The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1883-08-31

The Republican Convention.

Inc haflOTu county hepuDnchn SonVen-
ton met ut the Court House, on Tuesday,
and went through the motion of nominating
a ticket 1t was completely evident that its
sole work was that of ratifying, by the form
ola nomination, the DEGREES of the managers.
Everything was arranged before hand, and
nothing remained for the convention but to
nominate the candidates as rapidly as they
were named by those previously designated
for the purpose. Therefore, the most ma
chine-ike harmony and dispatch character
lied the proceedings.
The ticket is partly composed of those who
tried their political fortunes two years ago
but new blood is infused by the nomination
of Messrs. S. A. Williams, John r. Kirk
wood, j. B. Scarborough, $. W. Bradford
Geo. W. ken!y, VIM. II. Chesney Joshua
McComas and Joshua G. Smith. AS to the
personnel of the candidates the ticket is as
favorable for the purposes designed as the
Baltimore Custom House could have selected
from the material at its command. The I'M
willingness of some of the candidates named
to accept a place on the ticket, and their sub
sequeHt Difference of personal convenience to
the demands of the managers evidences n
state Of strict discipline in Republican party
lines in Hartford county. The gentlemen
named need, personally, No commentator on
any hand 1t is the brightest side of the ma
chine-the polished surface-lhat has been
presented to public gaze.
In carrying out the programme resolutions
were also reported to and adopted by the
convention. The public roads, among other
subjects, claimed subordinate mention in
these. The ideas expressed upon this impor-
tant subject are excellent selfevdent plati-
tudes but we beg leave to protest against
the assumption of monopoly of them by
the Republican party. The truth is, the
construction and mending of the county
roads and their management in all details, is
no p0IiticaI matter whatever, and has no con-
nection with politics. 1t will be disastrous
day for our thrifty and prosperous county
when the maintenance of our public roads is
recognized as a political element. 1t has
been falsely charged that in the past road
money has been expended by our commits
sioners with view to political Objects
This was always recognized and treated as
electioneering talk of very doubtful char
acter, and is contradcted by the fact that
road.mending and the location of new roads
have been as largely committed to the man.
agement of Republicans as of Democrats,
since the county affairs were under the con-
troll of the latter. AS instances, no two men
in the county have been more largely en-
trusted with and called upon to aid in this
important matter than Messrs. William
Woolsey and Cheyney Hoskins both ardent
Republicans Their practical good judy
ment and experience in this line have been
avaied of in many instances and nobody
ever thought of their politics in connection
Herewith. The care of the roads is a matter
to be regulated by the sound business judg-
ment of the County Commissioners. An is
sue can never be provoked upon this matter
All should join, rs all agree, that it is of vital
importance to have good roads.
The same with regard to the public schools
is without the sphere of partisan politics, and
we point with pride to the excellence of our
our white and colorcd schools in Hartford
county
But the milk in the cocoanut, and the mat
ter of complaint most prominently put forth
in the resolutions of this convention relates
to the failure of the County Commissioners
to properly patronize the organ of the Re
publican party, owned and managed by II
stock company composed of the Collector of
the port of Baltimore and Others. Let us see
the Collector of Customs appoint from Har-
ford county one employee in his Custom
House who is not Republican, although he
may be willing to perform service al rates
olution however, is to give the county print
ing exclusively to the Republican organ,
whose columns are to be resorted to for in
formation in regard to county affairs, and
whose circulation would thereby be extend
ed and assured. Three other journals, now
taken and read in well.nigh every household
in Hartford county, and by more than three
fourths of the taxpayers of the county, are to
be ignored and monopoly of the county
printing given to a Republican organ, in or
der to establish it on firm basis and there
by aid it in its mission of handing the county
over once more TO Republican control, with
all that that implies. The County Commits
sioners have legal discretion in the matter,
and outside of politics there is more of pri-
vate advantage aimed at by the proprietOrs
of the Republican organ Ieferred to than care
for the interests of taxpayers. The printing
has been cut down as low as is consistent
with the business of the county and the in.
creased demand for county improvements.
After the work of the convention was ac-
complished Col. Il. H. Webster, who was an
interested spectator of the proceedings dis
missed the assemblage with speech, fash
toned to the shape of a sort of political BLESS
you, my children p and the delegates dis
persed.
Unlike our sister county of Cecil, "the ut
most harmony" prevailed, except small
ripple being occasionally raised by the per-
sistent mistake of delegate from the fourth
district putting his man in for the wrong
place. He was eventually made TO under
stand the programme, however, and when
his mans turn came carried out his part of
the programme and retired smiling.