The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-08-07
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ELKTON, AUGUST Z, 1875.
MARYLAND DEMOCRACY.

MARYLAND UEMOChAC1s
The Democratic journals of this State,
since their State convention, afford curious
and amusing reading. They all, with one
accord, admit that the party is dominated
by corrupt rings, which manage their nomi-
nations for them and dictate who shall and
who shall not hold the offices. There is no
attempt at denial on the part of the jour
nails that the sole object of their rings is to
plumber the treasures of the State, city
and counties, wherever they can place their
men in office. But what most puzzles
plain man is their efforts to convince the
party rank and file of their moral obliga-
ton to support the nominations, dictated
by the rings, and to flatter themselves as
we'll as deceive the public, that. although
the means used to effect the nomination
of John Lee Carroll, Levin Woolford and
Charles J. M. Gwinn were the most disre-
putable, and that the nominees were not
the choice of the people, yet every Demo-
crat is bound to support them. And al
though their nominations were the work Of
the most powerful aud corrupt ring that
ever existed in the State of Maryland, and
nominated by that ring for the purpose of
perpetrating its power in the State and
retaining its hold on the treasury, yet these
nominees are beyond suspicion and above
corrupting influences. These are strange
conclusions. What interest thieving ring
of politicians have in the nomination of
such immaculate candidates as the party
journals profess to believe their ticket is
composed of, it will be difficult to conceive.
The attempts Of our neighbor in this line,
in the last issue, is the most novel piece OF
literature that we have every met with.
We can't begin to give synopsis, or any
thing like fair epitome of the contents of
that number of the Democrat, and advise
our readers to invest five cents in a copy
and witness the amusing struggle of the
Editor to reconcile rascality with honesty,
self respect and party duty. We append
few extracts from the Democrat editorially,
and selected from exchanges which exhibit
the gnashing of teeth on the chains with
which the, ring has bound them. In its
leader, the Democrat says:
"Ostensibly this Convention, like all 9TH
ers, represented the people of the State of
Maryland The delegates were elected by
county and city conventions, supposed to
express the will of the people. That this
was not true in fact, in the case of Balti-
more. is generally conceded. There pri-
mary elections are face, if a crime can be
called farce. 1t would have been just as
easy to have elected delegates to the city
convention in favor of any man in the State
of Maryland, without regard to color, race
or previous condition. if it had been the
will of the ward politicians to do sou
And had a colored individual been the
choice of the ring, doubtless the Democrat
would have given him hearty support.
Speaking of the slaughter of Governor
Groome, the rascality and power of the
ring is thus graphically depicted:
"Pressed to the wall by false friends, in
an evil hour he (Groome) yielded, trailed
his banner in the dust, and turned over his
faithful supporters to do the work cut out
for them months ago. Thus by an unholy
orable man placed in false position be-
fore the people of his State and his friends
in a false position in relation to their con-
stituents-the people Of the State sold like
sheep in the shambles, and a disgraceful COM
bination completely consummated.'
The italics are our own. In speaking of
the course of the Baltimore Gazette, the
following language is employed:
elf he must curse Democrats, let him
party in Maryland"
The Towsontown Herald says:
eve must confess that Mr.. Carroll was
found in bad company, and supported by
an influence which we would be glad to
see destroyed"
Party servitude of the Democratic press of
the State is we'll exemplifed in the follow
ing brief extract from the Cumberland
Times:
"We give our adherence to the support
of candidates whose nomination we firmly
believe to have been secured by the gross
est frauds ever committed against the rights
of the people"
We might give many more extracts of
similar purport, all confirming the exist
ence of one of the most powerful and cor
rupt rings ever existing in the State, hav-
ing in its control the State, city of Balti-
more and many of the county treasures,
which manipulates the Democrat party to
its power, and plumber the tax
payers. The most amazing and contempt
BILE part of the whole business, is to find
the party organs, after acknowledging the
utter --'.tsnness of the party and admit
ting that it is nothing more than tool
used by a corrupt ring, trying to persuade
the people, that, notwithstanding these
facts, the men chosen by the ring as candi-
dates, are entirely above suspicion, and
can be implicitly relied upon as the great
est enemies to corruption and the ring!
Was any thing ever more absurd? They,
with one accord, admit that the State ticket
of their party was the choice of corrupt
and powerful ring, which does not reflect
the wishes of the party; that Gov. Groome
was numerically swindled out of the nomi-
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persuade their party that it is their duty to
sustain and complete this corrupt and dis
graceful business! Where is the independ-
ence, the integrity of freemen to be found
in such teaching? The Democratic press
of the State is self-convicted Of being the
most object slaves of an audacious ring of
political gamesters.
THE MONEY PLANK IN THE OHIO DE-
MoCRACY's PLATFoRM.-"I If our currency
should be issued and regulated as proposed
by the Ohio Democracy, the result would
be that union of the political and money
powers SO much dreaded by the old-school
Democracy. 1t would be Capitalization
with vengeance. 1t would give the Sec
Rotary of the Treasury, or that man or
junto whose business it would be to ascer-
tain the "wants of trade" a despotic
power over the fortunes of the people. 1t
would establish a species of control over
trade and industry which not even the
most arbitrary Governments now venture
to make use of except under the pressure
of war. Before any man in business, or in
any business relation, can gain anything by
a depreciation in the value of money, it is
first necessary that some other man should