Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-08-22
ElectiOneering, Candidates and their Plum
derers.-The Liquor License Laws and
their ViOlatOrs.

Observation-Disclosures
derers.-The Liquor License Laws and
their ViOIatOrs.
To the casual reader we may perhaps
appear over anxious in matter of small
concern, but to him who reads and reflects,
we are confident the subject of which we
treat and the views we propose to advance
VIII seem entitled TO consideration. With
every recurring election of course comes
the usual multitude of candidates, gentle
men who are willing and anxious to serve
their people in official capacities. AS a
matter of policy and the more effectively
to secure an agreeable measure of popular
favor, the candidate must have smile for
all and "greenback" or so to part with
conveniently, whenever called upon, 'Not
that I will vote for you on that account,
you know, but then it will help the cause
some," says the shrewd financier, while the
aspiring candidate slowly shells out the
stamps" Like Crabbe's plant preacher,
he SHOWS and smiles and always says, YES"
for he would as soon 'mount forlorn hope
as venture sturdy refusal. Policy, we
say, has established this style of 6ulling the
bears or of bearing the bulls, and custom
seems to have licensed this inconsiderate
mode of extortion. The. backwardness
with which our expectants of official hon
ors are being introduced to the public and
the .festisa lente charm which happily de-
laws the action of the convention calling
authorities we had began to look upon as
promising omens for partial protection,
at least, if not complete immunity, from
the rapacity of greedy greenback- grabbers.
Such dilatoriness, however, appears ito be
tintolerable and an infringement of their
rights, for the unrestrained Impotence of
these spectators in votes and victuals to
fleece the unfortunate candidate, is only
Eequalled by the astonishing energy with
which the fleeing vocation is piled. The
resorts and subterfuges so artfully, SO COM
placently invoked, for the purpose of evad-
ing the liquor license laws, would excite
merriment only, if they did not also create
alarm to the farmer, whose crops are in
the grass, and threaten penury to the can
didate, whose purse is assailed and in the
process of dire depletion. When one of
these artful dodgers-as was lately the case,
and that too soon after the Wawasset dis
aster-gets up fish-frying frolic or crab
eating match, it is amusing to understand
the self satisfed air with which he applies
to the Clerk of the Court for horse-race
license chat being the cheapest) to enable
| him to meet the emergencies of the occa-
sion in the way of having on hand whole
some supply of unwholesome whiskey.-
The Clerk, of course, is bound to grant the
license on bona 1fde representation; but
on the part of the licensed, it is, in our
lopinion, an evasion of the law not contem-
plated by the law trainers. This species
| of the ge,sus homo too presses upon the can
didate the demand it makes with an as
surance as bold as it is persistent and an
noying. They do not seem to ask these
things as favors to be granted by request
but seem to require them as rights to be
conceded by virtue of some supposititious
authority they possess. They prosecute
Etheir profession and prosecute their vic
ttims with an eagerness which would be