The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-06-12
POLITICAL STATES.
The Baltimore american, of Thursday,
gives the following cast of the Democratic
party's slate aud the manner OF making 1t:

party slate ana tne ihauneA VI ih"6 "
There are some disruptng elements in this campaign
especially with regard to the Governor attorney wi
sraI and COMPTROLLER 1t is p risky business to make
nrectiopv upon the Of politics. but me
shapes itself somewhat in this way Mr. John Lee Iat
roll will carry Baltimore to-day, ana 30 go into INC ,
mating Convention with its twentyonc votes. me
controlling Ring" in city politics has 50 oruerea H.
and unless there have been new combinations maae
within the last hours there will be no de-
parture from the omnipotent programme Mr. Carroi
strength the counties is expected to orihs MN up 10
about forty-one votes when the convention meets
Senator Hamilton will 20 into it little stronger lie
will have twentyeight votes from the western countess
and those gets from the Eastern shore Will orins
him IN into neighborhood of fortys1 LACKING ten
or eleven of the number necessary to nomination.
allowing a margin Of II few votes in the CALCULATION
Governor Groome who is candidate LOT eioctoh .! t
neople TO the seat in which the Legislature placed MN
for the unexpired term when Governor Whyte WAS
elected to the Senate may have ut the outset some
votes from Cecil and elsewhere on .he
Shore Judge Grason will get on the hrs ballot the
COMPLIMENTARY vote of Baltimore county, thus COM
pleting the full no votes Of the Convention
As things stand this estimate Will De iouhu NOT
far from correct and it will be that both the lead
ing candidates have a margin to run on But II
said Mr. Carroll is in reality only being MADE inc
stalking horse of the Baltimore City Ring, which 10 en-
tirey dominant in tho city and e1erts considerable
influence throughout the State 1t is current talk IN
political circles that after few ballots nave oeen
in the Convention, with the figures pretty much ss
given above that the Baltimore delegation will show
who is the real favorits of the Ring by proposing ~
compromise to unite upon some third candidate ana
that for their part they will agree to drop Carroll and
go over to roome if the other side will retire Ham
ION The 10 that with the reinforcement OF
twenty-one the Groome candidacy enough scat
terng votes he gathered to give him tho neces
ssry ftysi1-ony eighteen being needed-and that his
nomination will then be secured The Eastern Shore is
badly demoralized by the aspirations OF Comptroller
Wooford to another Its arrangements had been
made in of Colonel Wooord carrying out in good
faith the promise made two to retire from
Office the close Of his present term The Eastern
Shore wanted the Attorney Generaship and was plan
ming for it. but Col Woolfurd is power in politics. and
his candidacy this moment upsots calculations on the
other side the Chesapeake and confuses the Eastern
Shore politicians while at the same time rendering it
nearly certain that Mr. Charles NJ Gwinu will get the
nomination for Attorney General for which Mr. Charles
Goldsborough the Eastern Shore favorie In that
event the Comptroerhp is all at and tho Govern
orship depending on the success Of the programme
which we have outlined.
1t is amusing read tho appeals Of the Democratic
newspapers tho voters Of the party to turn out in
the primaries and display an Independence in
the selection Of candidates. while they quite vol
aware of the Of snch state Of affairs as We
have described. 1t is like telling throng OF children
to stop the movement of great engine Not even the
masses VI Democratic pary-far less the people of
the State-have any potential voice in the naming OF
candidates These latter picked out and marshaed
in close caucuses and packed primaries by the party
managers in accordance with personal and eliquish
interests and the party has nothing to do with the
matter except to poll votes enough to elect them.
An ELTON seer nublishes his diyinatiOnS