Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1876-01-21
Where are Those Gigantic Frauds {,


The Reform-R Republican party of this State
unsatisfed with the count of the vote in Bal
timore city, because their candidates failed to
be elected, have been believing fraud ever
since the election. They have been Boosting
If fair investigation be had it would devel-
op the most monst; Gus frauds and prove salts
!actorily that Carroll owed his success entire
~ TO dishonest judges of election Their
Boosting has been so trumpted-tongued that
they have actually, we are sorry to say, Sc
duced some few supplemented, creduous
Democratic members Of the Legislature to
join them in their yelping chase. They ap-
pointed committee Of Republicans 10 re-
count and fully investigate the ballots cast in
Baltimore city. For nearly month their I'M
firing labors have continued, and the eagle
eye of Republican investigation has inspected,
with the closest scrutiny, each and every
ticket, and yet they have been compelled to re-
port that Carrolls majority in the city 49, fif-
teen thousand.
Where now are their idle hoastngs7 And
where are the gigantic frauds that they intend
ed to expose2 Their Boosting begins to hush
as they admit that heir charges OF fraud were
false and only intended to deceive the people;
that they were. invented for the sole purpose
of deoeiving Democrats by specious lies and
by the most false and unfounded charges
manufacturing eleclioneering material
Now, in Heavens name, let this ridiculous
farce cease. Let the curtain go down and
close from view the miserable actors who have
rantinglv and ravingly represented the prin-
opal characters, and let the applauding Demo-
Gratis who occupied the front seats and with
elapping of hands watched the unfolding of
this supposed sublime tragedy, creep away in
the silence of shame as they discover they have
been imposed on BY ridiculous burlesque
troupe playing an absurd farce.
We say, let this farce now cease, and let the
Legislature of Maryland wipe its hands of in
vestiga,ion and proceed with tile business of
the session. If they would busy their minds
in the enactment Of laws they might, By acct
dent, stumble upon'one that will be beneficial
TO the people; but if they persist in this alb
snrd investigation, they will be returning 10
their homes like Rip Van Wrinkle, their hairs
bliVtTeu ny tue pEOSTesS VI lilnej uuuei
the influence of radical narcotic, they have
slept away their legislative life, dreaming OF
frand and violence and waking only TO the
realization that "lhe summer is passed, the
harvest is ended and the farmers without
money sufficient TO pay their burdensome
tnxes.
IF the Republicans wish to investigate, let
them appoint their committees and so do, but
Democrats, life is too short 10 be wasted in
nonsense. If you wish to investigate, go and
search for the more palpable frauds which the
self-same Republican party has perpetrated
upon your sister States, and you will learn
that the testimony they would place before
you would be the vilcst offspring of perjury
and it you refused credence TO their lying wit
nesses, as n Louisiana, the point of the bayo-
net would be called into requisiton TO enforce
belief Can you lend willing ear 10 the in
famous lies of this Republican party which
has for so long time ruled this country by
fraud violence and oppression? lfso, then,
Democratic members of the Legislature, make
yourselves their tools and do their dirty work
of investigation but the people who are cry
ing out for wise and salutary laws tightening
the burden of taxation, will hold you to a
strict accountability when you hand them
nothing bui the record of this fruitless inyes-
tigntion as the profits of the office which they
have honored you with. Again we admonish
the delegates from this county TO perform the
duties of their position and redeem the i'm
pIind nrntlisp thav m do tho naonln u hen tbov
were elected--to look after their interest and
guard their welfare in the Legislature.
WAR CLAIMs.-Mr. Walsh, representative Of
this Congressional District, introduced bill
on Monday relating TO the proof of claims be-
fore the commissary general and the quarter
master general. 1t provides that in all cases
where claims are brought or are now pending
under the act TO restrict the jurisdiction of
the court of claims add provide for the pay
mcnt of certain demands for qnartermasters
stores and subsistence supplies furnished TO
the army of the United States the affidavit of
two or more disinteresied and creditable per-
sons, who are cognizant sf facts as to the TAX
ing and use Of such property, shall be taken
ana deemed oy the quarteflnaster general or
oommissary general 10 have the same force
and effect as il the facts of such taking and
use had been proved by official evidence.
That in all cases an appeal shall be from the
finding, and all the papers in the case, together
with the finding to be transmitted within
twenty days after the finding 10 the proper ac-
counting officers of the treasury for review and
final action.
Coon llpr.-Mr. WaddelI, of North Car
olina, in the course of his remarks in Con-
gress, on Tuesday last, in favor of the Cen
tennal appropriation, paid the following COM
2liment to the bravery of bomb proof Blaine