Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1871-10-06
For Surveyor.
The Radical Ticket.

A Radical County Conyention-thati is quite
a numerous assembagc of negro voters, pre-
sided over, guided and governed by few mean
and designing white men-was held, on Sa-
turday last, in the furthcst corner of the lane,
back of our town, which, in years gone by
was made the receptacle for dead dogs, and, on
that account, bore the significant though I'M
refined name of "Dog's Misery" Whatm more
fitting place could have been selected for such
n gathering of d. DIS. as were brought together
on Saturday last2 In just such place and
dates be found on the morning after the No.
yember election.
Some of our readers may be curious to know
who those candidates are, and therefore we
spread out before them the beautiful array, as
follows:
For House of Dclegates-Tho Y. Conley,
William A. Darby and James II. Allnutt
For Orphans Conrt--William H. Farquhar,
Christopher w. Lansdale and Lyde Griffith.
For County Commissioners William Brown
of James G. House, Richard Trail William
II. Ward and Edmund Lea.
For Straightforward Monday.
For Surveyor William Keefe.
On this ticket will be observed few names
that have heretofore been recognized as Demo-
Gratis, and it may be that they have been put
there without their knowledge, privity or con-
sent. For their own sakes we hope this may
be so; for if they have willingly concurred in
this arrangement, they may rest assured that
this wil.be the last of them politically Men
who wear their principles SO loosely that they
can cast them of with the facility they can lay
aside worn-out garment, are not reliable
men, and cannot be regarded as such. Such
men are not trustworthy, being one thing this
year, and another the next. They are men Of
seven principles only, comprised in g FIVE loaves
and two fishes" If they cannot get the oaves
and the fishes, they make some pretext, plau-
sible or not TO go over to the enemy, only 10
play the same role there, and shift back again
on the first trivial provocaton fancied or real
Every party has more or less of such men in
Its ranks, but they command the respect of
none. If courted at all, it is only that they
may be used for the time being, for. it is well
understood by all that they have attached
themselves to this or that party only for a
consideration, or the hope Of it at least.
We have uniformly maintained that the
white Radicals Of our State are opposed to the
bestowal Of offices upon the negroes. That
they are far away from the colored people
in sympathy and interest That they value
them only for their votes put white men in
Office. Let Us now see how this is. In most
Of the counties the Radicals have nominated
their candidates for the November election.
Not one colored man has been placed upon
those tickets. In this county, so far from
nominating a colored man for any office, the
white managers wen: out of their own ranks
to pick up disaGected Democrats as standard
bearers.
The disaster that overlook the colorcd Re-
publicans of Montgomery, on Saturday last,
was complete and perfect. The white MINORS
ny, insignificant in point of numbers, signally
triumphed, and the colored men, representing
four-ffths of the Radical vote of this county,
cannot point TO a single candidate of :heir own
on this unmixed white ticket, while they have
been called upon to vote for some white men
whom their leaders have heretofore represented
TO them as among their most bitter enemies.
Has not the time now fully come when every
good citizen should awake TO the magnitude
Of the impending crisis, and set his face against
this miserable pretended pandering to negro
notions and caprices on the part of unscrupu-
ious and designing politiciaus2