The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1870-09-17
FOR CONGRESS,
HE NRY R. TOR BERT,
OF CECIL COUNTY.
Suicidal.

Suicidal.
Some Of the Shore politicians proclaim
their purpose of boiling the nomination of
Dir. Torbert, and allege in justification of
the act, that the nomination was secured
by disreputable means, or, in other words,
by a fraud. A history Of the proceedings,
however, does not support this charge.
The Denton Union is spokesman in the
case, and gives, in substance, the following
reasons as the plea put by the dissenters:-
First that the Convention adopted rule
that 4 majority of the whole number of
delegates in the District, sixteen, should
be necessary to choice. The delegates
from Queen Anne's, three in number, failed
to reach Cambridge, on account of a boat
having been withdrawn from the line be-
tween Baltimore and the Choptank river,
by which the delegates had arranged to
reach Cambridge. This mishap left the
Convention three short of being full and
the majority Of those present, fourteen
The claim is set up by the dissenters that
these delegates would have voted for Judge
Goldsborough had they been present, while
others of Goldboroughs friends claim two,
and concede one to Mr.. Torbert. On the
other haud Mr. Torbert's friends claim
that he had at least two of the delegates
from Queen Anne's. Which party is cor
rect VIC are not able to say positively,
neither can any other. The simple fact is,
that majority of the votes present were
in favor of Mr.. Tobert, with one after the
first ballot cast for Goldsborough, whom
we are informed was instructed to vote for
Torbert. After several votes resulting
fourteen for Torbert and thirteen for
Goldsborough, the Convention voted to re-
scind the rule requiring sixteen votes to
nominate. The adoption of this rule, re-
q;iiring more than majority of~the votes
actually present, was, we think, an absurd
step. This, the Union admits, and de-
clares that had this rule not been adopted
and then rescinded, the dissenters would
have been satisfied and yielded their sup
port to the nominee. Prefacing this
avowel, however, is the admission that Mr..
Torberts friends adopted the rule, know
ing their strength. This excuse seems so
trivial as to entitle it to be classed with the
VOLTS charge against the lamb for muddy
ing the stream below him. What appears
to be the only real cause of the difficulty in
Judge Goldsborough's case, was that he
hadn't votes enough to nominate him.
Had there been fourteen votes present in
his favor he would doubtless have been
nominated, and every friend of Mr., Tor
bert would have given him cordial sup
port. When Mr.. Torbert was declared
nominated, it was moved by one of Judge
Goldsborough's friends to make the nomi-
nation unanimous, which was done, and
without dissent or opposition from any one,
that we can learn. If the nomination was
unfair, as alleged, it should not have been
concurred in and endorsed by unanimous
vote. The objections, if any valid ones ex-
listed, Should have been promptly stated
then and there. To endorse an obligation
and then repudiate it, is both dishonorable
and impolite.
But suppose such course is persisted in
by the friends of Judge Goldsborough, and
that opposition, or want of cooperation,
defeat the Republican candidate, it can
not fail to injure Judge Goldsborough in
the future, not only with Mr.. Torbert's
friends, but with the whole Republican
party, outside of the immediate personal
friends of the Judge: for the disaffection
will most naturally be charged upon Mr..
Goldsborough, even though he may be a
victim to the rashncss of his too ardent
friends. The Union, as the organ of the
party-and we hope for the sake of the Re-
publican party of Caroline, = very small
party-aflected with irritation of the scalp,
claims that Mr.. Torbert knous that he is
not the choice of the people of this Dis
trct. How the Union came by this knowl-
edge, it does not state. Perhaps the Dem
ocratic party is referred to in connection
with its friends. That he was or is not the
choice may be, but such a fact wasn't
proven by the complexion of the Conven-
ton which Nominated him.
What information Independent Of this
the Union may possess we are not in
formed. But it is too late, if it were pro-
titable heretofore, to discuss this question.
1t is the hope of the disappointed, we are
told, that Mr.. Torbert will withdraw under
the circumstances or, in plain terms,
because some of those who pretty broadly
limited, before the nomination, that they
didn't mean to support the Republican
nominee, if that nominee proved to be Mr..
Torbert, under any circumstances. This
proposition is simply suicidal. Judge
Goldsborough would not accept nomina-
ton under such circumstances; and, if he
should, the act would be so demoralzing
that defeat would be foregone conclusion.
But whatever way We may look at this
inconsiderate act of those men, it is suici-
dial to themselves unless they mean to go to
the Democratic party. Already that party
is quoting the Unions articles as campaign
documents. At this important epoch in
the affairs of the Republican party Of
Maryland, it has infinitely greater inter-
ests at stake than the mere success of this
or that man as a Congressional candidate.
Every feather that is placed in the path of
n complete and thorough organization of
the party, this campaign will increase to
pondrous weight, in all probability, a year
hence. And we ask these men who are
governed now less by reason than passion,
for their own local interests and that of
the party, to calmly reflect where their
present course, if persisted in, will inevita-
bly, carry them. The success or defeat
even of this or that Congressional candi-
date, is as nothing to the great interests
ahead, which should claim the attention of
every honest Republican above all and be-
yond all else. The course indicated in
any Of its phases by the Union of last
week, is simply madness, if followed out
We trust that sober, second thought will
convince the most rash among the dissatis-
fled. A more damaging blow could not be
struck at Judge Goldsborough's future
political prospects. A course which prom
ses evil and only evil to all concerned in it,
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