Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-10-08

Had our friend, William Broderick i,
been member of the convention we
would have imagined that the o. L.
DIS had captured the principal Office,
and that the canal wing, as some peo-
pie used to call the regular managers,
had been routed completely. But we
were mistaken The republicans had
actually got excited in their conven-
ton and the Frostburg candidate, as
well as the two Cumberland candi-
dates, had all been beaten out of the
nomination for Sheriff, and Lonaoon-
ing bad carried off the honor. We
looked in vain for our State Senator,
whose term will soon expire, The
result of the convention is well-known
to all your readers. One candidate
for commissioner was dropped week
ago at his own requeat and A. M. L.
Bush, a much respected citizen, put
in his place by the committee. But
what commotion has been caused by
ths declination of youthful Otto Ho-
hing as a candidate for Sheriff on ac-
count Of his not being Of the requir-
ed age. Probably after the Novem-
Der election Mr.. Hohing will be glad
he was disqualified, as the democrats
are working hard to elect their whole
ticket, and ere betting odds on their
candidates for the Senate and Sheriff
winning in the quadrangular race,
which promises to be more exciting
and lively than for many years.
| must not forget to mention the
greenback- labor convention. Tho
proceedings were very inter esting,
and | admire the pluck which this
small body manifested in sticking to
their principles and refusing to place
any sorehead democrats or republic
cans on their ticket-but as | am
writing to an independent paper,
whose editor expects rybody to
vote for him fer the State Senate, l
must not express my own political
preferences too freely. will con-
clude telling you something of what
saw and heard at the greenback
convention. | had the pleasure of
hearing several short speeches made
by the president and members; was
struck with the remarks of Messrs.
Logsdon, Rooney and Patrick. The
first named said he was like man in
Baltimore, who, when he was about to
die, said "he wanted to have written
on his headstone that he was a green
hacker" One of the delegates moved
to "strike out the word, 'Greenback,
and call it the National labor party,
as greenbackism was dead issue" >
This was choked off, a vote not even
being taken on the motion. About
this time the committee en- creden-
tials returned and reported that eight
districts were not represented, but
that seven were. We wondered if
this was a legal convention, as not
one-half of Allegany county was rep
resented, but our opinion was not
consulted and We listened further and
heard Mr.. Thomas Rooney say that
"on previous occasions it had been
truly said that the greenbackers had
selected their candidates from the
soreheads of the other two parties;
this time he wanted no sofeheads on
the ticket-no people who had been
thrown overheard by the other par
ties" After the nominations were
made Mr.. Patrick, candidate for Sem
ator, made lively little speech in
which he said they "were all acting
like towards, and that he would poll
bigger vote than they expected. !"
But what amused US most was the
speech CT Mr.. James Barnard of your
vicinity who, when urged to take a
place on the ticket as candidate for
the House of Delegates, said "he
wished for no office and would not
tax, any nomination; that he didn't
believe there was any chance for us
poor DEVILS he had belonged to the
republican party and had left it be-
cause there were SO many thieves in
it, and was not going back. He was
now greenbacker, but declined the
nomination" A delegate urged the
gentleman to accept and allow his
name to stand on the ticket, which he
finally consented to do with all his
heart.
Twas going TO tell you what tie
probabilities are in regard to the de-
cision Of that republican county GEN.
trial committee which meet. on Satur-
day, but my letter ia too long already.
Rest assured Cumberland or Frost
burg will capture the nomination
either Dewitt, Shuck or King will
win K. H. Butler and Jacob Bren-
gle are also in the race, but they are
too late in The field.
If your readers want to see some
Jun, come to Cumberland Saturday
next and witness tie sham battle be-
tween the Voltigeurs, Hamilton Light