Smyrna times., 1896-04-01

JUSTICES AND REGISTER APPOINTED.
Governor Lowndes sent to the Senate
the following appointments for Queen
AIMS county on Wednesday,
of the Peace, Samuel G. Fluharty and
John G. Hackett, for First district;
Charles E. Smith, Second district; and
Amos w. Lynch, Seventh district, vice
those rejected by the Senate; register
of voters in Second district, Benjamin
f. Morse, vice nominee heretofore re-
jected They were all confirmed the |
same day by the Senate.
REGISTRATION BY passing a new
election bill the Maryland Legislature
has done piece of work which alone
will Justify the holding of the present
session. The bill provides for an en-
tirely new registration throughout the
State and for an annual registration IN
| the CITY of Baltimore. One of its terms
| is unique. Every person, on register
| ing, is compelled to state whether or
| not he can read and write, and If he
can write he must sign his name on the
REGISTRATION book. This will aid IN
| identifying voters on election day, and
in preventing that evasion of the secre-
CIV of the Australian ballot law which
the voter could do by asking for assist
/ ance in preparing his ballot on the plea
that he could not read. The bill was
passed almost exactly as it was drawn
bv the Reform League, and its enact
ment into law will be distinct veto
nv for that organization. Those VINO
are conversant with the way IN when
elections have been conducted IN
Maryland, and how much fraud ana
corruption have attended them, VIII re-
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Political DIsAPOINTMENTs:- = The
Baltimore N,f,, that headed the fight
against ''bOss rule" last fall in Mary
land. in speaking of the disapOintments
in the actions in the legislature and
citv council says: cit is the cue of GER
tain sDOkesmen of the democratic ring
, which was defeate for good cause last
} wear to point to the present unsatlsfac-
} farv state of things under their repub-
lican successors and inquire, with Gym
, ical olee. how much better off the state
or citv is for the revolution III which
thew were sacrificed? The answer to
2 that inquiry is that both the state and
p; citv are a good deal better off for what
: happened last November, even If 1t be
! admitted that, for the time being, the
1 republicans are rivaling, if not surpas-
: sing, the political evils and abuses and
T. the general demOIalizing style OF party
u management which they were elected
i specially to rebuke.
e The mistake which the machine poll
y ticians and the lower elements of bOtE
e parties make is in limiting their out
IS look to the immediate year or two years
: ahead. They should try and exteuC
Il their horizon, and remember that II
e politics, as in business, accounts arr
It often kept running and carried forward
} from page to page until the final reck
q Oning is reached, and that it is the las
line on the final balance sheet that tell
+ the story. The democratic offender
5 were dealt with last year. The repub
e lican offenders will come up for trla
'. and sentence this year and next. Th
re mistakes and transgressiOns of eacl
re party in turn are the opportunities o
le the other, but that large body of voter
" who are not bound like slaves to tn
II chariot wheels of either hold both par
III ties and all their opportunities at tn
le mercy of their free ballots, and tn
IN final reckoning is bound to be to thel
DO satisfaction.