The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1882-06-24
PARTISANSHIP VS. A JUDGESHIP

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PARTISANSHIP VS. A JUDGESHIP.
Having recovered from his recent class
| icdi prostration, our contemporary of THE
| D,mocrat, doubtless feeling that his pro-
| tracted silence was growing As embarras-
ing to himself. as his judicial candidacy
has long since proved to his friends, at
last breaks the melancholy stiffness, and
| in his Saturdays issue, returns to his
congenial pursuit, his ready refuge in
| time of trouble, appeal to
partisan voters.
And precious article it is in sooth,
md one well covered with the Cruik-
shankian ear marks.
Indeed, what Protean character our
aspiring and perspiring contemporary has,
since the 30th of March proved himself.
At the very outset Of his candidacy he
| condescended to do the role of solicitor, in
| politics as well as in law and chancery.
By this one act he tore down the idols
which had graced the Cruikshankian
| hearth His well cherished Lares
and Penates. The long worshipped house
hold gods. and models, of tone, charac-
ter and dilettanteism, with the thousand
and one other Alterations that go to make
up your pretentious political esthete.
Then came the "Olive Branch period
i'll this phenomenal candidacy, when the
gentle tender of his name-properly spell
ed-was to act as charm and spell on
every cross and ugly Democrat, who was
not partisan c0Hspirdtor. This role ex
hausted, he entered the judicial arena
with his epistolary BULL" thrice armed
with his notorious pronunciamento, suit
ably signed and sealed with the Cruik-
! shankian emblaZonry, affecting at the
time religious reluctance to urge his
| candidacy openly, and in a manly manner,
| in the editorial columns of his newspa-
| per, but encouraging an unlimited num-
| Der of unwarrantei and anonymous per-
sonal attacks upon his Democratic broth
| er, Judge Stump, whom in his circular
| (not square-letter of March 30th,) he had
dubbed his Opponent and the repeti-
ton of sings and filings at reputable gen
tlemen in the Republican ranks, in whom
he saw, or thought he saw, either actual
or possible opponents of his candidacy:
while Wilmington. Port Deposit, Rising
Sun, North East. Zion and Baltimore,
sent back under fictitious authorships,
| the cooked up matter TINT broiled and
dubbed in the back Office of Tie cecil
Democrat: meanwhile the other fellow of
the oher Democratic paper, keeping time
on his banjo to the general jingle. And
then, when The Wig in honest protest
against the general deviltry that was
afoot, and in the interest ..of no man. but
solely in the interest of the reputable
voters of the county, irrespective of
party OF party politics, raised its voice
impassionately and imperscpally against
the prostitution of a judicial canvass, to
merely personal and partizan ends, there
came back upon its editor from every
pop-gun a.6ag the whole Cruikshankian
line, the veriest fusiiade of paper bullets.
At this stage of his candidacy or CO.
temporary assumed the defiant attitude
aud tone. Assumed it we say, but not
to maintain it.
na,,fa-..l yyaa1,nnsc candidate
made the assumption ridiculous, and
when our appeals tG tis intelligent
opinions of the people Of the county. be-
gan to take effect, and stimulated in
quizy begat more general knowledge of
the true iaWardness of his candidacy;
how, by utterly ignoring his old party
friends and associates, he lad forfeited
all claim to their support, AUD even
Albert Constable himself, began to groan
and stagger under the weight of the man
he had chosen TO carry; when Mr.. Consta-
ble's friends said 10 Constable men, ''any
other man than Cru.ksi.a;:k," and Cruik-
shank's friends said to CruiEshank's
men. 81 will support him but cannot
STOMACH. Constable and mutual distrust
On every side aegot mutual suspicion, our
contemporary walking ~ and down the
streets, bearing all over i.is3 IN air of
apolosy,-began to WHINE
Then came the lachrymose period,
when tiaAt tell tale tear stained his
i,It.io1 a,aaf, first ha criaf in ,,1,i,,
ineligible Engiisiiz afterwards i'll dead
tongue.
With what result the public is veil
aware. And now he assumes another
role.
IT'S his ancient one and fits him we'll
He roars aloud AZ the true Bourbon
thunderer of the legitimaft Caa;l Democ-
racy-by the way, he chcrishesa W ot,dsrSnl
respect for Legitimacy in the Democratic
ranks, but fondles the Republican bas-
tard whenever ha can lay hands on him.
sits in wrath upon isis party brethren,
and reads out of his party ~ traitors
and conspirators every Democrat vino
declines TO denounce the Editor Of The
Wig fog having the courage to tell I'M
palatable tTutas about his candidacy, and
ostracizes every Detsiaasat who sees any
good in a Republican, save soi.se personal
good for Mr.. George W. Cruiksliank.
lie discourses mournfully over the
startling discovery. that some mythical,
intangible. Republican editor, whom he
hesitates to Han.a, has been received at
some equally mythical Dem ocratic coun-
Gil board, is given the posi- ~ honor,
made spokesman of the conference, and
dubbed Sir Oracle, "ond is onIy not u
spY beco"ss tie co"ncH ere co"spirators.
Whom, pray. does the embryonic Judge
dub conspirators, and who the victim of
their diabolical conspiracy?
Is it Mr.. George W. Crlis sLapk him.
self?
And yet he and his confreres alone con
spire against the peace of the Democratic
party in Cecil
Does lie i!!ean to say that every Demo-
crat in the county who refuses to ell
dorse the Constable -Crnil<hank com
hination =" is a traitor and conspirats.
Oh 10,
The masnGaimous gentleman applies
this epithet only to those who are not will |
ing to stultify themselves 10y deGogncing