The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-09-21
EDITORIAL, NOTES.

Only one member Of the notorious Re-
turning Board of Louisiana Cassanave-is
now unprovided with lucrative office Per
haps he has not applied for place.
The Philadelphia Times says President
Hayes's civil service order prohibiting gov
eminent officers from taking part in political
affairs has been set down upon so much that
it is miserably out of shape.
The manufacturing chemists of New
York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and other
large cities, in circular we have received,
complain of the injustice of the proposition
to place all chemicals and medicinal prepare
tions made abroad on the free list, while pro-
tective duties are continued on agricultural
products and manufactured goods in gener-
al. They ask that the policy of the gov
ernmcnt in regard to tariff upon foreign
manufactures shall be made to apply to them
as to all others-a proposition which appears
to be sound
Some of the federal offlce-holders were
green enough to suppose that under the new
civil service regulations they were TO refrain
from taking part in politics. The Ohio clerks
in the Treasury Department, however, have
found out their mistake. A few days ago
they were quietly but peremptorily informed
that they would be allowed five days in
which to go home and vote the Republican
ticket in October. Refusal to 60 will entail
loss of place. This is only one more Illus
tration of the sham and fraud of Hayes's civil
service rules.
The liquor tax-regstering machines,
known as the Motfett bell punch, went into
operation throughout Virginia last week.
Each liquor-seller must pay $40 for a ma
chine and register every drink sold, in a
manner similar 10 the way in which
street car conductors register fares. He
must pay the State three cents tax on
every drink. This is of course exacted
from the consumer 1t is expected
yield 100000 year to the State, and will
greatly aid in paying her Indebtedness. Un-
der its operation whisky has advanced five
cents per glass, and the beer glasses have been
reduced in size.
sion before committee of New York alder
men, in which he lays bare the greatest
scheme of official corruption the world ever
saw. He inculpates rot only some of his
fellow Democrats but also Republican Sena-
tors. He exposes ex Mayor A. Oakley Halls
connection with the plundering ring and
gives an account of an immense Legislative
corruption fund, which was unscrupulously
raised to buy legislation in favor of the
plunderers. More than one hitherto spotless
reputation is damaged by Tweed's revela-
tions. There is one man, however, whose
character shines out bright and clear, amidst
the scores of corrupt politicians, and that is
Samuel ]. Tilden. Tweed even tried to buy
him off from his attacks upon the ring, but
confesses his utter failure to do so.
The Democrats of Montgomery county,
with remarkable unanimity, nominated the
Hon. Montgomery Blair as one of their can
didates for the House of Delegates, he having
received ,956 votes out of about 1900 cast
There were seven candidates and three to be
nominated. The election was held under a
plan similar to that adopted by the Demo-
Gratis in Hartford county and in use here
since 1871. 1t is understood that Judge
Blair is a candidate for the United States
Senate, end if the Senator is not chosen from
the Eastern Shore, his chances will be good.
The fattering endorsement he received from
his own county will be in his favor. So, too,
will be the fact that lie was one of the few
prominent Democrats WHO from the first
boldly denounced the Electoral Commission
as a delusion and a snare, intended to give
the color of law to the counting-in of Presi-
dent not elected. The Eastern Shore will
doubtless claim her privileges, and her claims
will be hard to withstand.
Nor A CANDIDATE.-Dr. w. III. Gale, of
Somerset county, who has been prominently
announced as candidate for the Democratic
nomination for Comptroller of the reasury
publishes card in the Somerset county
papers that he is not candidate and asking
that his name be not presented before the
convention.