Year: 1877

statesman. LII pictures Mr.. Madlgan Win
cheeks flushed, eyes flashing with indigna-
ton, leaping from his chair and bearing
down upon Mr.. Williams with quiyering fin
ger and that manly and imposing presence
which so few of our eminent men are
blessed with" and also with speech which
the Commercial delivers, closing as follows:


Sir, the Democrats of Maine have long
been in minority. They would rejoice
again to be in power; but they will never sac
rihce their honor for power. They will nev-
er vote for any author of that ''most mon
strous political fraud recorded in history"
nor for any endorser of it. That crime they
will never condone, nor uphold the arm of
any man who seeks to condone it. Strike
that paragraph from your letter of accept
ance, or take at the polls on the tenth day of
September, the rebuke that you will both
merit and receive.


There are also symptoms of revolt in Knox
county. The Rockland Opinion mildly re-
marks:


Mr.. Williams has no right to say, as he
does by implication, that the Democratic
party assented to any part of the helish
fraud by which Hayes was made President.
The language of the resolution is explicit
enough. 1t condemns as the most monstrous
political crime in political history the electoral
conspiracy in all its internal entirety, from the
comparatively respectable villainy Of Madison
Wells and other members of the Southern re-
turning boards down 10 the unfathomable
depths OF scoundrelism, perjury, corruption,
treason and fraud reached by those members
of the electoral commission who, know
ing that Tilden was elected, gave
THAR sapntiop-whafavor If worth
to the Inauguration of Hayes. We
presume Mr.. Williams affects to mis-
understand the resolution in order to save
the feelings of some Republicans who he
thinks may vote the Democratic ticket this
fall If we do not ask too many questions
about where Hayes got his 'roas' chicken
We would not do him the justice of supposing
that he means to palliate the crime of Joe
Bradley & Co., while condemning that of
Mad Wells & Co. We would not repel
recruits who come to us honestly, but we
must not allow that splendid resolution to be
emasculated. If the recruits are honest they
will endorse the whole of it."


Somehow the "masterly strategy of the
Augusta leader does not seem to be received
with favor by the Democratic masses. The
disaffection is not confined TO Penobscot,
Somerset and Knox, If we may judge by the
following extracts from the Bangor CONNER
ciQl:


One of the most popular, prominent and
influential Democrats of York county writes
us in private letter, that the Democrats of
that county repudiate the endorsement OF the
Electoral Fraud, and will probably cast their
votes for Gen. S. j. Anders IN of Portland.


On Thursday the Portland Argus published
Mr.. Williams letter of acceptance, but made
not word of comment on 1t. In fridays
issue there are, however, some remarks
which read queerly. There is no allusion to
the authors most extraordinary interpreta-
tion of the second resolution of the platform.
Probably, Bro. Adams will take two or three
days to reflect on the utter subversion of the
temper, spirit and letter Of his admirable
resolution by the democratic candidate for
Governor. We learn from private sources
that the temper of the Portland Democracy
is about the same as that of their brethren In
Bangor.


We commend to the attention OF every
Democrat the brief article from the New
York San on the true method of preventing
a repetition of the monstrous fraud by which
Samuel j. Tilden was robbed of the high
Office TO which the American people had
elected him. Can Democrats contribute to
the prevention of the repetition of that high
crime against free government by voting for
man who declares that Hayes title to the
Presidency is valid, and who affirms that the
decision of the infamous majority of the
Electoral Commission was right? He who
endorses the villainy of Bradley and Morton,
is an accessory after the fact, and merits the
punishment prescribed for all such accesso-
rios