The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-08-16

10 the democracy o. Carr0u.
You are about to commence canvass
for the choice Of State officers, and also
for County officers, to whom you propose
20 eonfde your affairs for another two
years At the election for President, in
1872, you were defeated, and lost the
county, not because you had not the nu-
merical strength to hold it, but because you
chose to withhold your suffrage from a
candidate You deemed unworthy, and who
was foisted upon you against your win.
The lesson thus conveyed to party man
ayers ought to be salutary one. It ought
to teach them that the win Of the people
mast be consulted in the choice Of candi-
dates, and that if their wishes be not re-
spected, they viii fail to respond to party
nominations at the polls. Therefore be-
comes you, in your preparations for the
ensuing canvass, to take every precaution
10 bring out a good ticket, one that is
competent, popular, and every way accept
able to those who are expected to elect it.
You must not only have good ticket, a
strong ticket, but it must be agreed upon
with unanimity and harmony. If you
give way to jealousies, chickering's and
heart-burnings, calculated to engender
strife, it is vain to look for success; for,
although you are clearly in majority in
Carroll, you cannot make your numerical
strength available against the opposition,
unless you srork together in harmony. The
popular intelligence, guided by disinterest-
ed judgment, after due CONSULTATION, gen.
orally points out the men whom it would
be proper to select; but interested and in
judicious party manipulators set themselves
to work to thWart the popular win, and
aim to serve thensselres instead Of the pub
Rc, and thus bring about results in nomi-
mating conventions which fail to meet
general approval. Now, the way to pre-
vent this, is, to select discreet, fair-dealine
and intelligent men, to represent you in
the county convention. Men who win
honestly represent you, and not themselves
or their faporifes. quite as important
to have your delegates to the county con
vention composed Of the very best mer
you can avail yourselves Of, as it is to have
such men upon your ticket, for the one il
dependent upon the other. If you have
good delegates to your county convention
you viii have good ticket. Send men
therefore, who have intelligence enough t.
understand your wishes and what is re
quired by the best interests Of the party
and frmness enough 20 maintain thei
position.
A general desire has been expressed tina
none but the best men should be nomina
ted, this fall, for every part Of the ticket
Where the claims Of men Of equal meri
are canvassed, let the choice be amicabl,
and fairly made between them, then Their,
can be no ground Of complaint. Let tn,
defeated aspirant set to work to elect hi
more fortunate rival, Just as he would hay,
wished his rival to work for him, had thei
positions been reversed. And let no undu,
pressure upon the nominating convention
be exerted in behalf Of any one. Let tn,
choice be free and voluntary, not struggled
for and fought over. There il honor il
being thus selected by ones fellow cit
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