount was 1885. a loss OF
three in the entire city. Little received
1a94 his recount was 1871 a loss of three
in the entire city. Kelley received 1913, his
recount was 1901, a loss of II in the entire
city Tremblay received 164l. his recount
was 1871, loss of 10 in the entire city
Garcelon received 1862, his recount WIS
1855, a gain of three. Morey received 1915
his recount was 1919. a gain of four. Coyne
received 1924. his recount was 1921 loss
OF three. Narcotic received 1916. his re-
count was 1872. II loss of four And had it
not been in Ward l. where in a pile OF
straight Republican ballots there We're
discovered four marked straight Demo-
cratic lying in the pile. which We're found
by no less a distinguished q person than
the Hon. Seth NJ Carter. who can bear
witness to that statement every Demo
crat would have run away behind the list
here.
Now, we come down to the question of
Ward and what took place there on cleo
ton day. The minority report charges
fraud on the part of the Democratic city,
clerk and Democratic officials. and they
rest secure in their report from any in
terence of any fraud committed on the
part of the Republican officials. l do not
say this as meaning in any sense that
your fellow was worse than ours. but
'si vCu fair minded men to go with
o. a war of tha cafx
that ere beyond dispute and then say who
committed the fraud and whom did it af
feet In Ward 6, according to the testi-
mony in this case. q most significant
thing happened at the opening of the
polls. One NJ. ID. Costello. who has been
the Republican ballot clerk of that ward
for six years. acted as ballot clerk during
the first part of that morning of cleo
ton day. He took all the ballots from
the warden and they had not been counted
by anybody, and he took them to the
,ther side of the ward room and acted AS
ballot clerk, mind you, for a little while
and then he asks permission to change
places with the Republican election clerk,
one Edward NJ Savers. What is the
meaning of that insignificant request on
the morning Of election day? He does
change places with him. he goes out three
u four times during the forenoon. Then
he has become the election clerk in Ward
>. What does he do then? Here is VIVA
We are able to bring home to the knowI-
edge of the members of this House as q
fact, because in this State of Maine We
depend upon our courts to see that justice
s done, and it is Il matter of court record
that cannot be impeached and the evil
1ence of which is with the committee in
this hearing One Peter Eadigan comes
in to vote at II o'clock. lie goes inside
the rail. John Finn was on guard for
he Democratic party, a man who was a
defeated candidate at our caucus for the
nomination for rep reSentative to this
body, Il man who was sore in regard to
he candidates upon the Democratic tick
ct, who was the only Democrat at tia;
md Of the ward. 1t was this man Savers
that had taken the place of Costello. and
he sat by his side, man who had served
a sentence but few months before for
selling rum, and he was placed there to
guard the purity of the ballot box Fad
gan came in to vote. Remember that he
had become election clerk, Costello had.
He had no business with any ballots He
had no business to check any mans name
on the list when he came in. BY his own
request he had changed places. Then
when Radigan came to vote he handed
him Il ballot already marked. lie had no
business with the ballots; his duty was a.
election clerk but Costello handed bal
lot already marked to this man, and Rad
igan refused to vote the ballot saying