The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1883-10-27
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the Ring accomplished this fraud upon
the people have been openly confessed.
Mr.. S. Teackle Wallis has sung the
story upon the public platform during
the recent municipal canvass in Balti-
more, while Mr.. Rasin and Mr.. Wilkin-
son have openly confessed this political
crime against the people, and piteously
begged to let by-gones be by-gones.
On every hand have risen the damning
proofs of the political corruption to
which the Democratic managers re-
sorted in that year to hold Maryland
in the Democratic column. Even the
Baltimore DAY taunts its party with the
unwelcome results of that year, which
now return to plague their authors, and
boldly charges upon the Ring managers
the responsibility for the defeat which
now stares them in the face:
That the public disgust with the die
tatorial management of the Baltimore
bosses caused the defeat of the regular
Democrat candidates in 1875, and that
they were, nevertheless, made to appear
elected by the most shameless frauds, is
now SO generally admitted that even
Rasin and Wilkinson did not deem it
necessary to deny the truth to Hon. S.
Teackle Wallis. Not only is this true,
but so notorious are the facts that we
have heard them freely alluded to by
prominent party leaders, and amongst
the number thus admitting the truth of
the charges in our presence was MIR.
Rasin himself.
Referring to the fact that Mr.. Evarts
found a precedent in a decision of
Maryland court sustaining the political
frauds of 1875 to sustain the doctrine
that the Electoral Commission of 1876
could not 60 behind the returns, it
caustically says:
And so We see that it was our Balti-
more bosses who fashioned the bludseon
which a Maryland court put into the
hands of the leading counsel Of the con-
spirators of 1876 to strike down the
triumphant Democracy of that year to
murder popular government.
Ts xvanIa, hot
Democrats in Maryland detest the men
whose greed and corruption first wiped
out a magnificent Democratic majority
in Maryland, and then defeated the will
of the people they had outraged by a
shameful crime that was used to justify
and excuse the more extended villainy by
United States was deprived of the power
the American people placed in its hands?
What right have men who committed
this crime against free government and
furnished the weapon for this almost
fatal blow at Democracy to tie them
selves to the Democratic cause now, and
them d? Yet, confessing their past crimes
openly, and conscious of the detestation
in which they are held by great numbers
of those on whose votes the success of
the Democratic State and Legislative
ticket in this State is dependent, they
have audaciously, with reckless disregard
I,a We caizol tho
direction and control of the party ma
chinery and forced on the Democrats Of
the State candidates who do not deserve,
ought not to have and will not receive
the ballots of the whole body of Demo-
cratic voters, and they now cry out that
any man who resists their dictation and
bows in submission to their mandate is
false to Democracy.
We deny their charge and declare on
the contrary, that these bosses and their
henchmen are traitors to Democratic
principles and the worst enemies of the
Democratic party organization in this
State. They are ready for any sacrifice
of principle which promises to promote
their selfish and thoroughly mercenary
interests in public affairs; they have eaten
out the life and heart of the Democratic
party in this strongly Democratic State,
and they have habitually trusted in the
weakness they have themselves produced
by demanding that its members shall
surrender their principles and elect men
they detest to office or submit to defeat,
and the result is that the party has weak
ened year by year and only retained its
certainty of power by frauds practiced in
this city. Now the end Of this thing has
come and the people, irrespective of party,
have made up their minds to put a stop
to this accursed domination and restore
popular government i'll the State. The
people have decreed it, and Democrats
throughout the State and country should
rejoice that the leeches who have bled
Maryland Democracy well nigh to death
are to be shaken off and that the political
criminals who furnished Mr.. Evarts with
club to beat down the Democracy of
tho country at large are at last to be pun
ished.
And yet the Democratic managers
whom the DAY SO defantly accuses as
the authors of the wrongs SO offensive
to the people of this State are the same
men TO whom Mr., MCLane is looking
for his election.
Are they worthy the confidence of
the people?
When Democrats themselves de-
nounce SO unsparingly their own leaders,
what support can they consistently ask
at the hands of the voters of Mary
land?
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