The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-10-04

Mr.. Quyn will there ore be con,e ,ted, his ma
jority being only Ii.
THE STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF
MARYLAND TO THE WINGS OF THE
UNION.
We send you glad tidings from Maryland We
have realized our hopes, and fulfilled our promise
| 10 you by the election OF Wing Governor and a
Wing Legislature. Thomas G. Pratt, our cand-
date for Governor, is elected by decisive major
iiy, and to The Legislature we have elected men,
bers from seventeen counties out OF twenty COM
posing the State.
In addition to the great triumph of redeemng,
the Executive of the State from the dominion of
Locofocosm, TO which il has been subject for now
six years. we have secured the following result in
the Legislature:
Wing. Locofoco.
Senate, IS 6
House of Delegates, 81 81
rs 81
Wing majority OH joint ballot, 40 votes.
Securing the election of WING u. S. SEN
ATOR.
This victory has been achieved in contest
characterized by obstacles such as The Wings of
Mary land have never before had 10 encounter,
and which, for the honor of our Stale, we hope
we shall never again have TO contend with The
election, everywhere, beyond the confines of the
City of Baltimore, has been conducted in man
| ner which satisfies the most sanguine friends of
the Wing cause The questions at issue have
been fully discussed by them, and the people
have spoken their sentiments through the ballot
box, with an honorable and enlightened anprecia-
ton of the great interests involved in the election.
Our opponents have edtheir utmost strength,
and have been most signally defeated.
In the City OF Baltimore the contest has been
one of peculiar viruence and it has been sustain
ed, on the part of our adversaries, we regret to
saw by efforts which will neither rebound to the
honor nor to the future strength of their party.
This city has been the point upon which the ex-
ertions of the enemies OF the Wing cause were
chiefly directed. 1t was obviously their plan to
secure majority here which should outweigh
the expected successes of the Wings of the coun-
ties. All the means that money, personal endea-
vor, diligent Misrepresentation, promised favor,
hattery, or foreign interposition could supply,
were at their command. Under the combined
operation Of these agencies, our opponents have
won the city. They owe their success alone to
an ngorous dexterity in the practice of those
arts by which the popular voice is suppressed
and the popular will overthrown.
The largest vote ever taken in the city of Bal
timore heretofore was that which was cast in
October, last year, upon the occasion of the May
or's election. The whole number then polIed
was l4,S99. Of these the Wing vote was 1900
that Of our opponents, 1928. The vote cast in
the recent election amounted to 17,lS5, of which
1868 were cast by the Wings, and 9,190 by the
other party, showing an increase Of Wing votes
to the amount of 365, and of opponent votes to
the amount of 1892. This statement speaks for
itself. We have no hesitation in expressing our
belief that of these 1902 votes, full 1900 were
falsely and surreptitiousy introduced to the ball
lot box that they have been the product of
skilful and diligently perperated fraud upon the
rights of the real voters of Baltimore. Casting
these aside, the majority would have been for the
Wing candidates, in accordance with the best
estimates which we had previously been able to
make of the election.
The articles of our opponents, however, have
been frustrated by the devotion of our friends
throughout the State, and we can afford to take
the disadvantage which the miscarriage OF this
city has thrown upon The Stale of Mary
and is firmly and mmutably planted in the Wing
line, and she will asSuredly increase the strength
of her position in November. The battle has
been already fought, and honorable victory
the more honorable from the baffled straiagems
Of the enemy-has perched upon our standard.
We give the results of the contest throughout
the State from authentic sources of information,
such as have been despatched to us in the first
moments of victory. Upon these. full reliance
may be placed. Let our brother Wings through
out the Union confde in this communication, and
initiate the example OF Maryland.
JAMES HARDWOOD
VIM. ScHLEY,
ISAAC MUNRoE,
SAMUEL JONES, JR.
GEO. X. RICHARDSON,
G. w. LURMAN,
w H. COLLINS,
SAMUEL II. TAGART,