The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1882-11-10
TUESDAYS Election In Hartford

The election is happily over, and il is to be
hoped that the asperities engendered during
the brief but earnest campaign may be suffer
cd speedily to die. The majority has spoken
and it is the duty of all good citizens to &C.
quescc quietly in the result, whether in
accordance with their wishes or not, The
general result itself can scarcely he n surprise
but 1t must be admitted that both sides are
surprised at some of the details which the
election tables furnish.
The Democratic lines in Hartford were
confronted by the solid Republican phalanx,
combined with the great personal influence
of Hon. Stevenson Archer, and the odds were
too great to be overcome. Democrats who
supported the regular ticket did so from a
lofty sense of duty to their party, and with
out the slightest personal feeling against Mr..
Archer Many of the Democrats, too, who
cast their votes for Mr.. Archer were impelled
to that course by personal friendship or graf
itude for favors received at his hands. These
men, we have no doubt, are MS far as ever
from joining the Republican party, and at
the next election will be found side by side
with their Democratic brethren who honestly
differed with them in their views of duty to
the Democratic party.
The majority for Mr. Talbot can scarcely
be taken as a test of the Democratic strength
in Hartford county, for with any other candi-
date than Mr.. Archer opposed to the regular
Democratic ticket we have no doubt Hartford
county would have given 500 majority for
the Democratic candidate for Congress-
Under the circumstances Mr.. Talbot is to be
congratulated upon the majority he received
in Hartford.
Mr. Archer carried every precinct in the
county by total majority OF 1856. His
total vote was 3,07s, and that for Judge Vel
lott, his Democratic competitor, 1892. The
total vote for Mr. Fowler, Democratic candi.
date for Associate Judge, was 2,7S5, and for
Mr. S. Parker Bosley, his opponent on the
Republican ticket, 2,261, giving Mr.. Fowler
q majority of 524 in this county.
In Baltimore county Judge Yelott received
1,412 majority over Mr., Archer, and was
therefore elected by 226 majority Mr. Fow-
ler's majority in Baltimore county over Mr..
Bosley is 1905, and his total majority in both
counties amounts to 1850.
Hon. J. Fred G. Talbot has been re. elected
to Congress, having carried Hartford by 2S9,
Cecil by 331, Carroll by 1856 and Baltimore
county by 320-making his total majority in
the congressional district 1926.
The vote on prohibition was nearly as large
as that for the Judgeship, and the result is the
ratification of the Local Option law by ma
joriiy of 1856. The vote was, For the Sale of
Intoxicating Liquors, 1903. Against the Sale
of intoxicating Liquors, 1889. The pre-
cincts that gave majorities against the sale of
liquor were as follows; Hopewell, 1888 F;
Halls Cross Roads, 345; Churchville, 121 ;
Fallston, 70; Upper Cross Roads, 81; Jar
rettsviIle, 90; Norrisville, 76 Stearns', &c;
Dublin, 1853; Havre de Grace, 94.
The precincts carried for the sale of liquor
were Abingdon, by 80, and Bel Air by is
majority.
The new law will not go into effect until
May, 1888. After that date the people of
Hartford county will have an opportunity of
giving the new law fair trial. If it should
be found that any of its provisions, if enforced
according to the strict letter of the law, are
onerous and oppressive, the law can be mod
flied by the Legislature.
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out of Il total registration of $685.
The official returns for Hartford are as
folloMs: