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1496 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Apl. 1,
can introduce no element of interest or bias, and in
spite of them, the judge remains as fair and impartial
as anybody else. At least forty-eight of this class of office-
holding Judges of Election, the evidence of Mr. Bos well,
their Clerk, show that the Board of Police, appointed in the
City of Baltimore; and Mr. Boswell did not pretend to say
that his list was complete in this respect; the abrupt stop-
page of the testimony and the other difficulties thrown in the
way, prevented a more thorough examination of the charge;
but it is sufficiently sustained by the evidence to merit the
most serious consideration from the undersigned, and from this
House, and it may well be said that men who have appointed
and defend the propriety of appointing, to an unlimited ex-
tent, those who cannot, in the nature of things, make proper,
fair and impartial judges, are not safe custodians and de-
fenders of the priceless purity of the ballot box, or worthy to
retain powers which they have so abused.
In addition to the forty-eight Democratic office-holders un-
der the State and City Government, admitted as above to
have been appointed, the Board of Police took great credit to
itself for having appointed eight federal officials among the
Reform Judges, whose tenure of office could be in no wise
affected by the result of the State or Municipal Elections. It
seemed to be considered, however, that their appointment
was a sort of antidote to the poison of the other appointments;
if so, then it was a homeopathic remedy, and the Board is
no more excusable for appointing one set of active partisans
than another. From the testimony, therefore, meagre as it
is on this point, we glean the following names of office-
holders whom the Board appointed Judges of Election.
1st ward, M. P. German, Keeper Broadway Institute.
1st ward, J. R. Hamilton, Employee at Penitentiary.
1st ward, C. S. M. Snyder, Custom House.
2nd warJ, J. T. Barber, Employee in Pen.
3d ward, 1. p,. I. O. Sanner, Bailiff Tax Court.
3d ward, 1 p., Beverley Diggs, Mayor's Dec.
4th ward, 1, p., G. Coffenberger, Constable.
4th ward, 2 p., J. Kelly, Deputy Sheriff.
4th ward, 3p., H. S. Buckey, Employee in Penitentiary.
4th ward, 4 p., C. Schwarzenbarg, Clerk Tax Dept.
6th ward, 1 p., H. A. Maughlin, Physician.
7th ward, 1 p., Chas. Hawking State Tobacco Warehouse.
7th ward, 1 p., Joseph P. Scott, City Yard.
8th ward, 3 p., Geo. II. Simmons, Custom House
11th ward, 3 p., Dan'l L. Bride, Magistrate.
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