The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1873-09-12
For County Surveyor,
]. MARTIN McNABB.
The Republican County Convention.

The Republican County Convention met
in Bel Air on Tuesday-Col. ]. II. Frieze
presiding, with Joseph II. Jewett and ]. T.
Evans vice presidents, and A. P. McCombs
and w. B. Baker, Secretaries. The delega-
tons were all nearly full but they were
scarcely fair representation of the party, the
blacks having only about four representatives
and the whites tifty-six, whereas the proper
tions should have been reversed, when the
relative strength of the two colors in the party
Is considered.
Two factions were arrayed against each
other in the convention-one designated as
the Custom House and the other as the anti
Custom House party. The first of these, as
we understood, represented the extreme wing
of the Radical party, and embraced all those
who worshipped the negro and believed John
Brown was saint. The other included
those who while they were Republicans from
principle, were opposed to the arbitrary and
vindictive measures of the rest of the party,
and have not yet been able to regard the ne
gro as socially and politically the equal of
the white man. Although an apparent har-
mony existed in the convention yet there
was evident at times an under-current of dis
satisfaction that augured ill for united action
Charges of irreguarity in the district meet
ings were spoken of among the members, and
more than one Republican was heard to say
that he would not support the ticket nomina-
ted.
After the election of delegates to the State
Convention an effort was made to adjourn
the Convention for two weeks, but this failed
to carry, and the following nominations were
made
For Clerk-E. NJ. Allen. For Register of
Wills-John T. Spicer. For Sherif-Jacob
Love For State Senator-Col. j. Thomp-
son Fricze. For the House of Delegates
Col. r. S. Rodgers w. G. Hayiland and Solo
mon S. Wetherill. For County Commission
ers- 1st district Isaac Standiford: I'd dis
trict, Christian Walker 3D. district, Gar
district, II. S. Harlan. For County Survey
Z or-David Pyle.
The delegation to the Republican State
Convention consists of S. G.. Gorrell Caleb P.
Spicer, DR.. S. j. Ramsay and Franklin Hop
per.
An incident occurred in hallotting for
Clerk, that quite forcibly illustrated the man
ner in which the negro vote is manipulated.
Upon counting the poll one of the districts
was called as being solid for certain candi-
date, the result of the vote being tie. There
upon up rose dusky representative, the
whites of his eyes in n fine frenzy rolling, and
declared that his ballot had been cast with
out his knowledge; that he had come to vote
his sentiments; that he had promised his
vote, and did not want it mixed up and
drowned with the rest Another ballot was
taken, and it is supposed that the representa-.
tive from the second district who was thus
imposed upon, was allowed to exercise his
rights untrammcled.
We have nothing to say against the person
al character of the ticket nominated. They
are worthy gentlemen, and we can only regret
INIT they have placed themselves in posi-
ton where they can gain neither honor nor
profit for defeated they surely will be-and
that, too, by an overwhelming majority.