The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1886-11-19
Political Notes.

Representative Collins, of Massachusetts,
says that plain and open fight was made on
the tariff and the four Democrats elected to
Congress from that State are all tariff reform
ers.
Senators Camden and Kenna, of West
Virginia, say positively that there is no pos
sible contingency in which the Republicans
can control the Legislature of that State
Hon. John S. Barbour, of Virginia, who
has just returned from trip to Europe, re-
ceived an ovation in Washington, last Thurs
day night He was introduced to large as
semblage as the "Grcat Political Moses of
Virginia" and in his speech he said he
knew the Democrats in Virginia had not re-
ceived such encouragement as they deserved
and he knew that the men who had carried
the flag of the party and performed the cam.
paign work in 1884 had not been recognized,
but he felt that the administration was in the
hands of the people who put them there
whether they felt under any obligation to
them or not. He assured his hearers that
the old Democratic party would live forever,
and declared amid tremendous applause that
no mugwump or sentimental statesmen
could put it down. Virginia" he said, twas
in at the birth of the Democratic party. We
furnished Thomas Jefferson, the father of
Democracy. We sat by the cradle, but we
do not mean to follow the hearse to the
grave. The principles of the Democratic
party will always live, and when that party
puts men in office they should consider the
interests of the party and should do the bid
ding of that party without fear or trem-
bling.
Hon. Frank Hurd, in speaking of the
causes which led to his defeat, said: 81
can say nothing more than l have heretofore
said, except that in the future it will be diff
cult for certain persons claiming to be Dem
ocrats to satisfy their party associates of
their Democracy when, either secretly or
openly, they opposed the election of regu-
larly nominated Democratic candidate for
Congress at time when the fate of the party
in the House of Representatives was hang.
ing in the balance"
BY the decisive vote of 1876 to SO, the
Vermont legislature has passed the bill Civ
ing suffrage to women. The Green Noun
tain State is ahead
Official returns of the election in Penn.
sylvania show that Beavers plurality over
Black is about 1000. Black received Is, 900
more votes than the present Democratic Gov
ernor, Pattison, who was elected by over 40
600 plurality. Beavers vote is 10000 behind
that cast for Blaine, and Blacks 10000 short
of Clevelands. Wolfe, Prohibitionist, re-
ceived 10000. Houston, the Greenback La
Dor candidate, 5000.
MIR. VIM. l.. Scott, who was elected to
Congress from the Erie district of Pennsyl-
vania-one of the strongest Republican dis
tricts in that Stately 1900 majority, made
his fight distinctly upon the issue that the
tariff should be revised, in the interest of the
whole country.
Every voting precinct in Baltimore coun-
ty gave majority for Hon. Frank r. Shaw.
1t is the first time in the history of the coun-
ty that the Democrats carried every precinct.
Westminster Adc0cate
Ten per cent OF the New Hampshire
representatives were elected week before last
by less than six majority, and so votes prop
erly placed would have wiped out the Re-
publican majority in the legislature.