The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1879-10-11

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ohiS iaii imam at that time. Ana wnlIe /, ~,
not beileve we can obtain a true expressio,
OF the public will as long us our recistr,
!'WS remain as they are, and are executed
III nta liitn, believe that the ring Democ
racy are afraid to take such hich-hapded
measures as they did in -. also beIievr
lnat there is so large a majority of our peo-
PIE VINO are determined to correct the evil.
under which we now labor, that we can
overcome the irregular votes that will he
polie1' and fully inaugurate reform on the
4th of November next
Lei lis now look AT the record of the Demo-
cra,lc party tour years ago when the great
| uprising of the people forced from The re-.
luctant lips of their ring leaders such pro-
,tSe promises OF reform. 1t will bo remem-
| pered that very many Staunch, Hfs-lonp
democrats engaged actively in the reform
movement; men whose integrity and hon
eSty have never been questioned, and whose
intelligence enabled them to discover tho
CRYING evils of those days, and to en-
dcavor to remedy them None Of these man
wa, was more distinguished than the Hon. s.
Ie;lckie Nalhs. | suppose no one doubts
tne SenulnenesS of the Democratic faith in
which he abides, and surely his statement
OF tactS must be admitted as showing the
urn OF OPINION among honest Democracy
at this time. In his letter of accentanca nf
n
1870 he says he understands the reform |
movement "to cmb0dy and rive uttnronce
ana practical effect to the protest hitherto |
ii'de, Tor the most part in private only but |
mace IN private every where for some wears
past by the best men in MARYLAND AGAINST
Ine corrupt and degrading influences which
nave controlled and directed, and still CON
trol and direct, the ruling politics of tha
State. | understand it is an effort to arrest
inc progress of venality and extravaganza
IN state ana municipal legislation: to drive
out ana set TO honest labor the drones who |
are hlileted on SO many of the public offices.
m ofder That they may cheat at the public
when they needed at the primaries
and the elections. l understand if to he
your purpose to investigated fraud and to
expose and publish it if you find it; to turn
the publlc revenue from the channels of
waste and misrepresentation to those of pub
nc unity; TO restore your government, in |
me, II you can, to its original uses as pub {
lc servant, and not private machine
After referring to the time when the Demo- =,
'ratlc party came into power in the State. D.,
ma It's lofty purposes and great strength !
he says: But 1t has been corrupted by ex- \
eSs OF power. Like most absolute mon
.rchs it has taken to it pleasures and let its
aEorltes prey upon the State. 1t has had .
enough to make its nominal | -
ions In general equivalent to election, and :,
as been unscrupulous and reckless in the
holce OF Its nominees, as its present lists
etore the people will, in great part, pain D
MY SHOW 1t has had numerical force '
nouSh to dispense with the good opinions ie
nd the ballots of the best of its voters. and b
has accordingly treated their opinions \
18th contempt. 1t has had official control p'
the elections, and when its nominations n
ave driven voters disguised from the polls, ;.
has stuffed the ballot boxes and elected OF
$ candidates or magnitied their majorities III
its pleasure by fraud" OF
Mr.. Wallis then proceeds to show that L.
csc tacts We're of common notoriety, and A.
at he, with thousands of other good Demo ~
ats, had felt the shame of such things and a,
I'd Valnly hoped for reformation within the III
les OF their party. He then saws: "In
CHI state of facts, what is the remedy for m:
e evil? 1t is childish to seek it in the dit
ontaneous sslt-reformation of ring
hch must die its political death in the A.
~ act OF reforming. Nor can relief come As
I'M protest, denunciation, lamentatiou and IA
luiescence. These have been tried ad Ia
use"m for years, and have only made S
ngs worSe.' Gre
And again he says: " Equally puerile is UNI
o denver homllieS about the duty of good ts'
II to 90 to the primaries and send better En-
resentatives to the conventions. Good Az.
n will be cheated as often rs thew 20 for D.
IL
ion for the bread for his family will never '
a match, i'll tactics, for a trickster whose T
ole thought and business in life is polit- abo
chicane. The only relief is to be found mel
he polls 1t is to be found in the deter per
iatlon OF men OF integrity and sense to rate
W, NJ every cost, that party nomination thu
II no longer be equivalent to election: lect
t they will permit no ticket whatever TO of r.
mt upon them by fraud; that they will not as t
not vote for unworthy candidates, bit nea
not be TED array 6y considerations Of Dey- and
II respect for indiridudls from dJuting a the
nc nuisance and wlping out party dis com
e." T.
have quoted thus freely from lIr. Wal was
letter, because, As before stated, he is a and
leman standing deservedly high in the onlv
nunlty, and the peer in every respect doll.
ny Of his comrades in the Democratic In 1
IS. But the gallant struggle of the Re doll:
Tors OF 10 failed of success at the polls III. ,
ell not rehearse the history of that cleo heen
Its record constitutes one of the black SO I
ages in the political annals OF our city. hash
popular feeling, aroused by such stu and
ouS frauds was so great and threaten Of IA
' ' was ueelheo advisable by the times
l mass meeting of its followers, with a any ,
of breaking the force of the indignant t;T,t
,sts OF outraged citizens. The meeting tbs n
accordingly held December II, 1875. the r.
presided over by the Hon. Robert NJ | favor
lne In the course of his remarks hc Tbo :
" Let us expose the fraud and illegal III. h
&, the violence and disorder that did that
Ill in the election of the md of Noyem- ment
lst; and let us take proper and reason and !,
steps to provide not only for the pun relati
ent OF the wrong doers but let us rec in TN
enc 70 the Legislature, through the in. requi