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Show TELEGRAPHIC MAINE. WniHiig for tlio Trouble to IJt;in What Fraud 11 hn to fuy of Fraud Butler's Opiuiou. New York, 20. A reporter interviewed Hayes here yesterday on the ilaine question, ques-tion, lie said ho bulicved an arrangement arrange-ment would be cemo to by Wednesday without going to the courts. Democrats cannot do otherwise than back down. They know they have made a sad blunder. blun-der. To thinkthat en old caste n statu, with all its culture and educational Advancement, Ad-vancement, will stand such a pervi-rion of the people's prerogmive is absurd. I know tboy will not, oven if Goverr.or Garcelon should refuse to hnve the legal points raised properly tested, and Colds on lo the I'.osition that tho party hns taken up. I dti not tbi'.k it is at all liko'y the twenty-nine iana in this party, or any considerable art of them, would bo wiliin? to ta!;e Ibo sowta that ara in dispute. If the republican representatives representa-tives that may bnvf boon elect' d procei d to their seats in the legislature on the proper day, their opponents will ssy : " In equity, at least, you are entitled to jour seats, and you may have them for us. " ,' Portland, 20 A tpocial to the Press from Oxford says : A letter from Slato Librarian Stacy to Moses Che'ley, representative-elect, was shown by Chesloy to a republican by mistake. Tho letter requests re-quests him to appear at thecapitol at an early day, with ten good men who will stand by him in case there is opposition to the fusionists taking their seat?. 'Ibis letter further says: The expenses will bo paid. Show this to none but true greenback green-back ore. Tho above is vouched for as a correct representation of tho substance of tho letter. let-ter. Phillips, Me , 30. A large indignation meeting was held last night, Tho speeches condemn tho course of the governor and council. The resolutions request senators and representatives elect to recognize no man not legally elected. Newport, Me., 30. Kepubhcans held an earnest indignation meoting last night, presided over by Kev. David Boyd, lie-solutions lie-solutions severely condemn the action of the governor ana council. Parmington, Mo., 3U. An answor to tho statement by c ouncilor Brown in his remarks at Pairlield, that Parming-tsn Parming-tsn waa thrown out because the returns were not sealed up in open town meeting, two solectmen of this town, both green-backers, green-backers, (the third has not. been seeu) will make an affidavit in substance that the returns were made and sealed in open town meeting, and in the presence of tho town clerk and a full board of Eolectmcn; thitt each signed his own name to each return, and in the presence of tho rest, of tho board, after the returns bad boen made up; that tho returns were then attested at-tested to by tho town clerk and sealed up in open town meeting, in Iho presence ot a full hoard, and that tho clerk of the town will make an affidavit in confirmation confirma-tion of tho same. Chicago, Z0 ,Jom-nal's "Washington; Gen. Butler, in conversation with your, correspondent, to-day, alluding to the1 published fctatemont that lie was at the. bottom of the Maino fraud, said: "I have ' never given any opinion to Gov. Garcelon, and don't mean to, became I think what ! took place in the fall and winter of 1 870 should prevent any public man from assuming the role of 'visiting statesman,' cither by telegraph or letter. In regard lo the Maino affair, I think, from some familiarity with the constitution of Maine, having been educated there, that Gov. Garcelon is justified by tho constitution and laws, if the official statement made by tho council is correct, in doing as he did." |