Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1883-09-21
J. FRANK TURNER.
Of Talbot County.
Our Standard Bearers.


Our Standard Bearers
1t is with the greatest pleasure and full
est satisfaction and confidence that we
place at the head of our columns to-day
the ticket nominated by the Democratic
State convention which assembled in Bal
timore on Wednesday. The proceedings
of the convention were harmonious, and
the candidates selected for the offices to
be filled are eminently we'll fitted and quail
flied tor their respective posts.
OF the Hon. Robert NJ. McLane, who is
nominated for Governor. we have frequent
ly spoken heretofore. He has long. dis
tinguished and clear record as a public
servant and is widely known by the peo-
pie of the Stste. The manner in which
this preferment has been put upon Mr..
McLaue is as highly complimentary as it
is unusual in recent political history. Not
only has he not solicited the nomination,
but when repeatedly approached on the
subject by his many friends and admirers
he has as often stated that he was not a
candidate for the position, and would not
consent to complicate the troubles which
were gathering about the Democratic par
ty of the State by being considered in any
way candidate. He has remained en-
tirely quiescent during the agitation that
has been going on regarding the coming
man, and of him it may be truly said that
the office has sought the man. He was al
most unanimously nominated on the first
ballot.
Mr.. McLane is refined gentleman, q
cultured scholar and statesman of
breadth, learning and large experience In
his long and distinguished service in the
House of Representatives Of the United
States he has acquired national reputa-
ton as an answering Democrat, a wise,
able and prudent representative and
learned and conscientious statesman.
Whenever he arose upon the floor of the
House silence reigned and his counsel was
listened at on both sides of the body In
our State Legislature he was known as
leading thinker and wise counsellor
Mr.. McLane's record in every public
position he has occupied has been above
reproach. He was confidently looked for
ward to by the people of the State as the
one man above all others who would heal
all dissensions in the party and lead it to
success and victory No one doubts that
all proper reforms in State government
will be quietly AMI surely effected under
Mr.. McLane's admin ,tratiou. With him
as our standard bearer victory is sure
The following is brief sketch OF the
candidates:
The Hon. Robert Milligau McLsne is
the eldest son of the late Louis McLsne,
ofDelaware, and was born in Wilmington,
June %. 1915. Louis McLane was in his
time Representative in Congress, United
States Senator. minister to Great Britain,
Secretary of the Treasury aud Secretary
of State. After twenty years of public
service he retired to private life in 1887.
and shortly afterwards removed to Mary
land. having been rendered the presidency
of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany. Mr.. Robert McLane's mother was
formerly Miss Catharine Milligau, of Cecil
county. In 1929 he accompanied his
father to England, and studied in Paris for
two years, at the end of which he re-
turned home. and was appointed cadet
in West Point Academy by General
Andrew Jackson. He graduated in 1887,
and was appointed second lieutenant in
the First Artillery. In 1871 he was sent
to Europe to examine the system of dykes
and drainage in Holland. While on that
trip he married in Paris Miss Georgine
Urquhart, daughter of a Louisiana merch-
ant. Previous to sailing for Europe in
1S41, in addition to his engineering duties
he studied law in Washington under Gen.
Walter Jones, and was admitted to the
bar. In 1843 he resigned his military posi-
ton and started the practice of law in
Maryland. In 1912 he was elected to the
House of Delegates of Maryland. In 1s47
he was elected to Congress from the fourth
congressional district of Maryland over
the Hon. John P. Kennedy, the whig can
didate. He was reelected to Congress in
1S49, and in 1858 President Pierce ap.
pointed him commissioner to China, with
the powers of minister plenipotentiary.
In 1854, there being nothing to keep him in
China, and the climate not agreeing with
him, he was recalled at his own request
Early in 1859 he was appointed by Pre-
sident Buchanan envoy extradorinary and
minister plenipotentiary to the Republic
of Mexico. Diplomatic relations between
the two republics had been suspended for
several years previous to Mr.. McLane's
appointment. Revolution had reduced
Mexico almost to state of anarchy, and
indication were not wanting of the pro-
posed interference of the European powers.
Gen. Miramon held possession of the
capital, while President Juarez was at
Vera Cruz. Mr.. McLane recognized
Juarez as President of the country and
presented his credentials to him. While
in Mexico Mr.. McLane negotiated treaty
which gave to citizens of the United
States increased commercial advantages.
In 1850 Mr.. McLane resigned and returned
to his family in Baltimore. In the heated
discussions of 1860, Mr.. McLane took the
ground that the United States had no
right to coerce a State into submission,
insisting that the policy of coercion was
the policy of disunion and war. In 1868
he was engaged as counsel for the Western
Pacific Railroad, and during 1864 and