The Democratic advocate., 1883-09-08
Maryland Politics.

The Belair 1E,gis of last week says Mr..
John w. Carroll, delegate from the Second
District, in the Republican convention, on
Tuesday, spoke truthfully when he said that
''if the colored vote were to drop off the Re
publican party would be a very small matter.
The idea he advanced to save his party was a
novel one. He declared that i'll case of Re-
publican success taxes must be increased, for
the benefit of the colored schools or larger
portion of the school fund set apart for this
purpose. There are few Democratic tax
payers, and some Republicans, too, left in
Hartford county who are not so vitality inter
ested in the perpetuity ofthe Republican party
as to be willing to be taxed for its political
support, particularly in the face of the fact
that everybody is willing and anxious to see
the colored schools amply and literally pro-
vided for, which in Democratic Maryland, we
are happy to say, is the case. But no unfair
discrimination at the expense of the people,
for the benefit of the Republican party, will
be borne.
The Republican party in Anne Arundel is
split and also in Cecil. In Hartford and
Frederick much dissatisfaction prevails
Republican harmony prevails only in the
minds of the Republican bosses, who have
won against the wishes of the party.
The Cecil Democrat says ys:-''We know
our enemy as the one thing needful for Mary
landers to keep under foot When in power
his mailed arm and iron hoof were upon our
necks. We had no rights except at his sweet
will and he willed us the right to pay taxes
and step aside at the polls at the bidding of
every vile underling he chose to employ.
Now his voice is the voice of Jacob, but look
| you-his hands are the hands of Esau. No
sane Democrat will trust that voice. The
freemen of Maryland do not purpose being
cheated out of their birthright second time
in one generation. When the men who pros
tituted power to divide spoils have gone tc
! their account, 1t will be time enough to forget
! their evil doings.''
| st. Mary's is one OF. the Republican counties
of this State and the way in which county
affairs are administered there is in accordance
with Republican management everywhere.
! The county tax, levied to meet necessary and
unnecessary expenses, is S1.193 on the hun
| dred dollars. Among the unnecessary eX.
penses is large amount levied for outpen
SioperS who are able to and do work. The
pensioners are paid in county certificates
which the pensioners have discounted at the
! country stores at so per cent so that the pen
sioner, deserving or otherwise, rarely receives
more than one-half the amount appropriated
to him. Under the deplorable state of public
affairs in that county and excessive taxation
real estate is rapidly depreciating. This con,
dition of things has been fastened upon the
people of that county by the colored vote
manipulated by shrewd and reckless politi-
clans, whose only aim is to get into power and
thus secure opportunities of plunder.
The colored people of Baltimore are having
lively time. The whole body of them seem
exercised over their position in the Republican
baf of Of nd n ~
water for the whites. They are of one opinion
as to demanding recognition from their white
brethren, but they differ as to the mode. The
majority seem to believe that the time has come
to assert their independence, and to nominate
ticket of their own, while the minority
believe that they can get their rights if prop
erly demanded from the whites. The former
held city convention one night last week
and selected delegates to "a state convention to
be held next month"; when an independent
state ticket will be nominated. The latter
bolted from the convention, held meeting oi
their own and passed resolutions demanding
share of the honors and spoils of the party.
Major A. NJ. Hancock, prominent Repub.
lican of Hartford county, said to represen-
tatiye of the Baltimore Sun, on Wednesday ot
last week: ''The Republican nominating con,
Vention at Bel Air on Tuesday, was bossed
by the stalwarts throughout John L. Thomas
knows nothing about bossism alongside Of
those stalwarts fellows. Collector Webster
sat in the convention with the slate in his
pocket, and he ran the concern with an ease
that none but the most experienced of mana.
gers can hope to equal. The machine wal
well manipulated all the way through"
The Republicans claim that the Judgeshir
is not political Office, yet Henry w. Hoff
man, of Cumberland, o man who was bitter
Know Nothing and almost continuously
Republican office-hold since 1861, has beer
nominated by the Republicans of the fourth
circuit to succeed Judge Pearre.