The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1865-11-18
The Cecil WING.
ELKTON, NOVEMBER IS, 1866
Maryland Election.


up in the several counties and city of Balti.
more, is as follows:
In Allegany county the entire Union tick.
ct was elected.
In Cecil the whole Union ticket was sue.
cessful. We gave the table for this county
in our last weeks issue, showing the official
vote, which stood between four and FIVE hun.
dred for the Union candidates.
In Caroline county two Union tickets were
voted for, resulting in the success of the
regular nominees.
The entire Union ticket was elected in
Dorchester county, the Democratic ticket
being defeated by majority of some two
hundred and forty votes. Capt. Frazier is
elected Senator from the county.
In Hartford there was regular and an in.
dependent Union ticket, the latter being
successful. In this county there was an
election for member of Congress, the seat
for the Second District being left vacant, by
the appointment of Col. Webster, Collec-
tor for the Port of Baltimore. The Con-
SiCSSiOll'ti NCIt UOHH luolldS,
jr., and William Kimmell. Thomas major
ity in the county was ten hundred and fifty
elk. In this county there was split in the
Union party on the Sheriff. Thomas, the
Union candidate for Congress, had no regu-
lar opponent; and Judge Price, whose Ju
dicial District was Cecil and Hartford, was
elected without opposition.
The Union ticket was successful in Fred.
erick, the only opposition being candidate
for judge.
In Baltimore county Richard Glason,
Esq, formerly of Elkton, was the opposi.
ton candidate for Judge. Judge Emory,
the former incumbent, was the nominee of
the Union party. Grason scarcely made
show, the Union party carrying everything.
In Anne Arundel the Democrats elected
their entire ticket.
Baltimore city had no opposition to the
Union ticket
In those intensely loyal counties to the so.
called Southern Confederacy, St. Mary's,
Prince Georges and Charles, the Democrats
were Of course successful. In St. Mary's
that party had no opposition. Democracy
tlourshes only in the soil of treason in latter
years.
In Talbot there was no opposition to the
Union ticket.
The Democratic ticket had no opposition
in Queen AIMS county.
Tho I.Conoorvo+;ra', no,,oo,,+, 70 IL,
reader knows what that is-were successful
in Kent. George Vickers, Esq, was elected
State Senator, in This county, by majority
of 10S over the Union candidate, Col. Will
liams.
Howard county elects the entire Union
ticket.
Carroll elects the whole Union ticket.
Worcester county went rebel by 800 ma.
jority. The counties Of Worcester, Dor.
chester and Somerset compose the Twelfth
Judicial District of the State. In this dis.
trict Spence was the Union candidate for
Circuit Judge, and Franklin opposition
The vote for Commissioners and Surveyor,
in Somerset, is about the same, the whole
Union ticket being elected This result was
not, however, achieved without much effort,
and in the face of violence and lawlessness
upon the part of the opposition. In FIVE
districts of the county the Registration law
was entirely disregarded, and the votes of all
who offered to vote were received. This
was done under a written opinion from Isaac
ID. Jones. Many of the Judges of Election
were also unregistered persons. In Brinckly
district mob took possession of the polls
and drove off the Union voters. The I'M
lawful proceedings of the Copperheads in
the Twelfth Judicial Circuit will result in
the election of Judge Spence, notwithstand.
ing Post Master Purnell stumbled into a
Copperhead meeting, in Worcester, and
gave his voice in favor of conservative Cop.
perheadism-by mistake!
In Calvert and Montgomery counties the
rebs carried the day.