Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-09-12
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PORT BACCO:
Friday Morning, September......12, 1873.
DEMOCRATIC AND CONSERVATIVE
NOMINATIONS.
FOR COMPTROLLER OF THE TREASURY
,->--.-' LEVIN WOOLFORD.
FOR CLERK OF THE COURT OF APPEALS
JAMES S. FRANKLIN.

HISS Decu ISSuoO ny the COHlIHlGIee lot ri
mary Meetings on the goth instant, to
elect delegates to County Convention to
be held on the 23d, to nominate Democrat
ic and Conservative candidates for the
various officers to be elected in this coun-
ty this fall. We hope this call will be
responded to by all Democratic and Con-
sentative voters of the county, and by all
opposed to the extension of the sway of
the INSCRIPTIONS and corrupt party, now
in power in Washington, over our State,
and over our county. To persons who
understand, and who appreciate their po-
itical rights and privileges sufficiently,
to take personal interest and part in the
selection of the men to whom are necessa-
rily delegated the various positions and
duties of carrying on government, it is
evident that to act efficiently they must
do so in concert with others who hold
similar political opinions. This leads to
party organization. In the conflicting
views which men will entertain as to the
measures and candidates of party, there
must be some mode of reconciling differ
ences of opinion, and of uniting. That
mode is the opinion Of the majority. Thus
are party conventions originated. Com
posed of deputies selected by the voters at
large, their duty is to gather and reflect
the will of the majority and if the people
would attend they would do SO in all cases.
The whole evil resulting from conventions
arises from the failure of the people to at
tend the meetings for the selection of their
members We submit to candid minds,
which is the better course: to keep up
party organization through conventions,
urging our people to attend and control
them, and endeavoring to remedy what
eyer evils are connected with them or to
act without concert of any kind, each man
voting his personal preferences, or select
ing at random from a crowd of candidates,
when our political foes are vigilant, unit
ed and active, fomenting disturbances that
they may use them to their advantage,
and hungry for the spoils of place and
power? Who are the men that find fault
with conventions? Not the people at
large, we are satisfied, but we rather think
they will be found among those who can
not carry out their own peculiar views
however honest they may be in them;
those who cannot control nominations for
office; and that crowd of patriotic men,
found in every community, who think
themselves worthy of every place, but can
not get their fellow-citizens to agree with
them, and prefer to take chances in a gene
raj melee. We know, however, there are
many, who have no aces to grind, who are
honest and disinterested in their opinions.
To such we commend the letter of that dis
tinguished man, s. Teakle Wallis, whose
name had been used without authority, as
engaged In movement against the Demo.
cratic nominations in Baltimore, which
was published in the Baltimore Gazette of
the 18th ult. No matter what might be
his opinions, as a private citizen, of the
faults of the management Of the Democra-
tic party, he says, ''they would prompt me
to aid-as such-in reforming and purify
: ing the party, if could; but were ever
so much politician they certainly would
not incline me to destroy it."
Again we urge our people to attend the
Primary Meetings. Let them take the
matter in their own hands, and send men
who will for the time forego personal pre-
ferences and local considerations, and will
aid in nominating for the various positions
honest, competent and reliable men, who
will be generally acceptable to them
Should the aspirations of individuals, at
this iuncture, stand in the way of the sue
cess of our ticket? Should local preju-
dices, or any other prejudices, be needed
when the control of our own county affairs,
as well as of the State, is the matter at
stake2 Every aspirant cannot be noni-
mated. Every section cannot be represent
ed. There is but one mode ofarbitrament,
that is in acquiescing in the opinion OF
the majority. Let that be the opinion OF
the majority of our party. Some cry
clique and "ring." Let the men who
control the Radical voters of this county
get control of our county offices and gov
eminent, and we shall see the operations
of real rings. Read the infamous induce
ments and bats of office shamelessly pub
lished in the Radical papers, to seduce our
young men from their party ties. How
are these promises to be fulfilled but from
the spoils of power-the plumber of the
tax-paying people9 All this can be frus-
trated if our people will take an interest
In our primary meetings and conventions,
will patriotically forego personal griev-
ances, and personal and local preferences
in their nominations and will resolve to
support the nominations that may be thus
made
- Ex-Governor Swami has written a
letter in which he states. that he has not
accepted and does not intend to accept his
portion of the back-pay grab, and that as
soon as he returns to Washington he will
order it to be covered back into the Treas
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