The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-11-20
The Real Reason.
New York sun.

ANU AOOeAAtt AsSesS~A~'
Correspondence New York Sun.
BALTIMORE, Nov. Ex-senator
Robert Combs, of ST. Mary's county,
is one of the most popular r,embers
Of the upper House of the Maryland
Legislature. Members love to call
upon him at his room when he is al
Annapolis. Although living in
region where it is rs impossiblet to find
a fruit grower without his own par
ticular make Of liquor. as Il Is 60 find
city barber without his own partir.
ular hair restorative, Senator Combs
applejack is famous. 1t is clear and
transparent, shining with a ruby
glow, and is sthoroughly impregnated
with the favor of the big, rosy
checked apples that st. Mary's coun-
ty produces in abundance and per-
fectien. When a demij"hn of this
applejack is uncorked the room is
filled with the odor of an apple or
chard in bloom. This odOr is very
penetrating. When Senator Combs
came to town on election day he had
barely gotten the cork out, with the
intention of having a little private
refreshment after his journey, when
the boys began to arrive at his room.
The Senator said that st. Mary's
county was too faraway from base to
content him in these exciting times,
and he had come to town SO as to get
the news. He had brought along a
big demijohn of the old article, and
there was fat keg of it Just unload
ed from the steamboat, which would
be sent to his room for the purpose
Of keeping the deInijohn in repair
during his stay.
The applejack was in great de-
mand during the day and evening by
the leaders of the Baltimore Democ-
racy. 1t first sustained them in their
hopes, and afterward consoled them
in their defeat. The only light that
pierced the gloom that gathered about
the Democracy as the telegraph
brought its tidings of disaster was
that which shone from the rosy
of Senator Combs as he
sat in his room at the hotel, the
demijohn beside him.
"Drink freely. gentlemen" said
he. The more you drink the more
you'll want and the better you'll
feel. It's the best liquor in the world
to stick to. Talk about your cham
pagne. That fizz stuff may do if you
want to be tickled, but if you want
solid encouragement, stick to apple.
jack all the time. Inever went back
on applejack for champagne but once,
gentlemen, and it brought heap of
trouble on the country. In fact, i
don't know but what 1T lost us this
"How was that, Senator ?" spoke
up the chorus.
"Well, it was all along of Mont
gomery Blair's resolutions in the
of 1873. You know he
brought in all sorts of bills and reso
luti0ns about the eight-by-seven bus
mess. First he wanted the Attorney
General to get after Hayes in the Su
prems Court. Well, we all agreed
with the old gentlemen that it was
an almighty shame that things should
be as they were, but we thought if
the big rich States could stand it. a
little State like Maryland could get
along. There was heap of jealousy
Of Mr.. Blair in the House of Dele.
gates. where he was, and most of the
bills and resolutions were killed off
in there. Finally one of them did
get through and got into the Senate.
1t was a memorial to Congress about
the Presidential election, the long
and short of which was that fraud
had been done, preventing the elec-
toral vote of Maryland from having
i.s due and proper effect, and Con-
gress was asked to take some action
in the case.
1--WE thought Mr.. Blair was trying
to ride dead horse, and l told him
so in my plain, blunt way. But there
was no standing up against his terri
BILE earnestness. He worked it thro'
Ihs committee and through its first
and second readings, and then some
Of us who didn't want 10 offend Mr..
Blair. and didn't want the thing to
pass either, tried to slave it off alto.
gether. But he kept a-pushing and
got it up on the last day of the ses-
sion. You know in our legislature
bill must get a majority of all the
members elected in order to pass,and
If bill fails at any time for want of
a constitutional majority, it can be
brought up again on motitn at any
time. When Mr.. Blair's memorial
came number Of US got out, and so