Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1876-05-11


= - -
- rc,~~~~~-..->
80 -
sss'- xcnr so1eqlxle-l
| tho - 60 ~ 0esasog; 6 -
-, ouv. eoSS11,stSS r...;rd>a -~e -
{ -. s. - felIov-cit;sre.s 20 - ~
e % ny Skiends espee;.liv. IN s.
tofku1k - iustice. 20 oivez -.
cvunt 81 chat touteek ana a. S%E;s
poet erar.erais.rv r..-Is p.1f..a:.~
sland slks. sne.eeueses hs,s pr.,s.,.
ted ths perforu,ssce Of ~ dntr r.e;l
nov. The siseuIar g.. ~ sitAc-~S
fJx1SSR3wSNy.Wwu3f r llIC1rSsx S1.rsss-
| Committee on Elect;one - 3. Is--
srx. yee = rrpSSFaIa SIkr.i;fef.
- iavs q the 1870 49,
- 6 - pv;vilsre q - 49, r.
Senate psrssoallv ana se.tinC - 49,
and couimeusipk upSssSa ~ 49, ~
sestiuoay; md tne seiIl aors silrSs e
nAEy fhcf that no isesnB6s Ses4ko c.
naittee, except IL Ch6irmas. s5euln s.
hase known duria1 az sin6srvnT 3. q
| the report would be.of when 4 .sSvlfld
be made / pass over. eChaif5n6 q
that COMMITTEES stated. q q itieGa1
| mine that he hsd no d0uht ~ 10
was elected, but ny $500 R1Gf btzlf1
presented" Ik1s bsinI 4kS tuiv1ea;51
OF ~ mind e 6ee11S I'M % 81
plain upon any principle Of morals Or
ethics why he should have Sigued n.
port directly contrary 70 this convicf;ob,
unless there was some private re6son
Tor his doing %. II II true, the Chair.
maj, tres to put BID decision upou tie
high conservative ground that it would
De estabiishing Q Bad precedent 20 &C.
cept upon recount Of the ballots, I re-
spif different from that certified TO BY
the Return Judges. when Il was shown
that those ballots bad been permit
TED to 60 out Of the actual personal
possession OF those Judges for . single
moment. But see to what an extraor.
binary state Of affairs this would com.
NIT M. A set Of corrupt Judges might
falsify the returns to any extent desifa.
bic, and BY simply depositinp those re.
turns with sopse one else for q few min.
utes, this fraudulent return becomes y.
tablisked beyond any possibility Of cor.
rection, notwithstanding reccunf NAV
clearly show the fraud or error in the
rettfn. In this particular case, it must
be remembered, thar tberewas no charge
that the ballots from the End election
district had been tempered with, a.
when before the Committee I asked
Capt. Lawrence if be charged Mr.. Scott
with tampering with the ballots, and
he answered promptly, 81 do not sir"
1t will be remembered that twas to
Mr.. Scott that Capt, Wise, the Return
Judge from the End district, gave the
ballots, and had them locked up for
few minutes while awaiting the arrival
Of the Return Judges. This in public
room, where there was probably not
less than from twenty 10 forty persons
at any time whilst the ballots remained
there. 1t should be borne in mind, also,
that these particular returns were not
the only ones in which errors were dis
covered, but that the returns from 9th.
er districts showed errors, some in favor
Of and some against Capt. Lawrence.
Further, it was not alone between the
Senatorial candidates that errors occur.
red in the returns. Il was proven in
the returns from the LIST district that
there had occurred mistake in the re.
turns for Sheriff of fifteen votes-also
in that of Col. Miles for Judge Of the
Orphans Court Of iifty odd votes. and
l. might 60 and mention Others II neces.
sary. Now, these general errors being
proven, and the contestee in the case
having positively refused to charge
Capt. Wise or MI. Scott With an1 fran.
duient action in the premises. r. ;v d;f.
ficult to understand hv what Law. an.
ttority or precedent the Chairman ~ the
Committee on Elections could or sbonld
have made the little irreeularitv in the
returns from the End district ground
for overturninp all the other evidence
of error and arriving n . conclr.;cn
diametrically opposed 70 that evidence
unless, as before said. there existed acme
weightv reason whv IL sbould he done
That -eason was not difficult to find.
even by the light of the sliobt knovI'
edge was able To Obtain of The vort.
incs of that powerful and unscrupulou.
political Ring which has and continued
to control the action Of the Democr,t;c
party Of the State. Soon After nv .r.
rival in Annapolis, it became known
that I had advocated the nomination ~
the Hon. VIM. T. Hamilton forGoverr-
or. and that became the .;oral CO.. 90.
~ one of the gentlemen ccrrcstsd iii
Aha R;rr, 20 c;v. - .l~:--.