The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1881-10-29


McManes: German and Cotton and all
their partners must go, as their great
predecessors have gone before them.
HOW TIE MACHINE WORKS.
The machine in Maryland is So finely
organized that it works out results with
perfect accuracy. The vulgar notion that
the people do the voting is Il popular
error. for the machine relieves them of
the unnecessity labor. The bosses. some
months beforehand, divide the plumber
of Office among their retainers, and the
members of Congress and of the General
Assembly are selected in secret conclave
and their names sent down to Oe ratified
by the primaries. Indeed, know one
gentleman who has been promised the
nppoint0tem of Governor in 1883 already.
That is, if he behaves himself The to-
bacco houses are relied on to con-
troll four or five counties. The weighers
as to insure proper nominations in their
conventions. Then the oyster navy is
good. probably, for six tide-water coun-
ties. The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
furnishes the lever to work at least three
more. for though neither Howard nor
Baltimore county is near the canal, it is
surprising how useful citizens Of those
counties may be made on slack-water
navigation The Baltimore police force
is just beginning to be utilized to run
Democratic conventions. The taxes of
the people of Baltimore are paid to sup
port what is intended to be Il nOn-parti-
san police for their benefit and protec-
ton. The places of policemen are being
given to the counties to buy members of
the Legislature from such counties for
next winter. | hear OF such appoint
ments all over the State. Policemen
from Calvert, Talbot, Queen Anne 5.
Carroll. and Hartford | know not how
many counties are thus being corrupted
by this nefarious use of the people
money to control the peoples votes.
When the patronage from these sources
fails to secure success. the lobby fur
nishes cash, and Judge Carmichael only
the other day denounced the primaries
in Queen Anne's because they had been
carried by money and men from other
counties and Delaware. Thus is the or
CAMP, ti,n of thn Dnpncr,Ain ,.,rtv pnr
vcrted, and its representatives in the Leg
islature captured and controlled before
their election. When elected, the lobby
is supreme. No citizen can secure le9is-
lation affecting valuable rights unless he
pays for it to the gang which intests the
State House and orders him to stand and
deliver. SO careful is the provision Of
the lobby that they nominate men with
Il view to questions that may arise.
The next General Assembly will have
to pass upon the application of the Bal
timorc and Ohio Railroad Company for
some action about its debt guaranteed
by the city of baltimore. The city coun-
ell has already given the required relief,
but the Legislature will have to confirm
or deny it. The lobby is regulating the
election in this city and various counties
looking to the backmail to be levied on
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany. They will probably demand one
hundred thousand dollars to allow the
bill to pass. They therefore can well
afford 10 spend money on primaries to
secure the proper nominees. But when
the bosses cannot secure the proper nomi-
nces they defeat those who are nomi-
mated by the Democratic party.
In 1879 McCardle was nominated by
the Democrats for the Office OF city clerk
of Cumberland. VIM. 5. Read was the
Republican nominee for the same place
Mr.. Read testified in the canal case that
after his nomination lie was sent for to
formed that the canal officials had re-
ceivcd orders to support linn against
McCardle. and that they did support
him. In 1879, also. George W. Smith.
Gov. lIamilton'S law partner, was the
Democratic candidate for the Senate.
and ii. II. kccdy for the House of Dele
gates. They We're anti-Ring Democrats.
Stanhopc. the superintendent of the canal
in Washington county. and Masters, one
of the bosses. procured. to be voted by
Democrats. tickets with Smith and Kee-
dy's nance pasted over and Republicans
in their stead, and Smith and Keedy were
defeated by canal influence. Thus they
stand to win either way. II they sue
coed in the nomination. we'll and good:
if they fail, they defeat the nominee and
elect ring Republicans, who answer their
purposes just as well.
THE RESULT OF EOSSISM.
Responsibility being to the bosses and
the lobby, and not to the people, as Il
necessary consequence the public inter
ests are sacrificed and public rights dis
regarded. The lobby elects and the lobby
directs: the people have no rights that
the bosses respect. Bribery, corruption,
protligate expenses. eat up the taxes and
destroy virtue. Look at the last Legis-
lature, with its III members and its 105
officers: with its pay of members So
900, and it, pay Of officers $50. 900; with
its expenses legalized by an appropria-
ticn bill of : 90 000 and its actual, profit
gate, corrupt and illegal expenses $685.
900: with its twcnty-six members on the
cngrossing committee, and with $4,000
paid them as extra pay, directly in the
teeth of the constitution.
No law. no constitution. no conscience
binds men who are placed in power as
tools and not as representatives,. and who
are responsible to masters and are with
out Independence Now no law is more
sure in its operation than the one by
which corruption corrupts, extravaganza
grows by expenses, vice expands itself.
Hence it has been that the lobby. like
the horse leech. has been crying. More
more. Printing jobs do not satisfy: eX.
ira compensation is utterly inadequate.
SACRIFICE OF THE SINKING FUND.
Hence it has been necessary to supply
the pressing necessities of the managers
to overthrow the policy of the State fixed
for forty years, to trample under foot the
constitution and the laws, and disregard