The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1860-01-21

for the registration of voters. The first
gives the appointment of the police Off
GERS toa Board of Police, to be appointed
by the Legislature. OF course this
means simply, that locofoco legislature
shall appoint locofoco board of police,
who in turn shall appoint squad of loco
foco police officers for Baltimore. No
increase of numbers, nothing looking to
making the force more effective, no
change in any way is contemplated, ex-
cept to put the city in the hands of a set
of locofocosy who are not responsible to
the authorities Of the city, or to the citi-
zens themselves. This law is one pre-
cisely after the pattern of the one passed
by the Republican legislature Of New
York, some years ago, for the govern
ment of New York city,. and which was
so bitterly denounced by the locofoco
papers Of this State, especially the Balti-
more Sun, as calculated to breed disorder
and bloodshed.
The Registry Law is nearly the same
as that passed by the legislature of Mary
land some years ago, and against which
the whole force of the locofoco party, at
that time was brought. Mr.. Wallis, one
of the members of the Reform Committee,
has already expressed his dissa tisfaction
with the proposed registry law, because,
to use his own language, 'sit opens large
opportunities for fraudulent voting. p
And when it is remembered that the most
outrageous frauds ever perpetrated in
this country have been by false regis
tration of voters, the efforts of these Bal
Simore locofocos is apparent. Now that
the legislature is in their own hands, why
do they not divide the wards into small
election precincts of three or four hun
dred voters each By this means, the
challengers may know the face of every
man entitled to vote, and time will be
given to properly decide upon the right
of each voter.
The fact is, the bowl of these locofocos
is so ridiculously absurd, as only to
excite contempt. 1t is patent upon the
face of all their proceedings, that they
went into the election last November,
determined to be driven from the polls,
and then to assign this as the cause of Il
defeat, which they knew awaited them.
The Baltimore Sun, in an article of Dec.
18th, referring to the petitions then being
Giro ulated, says: "the two causes for not
voting are perhaps not comprehensive
enough. Comparatively few of the great
mass of voters were prevented by actual
violence, while
a vast number of those who did not
attempt to vote, were influenced by the
certainty that fraud would be practiced
to any exten. necessary to overcome the
votes opposed to the dominant party
Among the evidence, which is just now
spread out in certain Baltimore papers,
we see the testimony of one Mr.. James
Randolph, who says that he went to the
polls, and finding some pushing, &c., he
left without voting. AS he was going
away, he was asked if he had been driven
away, and replied no he had not tried
hard to vote. He was then told that "it
might be important for him to make
persistent effort, and to be driven from
the polls, and to have evidence to that
effect" Hc again went up, declaring
loudly, that he ''intended to vote the
Reform Ticket" Some one cried out,
SNAKE way for Mr.. Randolph" He then
deposited his ballot some one again
cried, "make way for Mr.. Randolph" and
he went away without trouble. Now,
here is the evidence of a Reformer, who
went up provoking opposition by declar-
ing his intention to vote the Reform
ticket, and more than that most anxious
that some one should drive him away
that he might have evidence of the fact,
and yet he couldn't get accommodated
By far the largest mass of evidence is
obtained from men who had been cooped
for a week before the election. Now
some of our readers have seen election
coops. In former years they were decl-
ded features of campaign here, in Elk
ton, and we ask any man of any party, if
the class of men who were in these coops
we're fit to give testimony in any case
They were, VIGOROUSLY, the most degra.
ded and brutalized class in the commu-
nifty, whose evidence would not be recei-
we'd anywhere. and yet this testimony is
to turn down an election, and cvict gen.
tlemen whose majorities are counted by
tens of thousands. We shall see.
" The awfl; destruction of human life
by the falling of the Pemberton Mills, of which
we gave short account last week, is grea ter