The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1879-02-15

nTSt manipulated the primaries, and then
in a caucus at he Howard House, on the
evening preceding the organization of the
convention, arranged the prog ramme which
was carried out the next day. For So
doing, charges were preferred against Mr..
Thomas, sustained by overwhe LINING proof,
which, like those based ON his conduct at
the June primaries, yet remain unIuvesti-
gated. In my letter published by you to-
day | say mo man can possibly suppose
that We can call nominating conventions
under the present reg ine, when almost the
entire party has repudiated the present
State Central Committee and the committee
has repudiated itself, with any chance of
harmony" You ask, why So \ sutii
cient answer is found IN the sentence
quoted. That committee is merely scat
tered skeleton. with scarcely lIgament
unruptured. As before stated it has been
Ignored or formally directed 10 be reorgan-
ICED. by every Congressional Convention of
last year but one. by five influential Re
publican meetings in this city, and has
never once, since its pretended existence,
secured quorum at any meeting, and was
managed during the late campaign by us
chairman exclusively and dutocrdticdNy. |
state these facts without intending any re-
Election upon the individual members of
that committee, most of whom have had
the good sense and honesty to admi, I'M
deniable evils and seek the remedy in
immediate reorganization. But there is
another and stronger reason why it will be
fatal to party harmony TO allow nomiua-
tons, for the Fall campaign, 10 be made
under the direction of the present com.
mittee, viz: the well known desire of its
chairman TO secure the nom ination for At
torney General
Now rs the frauds at the June primaries,
reported By assistant Secretary Hairlsy as
proreH, occurred under Mr. Mathews chair
manship, aud have SO far been unrejuked By
him, will not rival caud idatss suspect and
charge similar frauds And further, mas
much as Mr. Mathews totally ignored the
secretaries and other officers of the com.
mi;tee, and managed matters according to
his own views xciusiyely during the late
campaign, will not a fes: of the same action
at future primaries operate unfavorably?
But aside from all this, is it not infinitely
better, the legality of the present com
mlitee being seriously questioned. to secure
one where legality can not be doubted. by
fair vote at the primaries, ia advance Of
Ill i. r..
the influence of individual ambition than
10 select candidates for office and members
nf the Central Committee at the same time
and through the same agencies, and thus
bias the management of the party by
iutrigues aud bargains for Office?
When once we have Central Committee
recognized by the whole party, the canii-
dates nominated under lis management
may expect party support, and not until
then. But what Inject ion can any fair.
minded man have To assembling the State
Central COMMITTEES Immediately aud as
certainiug its views" II Mr.. Mathews has
the party AT his back he has nothing Ia fear
F from the committee. II Is no answer to
say that the committee will no, respond To
his call. because that cannot bc known in
advance, and the evidence all points the
other way. Let Mr.. Mathews call his COM
mittee and lie will have a full attendance.
but if it fail To canvene, or, converting.
} declines to advise reorganization, Mr.. Mat
news and his friends will be freed from the
odium of striving tn stile the voice of the
party under which they now lie, aud the
result, disastrous as it " ill be to the party,
will he accepted with resignation.
Mr.. Mathews is willing to call the com
mittee IN May for the purpose of reorsani-
/ cation; but you oppose any action prior to
the regular nominating convention and in
sist that the present committee, IS comp.-
tent, to call convention for reorganization
is competent to call one for nomination.
have already shown why this cannot be So
We reorganize the present committee SO far
As to act through ii because some claim il
to be legal, and because we desire to avoid
all questions As TO the propriety of the
mode by which the sense of the party is
taken. We want no rival organizations,
and for that rerson, and for the purpose Of
securing party government which all will
I acknowledge and obey, and Of avoiding all
dissensions as TO nominations, we propose
To act through the present committee. How
then can you say that our movement has a
disorganlzing tendency? What element of
REORGANIZATION turks in a movement which
seeks full and fair expression Of party
opinion upon these disputed matters.
Your editorial OF the 9th instant recog-
nized the strength of the movement, ard
the intensity of existing dissatisfaction.
What can more surely lead to harmony
than an authoritative declaration of Re
publican opinion, and what more surely
tend TO discord and disorgauization than
going into nomination for office with tn, Sc
matters unsettled | agree with you that
Mr.. Creswell's position, which you say
take pains to defiue, but which only speak
of defined by himself at the meeting oil
the Sth instant, is beside the matter. But
you brought it in, not !. Your iniimaiior
that Mr. Creswell was ordering the move
ment, | having positive knowledge to the
contrary, which you could not hare deRied.
Nor has any such action been taken, nol
will there be, as you seem to fear, - AS to
produce the Impression on the public mind
that Dir. Cresw.ll's political interests were
the real motive force" No man $ polItica
Interests have been considered in this NOV
ment, only the good of ;hs whole party
The suggestion of Mr.. Cresvcll's owe.
weening Influence has appeared only in you
paper aud TIVE others, from which
you have copied articles, written, AS you
easily can ascertain by persons wholly
uucunnected with those papers in NhIcl
they appear, however, as expressions q
editorial opinion. This is an old tricl
which to my personal know ledge Mr.
Thomas and his friends have long piacticed
Very respectfully, {. IRVING Dirty.
Baitimore, January 2and. 1879.
RETIRING FROM BUsISEss.--Therc i.