The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-03-24
TIE Way to Victory.


ures are sure indications of gradual revival
OF business throughout the country"
The Way to Victory.
The New York World points out that the
only way for the Democratic party to win a
victory next fall is under the banner of Hard
Money. The Rag-Money delusion lost us
Ohio and Pennsylvania last fall, and if per-
sisted in will ensure our defeat again. The
World says:
Ohio votes in October, and great efforts
are making by the Rag Money men to give
to the early election in that State sgnifi-
canoe which it is not now possible for it TO
possess. If the Democrats of Ohio repeat
this fall their folly and their infidelity to the
principles of the party, which last year gave
their State to the Republicans, of course there
is no reason to suppose the result will be
different. If they repudiate the authors of
that disaster they will still be encountered
with the record so recently made, and their
journals will be gagged and their orators
confoundcd by an Inconsistency so palpable
and so sure to be charged home upon them
with most damaging effect.
Ohio is therefore State which no prudent
politician will dream of taking into the list
of States which the Democracy must carry
if they hope TO win the Presidential eec.
| ton.
Indiana for similar reasons is in a precise
y similar case. Like Ohio it votes in Octo.
Der. Like Ohio it is out of line with the
Democracy of the rest of the Union, of Hi
nois and Wisconsin, of Connecticut, New
Jersey and New York.
The Southern States which were carried
by the Democrats in their latest State or
Congressional elections (all save South
Carolina and Florida) cast 1877 electoral
votes.
The Pacific States, which were carried by
the Democrats in their latest State or Con-
gressional elections California, Oregon and
Nevada,) cast 12 electoral votes.
The Metropolitan States, which were car
ried by the Democrats in their latest State
or Congressional elections (New Jersey,
Connecticut and New York; cast so cleo
toral votes. And the Metropolitan States,
like the Pacific States, were carried upon n
Hard-Money platform, and can be carried
again by the Democracy upon that platform
but upon no other.
These three groups of States cast more
than majority of the electoral votes, 3G6 in
all if Colorado votes, Of which number 1876 is
a majority
Southern Democratic States. ....... 1877
Pacific Democratic States. ..... 10
Metropolitan Democratic States. ..... so
1So
Upon Hard-Money platform, but not
upon any other platform, it is possible also
to carry Illinois (21 votes) and Wisconsin
40 voles,) which would increase our major
ity to 210.
This is the path of victory, if the st. Louis
Convention shall but point the way. There
is no other path. No other combination of
1876 electoral votes is anyhow possible.
THE PENNSYLVANIA JoURNAL.-We have
received the first and second numbers of
The Pennsylvania Journal, published at No.
il3 S. Fourth street, Philadelphia, by G.
Lockwood & Co. 1t consists of eight pages,
four of which are phoio,lithographic copies
of the old Pennsylvania Journal, published
in Philadelphia by William and Thomas
Bradford, in 177G; and four additional
pages devoted TO editorials and reading mat
ter The latter is edited by Edwin Higgins,
of Baltimore. The contrast been the old and
new Typography is as marked as the contrast
in the reading matter in the old and new
papers.
S.b------
TIE BALTIMORE AND ONO RAILROAD
The House of Delegates ON Monday passed
a bill taxing all the property of the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad, real personal and
mixed, in this State, in lieu of the payment TO
the State of one-fifth Of the receipts of their
Washington branch. The House also pass
ed the resolution directing the attorney gene
raj To proceed at once to enforce payment to
the State of all proporionate and other dvi-
dends that should have hitherto been paid
from time to time; and also generally to in
stitute suit for legal adjudication of all fl
nancial matters in allegiance between the
State and the company
MAGAZINES FOR APRIL.-Harper'S con-
tains cighty.fivc illustrations and rich va.
riety of matter suited to all classes of readers
George Eliot's new novel "Daniel Deronda, u
contains mastery sketches of the hero of the
story, and is altogether one of the finest
works of the day.
Sc1iJners has continuation of Bret lIarlc's
fascinating story Gabriel Conroy," the con
clusion ofJuies Verne's mysterious Island
with its usual bright array of choice stories
editors department, sc.
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The general assessment bill passed the
Senate on Tuesday. 1t taxes mortgages
taxes mans debts, and taxes property in
other States. 1t has yet 10 run the gauntlet
in the House, where the opposition 10 some
of its most Objectionable features will be very
great.
According to Orvillc Grants testimony
his brother, the President, was in tho habit
of notifying him when pest-tradershirs were
vacant brother Orvlle would then apply
for and get them. Having no cash capital
he would find partners to put up that essen
tial, he contributing to the firm his "infu.
encc with the President to manage such
matters"
THE New HAMPSHIRE ELECTIoN.-Thc
New York San thinks it was the Anti Catho
lie movement which decided The question in
New Hampshire. II says:
bribery certainly had much TO do with
the New Hampshire election, but we suppose
that if the bottoms fact of it are ever de-
velopcd, it will be found that secret Know
Nothing organization, directed against the
Catholic religion and citizens of foreign birth,
had more to do with bringing out the large
vote and giving the Republicansan unusual
majority, than any ofthe other causes which
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