The Portland daily press., 1876-07-17
lFrom the Bangor Whig.l
The Dissatisfaction in York County.

The discomfort manifested in the county of
York with the nomination of Mr.. Reed is based.
as we understand it, on the greuud that by
fair division of honors the nomination belongs
to York and not to Cumberland. While we
think that the question of local claims should
seldom be raised in nominating for Congress
|. ional district, and then only in cases where the
equity Of the demand is 50 clear and important
as to turn the scale, other considerations being
eqnal yet even on the argument for locality we
are inclined to think our frendsin York coun.
ty bave spoken too hastily, and that on their
own assumed basis of partition they have "no
case ''or at least none that warrants violent or
revolutionary remedy. Let us recall the facts
which, in spirit of amity and concord, we
refer and commend to our dissatisfied Repub-
lican brethren in York.
The first Republican nomination for Con-
gress in the York and Cumberland district, was
made in 1856. and we take it that no spirit of
equity or justice will permit the posting of the
books between the two counties to go back of
the Republican regime. But if we shonld go
back of that period, it would not help our
York friends in their claims, because Moses
Mcdonald of York, represented the district for
several years prior to the birth of the Repub-
lcan party. To begin, is 1856, Hon. John NJ.
Wood was nominated as the first distinctively
Republican-the same gentleman having been
elected two years before as an Auti-Nebraska
Whig. For the three succeeding terms, 1858,
1860, 1862, the nomination was conceded to
York-Hon. ID. E. Sones being the candidate
fer the first named term, and Hon. John N.
Goodwin for the succeeding two terms. Fol-
lowing these three successive terms conceded
to York, Mr.. Lynch of Cumberland was chosen
for four terms-1S6i, 1866, 1865 1870. Follow
ing Mr.. Lynch, MIR. Burleigh of York, was
chosen for two terms 1872, 1S74 and now in
1876, Hon. Thomas b. Reed of Cumberland, is
chosen.
To sum up, then, there have been in the
York and Cumberland District since the Repnb-
lican party came into existence, prior to 1876,
Just (10) Congressional nominations, and of
these, five have come from Cumberland and
| five from York-York having furnished three
separate candidates, Messrs. Somes, Goodwin
and Burlegh, and Cumberland two, Messrs.
Wood and Lynch. With this previously even
division, the Centennial year is reached and
the delegates from all the District have given
the eleventh term in sequence to a Cumberland
candidate III the person OF Hon. Thomas b.
Reed.
Moreover, if the Congressional nomination
| is to be settled on the doctrine of equitable
| partition between localities-a doctrine which
| we understand the York county men to urge in
| its most arbitrary form-then the basis of pop
ulation must certainly be regarded. By the
| census of 1870 York had population of SIXTY
| thousand, while Cumberland had eighty-tlco
| thousand; so that on division on the basis
| claimed by our discontented friends in York,
| fully one-third more in the number OF Con.
| gressional terms has been due to Cumberland
| than to York during these twenty years OF
Republican supremacy-whereas the division
| has been exactly equal
In all sincerity and candor, then, we beg our
| friends in York to abandon all idea OF factious
resistance to the expressed will of the District
| Convention. York candidates have been cor
| daily supported by Cumberland and no one
more so than Mr.. Burleigh; and we think the
rather, we will say, owe it to themselves--to
stand cordially, unitedly and energetically for
the regular and honored nominee of the party.
| Any other course on their part means that the
First District will send to the 45th Congress an
alder and abettor of Hill, Lamar, Tucker and
| Company.