Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1878-06-20

Itks sad--very sad--to see how iwmorm,,s 49,
clever neighbours OF the Se Ma9r's - seor rre 81
Calvert county II they will only leave their
home, and travel on this side Of the Pafurens OR
awhile they might gather sta Iot' a. useful in
forEation. We asserted short time elsce eE,as
Calvert was tile iakgrst or next 70 the largest DO
Nacco growing county In The State. IRE BrA-
COS denies most positively that Calvert e ffe
largest and says that 1T will be news 10 Fnonf
people that she is'' merit % the largest tobacco
growing county On shis point we refer the
BsAcos 20 the Y. y Census Reports, beginning
with che census Of 1860. AS theIarmers IN Prince
Georges county have Of late years 90 largely re-
dacsd their tobacco crops, Caivert may now pos
Bibly be ahead Of her, or NJ least not TAR behind
her. We aiso stated that including the osstern
on the bars In the Chesapeake bag opposite her
shores Calvert probably has more oysters in her
adjaennt waters thar Charles and Sc. Mays
combined. This statement the BgAcox thinks Il
marvellous. Nov we win suggest 10 these broth
er editors that u during the oyster season they
win sail down the Patnxent and notice the oys-
ter beds therein, and also visit Battle creek Is
land creek. 81. Leonards creek. Mearses creek
HelIen's creek, Back creek, st. Joha's creek and
Mill creek and see how many oystermen are At
work ON the Calvert side, and then 60 ont upon
The broad waters Of the Chesapeake and gee The
fse's ofoyster boats engaged with dredgen, scoops
etc. on the bars opposite the Calvert shores we
think that taey would retui y home wiser men.
The BKAc0s says that the last election was
about The first since 1871 that Calvert elected
fell, or even q mixed democratic de1sgation 70
The legislature. How ofien during that period
Of time did the democrats Of ST. MaFyss elect their
fhli tickets7 ''Th0De who live In glass houses
should not throw stones"
But the BsAcox thinks that fsthe streng point
Of Calvert Is her claims 20 Congressional hon.
osT Now brothers Of the BEAcox are ron
trying 70 poke fan at " Don't you believe
that without an accident our present popular
representative DIR. Henkie, will be -nominated7
And don't you believe that the vote fSt. Mary's
in the nominating convention win be cast for
him7 II the times we're not 30 hard and II we
were betting men, we would bet a button, that
even II DIR. Henkle were out Of the contest, st.
Mays would not in the convention 90 for any
man from Calvert, ifher vote would give him the
nomination. This has been tested In the past.
We know something about this Congressional
business. In days gone by, we have been In
conventions and aided in casting the united vote
of Calvert for st. MaFy's candidates. But when
did 50. Mary's ever return the c0mplimentf AT
one Congressional Convention she did after her
own candidate had been dropped, cast one Of her
two votes for the Calvert candidate. Did she ever
do more than this7 We have not forgotten that
on one occasion, when under an order which re-
quired the lowest man on each successive ballot
70 be dropped, no other nane but that Of the
Calvert candidate was before the Congressional
Convention, 50. Mary's and some counties then
cast bIoHk ballots, and as a majority Of the votes
cast were blanks, ofcourse, the Calvert candidate
failed to get the nomination. Now brothers Of
the Beacon when we complain because Calvert
has neither Tobacco Inspector or Deputy Ccm-
mander ofthe Oyster Police, aud wi hen you ilaunt
in cur faces q mere ghostiy shadow Of "congres-
sional honors'' we say '.tOO hin-ioo hia P'-
Excuse us for laughing at you. "Time0 Dana0s
Il d0na IeTeafes. 49, Calreyt Journal.