The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1879-11-01
DEMOCRATIC PROOF OF DEMO
CRATIC PRACTICES.

Col. Eugene L. Joyce Is ut this time q
Democratic member of the Senate of Mary
land. At the late primaries he was can
didate for denomination and was defeated
The reason of his defeat was thus state by
himself:
My defeat was in consequence of my
opposition to certain corrupt measures foiSt-
ed upon the Legislature While was mem
Der of that body. One of them was bill
making an appropriation of So, 900 to fit
up the House of Correction, of which $50
ment., $4,000 for kitchen, 5000 for fur
niture $50, 900 to build workshop, and
$50, 600 to feed the inmates for 1876 and 1877,
whereas the building was not to DO COM
pleted until 1873.
Afterwards a deficiency bill was offered
by Mr.. A. p. German to appropriate Sc
600 to feed the inmates of that institution
for 1877, at which time there were no in
mates nor any accom- mediation for them.
My official examination of the State cat
tie scales durin: the Legislative session of
1876 was id conjunction with Mr.. German,
who appealed to me to make a general re-
port, and cover up the deliberate squander-
ing Of public funds But |, knowing my
self to be a sworn servant of the people, and
knowing that the weisher of live stock had
been published by the Comptroller as de-
faulter, determined to make a thorough in
vestigation, and give that official 4 chance
to vindicate himself In that investigation
l found that all the money collected at the
scales for several years had hcen spent in
the items of improvement and salary the
salaries In II number of instances having
been paid to persons who had never rem
dered any services whatever. l also found
the office $4,000 in debt. Since the cleans
ing of the department it has yielded to the
State over $4,000 per annum, Mr.. Cor
man, Of the committee. refused to sign the
report which the committee made to the
Senate, as the official records of that body
will show.
1 also refused to introduce a bill to appro-
pirate $4,000 to run telegraph line from
police headquarters in Baltimore to the
House of Correction; said bill also asking
an appropriation of 81, 800 per anaum as
salary Tor {. superintendent of the same
the position now held by Mr., j. Frank Nor
rison. Such bill was introduced by Mr..
German and engineered by Mr.. Morrison,
the latter stating that all he wanted was
the salary. l have spoken to four Senators
who are recorded as having voted for said
bill, and they say thes 4aa never seen or
heard of -.
l also condemned and utterly disappreved
of the system of placing the names of eX-
members of the Legislature CT the pay
rolls of the State tAhap,., ware houses, where
they draw q salary without doing any ser
vice.
l also refused to pledge myself to support
Hon. William 7. Hamilton for the United
States Senate, and have \. T. German take
the Gubernatorial vacancy that was intend
ed TO be made by transferring Gov. Hamil-
ton to the Senate-it being part of the plan
that German was to be President of the
Senate, and therefore in the line # snQoes-
sion to the Governor nhatr:
The nosit,on OF this Mr.. a. p, German,
and the influence which he will exert upon
the management Of State affairs if the Dem
oerats succeed thi. Fall, is known to every
body.
George NJ. Gill, and the honest Democrats
acting with him, say:
The [Democraticl primary elections re
Gently held here have loen manipulated and
controlled ny the hands, and in the interests
of, selfish and corrupt political combina-
tons, and it is the right, as wei rs tlae duty
of the people, to reiect the nominations thus
become mockery, and have been made to
register the edicts of political managers
rather than to reflect the voice and will of
the people. Tue Taxpayers Of this city and
State ara .rievously burdened to support
many superfluous persons in office, and to
pay extravagant salaries to many others.
Yet the Democrats have had full power, at
any moment for twelve years past, to cor
rect these abuses, and have not taken one
| step towards it. Ought the people 10 wait
| relief
Again they say;
"When the Constitution of 1867 was
adopted, the strongest pledges were given
to insure an entire change in the manage
ment Of State and city matters, especially
as to the reduction of public debts, expendi-
lures and taxation. THESE PLEDGES HAVE
NOT BEEN REDEEMED, and, in relation to
our city government, there has Leen a great
increase of debt. expenditures and taxa
| ton
! ef.an II 100 credulous people wait any
longer for " the redemption of these Demo-
cratic pledges %
John Lee Carroll said in Monument
| Square:
"Wc need economy and retrenohment in
our expenditures. tho Topping off of many
useless Offices. and a new registration law
by which fairness can be secured at our cleo
tons"
The Democracy fixed the scale Of cxpendi,