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

safal~@rt IA the largest, or next 10 the largest,
sn1.nrso growing county IN this state and jet ID
not allowed 70 have Tobacco inspector, and is
ss.,r-iore Il the matter not 50 highly hoaoFed IS
= Mars county. Incinding the oysters on the
kers ~ tie Chesapeake Boy opposite her shores
-. ,,sniaaslv has more oysters IN her adjacent
- thau charles and ST. Mary's combined.
80 she has never BEEN allowed 20 have Deputy
romrnaussr of the Oyster Police Force while one
- tbose seo officers Dor the three counties has
-, q ven 40 Charles, and che other to ST. Ma
vvss Moreover. Charles for several years past
las had the State Treasures, and, We believe,
v~;shes ID have The next Congressman. Yet II
would appear from the above that our neiehbors
are not happy ard compiain about division Of
eI,s sssuoiis oil ofhce r. When We consider what
Assev krSe ana what Calvert has not, and how
~ he last election each of those counties sent
;sxi delegations 10 the Legislature, While Calvert
~sntN fun Demoefaffe Delegation BY more Ikan
an average majority Of 200 votes, We cannot sec
fhe iugiies or good policy Ia tlic treatment whic
Calvert is now receiying a chands OF ths Dcm4
oeratic varts - Calvert JournaI.
That Calvert Is not the largest tObaecO-grOw
inx county in the State is very certain, and ii
win be news TO most people thai she is next to tho
largest except In the sense that she is near the
Prince Georges line. Equally marvellous is the
statement that her oyster acreage, including 1.-THE
bars in Chesapeake Bay opposite her shores is
greater than that OF Charles and 81. Mays
combined The people Of Calvert are blessed
In many ways, bat they don appear to have any
maps over there or any mems Of measuring
things, miraculous pumpkins always excepted.
Al any rate, Calvert has not only not q larger
acreage Of oyster lands ''than Charles and ST.
Mary's combined - but We viii wager odds that
her oyster acreage does not equal that Of ST.
Mary's and we win bet even on the latter agains
the field. $50 much for Buckingham" In the
matter Of tobacco inspection and oyster police pa
trouage, we win not undertake to decide wheth-
er Calvert has had justice done her or not but
Il can fairly be pleaded, We think, in mitigation
Of the charge that she has been neglected by the
party in these regards, that the ''last election"
was about the FIRST she sent "a full democratic
delegation TO the legislature or even ''mixed'
one since III, and this was before the oyster pO-
lice business was started and about the time she
held tobacco inspeciorship. But why on the
oyster question arraign st. Mary's and let Anna
Arundel OFF, Her oyster lands within this po-
lice distris. extend from about Benedict on the
Patuxent to Plum Point on the Chesapeake aud
here she has representatives on the Police Boat.
From the latter place to Fair Haven, which 10
within the jurisdiction Of the Annapolis Boat,
she has no representative, we learn, at ALL
'Call yOu this backing your friends p But
badinage aside. The strong point Of Calvert is
her claim to Congressional honors. II is twenty
years or upwards since she was honored by q
Congressional Convention. Though not always
fighting the battles Of our party with success,
her gallant democracy has never flinehed from
duty and last Fall closed It's long struggle for
supremacy with glorious victory. She has elaine
tobe heard in this connection which IL will be diff
ficut to gAinsay nor do we permit ourselves TO
doubt, II they are presented in the coming Con-
gressional Convention, they will receive gem
erous recognition.