Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1879-10-10
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

The Demq ate ticket in Carrot
was nominated4 lay and consists 0
w r. Getty and -. iamil
The Democrats of Allegany county hay,
nominated Patrick Carroll, Peter Cordial
+ Mertens and Dr. II. b. RoBbosson for tn
House Of Delegates The ticket, both leg
islative and county is spoken of as YER
strong one.
The idea now thrown out is that there i
too much goodness in Independent ticket
for the uses of this wicked world, and til,
Chestertown Transcript calls it the "Repub
lican, Peoples Reform, FORMULATION, Balm
of Gilead, Universal Panacea ticket"
Tammany's tribulations in connection
with the appointment of Election Inspec.
tors are over at last. The Board of Police
Commissioners Monday night complied will
the order of the Supreme Court in genera
many Inspectors. Now let us have peace
The Connecticut election he Id on the 6tl
instant resulted in no change of politica
complexion. Both constitutional amend
ments were defeated by overwhelming ma
jorities--that providing for biennial sessions
of the State Legislature being defeated
by to and that extending lineage limit Of
judges from 20 to rs years by at least to
A committee ofdemocratic ladies of Column
bus, headed by the wife Of Senator Thurman
have entered the campaign in Ohio, and Offer
two hundred an fifty dollar banner to the
democrats of that county which shall show
the largest increased democratic vote ovel
that cast at the presidential election.
In neat speech in Ohio Mr.. Thurman
made the remark that God was responsible
for the abolition of slavery. The Cincinnati
Commercial thinks this remarkable adms.
sion for Democrat to make. There was
time when it would have been unwise to
admit that God was an Aboltionist, but the
events Of the last fifteen years have settled
that point conclusively and every good Demo
crat believes it now.
Mr.. Hamilton concluded his speech al
Cambridge on Tuesday as follows: an ac-
cepting the unanimous nomination of my
party am determined to act upon the con
yiction that it was meant that | should serve
the State and the interests of all her people
| am impressed with the belief that the nomi-
nation springs from the people and accept
it without any alliance, combination, agree
ment or promise or understanding, either
direct or indirect, expressed or implied, for
any future place for myself or any other per-
son on earth. Whilst | will be always glad
to receive advice and counsel from anyone il
must be expressly understood that my own
conscience and my own judgment must be
the factors of my own actions"
The venerable statesman, Horatio Sey-
mour, having retired wholly from politics,
and being removed from the dust and heat
of the strife, can overlook the field with the
eye of sage, and yet, with the insight of a
veteran campaigner. He has said recently to
an interviewer from the World, who invad-
ed his seclusion to ask about the Kelly bolt
81 do not think that many Democrats, in
the rural districts certainly, will be disposed
to harm themselves, to injure their own
friends and to hazard the success of their
political principles merely on account of
political acts and for the sake of fleeing
personal dslikes and real or supposed inur-
ries. do not doubt that Governor Robin
son will gain as many if not more votes
from the Republican party than he will lose
from any hostility whatever in our own, and
il may prove that he will gain largely"
There is evidence extant that Mr.. Gary,
the Republican nominee for Governor, was
an active opponent of negro suffrage in 1868
"hu AO'oi anu tooh pnit-AF9- uttctlngS nelu 10
oppose the reimbursement of blacks This
factisbeing quietly circulated in order 10 Sc
cure favor for Mr. Gary among certain con
sentative voters. A worse piece of cam
paign work could hardly be imagined In
addition to running the risk of alternating
some Of the intelligent blacks, the friends of
Mr. Gary simply call attention to we'll
known fact, viz. that nearly all of the Re
publicans of Maryland pretended to oppose
negro suffrage when first proposed, but when
it became known that enfranchisement of
of the blacks would give the party 10000
in the State they all went in for it, Mr. Gary
among the number. All this proves that
Mr.. Gary is thorough Radical and that he
is willing to sink his convictions in order TO
defeat the Democrats. He would favor any
policy that could be suggested so that it
promised to deprive the Democrats of pow
er in Maryland