Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1888-12-21
Mudd's Election.

In answer To the claim made By th
INDEPENDENT in It., issue II the It'll in
slant. that Mr. M1ii ha, been clectc
10 Congress from thus li.'rict b.
plurality Of one vote on the face Of th'
return the 7Im.s DIS MT ur..t
take to directly t, Irny ii: fact, bu
undertakes to explain it aw,y ~ g
style peculiarly it, oNn
Il first asserts that the error commit
I'D by the judges Of election in the fifth
and ninth district, of L is county wa
innocen'ly conml''c and all along j.
has been ccireicl by the Democrats,
that VI MudF' plurality in this county
isI49. We are inclined to believe to.
that TIN. mistake was inuocouly CON
miucd, but fail to see Why the pr,lliu.
Judges exhibited such undue haste III
CT. tifying the returns to the Governor
The boxes could have been opened by 70
petition to the court without much
trouble, and correct returns fDrwarle
to Annapolis. Again, why were tn re-
turns certified to the Governor As show
ing the vote Of the nine districts the
full vote Of the county, when it was
well known that the vote of two dis
.rcts were not included lsreiu, because
they could not be counted These cr-
rors coupled with the further fact that
no notice was forwarded to the Governor
Of the iuAOcuracy Of the returns by the
presiding judges, may not reflect upon
tho honesty of the presiding judges, but
it is suquestionably a sal commentary
on Democratic Intelligence
As to the vote of Calvert county W.
can assure the Timss, who seems inca
pable Of approaching the cenIuct Of
Republican, however honest o. straight
forward that no attempt has been or is
being made to "falsify" the returns II
any hlslfying has been done, it V
no. done in the clerks Office Of that
county The poll books show that ;hey
have not been tampcrcd with in anyway,
but the returns at Annapolis show a de-
cided alterations of figures Pos IDLY it
will be admitted, tina, the returns after
reaching the State house were n the Gus
tody Of Democrats. Whether the alter
ation was made By the presiding judges
before mailing the certificate Of the re-
turns to tho Governor or after it reached
the State house W. do not undertake to
sny. but this W. 10 say, that such ras-
calIty, for it is nothing short ofrascaity in
its worst form. whether committed by
Democrats or Republicans, ought uot to
be tolerated Because the presiding
judges if they committed the Srong
were Republicans, is no excuse. and
''no presumption of law and fIct AMI
common sense" can be against
rightng such wrong so patent, and
reprchcnsblc. The certificates of the
judges aud clerks of election in the
clerks Office of that county wi bout
an erasure, interlineltion or blen-
ish upon them, show Mudds majority /
to be 30. The failure 10 St Mary I
county to count Two votes in the Bird dis
t1ict cast for him may have been an err
rpr or oversight. but they should be
counted aud when it is done aud The
other errors of which we complain are
corrected the returns will show that
Nudd while not strong in money or
influence" reduced the large democrat
IL majority Of about 200 in the district
and defeated the conceited big
gun, Compton, by plurality ofone
As to the colinizaton of voters Of
which our neighbor so vehemently com
plains, it is again at fault. We
know of no person being brought
TO this or any other county of the
district for the especial purpose of vot-
ng the Republican ticket, nor do we
know ofany Republican having registered
without being legally entitled, and we
call upon the Times in spirit Of per-
feet fsirness, to give us and
tho public, the number and
the names of such persons, so that
steps may at once be :aken to put
check to such conduct in the future
OF course We do not suppose the
Times includes in the colony of new com
ers to the district. such men as Albiu
Price, Thomas Poscy, Gerard Turner,
Theodore Miller, and a host
sf others who claim their voting resi-
ience in this county upon the grounds
Of returning here to live at some future
time should they fail in business else
where. 1t is hardly probable that vo-
ters could be colonized in Southern
Maryland where all the registration
officers are Democrats. AMI class OF
ofhce-hOlders too, who construe the law Of
domicil to mean thing that you can carry
on your back. in your baggage and bed
and that so soon as a Republican
voter tu-qs his face IN drec ion lead
ing from. his county he is disqualified,
and off goes his name from the registry