The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-02-16
Division of the Election Districts.
To the Editor Of the lEgis.

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Immediately after our last November
election, while the subject was fresh in
mird, sent you letter in which it WAS
recommended that there should be a sub
division of the election districts of Hnr-
ford county, for the convenience and com
fort OF the voters. One If the principal
reasons given for the proposition was that
the number of voters had latterly been
largely increased by the reimbursement
of colored men and, consequently, in
addition to the previously existing oIjec
ton on the part of many voters, of having
long distances to 90 before reaching the
place of voting, Go or IL miles in some in
stances) they are now compelled to stand
for hours in line, perhaps III rain and mud,
submitting often to very rude jnstling, risk
ing the breakuge of ribs, besides the pain
Of hearing, every now and then, as the pres
sure increases, words OF profanity from the
lips of the uncpnverted Having been in
fuenced solely by these benign notions.
entirely pro bono p~blico, you may imagine
my surprise upon seeing an article in Your
paper, some weeks later, on the same sub
ject, signed J. j in which he speaks of
John Forwood being responsible for the
cause Of my complaint, while a member of
the Legislature in 1903. am not aware
that John Forwood, who represented our
county seventeen times in succession in the
Legislature, to the advantage of the cuun-
ty, and greatly to his own credit, ever made
| any suggestions regarding the eniranchise-
ment of the" colored man and therefore
his memory is in no way responsible for
| this access to our voting population. J.
| lie hat IA wi ,nl la Il
| iusted to the satisfaction of voters, if the
| polls were opened ut six O'Clock instead of
nine; this arrangement would particularly
acco modate the industrious farmer "
who goes to the Baltimore market on that
day. Pursuing the subject, that is, his
view OF it, j. j. stutrs that am informed
that cider, if nothing else, was sold in
Dublin on election day" Prodigious as
the old pedagogue exclaimed when rs
tonished. Is it possible that he can have
forgotten one Of the enivening songs of
youth g.
"a little more cider, too!
A little more cider for Miss Dnah
A little more cider, toon
had not intended, however, Mr. Editor.
to attempt one word in reply to J. j., until
| within day or two, when one of the Off
| GERS of the election ut Dublin drew my at
| tention to II remark of j. Us, that he
| learned that the judges would stop TAX
| ing the ballots and read the law to drunk
en- intelligent voters" thus inlimating that
| the precious time of the voters was taken
up in that way. ! cunt comprehend why
| lie uses the words " drunken intelligent
voters" 1t is not generally believed that
there is much intelligence in a man tohile
drunk. But we will not he captious about
exprcssi ms. My informant, who was pres
ent during the entire day, positively us.
sures me that the judges read the law but
once ut Dublin on The day of the election,
aud that less than five minutes were uccu-
pied in doing so; and that that reading
was not for the benefit OF II drunken in
telligent voter rs charged, hut at the
instance OF n sober, intelligent voter, an
NJ. D., whose reputation Tor sobriety-
though by no means despising " CIDER
is unimprachable.
II we heed the complaints and preiu.
dicts of j j. and his fll"weIs we might be
led to believe that it was IL great oversight,
10 say the least, on the part of the Creator
in originally producing the apple. 1t
seems to have brought unbounded misery
into the world, many years ago, through
Adams temptation by Eve
Through Adams fall, we sinned all -
and now man has exercised such unforeseen
cunning i'll converting the apple into
"clder," that there appears to he no help
Tor the tettotal rrin that stares future
generations in their yet shrouded faces
II the apple had only been left out of the
garden of Eden, how much more happl-
ness we might have eijnyrd And then
how much more quietly and expcditionsly
our elections might have been conducted
Our elections, possibly, were not conlpre'