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

County. Nore"ijer Term.
This interesting cause, to which we
have already referred in several arti-
cles, and which, if it be viewed Alright,
involves very important electoral
rights of the voters of the county,
will be finally decided in November In
the meantime the probable action at the
polls of the average Democratic con-
sentative voter becomes matter of curl
Gus speculation. How far he, by pa
thetic appeals to his party pride, can
be forced to unsay in November what
he so emphatically declared in Septem-
ber How far the will of one man in
the town of Elkton can be made to
usurp the free thought and Independent
action of the voters of seven districts
of the county contrary to their recent
public and authoritative declaration
In short, whether the unterrified De-
mocracy of Cecil can be coerced into
that delectable public entertainment Of
crow-eating at the command of the
dominating spirit, at whose instigation
and by whose eXertion solely, the de-
claration that Mr. Knight ought to be
sent to the Legislature was made.
The first act in this comedy is COM
plete. The representatives of the vot
ers of seven districts-of voters fiercelv
anti-Ring-have been made to declare
that Mr. Knight should he placed at
the head of the Democratic delegate
ticket. Not only is this the case. but
they were Influenced to destroy every
local candidate in the anti Knight dis
tries of the county, whose aspirations
for places upon the ticket might be sup
posed to interfere with the full measure
of party devotion this anti-Ring Con
vention was determined to bestow upon
Mr.. Knight and the Ring Mr. Croth-
ers, Mr.. Magraw, Mr. Briscoe, Mr.
Hindman, Mr.. Logan, Mr.. Algard, Mr.
Grant, Mr. Dunbar, Mr.. Gillespie, Mr.
Moore Mr. Morgan, were all remorselv
butchered at their party" affairs, by
their own party friends, to make the
way clear for the nomination of gen
tleman who, in a fair contest openly
waged from the Sassafras to Rock
Springs, had been rejected by the
Democratic voters of seven out of the
nine districts of the county Yet this
anti-Rng Convention, by some potent
spell of the political magician, by some
subtle infusion of place-generating pow
der, was infatuated soothed and suhju-
gated, until most marvclously, most
astonishingly it declared for the very
men whom, in its separate constituent
cies, it had so Enthusiastically repudiated
Surely we may be permitted, without
offense, to linger over this delightful pic
ture Indeed the beauty of its contrasted
lights becomes particularly charming to
appreciatlve spectators, when we re-
member that it is the handiwork of a
skillful artist, whose boast it was but
few months since that he had put Mr.
Miller in the field to distance Mr. Knight,
and whose eyes even vet red with the
tears that had moistencd the political
grave of Wm r. Hamilton, could not
look, until now, with complacency on
the men who, two years ago at Balti-
more had cast the votes that slew his
friend and made omnipotent the Ring.
But now opens the second act of this
anomalous drama. This Roland for
an Oliver" This broad burlesuue of
the political Box and Cox Serious
questions indeed Of party subordination
vex the busy managers, and Sir Giles
Ovcrreach's cunning craft will needs be
put to the test How are the duped and
outraged voters of those seven districts
to be placated and kept up to the dis
tasteful work of the campaign? Dis
guise they cannot this muttcrcd dscon-
tent, this rumbling in the political at
mosphere There is indeed music in
the air, and the authors of this latest
outrage upon all Democratic precedents
this perversion of the cardinal prn-
ciple every where and always hereto
fore recognized in all partics-that popu-
lar conventions must speak the voice not
of outside lobbyists and managers, but of
the constituent body-will ere long, in
this game of political hazard, be driven
to their strongest trumps. Tile roice of
q political convention only deserves to be re
spected aohen ii speaks tie sentiments Of the
people. 1t challenges nothing but con-
tempt and defeat when it misrepresents
and outrages those sentiments We
state this selfevident proposition: If
the Democratic voters of seven districts
Of this county in their primaries de-
clared, by overwhelming majorities, that
they would haze none of Mr.. Knight.
That they were dissatisfied with his
political services as representative of
them, both at Baltimore and at Annapo-
lis. That they did not sympathize with
his scarcely concealed wish to go to the
Legislature as the representative not of
tile people Of Cecil county, but of ex-Gov.
Groome. That they were sick and tired
of being the subjects of political barter
to crafty the ambition of even as ex-
cellent a gentleman as his late Excel
Iency. That they had not forgotten the
Capitalization job, nor other kindred
political acts. If, we say, these were