The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1870-09-24
FOR CONGRESS,
HENRY R. TOR BERT,
OF CECIL COUNTY.
A Great Cry.
+ CECIL COUNT

A Great Cry.
The nomination of Mr.. Torbert for Con-
gress has caused n great deal of tiutter
among the Democrats in this Congressional
District, Judging from their newspaper arti-
cles. An attempt was made to make a
great deal Of capital out of one or two
anonymous articles published after his
nomination, and the dissatisfaction mani
tested by the Denton Union. The Will
mington Commercial bites eagerly at these
readers to an exhaustive statement designed
to exhibit the demoralized condition Of the
Republican party of the Eastern Shore,
and the wide spread disaffection on account
an investigation of the great dsaffection
which the Commercial fastened with such
alacrity to endorse, can be counted on the
fingers of one hand. AS we said in our
nomination of Mr.. Torbert by a unanimous
vote, with the exception of one delegate
from Caroline, who did not vote for or
against making the nomination unani-
nous and who we learn has since
promised to support Mr.. Torbert. Judge
Goldsborough has assured Mr.. Terbert that
he will give him a hearty support in the
canvass. And SO have all the leading men
in Caroline county, which was looked upon
as the very citadel Of the opposition. Mr..
Torbert always had the masses of the low
er counties in his favor, and everywhere,
where Primary Meetings were held, and a
general attendance was had, the demonstra-
lions in Mr.. Us favor were most emphatic
and decided.
The Internal Revenue interest on the
whole shore, with, we believe, a single eX-
ception was against him, from what cause,
we cannot divine. In Wicomico no Pri-
mary Meetings were held, and consequently
no delegates authorized by the people were
sent to the Convention from that county
The county, however, was represented in
the Convention at Cambridge by the Inter
nal Revenue officer and two other men,
one of them colered, self elected and in
structed, who cast the vote of the county
for Judge Goldsborough. We heard of at
least one more county from which Dele
gates were sent whose credentials were
scarcely more regular than those of the
self costituted delegates from Wicomico.-
And still another county where fifteen del
egates were elected to cast three votes and
from which only three were present. In
all those cases of semi-irregularity, the
vote of the counties were cast against Mr..
Torbert. And in those counties the lead
ing Republicans don't hesitate to maintain
that the masses are overwhelmingly for Mr..
Torbert as their choice. The little furry
that was excited by a newspaper article or
two after the nomination, and the show of
asking Mr.. Torbert to withdraw, did not
represent the sentiments of half dozen
persons on the whole shore, if We except
the Democrats who of course were anxious
for anything that looked like trouble in the
Republican ranks.
We would not have again referred to
this assumed difficulty among the Repub-
Leans of the First District, had not
some of our too easily frightened friends
in this county seen the articles from the
Commercial, and Union, and anonymous
communications from the Easton Gazette,
paraded with flourish of trumpets in the
Democrat organs, which led them to sup
pose that something was terribly out Of
joint. 1t would be well for "leading"
Republican papers to at least inform them
selves before committing the grave error of
publishing articles which are made use of
by the rebel organs as campaign documents.
The Cecil Democrat after making the above
use of the Commercials article, compli-
ments that journal in the following style:
"The dictum of the Wilmington CON-
mercial, who by dint of such audacity as
only Radicalism can manifest has asserted
itself and come to be acknowledged as spe-
cial carekeeper Of the Radical conscience
in the entire peninsula, has pronounced
against Mr.. Torbert's claims, and more
than hints that party success can only be
obtained by his withdrawal.