Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1875-10-22
Plain Talk.
County.

We wish to have a little plain talk with oui
Democratic readers, calling their attention to
the evils which are threatening them and point
ING out The imperative duty of the hour. We
have arrayed against us in the present political
contest the same obstinate and determined foe,
their numbers increased nv traitors from our
own camp who have hitherto in the face OF
defeat after defeat always met al the ballot
box with a bold and undaunted front and
fought for victory. As the day of election
approaches we hear them proclaiming, not
with the boas,ing tone which has heretofore
characterized their rallying cry. but in the
jubilant tones of certainty, that with their new
fo.nd allies success awaits them. Aud we :ell
you there's danger OF the fufllment of their
prophecy and il is by no means settled fact
that the next Governor of Maryland will be a
Democrat
j. Morrison Harris is not and cannot be n
Democrat He has severed whatever ties that
bound him to our party, and as he can never
hope Tor anything from it, he will be compell-
ed, If elected 10 affiliate and cooperate with
the force that supported him. Col, Edwin
wilkins is an open and avowed Radical, and
as these two men constituting, as they will if
elected, a majority of the board of public
works, and controlling the numerous appoint
ments incident thereto, will SO regulate those
appointments as TO retain the State beneath
Republican control, You may look, Demo-
Gratis to see Montgomery county in 1876
wheel into Radical ranks. 1t is a matter east
ly accomplished Upon tie Canal two hun
dred and fifty men can be placed, who through
sheer necessity and in order to obtain a sus-
tenance for their families will reconcile any
objections Of conscience, sever their connec-
ron with our party aud vote the Radical tick
Ell. We cannot at any time be CERTAIN OF
majority of FIVE hundred; separate from ii
two hundred aud fifty in connection with The
floating vote, which always drifts with the
dominant party, and array them upon the
other side, and Montgomery will give Repub-
lican majority. Then look for Republicans
filling your county Offices, and negro tax col
lsctors riding up 70 Your Goor and demanding,
in an insolent manner, the payment Of your
lhNeS. utl tOOh tot ; Jul itssiOuNt us
trict, which last fail you so gallanily rescued
with majority of five hundred from Radical
control, drifting back into its old moorings,
and Radical imbecile disgracing Western
Maryland in the halls of Congress. We tell
you, that there are other issues beside the
election of John Lee Carroll, which of itsel
should be sufficient incentive to exertiou
and that the welfare-aye, the security, o
your county and Congressional District ar
dependant upon the manner in which yo'
shall perform your duty upon the 2nd o
November next Then let every man do hi
whole duty as becomes the necessity of tn
hour. Do not be luled into faneied securiet.
by the apparent inactivity of the Republicans
for like rats they are working underground
and the foundation ofyour power is imPerille
and endangered. They refrain from the no,li
nation Of a county ticket 10 create in you
miads the idea that they are taking no inter
est in the contest and 10 circulate the iufuenc
OF lukewarmness which will keep you iron
the balot-box. But they are marshalling thei
array for the GuhernatoriAl ight, and upor
the End OF November you will end the IN
broken phalanx of their negro cohorts, which