Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1880-02-19

Nessrs. Editors MIR. Holmes in his
reply to my last article published in the
BEACON, axis why do no show that
Messrs. Loker and Mattingly fell from
200 10 800 votes behind Mr.. Hamilton.
then further state that they received .
large number Of republican votes ia
their respective districts. and thus give
the people some idea of the number Of
democratic votes he (Holmes) received,
which would be between 400 and 500.
! will partially obllge the gentleman by
stating that Mr.. Loker tell behind Mr..
Hamilton -243 votes and Mr.. Mating
Nv 1879, total 362. But will not state
that they each received larger numbers
of republican votes in their respective
districts or endeayor TO give the public
an idea that Mr.. III. received 400 or 800
democratic votes, Tor do not believe
such to be the iact or the general i'm
preston IN this county. For Mr.. HIS
estimate 10 approximate correctness,
We would have TO assume that each
man voting for Governor also voted for
two candidates for the House Of Dele
gates, or that twice ihe number Of votes
were cast for delegates in The aggregate
that were cast for Governor which the
returns prove not to have been the case.
The following % the Official vote Of the
county: Hamilton 1855, Gary 1,TO8,
total 1893, twice tins 6,726. Loker
f,4l2, Maiiingly 1916, Holmes 1896,
Graves 1901, total 6,326. So that we
see the vote of the four candidates for
House Of Delegates aggregates but g.
325 or 4O1 votes less than would have
been cast for delegates had each man
voted toll ticket. OF this number,
Messrs. Loker and Mattingly lost be-
tween them $50. So that IL Is plain
there was this number (401) who voted
for but one delegate or few voting
blank for delegates and less number
voting Tor one. II is also evident that
this number OF missing votes was not
cast for any one, though MIR. Holmes
seems 10 credit himself with them or
The most Of them. Further, judging
iron the solidity with which The re-
publicans support their candidates. does
any sensible man cOgnizant Of the way
the vote Was cast believe that Mr.. II.
lost in this county 36S republican votesi
This he would have TO do in order 10
get $50 democratic. since be ran ahead
OF the republican State ticket but SO
votes.
am unable 10 estimate the number
that were driven from him By party
ties. but this | know. that for some
years back the democrats OF this conn
" have not exhibited that fdelity 10
party nominations as have the TepubIi-
cans; this is evidenced BY the frequent
success Of independent democrats. for
Office, when there were regular nomi-
nees Of that party. so that II - not sur
pris.ng that Mr.. Holmes should have
received n hundred or two demo-
cratic votes. but IL The management Of
our school affairs has been rs tyrannicsl
and oppressive rs be claims, q 10 saw-
prising that be should not have re-
ceived more Of such votes than he did.
Mr.. II. asks me 10 inform him wher
before did the democratic State ticket
tall behind il party vote N s. Mary's.
ii least ia . contest for Governor. !
suppose the gentleman IL conscious Of
having contributed materially 10 effect
this result. which presume was brought
about mainly b. prominent democrats
accepting the republican endorsement
for olIice--thus carrying strength over
10 the republicans, especially ior OIL
GERS not voted Tor By the State = large.