The Cecil Whig., 1882-11-11
THE RESULT IN CECIL.

Although the Republicans of Cecil
county have not secured majority for
their judicial candidate, yet the vote of
Tuesday was complimentary to their
candidate, and indicative of one import
ant fact, that the dssensions in the Re
publican ranks in the county are not so
wide as certain Democratic wiseacres
would have us believe. The result Of
Tuesday shows that Mr.. Blake received
the hearty support of the Republican
party throughout the county. That he
was accepted in good faith by every class
of Republicans, and that whatever loss
he, as a candidate, may have sustained,
was not the result of concert of action,
or of any understanding or determination
by any considerable class or numbers of
Republican voters not to support him,
causes, that were entirely beyond his
own control, and which any Republican
candidate, under the circumstances of
this canvass, must have sustained. Al
though Mr.. Blake was personally as ac-
ceptable to the Republicans of Cecil
county as any candidate who might have
under which he accepted the judicial
nomination involved two serious embar-
easements. These were apparent, we
think, to almost any one. The intensely
personal character of the Democratic
campaign waged against Judge Stump,
while it secured for Mr.. Blake very
considerable Democratic support, yet
created in the minds Of many intelligent
voters, other than Democrats, symDa-
thy which acted in Judge Stumps favor
The feeling was natural one, and human
nature asserts herself always. An at
tempt had been made by certain Demo-
Gratis, solely for individual and personal
ends, to break Judge Stump down in
Cecil county. In furtherance of this
beautiful but no less unsuccessful
scheme, personal whips and filings were
INDUCED in ad NJitun. The sword that
these gentlemen flourished had double
edge. 1t was welded to cut right and
left. Character was nothing, and repu-
tation was naught, in the way of their
reckless schemes. Every slander that a
truculent and desilish spirit. t.con1d invent
was circulated against the character of
Judge Stump, aud every fling and inuen-
do in1,I, not
Republicans who stood in the way. Pred
icating their final success upon their
present ability to carry Cecil county, the
disappointment of this judicial junta,
was only complete when the Democrats
of the other four counties of the Judi
cial district, refused to ratify a conspiracy
against a Democratic brother, whose
loyalty to his party was above suspicion
The Democrats of Kent, Queen Anne's,
Talbot and Caroline, with one voice. re-
fused to immediate Judge Stump upon
the sacrificial altar, simply to appease
the angry gods of unholy Cecil coun-
ty alliance. Sympathy for the man who
had been thus maligned was the inevita-
BILE aud natural outcome of such un-
worthy political methods. This doubt
less cost Mr.. Blake some votes, but not
as the result Of organized hostility to
him as the opponent of Judge Stump,
but simply as the result of the character
of the canvass given 1t by those who had
proved themselves so reckless of charac-
ter.
Another reason operating against Mr.
Blake was the fact that Mr.. Russum was
but little known in Cecil county, and his
party standing not being SO we'll recog-
nized as Mr.. Blake's. This condition
doubtless afforded an opportunity to
many voters to cast their ballots both
for Judge Stump and Mr.. Blake, to the
loss of the latter.
With all due allowance for the embar-
easements under which he labored, we
think that Mr.. Blake's friends may con-
gratulate him upon his canvass, and that
the unanimity with which Repu blicans
supported him is scarcely less matter