The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1882-10-07
THE JUDICIAL FIGHT.
CLOSE RETURNS IN CECIL.
The End not Yet-The big Primaries and
the little (25) Convention Mr.. Cfuik-
shank gets peep at the Promis-

The attendance 1t the Democratic priln
AIRY meetings held on Saturday last, was
the largest possibly ever witnessed il Cecil
county. The leaders OF the respective can
didates Judge Stump and Mr.. CruikShank,
left no stone unturned to bring every voter
to the polls. Speculation as 10 the result
was almost impossible since each side was
confident OF victory, and defeat to one or
the other side, could only headmitted rs the
result of treachery and deception. The in
tenselv personal character given TO their
canvass by the Cruik shank combination,
and the systematic attacks made upon
Judge Stump throughout the entire contest
had excited upon the part of the followers
and friends of the latter, a desperate de-
termination to carry the county for him i'll
spite of the unjustitiably bitter fight made
against him. This determination was fully
met, by a corresponding effort upon the
part of he opposition to secure majority
OF the Districts in favor of their candidate.
THE PRIMARIES
Up to Saturday morning each side was
confident of victory. On Friday night Il
prominent supporter OF Judge Stump had
an interview with an equally prominent
friend OF Mr. Cruitisiauk. "Now" said the
former 'siuce the battle has been subStan-
TALLY fought, and the Democratic votes of
the comfy fully canVuSsCd. 1t can matter
hur little to say what result you candidly
expect.
= We shall said the other certainly car
~ eight our of the nine Districts of the
county. We shall win the first, second,
third, fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth and ninth
districts. leaving Judge Stump only his
home distrlct--the seventh. The Judges
friend heard this reply complacently. and
replied that = nc e expect To carry every dis
trict in the county except Mr.. CruikShank'S
own district-the first, and even there We
have a lighting chance.
With degree Of confidence so equally
balanced on each side, the close result OF
the primaries only indicates how widely the
calculations even of the ShrewdeSt politicians
frequently niscarrv. In this, the third dis
trlct, the voting proceeded Il general
thing quietly, no very noticeable disturb
ance occurring, the proportion Of sober men
being III the ascendant. BY nine o'clock in
the evening when the result showed that
instead OF the Observation-Disclosures men
having carried the third district by the rood
round majority they had boaSted they would,
ii had cone for Stump by majority of for
ty-elght, there was an Enthusiastically mark
ed expression of disappointment over the
faces OF the CruikShank men and the ilnpa-
thence to hear the returns from the next dis
trict was increased by an equally marked
manner of anxiety. The drug store porch
of Dr.. Mitchell seemed the head quarters
OF the friends of Judge Stump while the
holein-the- wall. and Mr.. Constabe's office
We're the rendezvous OF the opposition. 1t
was not long before the new came from the
fifth district-North East, THAI !, had given
Cruikshank a minority OF forty odd. This
was an unexpected result. For although il
was generally known hy the Stamp leaders
thai Mr.. C"nStahle's effort had been espe-
cialiy devoted in thar district TO retrieve the
votes and iniiupnc" recently lost there by sev-
eral rad appointments, yet it was generally
believed by impartial men, that Judge Stump .
would carry the district. When Tom Ham
m"nd therefore appeared with the new :
that it had gone the other way, the Constt-
bic men began to get back ali51ie of the con
tidence they had lost at losing the third
district. Now the contest Stood one district
each, and the