The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-10-06

20 so declare IL matters not indeed
whether those opinions were well or i'll
founded. 1t is sufficient that it was
the opinion they held. They had
the unquestionable right to say Mr.
"Groome's ambition to obtain a seat
" in the L. S. Senate is not, in our
"oplnlon, the sole purpose Of a Legisla
"ture." That if Mr. Groome is enti-
tied to have one or more members Of
the Legislature elected with a view
! chiefly to look after his individual or
political interests, so is every other in
telligent voter in the county They
can declare, if they see proper, that
1--WE are tired and nauseated with dele
cations made up Of brothcrs-in-law,
cousins, and law partners" This, we
/ repeat, was and is their right, and if
they chose to exercise it and declare, as
they did, that MIR kni CHIT should not
represent them at Annapolis, then they
will resent at the polls the usurpation
of the party jobbers at Elkton who null
lifted the action of their primaries and
who manipulated their Convention in
| the interest of gentlemen whom, in their
constituent capacities, they had, with
such unparalleled unanimity, rejected.
| What protection Of political rights or
/ interests have the Democratic voters of
Cecil countv-the rank and file of the
party,--unless they refuse to elect those
whom they did not nominate? Unless
/ selfnominated candidates find to their
cost that they cannot impose themselves
unbidden upon their party. Will any
candid man assert that the Democrats
of Cecil county nominated Mr.. Knight?
Or deny that he was rejected by the
voters of his party by an overwhelm-
ing vote? Or has it come to pass in
the Democratic party that candidate
need only be indorsed bv coterie of
Elkton politicians?
We shall wait patiently an answer to
these questions An answer to be given
not by the Ring organ Of Elkton, but
by the common people, the despised clod
Aoppers, whose opinions were first taken
and then spurned. We are indeed
anxious to see whether eve the peo-
"ple" or we the leaders " are to be
finally triumphant. If the latter, the
Democratic party Of Cecil needs to
change its name.
We frankly confess that we have not
an overweening confidence in the intel
ligence and perhaps less in the spirit of
the average Democratic voter. His
neck has been so long bent under the
party yoke. He has worn so long the
Elkton Ring collar, and through so
many long and patient years has borne
in abject submission the lashes Of the
| Elkton whip masters, that it is difficult
to conjecture point beyond which his
endurance will not reach One solitary
rebellious act in the servilitv of wears
tile event Of an ordinary political life
time of Cecil county Democrat-one
feeble protest against party dictation-
the defeat Of Charles W. Shippers, the
| Democratic candidate for sheriff'-is the
single sole exception that strengthens
the rule of meek submission to the will
of party managers in Cecil. The indie
pendent, the untrammelled voter, is
either Republican or he keeps aloof
| from all parties. He is neper Democrat
The rural Bourbons of to-day are as
well drilled as was the Southern slave
of ante-war times, and will bear as
much from the aristocratic insolence of
| his political leaders. In the Republi-
can party, however, to its credit be it
| spoken, whatever its faults, there is no
such domination of overbearing leader
ship. What leader or leaders of Re-
publicanism in Cecil county ever would
! have dared to assume towards its vot-
ers such offensive dictation as was re-
Gently witnessed in a Democratic Con-
vention Old as some of these politi-
! cal dictators are, they do not seem to
have yet learned that it is the people, not
the Ring masters, who are to be repre-
sented 1t is the interests Of he tax
payers Of our county, not the ambitions
Of scheming politicians for which a Leg
slature has been instituted The pea
pie therefore, suprenely concerned in
this matter, ought and will be consulted.
In their own good time they will call for
| such sersnnts as they need. la Noven-
Der heir voice will be heard. TO some
Democratic cars. now carer aud expect
ant. it will echo disastrous defeat and
deserved characterization
never to he eratified and hopes never
to be fulfilled.
MIR. EVERISI'S LETTER.
Mr. Everist has written a short but