The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-09-22
Frederick Republicans.
DiSa1TectiOn and DiscOntent-BOss Rule.

| The Republicans of Frederick county are
not happy and united family. There have
been two factions there for some years. and
every year there is struggle for control of
/ the organization of the party and for the
offices. By reason of the faction quarrels,
although the Republicans have from 400 to
/ 500 majority, the majority has gradually les
J sened and several times the Democrats have
elected their candidates. The ticket the Re.
publicans have put up this year is not one that
can command the full support of the party,
and portions of it very likely will be defeated
/ One of the candidates for the legislature is
Harry c. Keefer, of Frederick. OF him the
Frederick Times, a Republican paper, says:
"We would be glad to speak ofMr, Keefer' S
qualifications if he had any, but his poverty in
that direction is so self-evident, even to his
most intimate friends, that it would be down.
right lying and hypocrisy to claim something
for him which he hasn't got. His lack of
business capacity, even in the management of
! his own affairs is so apparent, that it would
be a cold bloOded act to even call attention to
it. His eagerness and seli,assImptiQn in
placing himself in position which can only
bring out in a stronger light his mental def
ciencies, are the saddest features of the whole
matter and place painful responsibility upon
those who tickled his vanity and made his
nomination possible. Just at this time when
delegate ticket of ability and brains is need
ed, it is indeed anything but encouraging to
find it married and neutralized by one whose
! ability to vote intelhgently, even on q plain
question, is seriously doubted
Mr.. Thomas Gorsuch, who is the leader of
one of the factions, has aroused the wrath of
the Times also, and in its issue of Tuesday it
thus speaks of him:
! "Mr. Gorsuch, by little sharp practice,
managed to make himself delegate to the
State Convention, but when it came to MAX
ing up the State Central Committee he got
! left badly. He succeeded in having himself
made chairman of the county convention and
then when the delegation was about to be
made up by his own appointment, he very
! shrewdIy coached one of his friends to make
motion to have himself made o member of
that delegation. Some of the members of the
convention, who for some reason refuse to
! hang on to Mr.. Gorsuchs coat tail, saw
through the trick and so when it was proposed
to make up the State Central Committee in
| the same way they objected and insisted that
the convention elect the committee. This
was carried, and Mr.. Gorsuch received just
| four districts out of eighteen, showing in a
very marked degree hispopularity in the con-
vention. Had the delegation been chosen in
the same manner the Great Pacifcator and
!
same fate. As it was his low cunning once
more served his purpose, and deception won
where an open tight would have resulted in
! inevitable defeat
More than this, the course of Mr.. Gorsuch
| throughout, since the primary meeting in this
city, has been one of refined artifee and du-
plicity. His aim from the beginning has been
to secure place on the State delegation, as
well Us on the State Central Committee. In
the one he succeeded by q stratagem and in
the other failed most miserably. Back of all
this has been a silent purpose, on his part, to
! force himself on the State ticket as a oandi-
date for the COMPREHENSIVE, position which
he occupied on the ticket two years ago and
ran behind it in this county, even with can
didate against him who was intensely unpop-
ular with the great mass of his party. Not
satisfied with the odium which he has already
fastened upon the party by his connection with
it, he again, with an effrontery that is despi-
cable from its deeeitfglaess, aspires to place
which the very mention of his name lowers
and degrades With the stain of party tFeaeh-
cry vet fresh on his hands he assumes to lord
his kipgly will over Republicans who are, and
have been, such from principle and not plum
der, and cracks his party lash with all the
4 abandon and brazeness of rolicking slave
driver, This is the man who is responsible