The daily gazette., 1882-10-05
STC0ND EDITION
FROM CECIL COUNTY
The Talk About Messrs. Stump
and Cruikshank.
A MAN KILLED AT CLAYTON
THE CECIL COUNTY CONTEST.

Democrats still Talking About the Judge
ship--Thc Defense of the Cruikshank
Men.
To THE EOIToR OF THE GAzETTE:-It has
been charged that the splendid victory won
by G. w. Cruikshank over Judge Stump at
the Democratic primaries in Cecil county
was the result of unfair methods on the
part OF the supporters Of the former that
the Fifth, Eighth and Ninth districts, which
the Stump men confidently claimed before
the election, but which voted for Cruik-
shank, were carried by Republican votes !;
and finally, that though Judge Stump lost
a majority of the districts of the county, he
received a majority of the popular vote.
To these allegations the Crukshank men
a"swer:
ct. That at the outset it was their ex-
--a. scd desire that none but Democrats
:. uld participate In the primaries, SO that
tnr .crdict, If for them, would be purely
~ v ne, and that their constant appre-
hension during the canvass, intensified by
the repeated solicitations of Republicans
support by the Stump leaders, was that they
would lose the county through Republican
interference.
Second. That 1t is wholly untrue that Re
publicans and negroes voted in the Fifth
and Ninth districts. Fairer elections were
never held anywhere than in these places,
and II Is a cruel thrust at the sturdy Demo
Gratis who reside there to charge them with
this crime. 1t Is emphatically denied that a
single Republican, black or white, voted in
the Ninth district, and as to the Fifth it is
claimed by the Cruikshank men that their
constant effort was to keep back from the
polls Republicans who came there with
Stump tickets. The poll list of that dis
trtct shows the names of but few who are
recognized as Republicans-and enough to
nhanOa the rRaulf-and fbaaa Hia
trfbuted about equally between the two
parties. Moreover, these votes were ad-
mitted through the mistake of the Judges,
and not upon the demand of the Cruik-
shank men. The credentials of this district
are signed by the Stump judge, and set forth
that the vote taken was a "true one" and
that the Cruikshank delegates were elected.
AS TO the charge of repeating In this district
1t is quite as unfair that the Republicans
voted for Cruikshank. The wagon-load of
voters who went down from Elkton were not
those who had voted in Elkton, but Fifth dis
trict voters who had come into this town
early In the day expecting to be sent to North
East, the Fifth district voting place. With
regard to the charge that two Of the Cruik-
shank delegates from the Fifth were Repub-
licans, It need only be said that the gentle
men referred TO are the best judges of this,
and they most positively declare themselves
loyal to the Democratic cause.
Third. 1t is vain for the Stump men TO
cry fraud" in the Eighth district. 1t
would have been more manly ito have ad
mitted that in this district, despite their
lavish use of money despite their effort to
buy a prominent Cruikshank man, and
despite theil success in buying one Of the
proposed Cruikshank delegates on the eve
of the primary, they were outgeneraled and
overwhelmingly defeated.
Epurfh II will eftilxa ayorv vnuofbIa mas,
as foolish to talk about Judge Stump hay-
ing the popular vote when the county is so
decidedly against him. With no contest the
small Democratic vote in the seventh is any
thing but popular majority for Stump.
should the question of fraud in this mat
Ter come up before any proper tribunal, the
Cruikshank men may have something TO say
about the importation of poll workers from
Hartford county into the sixth district, the
unblushng manner in which voters were
seduced and bullied in the same district,
and the now famous "prize ticket" enter.
prize OF the Stump men in the Fourth dis
trict whareby forty-two Democrats, more
than enough to change the result, were
bought to oppose Cruikshank
To say the least, it is wholly inconsisiep
In the Stump leaders, after their secession
from the party In Mondays Convention, tc
charge the Cruickshank men with unfair
ncss. 1t is no defense for their course, a,
The wisest Of them well know and admit
To move the adjournment of a Convention
at time when that Convention was at
u npting to effect a permanent organization
eanaot be defended upon any ground an,
viii be written down by every good Demo
crat as revolution in the extreme. The con
test so lar as Mr.. Cruikshank was concerne,
was fair and open-an honest, manly an
peul to the better judgment OF the Demo
cratic voters of the county, and when the
had decided, it was but the duty OF ever
true man to endorse their verdict
1t is gratifying to know that many of TIN
stump delegates who bolted the Count
Convention have already repented their act
For this much they are TO be commended
Let them go one step further and, acknowl
cdging like men the will of the majority
give to Mr.. Cruikshank their cordial sur
port. TRUE DEMOCRAT.
ELKToN, MD, Oct. 5.