The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1876-07-15

Inc lrlenus OF the new county did not an
ticipate rejection of their iavorite project
They supposed that n large majority woul
favor it, and did not make sufficient allow
ance for the feeling ofold county attachments
the Jealousy of other villages and the preju
dice aud fear Of increased taxation of others
But Notwithstanding present defeat, they de
termlned that they would not give it up anC
the final accomplishment of it is one of til,
strongest evidences of what perseverance viii
achieve. Meetings were called from time Il
time, the people were reasoned with, and (
| considerable change in public sentiment wa
obtained.
In 1888 the Wings procured the nomination
OF Dr. VIM. Willis, us a member of the HOust
Of Delegates from Frederick county, and the
same year the Democrats nominated Isaac
Shriyer. They were both elected, many o
the friends of the now county voting for botl
of them. Messrs. Willis and Shriyer with
their colleagues Robert Amman aud Daniel
Duvall originated, and boidlypressed another
bill on the attention of the Legislature. This
bill cut offa large portion of the Liberty dis.
trict and all of the New Market district, by
making the Buffalo road the line from Sans
Creek to PARIS Spring, and thus removed the
objection of the people residing in those dis
tricts who were almost unanimously opposed
to separation from the old county. These
delegates were backed up by n petition con.
tanning 1900 names, and after laboring dui.
gently during the entire session had the proud
satisfaction of procuring the passage of the
bill, IN the two branches Of the Legislature.
by the provisions of the Constitution ofthe
State the bill required the passage of n con.
ilrmatory Act, at the succeeding session OF
the Legislature. 1t was expected that the
measure would have to encounter determined
opposition, particularly from the represen.
tlves from Baltimore county, us the project
was strongly objected to by that county, and
ITS representatives felt bound TO do every
thing they could to defeat it.
The political campaign of 1886 was then
entered upon. Senatorial electors were to be
chosen, each county entitled to two, who
were to meet at Annapolis and choose the
Senate then consisting of Is members. For
electors the Wings Of Frederick county nom
mated Evan Mckinstry and Gideon Bantz.
and the Democrats John Fisher and Casper
Quynn. A strong party in favor of Reform
IN the State Constitution caused the election
of Messrs. Fisher and Quynn.
Ut the entire number of electors the Whip,
elected 81, the Democrats 10. The Consti.
tuition required that ut least "A should con.
stitute quorum. The electors all met oi
Annapolis, but before the 10 would 20 into
the electoral college, they claimed a majority
of the Senators as Reformers, in AS much as
they represented large majority of the pop.
ular vote OF the State, which proposition the
q would not receive, when the 10 refused To
go in the college and left for their homes, and
as consequence received from their friends.
the appellation of the "Glorious Nineteen. y
This movement created great excitement
throughout the State-by the Wings il was
considered revolutionary; many persons be.
came alarmed, and the Wing friends of the
new county were afraid that it would cause
the rejection of their favorite scheme.
But to make the cause plain to many of you
it is necessary to go back and state that at the
time the Wing and Democratic Senatorial
electors were nominated, a ticket for each
party was nominated for the House of Dele.
gates. The Wing ticket was composed of
Jacob Matthias, Of this place, Francis Brengle.
Joshua Doub and George Bowlus Isaac
Shriver was placed again on the Democratic
ticket. In consequence of the refusal of the
10 to make a Senate, under the advice and
leadership of that distinguished man Francis
Thomas, he determined ON electing Delegates
to Constitutional Convention at the time of
the regular election, and therefore withdrew
the Democratic delegate ticket. The conse.
quence was the Wing ticket in Frederick k
county was elected without opposition So
great was the reaction in public sentiment in
other parts of the State that the Wings elec.
ted very large majority in the House OF
Delegates, carrying number of counties in
which they had been defeated at the Septem.
Der election and five of the Denocratic Sena
torial Electors considering themselves rs
instructed by the last decisive vote, agreed Ia
unite with the q and make Senate. which
was done, and Wm. Schley, of Frederick
and Elias Brown, of Baltimore county, were
chosen as two Of the 10 Senators.
The expression of the people WAS so dec;.
ded that the proposition Of Frank Thomas to
hold Constitutional Convention was aban.
doned. Whilst this much was conceded TO
public sentiment, it was also clearly demon.
strated that some Reform should take place.
and accordingly on the assembling Of the
Legislature, Gov. Veazy, in his annual mes.
sage, recommended that the election of Gov.
ernor and Senators should be given to the
people and that Carroll county be created, SO
as to diminish the size of the two LARGEST
counties and give an addition of four members
to the popular section. These measures be-
came quite popular, the Constitution was
amended in that respect, and the confirmatory
bill creating Carroll county passed the House
of Delegates by majority of 2S and by the
whole body OF the Senate except Elias Brown.
So that in all probability the course pursued
by the Glorious Nineteen as they were called
instead Of proving adverse to the new Couhty
proposition had the tendency of bringing TO
its support as conciliatory measure, many
of the representatives from the small counties.
This long deferred victory was hailed with
great delight by the citizens of Westminster
and surrounding country, and celebrated by
procession, arches, banners, illuminations,
etc. ,.and an Address was delivered in the old
Union Church, by James Raymond
Bills were presented in the Legislature for
the working machinery of the County by Mr..
Matthias, who had laboured assduousiy du
ring the entire session on behalf of the New
County and its interests.
The Legislature at that time chose the
Register Of Wills; after sharp contest be.
tween number of candidates, John Baum.
gartner, Of Taneytown District, was elected.
The following named gentlemen were ap-
pointed to lay off the Election Districts.
Samuel Gait, James c. Atlee, Thos. Hook,
Samuel W. Myers, Joshua Smith, Abraham
Wampler, Daniel Stull, Mordecai G. Coekey,
Stephen Gorsuch, Joseph Steele, George W.
Warfeld, Frederick Ritter, Wm. McIIyain,
who divided the county into Nine Districts,
viz; Taneytown, Uniontown, Myers, Wool.
ery's, Freedom, Manchester, Westminster
and Franklin. Since then the Districts of
Middleburg, New Windsor and Union Bridge
have been added.
For the purpose of making q complete
chain, in the early organization, the list of the
first Judges and Clerks of Election,is is annexed.
Judges and Clerks, lst Election for Sheriff.
District No. John Clabaugh. Jacob
Correll, John Thomson, Jacob Wickert.
James McKellip.
District No. 2.-Moses Shaw, Sr., Israel
Norris, David Fontz, John Hyder, Vim. G.
Wright.
District No. 3.--Wm. Coghlan, Peter Bank.
ard, David b. Earhart, John Erb, Jacob ii.
Kemp.
District No. 4.--William Jameson, Edw
Z, Hall, George Jacobs, VIM. Jordan, wm.
Stansberry.
District No. 5.-Robert Hudson. Nicholas
Dorsey, Benjamin Bennett, Wm. whalen,
Ohio Shipley.
District No. 0. Henry n. Brinkman.
Frederick Ritter, Jarret Garner, John Ker..
lnger, Joseph NJ. Parke.
District No. 7.--Joshua Smith, David Uhler.