The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1890-08-29
Political Notes.

Ex-Governor Henry Lloyd will be can
didate for nomination for Congress in the Isl
district of Maryland. His chief competitors
will be Mr.. Gibson, the present congress.
man, and Mr.. Henry Page.
Mr.. William Walsh declines to be a candi-
date for Congress against Mr.. McComas, in
the sixth district. Mr.. Walsh thinks the
sixth district will repudiate Mr.. McComas
this tine, on the ground of his radical posi-
ton in favor Of the force bill and high tariff
laws. Mr.. Walsh says:
"If there was ever q need of Democratic
supremacy In this country that time is now,
and no man with a drop of Democratic blood
In his veins can now stand idly by while the
Republicans are attempting to centralize all
the power of the government into their own
hands and are attempting by the wicked and
vicious force bill to perpetuate that power.
The sixth district is Democratic notwith-
standing Mr.. McComas's success the past few
years. With good man as q candidate, q
man in whom the people have confidence and
the full vote out, we should win by MAORI
ty ranging well up in the hundreds. 1t
should be campaign ofprinciples, and Dem
ocratic doctrine should be brought to the
'front.' II j
Official returns from ffty-eight counties in
Tennessee give the Democratic candidate for
supreme Judge Al 1896 majority over his Re-
publican opponent, and the counties to hear
from officially will carry his majority up to
10000. For an off year this is a comfortable
majority. f.t
The Republican members of Congress have
agreed to postpone the consideration of the
force bill until the next session, which will
begin in December, when it will be the first
business taken up. The Democrats, 1t ap.
pears, have not consented to any arrange
ment for closing debate on the tariff bill on
the Both instant, and it is now apparent that
the proposed agreement was shrewd poll
tical trick on the part of Mr.. Quay, which
was frustrated by Senator Germans fore
sight.
The Republican conventions in Minnesota,
Wisconsin, Nebraska, Iowa and Kansas have
all declared for reciprocity, thereby endorsing
Secretary Blaine's condemnation of the Nc
Kinley tariff bill. Besides State conventions
Republican newspapers and prominent Re-
publican speakers have also pointed out the
folly of increasing taxes upon the people for
the purpose of swelling the profits of manu-
facturers.
A way has been found by which congress-
men can head off Speaker Reed when he at
tempts. to count quorum and pass bill.
When the yeas and nays are called for the FL
clustering members walk out, leaving the
House actually without a quorum. When
the count is over they solemnly return and
take their seats. Speaker Reed probably has
the power to order members to be brought
into the House by the sergeant-at-arms, but
his bravery" is perhaps nothing but bravado
and he prudently forbears from venturing
upon such an extreme measure.
The Baltimore Sun demonstrates, in Wed
nesday's issue, that the advance in wheat is
due to short crops abroad and not, as our
Republican friends would have the people
believe, to the wisdom of Congress in passing
the silver bill.
A dispatch from Washington says the
President will be called upon by the extrem-
lists on the Republican side in Congress to
call an extra session of Congress. after the
fall elections, to pass the Force Bill. This
proposition, it is expected, will compel the
President to show whether or not he is in
favor of that Ubiquitous measure. Perhaps
when the people are heard from in the con
gressional elections, Messrs. Reed, Lodge,
Hosr and other supporters of the bill may
be admonished TO let the matter rest indefin-
itely.
Mr.. Kinley was renominated for Con-
gress at Massilon, Ohio, on Tuesday.
1t is expected that vote will be taken in
the Senate on the tariff bill on the 9Th of
September. In the meantime the Democrat
ic Senators will lose no opportunity of ex-
posing the incongruous features of the bill.
They are asking the Republicans questions
which can not be answered. for instance,
why American, manufactured articles can be
shipped TO Europe and sold there cheaper
than they are sold to our own people, while
at the same time these greedy manufacturers
are demanding a higher tariff, the effect of
which would be to still further increase
prices here and swell their profits, too.
Hon. VIM. L. Wilson was renominated for
his fifth term in Congress, at Keyser, W.
Va, on Wednesday.
The last Legislature amended a local law