The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-06-11
Maryland Democratic Convention.

1t denounces the Presidential fraud of 1876
opposes monopolies instituted and fostered by
Republican legislation the centraizing ten
denotes Of the Republican party, and attri-
butes the returning prosperity of the country
only to the blessing of God and not to the
efforts of the party in power. 1t re-affirms
the doctrine of State Rights, as set forth in
the constitution, and declares the belief of
the convention that the national Democratic
party will maintain the equality of all citi-
zens before the law and uphold and enforce
their constitutional rights; that it will check
the present extravaganza in the expenditure
of public money and restore economy; that
it will reform the tariff and rebuild the COM
merce of the country; that it will maintain
the supremacy of the civil over the military
power, check the progress of Capitalization
and keep the Executive and Congress within
their allotted spheres.
The convention declined to instruct the
delegates to Cincinnati, but declared that the
unblcmished public and private character of
Hon. Thomas F. Bayard commands the conf
dence and respect of the people of the United
States.
On motion of Mr. Vandiver the convention
proceeded to elect four delegates at large to
the Cincinnati convention. Hon. VIM Pink
ney Whyte, Hon. Philip Francis Thomas,
Hon. John Lee Carroll and Mr. Bernard
Carter were nominated and elected by accla-
nation.
District electors and electors-at- large were
then chosen as follows:
District Delegates. -First-E f. jackson, Wi
comico; Richard HynsOn, Kent. Elector, Levin
j. Waters, Somerset
Second-Wimot Johnson Baltimore county;
Hon. Charles b. Roberts, Carroll. Elector, Pat
rick Walker, of Baltimore county.
Third-George Cotton and James Bond, Bal
timorc. Elcctor, Major John r. McNulty, Bal
timore
Fourth-John W. Davis and William Kcyser,
Baltimore. Elector, VIM. II. Welsh, Baltimore
Fitth-John 4. Bond, Calvert; Barnes Comp
ton, of Charles. Eector Richard w. W Bowie
of Prince Georges.
SiXth-L. Victor Baughmen, of Frederick =;
Lewis G. Smith, of Washington. Elecor, VIM
r. Price, of Allegany.
Electors at large; Hon. l. Neyett Steele, Balti-
more, and Hon.. j. 7. c. Hopkins, of Hartford
county.
The Democratic national convention will
meet at Cincinnati, on Wednesday, June 23d.
The Duties of the State Board of Health
This board has been so constituted by the
Legislature rs to combine for public use the
services of the medical and engineer profrs
sions 1t will be their duty to offer sugges-
tions for the improvement and preservation
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our blessings. While some portions of our
State may from geographical position have
to contend with some degree ofmalarial trou-
bic, another and larger portion, which ought
to be entirely exempt from such inconve-
nience, has within some years only seen an
encroachment of these malarial diseases, and
has learned to fear the approach of others,
such as typhoids and epidemics of diphtheria
and scarlet fever. There are reasons, of
course, for these changes in hcathfulness
and we need not go far to find one very scr
Gus case-the fouling of our water courses,
owing to constantly increasing population,
and the establishment of various industries,
all of which seek as outlets for sewerage and
offensive offal the streams along which they
are located
1t has been observed that the diseases be-
fore alluded to seemed to be ascending the
water courses, especially on the western
slopes. 1t will be found that the increase of
disease is parallel with that ofpopulaton and
bad drainage. We in Hartford have known
for many years that the water of the Susque-
hanna, contaminated by the population of
Pennsylvania and New York, was a very
dangerous neighbor in dry summer, when
the absence of heavy showers allowed the
disease-giving element to become more evil
dent while the purer water of such streams
as Deer Creek suffered no such change, no
matter how much the volume diminished
If, however, we continue to throw into the
water courses every foul thing which we seek
to get rid of all our streams will dfftlse sick.
ness, and the health of our country districts
will become as much impaired as that of our
cities.
The inhabitants of high table lands, such
as constitute much the largest portion, for
instance, of our own county, are dcbarred
from the use of streams for sewerage, and are
obliged to provide differently. Now it will
not be asking too much of the dwcllcrs upon
waters to adopt the cxpedients oftheir neigh
bors, and to abandon practices which must
have such disastrous results.
We hope to see laws passed which will en-
tircly forbid the contamination of all water
courses. The sooner we begin the less trou-
bic it will be /; and if we do this now we will
not find ourselves some day in the condition
of the English people, who are contendng
with this matter in its worst form OF all
the dangerous contaminations that of sewer
age is the worst Next comes that produced
by decayed animal matter from slaughter
houses glue factories, etc The small streams
near Baltimore are represented to be already
in very alarming condition, and we may
safely attribute to such evident cases the di-
minution of the former good health of that
city. Let us take the alarm in time.
Mr.. TILDEN's HEALTH AND PosITIoN.-
Mr.. J. T. Ringgod, editor of the Baltimore
Telegram, spent Monday evening with Mr..
Tilden, at his home in New York. Mr..
Ringgold says that Mr.. Tilden has never had
a stroke of paralysis or anything in the slight
est degree resembling it. He suffers with
rheumatism, but otherwise his health is per-
feet and his mind clear. He prefers to talk
about almost anything rather than politics,
but when this subject is preached he is frank
and candid as a man can be. Mr.. Ringgold
added:
"There is no mystery about his position
Take, for instance, his course during the
progress of his counting out. Calm judgment
shows that at no time had Mr.. Tilden q legal
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