Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1877-03-30
Letter from Unity.

Mr. Editor You have had "Civil Rights
on the Rail'' recently, and for the first lime,
since the adoption OF the Fourteenth Amend
ment, we have had q taste of them. A
travelling magician, venlrloquist and prssi-
giator, held an exhibition in our school house,
the audience consisting of everybody, without
regard to race, color or previous condition OF
seryitude.
Two of our oldest and most esteemed citi-
zens, recently deceased Rev. Henry Walker,
for many years a local minister Of the NJ. L.
church, and Geo. W Boswell worthy gen
tleman. They approxmated a few days OF
seventy-eIght years OF age.
Our people are interested in the subject OF
re-organizing the manner of holding County
Conventions by the Democratic party and
while we entertain the hest respect for the
wisdom and sagaeiy OF the author of the
plan proposed in the last issue Of the SENTINEL,
we cannot wholly concur therein and respectful
ly submit the following objections II we pro-
perly understand the text of the proposed
reorganization il is TO thwart the Machine
tioEs Of ring-masters and professional poll
Iicians. Now our antidote for this poisonous
Inhalation is no new nOslrum, but the eff.
caceous ballot of a sovereign people We are
the Demonstrates party claiming the Judgment
Of power in the body Of the people.
A recent departure from this principle, gave
us not only fraudulent and merely de
tdcto President, but placed the desiinies Of
the nation for four years in the hands of the
most inscriptions set OF villains who ever
marshaled the hosts of Sin, Satan and dam
nation. See recent developments. Every
Democrat in the land will have cause to hang
the two numerals and 7 in memory's hall
forever.
The plan proposed is hap-hnzard scheme
Among the twenty five YOU are liable to get
one, three or five, perhaps whole bunch
coterie or ring of politicians, professional gem
tlemen-then the balance are easily manipu-
lated. Two men in district NAV aspire to
position, one desired by the people, the other
by himself only aud few friends thirteen
OF the twenty-five might be, or induced ts be-
in favor of the latter. Would this be wise
or polite nomination The majority of Mr.
Walsh was seven hundred and sixty, that of
our present Sheriff less than two hundred ;
this speaks a united and dipided Democracy
But to the mSin issue. The object sought
in this plan is TO break the chains, which the
political tricksters have fastened upon the
party. This arrangement plays directly into
their hands. Ordinarily few will attend.
Mr.. A. b. c. desires to secure his district for
the legislature. Now while the majority OF
the sovereign people are lying supinely on
their backs, what an easy matter for them to
carry enough friends there to elect the Chair
man or the foe persons who selecting two hun
dred of his known friends, will most assuredly
give him partisan delegation. You had as
well ask q man to nominate himself The
Returning Boards OF Montgomery county
ask no better scheme for n Preparation OF their
power. The ring-masters from the tobacco
fields OF Clarksourg through the chncspir
bushes of Medley's even 10 the purlieus oi
Colesville, will hail with complacency this Judi.
cidl decision in their favor.
| Let the people empower their delegates
| through the ballot and you end the scramble
The battle had far better be fought at tn,
primaries with ballots for weapons than in the
Court house at Rockville with silvery tongue,
for blaudishments. lfany aspirant can carry
three Of the Ave election districts OF Mont
gomery county, he must certainly posses.
merit or be very popular fellow. and believing
as we do in the efficacy of the ballot amona
American freeman, we say let him succeed -
To say that the ballot at the primary doe,
not express the will of the Democratic part,
is an affirmation that an election does no
express the will Of the people. Hampton
VS.. Observation-Disclosures vs.. Packard--Til
den VS. Hayes. Universal franchise however
distastful must be respected aud the tact talen
and industry OF u politician will always he felt
The price Of liberty is eternal vigilance aut
the only way to thwart political tricksters
charlatans and rifraffs is to arouse the who'll
people, he ever on the alert, fight them will
their own weapons, and plunge them il
the very ditch dug for others. RATTAN.
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