The Cecil Whig., 1880-06-05
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THE SAME OLD SCORE.
They Polish four Districts so Handsomely
that now They're Rulers of
the Democracy

beating four. This had been done last FALL
and, like the old fellow from Egg Hill, who
served his country constable for many
years. and no matter what party elected the
County Commissioners, always came to the
first meeting of the new board, and remark
ing with much complacency: "Well, gem
tlemen, we have beat them again, secured
his reappointment In like manner, the
successful manipnlators of the last conven-
tion have protited by the experience of the
past, and are again successful.
This time the old Ring was divided against
itself, and Tallyrand fought against Bona
parte. The former was aided by the Big
Politician who came home from Washing
ton for that purpose; the latter by Loyola,
who spared no labor nor pains to insure
success. For the time being the glory of
the old ring has departed, and the hoary
leaders who have led the Democratic hosts
to victory on many Il hard fought field have
been rudely thrust aside and their places
filled by others who make up in audacity
what they lack in honor. Alas. how are
the mighty fallen. "Ichabod!" "1chabod"'
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wreck. The true inwardness of the fight,
now that the little matter of running the
II ole in the Wall has been settled for another
term, seems to have been in reference to
who should dispense the official patronage
on this peninsula for the next four years, if
haply for the interest of Democracy they
should elect the next President. Tallyrand
is on the best of terms with our United
States Senator, and he and his friends We're
fully alive to the advantages to be derived
from being Il member of the Cincinnati
Convention. This matter was quite as well
understood by Bonapar:e and his friends,
who had no idea of being left out III the
cold and they resorted to the tactics that
had enabled them to pull through last Fall,
and perfected another five by four arrange
ment. The delegates came to town early
and spent the morning under the shade Of
the maple trees near the court house row.
This time the work was of Il nature that
did not require the same kind of manipula-
tion that was practiced at the caravansary
upon 4 memorable occasion last Fall, or
else had been so well done before the dele
gates came to town that it was not found
necessary to resort to that historic pile. SO
they spent the morning in the shade of the
trees and little worthy of note transpired
except that one of the faithful from IL lower
district miStook prominent Republican
citizen of Rowlandsrille, who is extensively
engaged in the iron manufacture. for u
Democratic delegate, and besought him to
vote for Hiram, which the man of the iron
manufactory protested he could not do.
At o'clock somebody rang the court
house bell, which was the signal agreed
upon for the meeting of the clans in the
Hall, but at this juncture they concluded
to meet in Judge Lewis Office in the first
story, and Il half hour was spent in carry
ing down settees from the hall and arrang-
ing them, when the faithful marched in and
sat down, and John NJ. Miller, Chairman of
the Democratic Central Committee, called
the convention to order, and Mr.. Biddle, of
the 1st district, moved that II. II. Brady, of
the End district, be appointed temporary
chairman, which motion was carried, and
Col. Miller retired and Mr.. Brady took his
seat. Whereupon Milton y. Kidd, Esq,
without whose assistance Il Democratic con-
vention could not be run in this county,
was appointed Secretary and took his seat
probably for the twentieth time. (When
this ubiquitous individual is laid to rest
with his fathers, what will become of Demo-
cratic conventions and Democratic legisla-
tures?) At this juncture Mr.. Kidd read
the call for the convention, which meets in
Baltimore Oh the 9th inst, from which it was
ascertained that the State Convention is to
select two delegates from the State at large
and two from each congressional district.
The credentials of the delegates were then
handed in and referred to a committee of
one from each district, who retired to the
back yard for about two minutes and re-
ported that the'credentals were all right,
and recommended, rs they had been author
lied to do, that the temporary officers he
continued permanently, which was done
The following is list of the members, all
of whom We're present:
Ia Hstrict-Joseph Dixon, Stephen H.
Foard, George W. Biddle, John II. HesSey
| end diStrict-J. Hedrick, II. H. Brady, j.
| p. Steel, +. H. Biddle, &. w. kihler.
| .'rd district-H. H. Mitchell, Walter s.
johnson, John McCauley, Morris Dunbar
Samuel II. Miller.
th district-William Kirk, John Quinn,
Henry Hess, c. X. Biles, w. G. Henderson.
| 9TH distrect-J. w. Purner, p H. Ricard,
| Geo Simcoe, j. Williams, j. NJ. Heverin.
| Gh district-.John White, Geo. Gillespie
j. b. Fryer F. j. Boyd, s. j. Jenness.
| rM district-Frank S. Everist, Alexander
Jackson, John W. BeavanS, e. +. Kirk, r.
| +. Rowland.
sth district-J. w. Bell, w. f. Porter, s.
j. Caldwell, DR.. Geo. w. Gillespie, w. r.
Gillespie.
9TH district-.J T. England, John p. Will
son, Clemson Brown, w. p Pierson, DR.. j.
! \. Mearns.
vention proceed to nominate candidates for
| delegates to the State convention, and the
| Secretary proceeded to call the districts with
the following result: 1st district, VIM. NJ
Knight 3rd, n. T. Hiddle; when the 4th
district was called, they nominated Amos
Wilson, of the 1st; 9TH, Charles w. Sim
pers: eth, F. S. Everist; Sth, c. c. Crothers;
9th, Levi X. Mearns. The faithful then
spent some time in getting their ballots
ready, and j. w. Bell and George Gillespie
having been appointed telers, a ballot was
taken with the following result:
w. NJ. Knight. 21
| y. I. Biddle. Observation-Disclosures. %
| Amos wilson. Observation-Disclosures. %