The Baltimore County union., 1883-11-17
corregosieaas BaiiiaoSs County Caioa.
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
The Recent Elections York, Penn.
sylvania Massachusetts and Connoc.
ticut Solid for Republican Pres
idont-Mr. Bonj. r. Grof-The
Temperance Question-Tho
Danville Murders, sc.

WASHINGTON. u. e.. Nov. 18th. 1883.
Mssars. Editors Having scarcely returned 10
the city in time. and knowing also that your
columns would be largely taken up with the official
election returns. failed last week to send you my
usual weekly letter. The smoke has now cleared
away aud every one can see for himself what has
been the outcome Of this falls election contests-
The nearly two hundred thousand Democratic
majority Of last year in New York has been wiped
out, and the State has recorded Republican VIC
tory for the head of is ticket. the Secretary Of
State. aud the Legislature 10 Republican Ia both
branches. Also Pennsylvania, Massachusetts,.
Connecticut and other States that were Democratic
last year in the "tdal wayc,' are this year again
solidly Republican. The elections in these States
are significant, because they indicate how they
will vote next year aud insure victory for the
Republicans in the coming Presidential contest.
No doubt many Of THE uSioS's Republican read.
ers In Maryland, on the morning after the clec.
tion. were inclined to be a, hTst very despondent
becausc they had not been able 60 redeem that
State from Democratic thFallom. and their Dem
ucratic friends were corresp0ndingly clatcd nVcr
their success in the State. But upon viewing tho
returns in the infinitely more important States
mentioned above n regards their respective bear
ings upon the great contest Of next year, there
could be found cause why the Democrats should
weep and the Republicans rejoice. And this
change was plainly perceptiblc upon the counte-
nances Oi the many Democrats aud Republicans
Western Maryland Railroad, on last Wednesday
morning. A. the NHa aud .tsier,can we're brought
into the cars, the fret head line uf the former,
which was most extensively and eagerly bought
by the large prepondcrancc OF Democrats on tho
train returning q their places Of business in the
city from their residences In the country, reading
in large capitals. "McLanc's majority i2OnO."
followcd by the an ouncemcnts, New York, Penn.
sylvania. Connecticut Rcpublican--B Butter
beaten IN Massachusetts,, etc. This was enough
Liz" Dead Sea apples turning to ashes the fond
hopes OF the Democrats for a Presidential success
next year vanished. and tho ela,ed smile that frst
spread over their faces on seeing the larger head
line passed quickly away, giving place to . look
% dependency aud gloom. While. on the other
hand. the Republican,. who were drspondrnt on
drst viewing the papers. began To look plcasci. -
Both had been quick o. perceive the import of the
news Of the ccciions as contained in those head.
lines. Alec. Mcssrs Eitors another good sign
OF the times Is ;hat no "roostcr' has appeared at
the bead OF the column. Of any Democratic paper
since last Tuesday. not even Of the National Bour
bon organ Of this city. the Po.'.
Mr.. ncnjamin = Groa. II the ith district ui
your county. mav compliment himself aud .in.
cercly compliment him. On the large number -
more than hundrci--of Democrats Who voted
Tor him Tor County Commissioner in his own die.
trct. showing his popularity AMI the esteem aud
respect In which he Is held there. ven among per
sons Of the opposing party.
on the temperance question. 80 far ~ the clcc.
tion in your county last Tues lay related to IL. |
think a reflection may be induiscl. Mr.. Daniel.
chairman OF the Maryland state Temperance Ali.
aucc. Is reported in an interview in tac baltimore
NnH a. having said that he il "sliisied with the
result of the election On that subject Now. Il u
difficult Co see how Mr.. Daniel l. able t. dcducc
anything favorable unflv vorabls u tho temper
ancc question In the late election in your county
for there was no expression of sentiment. and Ger
ut on hat his
Democrats, with the exception 81 few hundred
in the whole county. voting their straight ticket,
regardless Of the subject aud the Republicans do
ing the same by theirs. | the few hundred vote.
that were east di.iinctvcly for temperance
amounting - less than seven hundred in the ease
af Mr. Erady. who led all the ticket. indicated
its strength in the county. IL would be weak indeed
But the fact Is that its strength lies undiscovered
deep down among votes Of both partics. which
may be brought 20 the surface In some future elec.
tion. when there only the legislative and coun-
~ officers TO be voted for aud such high political
stakes n the GpVefnor Of the state aud other
State officers and t. :. Senator are no; To- he
played for.
The incident that has given rise TO the greatest
excitement here Of any that occurred during the
late election campaign ia ATTY Of the states. was
the murder ot seven unarned negro men at Dan
vile. Va, On saturday. Nvvemhxr ID, before the
election. The excitement still continues but little
abaiei. every ones face manilesting a shudder of
horror when the incident il mentioned. When
John ;. Barbour. one Of the Democratic Congress-
men from Virginia. was made chairman OF the
Democratic State Central Committee last spring.
IL was confidently given Out by the Virginia Bour.
bons and their friends that he would conduct 80
vigorous campaign tha; Malone and his friends
would be defeated at the election in the fall Such
a campaign carried on. aud every thing was
done that could be O. excite the utmost bitterness
on the par, Of the whites against the negroes in
the state. which eliminated on the above date in
the killing OF seven Of the latter at the above place
and the wounding Of great many more. while
they we're inofcnsiyey y--exccpt far as they
were e. race connected with and supporters of
Malone and the liberal movement in the State
attending market. Mr.. Frank 4. burr, u staT
correspondent Of the Philadelphia Press, writing
from Richmond. who investigated the matter
far il could be Investigated says the Testimony
shows that this number does not represent one.
half the harvest Of death that afternoon" IL is
claimed tina; on account of this massacre thirty
thousand negroes were intimiiatcl and stayed
away from the polls on the following Tuesday.
enabling the Bpurbons TO carry the state for the
Democratic ticket anil defeating Malone By he.
tween O.OuO anl 1000 majority. Ever since the
election John = Barbour has been lion1ed in Viz
cinia by the Democra,s.as were Wade Hampton and
Butler in South Carolina in 1876. and this evening
he will be rendered scTcnade in this city by his
friends and admirers at Metropolitan Hotel. To
show. however. how anxious the Dansille partici.
pants and conductors or sympathiGers of the riot
20 explain away and get rd Of the political
A. well as more material effects. in a commercial
point of view. of the riot in the North. forty citi
lcns Of that place have been appointed by meet.
ing o. invest gate "all the particulnrs' of the
affair that they may explain IL To- the rest Of the
world that may happen 90 think that it had any
political significance"
The I00th anniversary of the birth of Martin
Luther was appropriately celebrated with interest
ing exercises in all the Lutheran churches here
yesterday. ASoS.