The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-11-18
A BRACE OF BEAUTIES.


"Iu response to invitations, Gov. John
Lee Carroll has gone to New Orleans, to r;
present during the counting of the y"f-
that State for President and Vice Is sen
by the Returning Board. tty' was W
stood that Mr.. Michael b 0aH. on"'
ator from Anne Arm " ticket Cover
'' md has also gone to
anu 20 20 ensure by his august pres
lo an honest count of the votes cast
at the last election in that State
Himself the creature of fraud, and hold
ing the Gubernatorial chair by force OF
the most outrageous violence and rut-
fianism, he assumes to be able to pass
imparlially upon the fairness or unfair
ness of an election in which the success
or defeat of his party is involved.-I
That he is abundantly capable OF ex-
planning to his innocent @ Democratic
brethren of the North who have assem-
bled at New Orleans, the intricaces OF
machine politics, the beauties of "pud-
den" tickets, and the very ingenious
manner in which the latter may be cast,
we do not hesitate to admit We very
cheerfully concede to him the amplest
mowers of instructing his uninitiated,
unwashed co-laborers, in the mysteries
of "roughing city. And as teacher
of the complex system of counting
ont" and counting in," John Lee
Carroll. de facto Governor of Maryland,
can very easily carry off the palm.
But we respectfully submit that Judas
Iscariot would be very questionable
Juror to sit in Judgment in a case OF
bribery. We NAV have old-fashioned
ideas about matters and things IN gen
eral. vet we have an abiding conviction
that a known forgerer is not the person
5 in whose hands your check, the amount
being in blank, would be most secure
None the less do we think that he wht
voluntarily and knowing y-enjoys the
fruits of fraud is scarcely the prope
e one to sit in Judgment upon question
4 of fraud. 1t MAY BE correct to emplo.
:! him on the principle that " 1t takes
rogue to catch rogue 1t may b
4 all right to have the counting OF tn
If vote of a State supervised by one VIII
Is is perfectly familiar with all the dar
$; WAYS of INSCRIPTIONS politicians, an
81 whose political success in life is due, /
y large measure, to the peculiar metl
ID DDS of such politicians, and it MAY b
is all right for men to rel on Satan
III save them. Such man might give
W an honest and just verdict. III
We millennium may be ushered in tomorrow
~ but it is extremely improbable. In a
al seriousness, therefore, we protest again
ny John Lee Carroll having his finger
e. that Louisiana pie.
it. And Mike Bannon! Mr. Micha
% Bannon, State Senator from Anne Aru
- del county, the oily Cannon Of Mar
ty land politics, one of our unerown
kings has hied himself away to t
land of the orange for the same purpo
that has taken the "pudden tick
gentleman to Louisiana. That JUST
III may triumph and honesty rule!
Ia With his "sweet Irish (bOrogu
nc and his sleek, cunning ways, this b1
ne liant manipulation will stand in the pa
10 of Returning Boards like that OIL
Gu Michael with the flaming sword, a
he viii! not 90 until truth has won.
'u' ingenious is he, so thoroughly ave
- to ring ruffianism, SO entirely given o.
u to the promptings Of virtuous impulS
vi so etherialized by the contemplation
'le the good alone, $50 tumble " in all
VI moods, so utterly ignorant of the ?
en- poses for which "pudden tickets W
a.'2 devised, and SO perfectly free from
~" knowledge of the manner in which e
'''e tons are fraudulently carried, THAR,
~ the alligators may be ahtenance i
'' meekness, and as. tbhere at last W.
anu gazes upon-h&~faragon.'
isl mav-.-4c Mike Bannon is, neverthe
tue political scamp-one of you
> plausible fellows And we have simpl,
to say that, in great crisis of our his
tory like that which is now before US
it is disgrace to the people of Mary
land to be represented by such a man
Should this article meet the eve Of
this brace of beauties, we beg them. i
any sense of decency remains to them
to rest satisfied with the ENJOYMENT o.
asuccess fraudulently obtained, and the
comforts which follow the triumph of a
10 per cent statesman, and not to ven.
ture into a sphere where conspicu.
BUSINESS can bring them nothing but
, disgrace.