The daily gazette., 1882-07-08
THE FIGHT IN CECIL.
THE CONTEST FoR AJupoE
sTuMP's PLACE.
THE CHARGE OF DRUNKENNESS.
A Little Lull IN the Contest -Rumors which
May Not Have Much Weight-Peculiar
Methods of Defense.
lsnecIal eorrespondence OF the eanette. ]

Especial correspondence of the Gazette.
EBKToN, Mo-, July S.-There is a little
Iull in the jtklgeship fight in Cecil. It may
be a calm which has something behind Il
and Il may not. People, however, think
some new deal is being contemplated by one
side or the other, and some surprising things
may be done between now and the holding
of the delegate election. A good bit more
than the scat of Judge Fred Stump is at
stake at the present contest and neither side
will be beaten without struggle.
There are rufnors In the air, but these
rumors may be merely ides ones. Some
say the Stump people intend to rake up
finally as their candidate, certain young
lawyer of Elkton, who has no reason to love
the Constable opposition. The story goes
that before very long Stump will withdraw,
because he has changed his mind about
another term (not because he can't get it }
aud that this legal gentleman VIII be
doomed for the place with all the vehemence
the Republican journalism of the Whig can
summon. Then again the Stump men have
figured out a very pretty, but what would
b. very stupid deal on behalf of their op-
ponents by which Mr.. Crukshank is to get
out of the way and some one else take his
place. | should say there was nothing In
this.
The contest now going on has many anus
ing features as well as many better ones.
One of the most amusing is the way I'm
which Judge Stump's friends receive the
illusions to his Incorporate habits. A-hale-
fellow-well- has been Judge stump. lie
like social glass and he has had no com
Functions whether he took it in his own
parloP Or'in the bar room opposite the Court
House. OF course il he went TO such an
extent In this as to make himself notorious
this is proper matter to speak of. If it is
fact that he has Leen intoxicated on the
bench, as charged; that he has been carried
helpless on board the cars at Havre de
Grace, as alleged, and that he has shown
himself in somewhat maudlin state
at meetings and in county offices
as broadly limited at, then this Should GER
tainly be a proper matter 10 be talked about,
IL It We're true, and the offender had the
effrontery to ask for the place again. IL may
be false and Judge Stump may be very
much abused man, but instead of denying
the statements his friends and his organs
alike simply attempt to stir up sympathy by
branding them as "slanderous attacks" /"
''libellous assertions" "eflorts TO break
down pure character" and guerrilla tao
tics in warfare of abuse" Every time the
least hint has been made in a newspaper OF
the part Judge Stump's alleged weakness
10 piu1ihS III biiS SaihpalBh MS lIlShuo nave
cried that mendacious SANDER is being EN-
ployed and that a good citizen was being
stabbed In the back. Whenever allusion
has been made that one OF the objections to
Judge Stump was this, the same cry has
been set up and nc effort has been made X
refute what has been said.
"A man who processes to be disinterested
spoke of this to me day or two ago. at
must be admitted" said he THAT the
charges against Judge Stump are either true
or false. If false they should be denied as
specifically as they have been stated II
they are true, what peculiar course is being
taken to counteact their effect ~
| Judge Stump's friends are pitching into
Mr.. Constable without gloves. He is being
roughly handled and what they call hi,
peculiar political methods are being shown
up. The fight means either the shelving oi
himself as a senatorial aspirant or the inter.
ment of Senator Groome in political vault
So it will be an earnest fight, and no stone
will be unturned IN the task of winning it
All the people interested in it are well known
in Wilmington and Delaware, and no doubt
it is being regarded with good bit of in
terest with you.