Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1880-10-21
lCoMMUEIcArED.
JARB0EsvIELE, Nm.
Oct. n. 1880.

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DEAR StRs :--Fresh from Cen. Chap
mans consistent rhetoric, fluent speech
and right fair logic at Great Mills. Col.
Rowie's honest enthusiasm and lawyer
Wilson's forensic good sense, ny own
thoughts tumble over each ether 50
thick / hardly know which i frsl II
order. / have not lrouhled your read.
ers lately. Tor have not found anything
proper Icf unsaid 5y the very much ii
earnest Press and TIE high order Of
speakers ne greatness 81 tbe present %.
lIlicai crisis Il4s caiied ..lt ffsnI si.les
I first presented to the counfy the sew
eral issues to be fought out during the
campaign; difficult as il has been 10 hold
back, in this FIRST political fight since
that which elected Mr.. Buchanan ia
'55, in which I have thought The best
directed efforts Of the patriot could be
Of possible avail to save the country.
All the issues are about fought out
and won; the next thing m order Is TO
harvest the fruits of our labor. And
this is TO be done by noting well the
tactics Of the enemy, lest bis stategy
and emancipation from conscience IA
dead issue with Republieans) scarcely
yet realized BY Democrats in spite Of
the lesson Of '76, he rob US Of these in
the final act.
Most Democrats are satisfied 10 inter-
pref the Republicans virtual yielding
up of the contest for the Presidency as
fank-movement to secure Congress
sIonal majoIities as check against a
Democratic Executive, and :heir curl
Gus move OF bringing Grant into the
canvass and making hIm publicly take
back all the good things he lately said
about the devoted South-not even
mentioning Garfield in his speeches
(prepared for and read by him, Grant, J
''by so much as a civil sneer," as an
exercise of that recuperative power we
observe in a crushed fishing worm, by
way Of self-preservation through his
candidacy in 1884. Now, have too
much knowledge Of, and too much re-
spect for, the enemy to see nothing
deeper in the maneuver than these i'm
practicable schemes. Let us not speak
too slightingly OF his majesty Nichode-
mus B. LucIfer, for, like John Randolph
of Roanoke, we all "have a little spice
Of the devil i'm us. perhaps, ourselves.
No! The Republican party mean some
thing more definite than any such kis-
sing Of the rod as this, as .he signs of
the times speak 10 me; and ifthe events
of the next FIVE months contradict my
apprehensions, your correspondent will
be prouder and better satisfied under
the stigma OF alarmist than he would be
to have proved prophet.
"What are the wild winds saying 7
Brother, I hear no sound" etc. What
'cat's-paw' on The distant horizon does
"the watcher on the outer wall" see that
seems to escape the animadversIon Of
the Press and the Partyi Why, little
Johnny Davenport!
Oh i-quotha-he's only the "ridic-
ulus mus" that was "nascituT" when
''montes parturiebant." Well, let US seeI
Imprimis, the Republican party don't
s0isA to 60 out of power, to speak Of. IL
only for the paItry consideration OF the
heshpots. In secundo, the Republican
party have so pTostituted the Consiitu-
ton, robbed the Treasury and oppressed
the people, that they can no more afford
10 let any other party get into power
than the outrageT of female virtue dare
trust himself into the hands Of the Wig
iIance Committee. Words to this ef-
feet were spoken Eve years ago by the
Editor Of the New York Tribune TO one
Of your prominent townsmen.
In tertio. The Republican party do
not intend TO give up the power. Re-
cord to wit. In the last session OF Con-
gress, Senator Bayard (dem. introduced
q bill to amend the election law which
had enabled John J. Davenport to 'ar-
rest on the day Of election in New York
State ten thousand voters" on blank
UaTrGnts. filed in al discretion by bis
horse-thief deputy-marshaIs, autocrati-
caIIy appointed by himself or at The
pleasure Of his supernumerary supervi-
sors of elections, without indictment,
trial or ha6eas corpus, and TO turn them
loose after il was too late for them 10
vote. without cerdief, sentence or aeguit-
tai. This was only a sample OF the
wholesale operation OF this election Law,
passed shortly before Gov. Hoffman had
m 1870 shown the Administration good
reasons for a second thought about
keeping its fifteen thousand United
States troops under arms at The polls IN
New York on election day for it, mu-
nicipal officers, and its armed frigates,
GueFTIere aud Narsgansett, anchored
of Wall street and Chambers street
slips ready TO lombard the city on the
same occasion, to compel people 10 vote
as they pleased. These troops and war
vessels were only removed in time 10
ward of q bloody fight between them
and Gov. Hofman's State troops and
volunteers the afternoon before the
election came of. The election laws
in question were thereafter operated so
as to keep up semblance Of subordina-
ting the military to the civil authority,
but all the while step towards central
ization, you perceive-for these "Uni-
ted States deputy-marshals and SUPER
visors, many Of whom were men Of well
known disreputabIe character, and some
Of whom had been convicted criminals,
class Of dangerous men" the Gov.
says, in bis message TO the next Legis-
laiure, "never before chosen by any
ruling authority IN any community as
conservatoFs OF the peace" were in