Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1875-10-14

| CHEAT SPEECH
EX.GOvERNOR WHITE
MAITLAND INSTITUTE, OCT. lST
"A statesman will emerge from BIZ
retirement this evening, and presen
himself to the gaze of an admiring mar
~. de will explain that since be ha.
been bonored By the spontaneous elec
tion Of the General Assembly of hi,
State 70 EsnEEsenti. mt. Sen1se< 4 10.
gs.ss ;nssrs: ne u D - a "a
Fitics. and would have preferred to rssin-
tain that privacy to which after unset.
Ssh public service be has felt 1hinself
eutitlsd." This, said the speaker, va
the way the Baltimore Asserieas intro
duced me this morning TO . meeting Of
Maryland Deuocsats.
|. Al one Of your Senatovs in Congress,
! hoped to hase been relieved from any
active participation in the State cam
paign, and to have husbanded nv men.
tai and physical resources to take part
extensively in the important National
campaign of 1876. The prospect Of
revolutionixing the National Admins
tration is 20 cheering that my , oughts
had turned away from local tics TO
the broader field Of National political
strife, and I had deluded myself into
supposing that with the splendid con-
dition of our State and city finances,
and With such admirable general nomi-
nations, every Democrat and Conserva-
tive would have been glad to aid and
encourage our brethren in other States
in their struggles to overthrow the
Rrdical dynasty so long in power.
But gentlemen heretofore allied to
the Democratic party, and protesting de-
votion to its principles, have endeavor.
ed TO SOW the seeds of discorj in its
ranks here at home, and have secured
upon the part of some of its past ad-
hereuts open revolt to its organization.
How deepseated 10 the discoh tent
they have stirred up and how many
constitute the army Of deserters We can.
not tell with positive certainty until the
roll-call on the night of the election
The fires of incendiarism were first
lighted before our State Convention
met to make its usual nominations BY
wanton Newspaper attacks upon men
in the Democratic party, whose only
offense, % far a. I know, we're fidelity
TO Democratic principles and an active
zeal in promoting the success of that
party at each Of the recurring elections.
Denounced in the harshest terms, held
up to public reprobation - no better
than the Tweed and Sweeney ring of
New York, yet for the sake of preserv-
ing the unity Of the party As far as pos
sible, they did not meet elimination by
recrimination, but in spite of their SLAM
derers outside of the party, and the
malcontents within it, they went on
simply exercising q Democrats right
of having a preference among the men,
bers of that party. and using fair
and legitimate influence to assert it.
The State Convention constituted in
the usual wav, met in obedience to the
call of the State Committee. Opposi-
tion was made to the right Of the Bal.
timore city delegation to seats in the
Convention, which at last. however,
dwindled to objections to three of the
delegates, and coupled with these OBJ
irctions were the severest denunciations
of the Baltimore Democracy. eleven
thousand of whom cut of seventeen
thousand voting at the primary elec.
ton cast their ballots for John Lee Car.
roll.
These anathemas were borne BY the
Baltimore delegates in the interest OF
peace and harmony with commendable
patience, 90 that no possible pretext
could be given for the destruction ol
the unity Of that Convention. To the
calm and disrassionste determination
of that body the Baltimore delegates
were willing to submit their case, and
il was 30 confided to the Judgment oi
the Committee on Credentials, com.
posed Of Que member from each county
and three from Baltimore city, and
that committee decided that 1.-The entire
delegation who presented credentials
we're duly elected In Conformity to Il,
ssases Of Tie party. and the Convention
by q vote Of So in the affirmative to
- in the negative, adopted the report
the three delegates whose seats wers
contested not voting on the question
And that committee only enunciatei
the truth when it reported the delega.
ton from Baltimore had been elected
according to the us.ges Of the party
Since the Constitution Of 1867, which
divided Baltimore city into three legis
lative districts, We have held but thres
Conventions 10 nominate candidates 70,
Governor in 1867, 1871 and 1875. II
1867 the Convention called to nomi
nate . candidate for Mayor was author
lied TO elect twenty lone delegates Il
the State Convention, and il did 90
electing ~ il supposed, twenty-on,
Bowie delegates. Whenever deleyat,
was named By q ward delegation wh,
vas not Bowie man, another was elec
ted in his stead. I name As an i...ustra
tion the case Of John Pickering, of th
First ward. for in that City Conveutio,
the delegates stood IS for Bowie an,
IS for Hamilton.
In 1871 general City Couventio
vas nstituted in that same mansel
and elected twenty -one delegates to th
State Convention. Hr. Farlov. fros
the Third ward. being elected over III
Clifford, Mr. Sein over Mr.. xcCoy, an
1r. Gnswold over Mr.. Cyrus 0aul,
In this year. 1873. the sane thin
wss dune in the City Conventioa, whiel
s&tSH lomi1a4in9 the candidate e. aAau