Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1875-02-18
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Office, Of which the BEACON bears re.
cord, suggest to Us to again remind our
democratic friends, that we were IN a
minority when last heard from and that
action, looking to party concentration,
still remains TO be taken. Indeed, no
action that we are aware of has even
been projected. 1t is suggestive, that
the Republicans have a. yet made no
announcements for Office. The field il
thus far entirely occupied BY democrats
and unhappily by many more democrats
than there are places to fill. And the
CRY is "still they GOMEZ" Now, it re-
auires no ghost to tell anybody, that if
two or more democrats run for the Sher-
iffalty, for illustration, against one Re-
publican opponent, the Republican OPP
ponent will triumph, as he did in '73.
Indeed, it is not altogether certain tina,
we shall win, even If we concentrate,
but we submit, that it is next to impos-
sible to win without it. We hope that
no democrat is goose enough to believe
that st. Mays Republicans have no
designs upon public Office or that they
will not take advantage Of our present
chaos, if we permit it to continue, to
put candidates in the field for every
place which is to be filed in our coun-
ty at the November election. As it is
certain, therefore, that We have both n
cunning and a powerful enemy to deal
with, and as it is demonstrate that we
cannot win without concentration, the
question occurs, hor shall We ceneen-
trate? Personally favoring the old
Convention plan, as redo, we announce,
nevertheless, our readiness to acquiesce
in .he Crawford or any other system
that the majority voice of our party may
determine on. A mass meeting to set
tie what system of concentration should
govern us naturally suggests Itself, but We
doubt whether this is practicable at this
time or would give satisfaction if adopted.
The aid Of the County Central Com
mittee of the party mightalso be invoked,
but this course is likewise open to some
objections which we have not here time
to name. In this dilemma, we believe
that if some man with no axe to grind,
and having the authority of long, emf
nent andun spotted public service, would
step to the front and give directions. the
party would follow him without falter-
ing. Believing thus, we vote to make
Hon. BENJAMIN G.. HARRIS Head
Centre" for this occasion and invite
him to make public his views of our
present political situation through the
columns of the BEACON.
The attention of our readers is
called TO the new card of Messrs
LLOYD & Shoemaker, to be found else
where. 1t will be seen that these sue
cessful produce dealers have removed
from their old place Of business to No.
907 La. Avenue, between 9th and 10th
SITS. Persons contemplating Spring
shipments Of stock or produce will find
that it pays to encourage this firm.
Father Boone, We are authorized to
state, will resume on the Wednesday
evenings of Lent, at St. Aloysius' church
in our village, z o'clock, p. m, the
course of his interesting lectures which
was interrupted some time since
1.-THE Written Word, the only Rule of
Faith and the Scriptural Record Of the
Eucharistic Sacrament and Sacrifice"
No charge will be made for admission.
Master Andrew Blackstone, of our
town. after searching examination of
three days before the Board of School
Commissioners of our county. was award
ed the appointment to the free scholar
ship of st. Johns College, Annapolis
There is considerable truth in this re-
Fiction Of the St Louis Democrat :
Somehow those Congressman who cul-
tivate quarrels with the press have had
rather the worst of it. Not to mention
the late Poland, we suspect the late
Chandler and the late Carpenter wish
they had never heard of the gag-law."
Mr.. Brown. of Kentucky, saws that
if he should speak of what was '.pusil-
luminous in war, inhuman in peace, for
bidding in morals and infamous in pol
i,ics he should call it Butlerizing.''-
Mr.. Young John Brown, of Kentucky,
puts his words together very well.
Don Alfonso is finding it more diff
6eult task to conquer the Carlists than
he anticipated when he set out from
Madrid at the head Of the army. From
oil sources it is admitted that the ma.
tional troops have met with serious re-
verses. and are for the present checked
in their operations
1t is proposed now BY the rampant
Radicals in Congress to pass law au-
thorizing Grant, to suspend the writ
Of habeas corpus at his own pleasurss