Year: 1879

brthrghts for his petty offers. This wretch met
three young men who were invulnerable against his
temptations while they sober and in their right
minds But acting on superior orders he tried
them otherwise. and piled them with liquor
cation. condition in which they remained
all Sunday under his goddess guidance Know
ing that these stern and well-meaning young
fellows would awake TO their degradation and
shame soon reason assumed control of their
the young fellows drunk until Monday. when they
marched them to the polls. and there. in tottering
egs and with unsteady hands they dropped into the
who did what they could to ruin them. - ytfs7
INTIMrDArIoN fA


General charges of intimidation as well as bribery
are next made. An instance is given as follows:-


In manufacturing town in Maine. where it would
ployes to vote with the democrats. neary ali vote
the republican ticket In the instance Of this town
nothing said to them by their employers or by the
republicans concerning politics: They not re.
quesed to vote the republican ticket they arc not
ordered to do so; they are not Threatened with
discharge If they do not but before election
came those who had openly declared that
they wonld vote the democratic ticket or the
greenback ticket were quietly dsch charged After the
election those who had been known to thus vote
were also dscharged-one or two OF three .
Completed. one Of them, who voted the repub.
lican ticket. explained the matter In this
way = "They don't talk politics tous. but we know
we have got to vote they votc We have seen men
enough thrown out Of work to know what 1t means
and therefors if want to support our families and



must vote the republican ticket" On the Saturday
preceding the election in another town gang Of
about twenty men at work on the highway were
called by the or told not
only that they must vote the republican ticker. but
that they must furnish evidence to him that they had
done or they could not expect work thcre. Busi-
ness men and merchants have had such intimidatons
in words and actions that they knew It was
less for them to expect living custom II they OPP
posed by their votes the Blame reign in Maine.
Intimidation has reached the Church. and in
stance of this is found in the of man who





His class wns taken away from him tor no other
reason tnan that he was democrat: The laws OF
Maine provide as Is usual elsewhere, that paupers
shall not vote. And yet in OF the wards of one
of the largest cities in the State only those
side aid. but actual inmates Of the Poorhouse
taken TO the polls and there made to deposit their
ballots. republican ballots; and this is not iso-


THE LISTS sEcnnrEp


There have been the grossest frauds imaginable
practsed in regard to the use of the check list.
Think of the sublime assumption Of tho chairman
or town committee going to clerk. the right
full custodian of the check lists on Saturday night
and asking for the lists to be taken home to be
kept over sunday! This done in at least one
well authenticated instance. and the check list
delivered by the clerk to the applicant, ana
when later member of the democratic party called
to examine the list in order to find whcther certain
send out of town for the persons. he was quietly
Informed by these clerical Of city
controlled by the God and morality party that Mr..
b.. the chairman of the republican committee.
had it at his house. to beskept Sunday. The
temporary custodian OF this document was not
even a member of the city government.


In concluding this chapter of the record Of the
base frauds and corrupticns fostered by the domi-
nant party in Maine against popular rights and FREQ
government we have given but faint general pic.
ture of the terrible truth. We will soon hereafter
enlghten readers further by stating specifically
the almost incredible details Of the system Of
ruption. coercion and chicanery practsed in the
Pine Tree State relating in most Of the instances the
manner in which the evidence obtained. which
will be romantic and interesting and help to carry
conviction of the truth of all these statements t0
the mind of every unprejudiced man.