The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-08-14
The Way the Democracy Propose to Bring
About Reform!

The rascalities and plundering OF the
Democrat party leaders in this State have
become so bold and openly unblushing,
that the party are unable to longer deny
it. and the whole press of the State have
opened in full cry in denunciation of the
rings of Baltimore city and the State, which
have robbed both city and State treasures.
To show the sincerity of these gentlemen
of the press, as we'll as their excellent sense,
they earnestly urge the people-the voters
of their party-to support the tickets which
the rings manufacture for them. They say
all with one accord-that they are do
lighted with the State ticket, and that it is
composed of the highest order of material
OF if that expression is Objectionable
the best of timber has been put into it by
the ring"
AS a specimen of this reform stuff that
is to be made use of to purify the party
ssithin the party, in Anne Arundel milky
Bannon has been nominated on the legisla-
tive ticket. Milky" is the great ring
master of the State, and was installed in
one of the committee rooms of the Balti-
more delegation in the capital during the
last Legislature and no private appropra-
ton or bill could pass without "Miky's"
mark was first placed on it. Arthur P.
German, President of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal, who is acknowledged to occupy
the second place in the ring, has been nomi-
e. 10 ;,,H acI
by the Democracy. The Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad have been compelled to pay into
the treasury of Maryland, as passenger tax
on the Washington Branch of their road,
which they had withheld from the State
while a suit was pending, that finally was
decided against them, nearly half mil
lion. This sum added to a surplus accu-
INFLATED in the treasury since the last meet
ing of tho Legislature constitute fund of
about 100000. Now these are the men
the ring" are putting forward to send to
Annapolis next Winter to sape this surplus
in the treasury-to place it where it will do
the most good. In the meantime the party
papers are storming at the "rng" and
counseling their followers to support, with
out question, whatever receives an indorse-
ment of a convention, while they, in the
same breath publish that the rings are con-
trolling the conventions in spite of their
teeth.
Together with these facts which are taken
from the Democrat papers, there is another
fact worth being brought to mind. When
tho Republican party lost control of the
State, the State tax was 10 cents on the
800. 1t is now something over 20 cents.
During this time there has been no war to
support or bounties to provide. No mill
tary expense save the Fifth Maryland Regi-
ment, which usually make Summer cam
paign to Long Branch or Cape May, and
Admiral Jesse X. Hines oyster navy, which
goes catching up and down the Chesapeake
Bay, having good time generally at the
States expense. We offer these sugges-
tions for sensible taxpayers to reflect on as
taxpayers, and not as prejudiced party
men. At the rate they are going, how long
will it take the Democrat party to expose
and root out the robbers who control the
party and have been stealing the money Of
the State these eight years? When party
becomes SO strong as to make the Legisla-
ture all one-sided, it is bound to be con-
trolled by corrupt rings who lay out to
plumber the treasury. Look at the exam
Piles before us. New York with Boss I"
Tweed at the head of its ring, Philadel-
phia, Washington, New Orleans, South
Carolina, and last, but not least, Baltimore
and the State of Maryland, whose turn for
exposure is next in order. 1t doesn't seem
to matter what party is in the ascendant;
whenever it becomes nearly all one-sided
the plundering commences.