The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-06-09

culated to display the boldness and shall
lowness of Democratic reform pretences.
The mayoralty contest in Baltimore
is about to tax every imaginable cam
paign resource of the ring Democracy,
which has heretofore prostituted the
whole machinery of city politics to
its base purposes. The work has al
ready begun in earnest The family
quarrel promises unusual bitterness.
Ordinations and recriminations are
hurled back and forth, and the homely
old adage, that when rogues fall out
honest men get their dues, is being veri-
fed to the letter. The most available
columns of that respectable luminarv,
"The Sun, are being made the medium
of communication with the voting pub
lie. Present space will admit but few
specimens of these interesting contribu-
tions to current Democratic literature
Under date of May 26th, Mr.. Wariield,
representative Democrat, and who, as
an independent candidate for the MAYOR
atty, in 1875, tested the true inward
ness of Maryland Bourbon Democracy,
says to the Baltimore electors:
"Your will, as expressed at the ballot
box in 1875, was shamefully set at nausht
"by fraud, ciolence and corruption. The
"purity of the right of suffrage was openly
"assailed and Knocked by the dirty work
"ings of partisan politicians. Represent
ling you, endeavored to seek your redress
"before the judiciary of our city and State.
"After reasonable period had elapsed
"from the election, without passion or
prejudice, appealed to the tribunal de-
"signated by law to vindicate your rights
"and redress your wrongs before it, but
"after much delay this vindication and re-
"dress were refused upon purely artificial
"grounds, as tile record toiU shoe. ask a
"renewal of your support. and your de-
"mand that your 6altot-Jor shall be incio-
slate"
Another plain-spoken Democrat y
thus reminds his party brethren of their
Reform methods at their recent prima-
ries:
cat the primaries, on Wednesday, all
"fair ness was ignored and 6allot-bor stuff.
ling puddcn tickets, and repeating, were
"openly practiced. In the lower wards
respectable people we're driven away from
"the polls, and in one instance city coun-
"cilman, for challenging a vote, was as
"saulted, knocked down and BEATEN
Still another Jackson Democrat A."
complains of the frauds practiced by
his party, and asks:
"Shall the Democratic nominee for mayor
"be the selection of a small faction or shall
"he be the choice of majority, as ex-
"pressed at primary elections fairly and
"honestly conducted, without buNdozing,
"repeating, or ballot boz stuEng' Is an ap-
"parent rebuke to be given the present
administration x by the use of party
machinery at primary elections to pack
ballot dores and conventions against The
"true 1iU Of tile people,"
Under date of June End, Robert Il.
Banks, formerly Mayor, protests against
the corruption of his local political as
sociates:
Gas an old Democrat, here take occa-
"sion to say that, unless elections in Balt-
"more, primary and general, shall be con-
"ducted differently from the mode in which
"they have heretofore been conducted; I'M
less other means than force, false cotin3
"and counting, shall be relied upon as the
"means of success at the polls, it requires
"no prophet to foretell the certain down.
"fall of the Democratic party in the near
future"
The spirit of the Bourbons is re-
flected in Mr. Latrobe's Hollis Hall
speech:
"The good old book" "a fearful connec.
ton into which he dragged the Bible) Essays
"that the laborer is worthy of his hire, and
"the offices should be given to the werking
members Of the party. The men whose
"hands are too clean for them to do ,chat is
"called tile dirty cork Of politics Should hare
none Of the reuards."
One after another respectable Demo-
Gratis thus protest:
"a Word Of Warning to tile Democratic
Party.-In the Fall of 1875, the nomina-
"tions made by the Democratic party for
"Governor and members of the Legisla.
"ture, and their subsequent election, came
"near destroying the party organization in
" the city and State. 1t was hoped that the
lesson then taught would bear good fruit.
"The primary election on Wednesday last,
"and the action of the city convention on
Thursday, prove that it has been wasted.
How long can the Democratic
"party withstand such assaults? Will
honorable men consent to become candi-
dates, when such means are used by DO.
heiSoi sAiChSICis W carry eieCClOuS against
"them? Will it not result in doing away
with the whole system of primaries, sepa.
Grating municipal elections from party
"politics, and selecting city officers by the
"people and not by clique?"
1t is worthy of remark that Mr.. La
trobe's candidacy imported into the last
municipal campaign the spirit of days
which it had fondly been hoped had gone
" forever. A tide of ruffianism rolled over
"the barriers that the Democratic reform
Gers Of 1850 had erected and bore him into
"otfice. The same instrumentalities are
"now being employed to carry the party
"primaries.'
"Will not the scenes that occurred at
"some of the primary elections last week
"produce great dissatisfaction, if the clique
succeed by the use of party machinery in
nominating its candidate
Even the Gazette sounds the tocsin
OF alarm, and utters this warning note
in its issue of the 18th ultimo:
" 1t is perhaps natural that, in struggle