The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-06-09
THE REPUBLICAN SLATE.
Republican Leaders Joining Hands Over
Ditty's Body, and Planning Things
for the Future.
Frou the Baltjmore Dan of Monday ::

From the Baltimore Day Of Monday:
Those working Mr.. Hart B. Holton,s guber-
material boom are making hay while the sun
shines Since his success in securing Colonel
Ditty's removal he has been regarded as a sort
of hero and as the biggest man in the happy
family of Maryland Republicans. Within the
past few DAYS Republican leaders generally
have been talking great deal of Mr.. Holton,
and good many Republican papers have been
lauding him to the skies. The latest advocate
of the Congressman-e elect is Mr.. Hooper G.
Hicks, who was mentioned in the Day of Friday
as having been boosting him on the Eastern
Shore Mr.. Hicks has unbosOmed himself In
the Ame1icdn saying that Baltimore city, the
neighboring counties and the Fifth congress
sional district will send delegates to the state
convention favorable to Mr.. Holton, and that
he was admired upon the Eastern Shore, and
that people regarded him as the best man to
nominate Now this of itself is not of much
importance but the fact that Mr.. Hicks holds
n position in the custom house is alone little
significant.
Il think said prominent Republican
this morning, ''that Mr.. HoltOn' S nomination
is assured. Understand that | am not Hol-
ton man, and | should hesitate long before
voting for him ; but | am sure developments
will show that the slate has been fixed up and
it is a slate on which many of the leaders have
combined In the first place, | read the sig
ni6cance of Mr.. Talbot j. Albert going on
Mr. John H. Sellman's bond thus: Mr.. Hol-
ton is to be the gubernatorial candidate and
Mr. Albert is to be put forward as Mr.. Hol-
toms successor in the Fifth district. cannot
saw that this is fact, but indications are that
it is true But this is not all. | believe that
there has been a bargain made which incl udes
Hoton, Creswell, Harris, Gary and others.
now know that Mr.. Creswell and some close
to him. while protesting to be Colonel Dirty S
friends, and who had promised to stay by
him, consented to his removal. Creswell,
like Saul of Tarsus, has stood by, consenting
to Ditty's removal and he has formed an al
lance with Holton and Holton's friends.
think it will result in the removal of Colonel
Adreon. | know the Colonel is the most I'M
easy man in Baltimore and yet | am told by
a friend that the fact that Gary and those fell
lows are now friendly with Creswell and Hol-
ton will save Adreon's head"
''Why do you think the alliance you hint at
has been made p was asked.
"There are reasons as thick as blackberries
and every one of them convincing. Look al
the americans attitude-siX months ago OPP
posed to the administration and now favorable
to it. | think it shows that a combination
has been formed including the men | have
L
Gary and Harris, who opposed the Grant in
huence at the Frederick convention, as his
only MARYLAND advisers. Then, again, Ores
well is too big a man for the President to dis
regard altogether, and Creswell has too much
at stake to allow himself to be disregarded
Creswell is undoubtedly for Holton. So is
Col. Webster. So is the American. Mr.
Albert has ceased his attitude of hostility t.
Mr. Holton The next United States Senator
comes from the Eastern Shore, to succeed
Mr.. Groome. Mr.. Creswell is an Eastern
Shoreman and wants to go to the Senate
Here, then, is the way | read things as the.
stand now Maryland for the administration
in 1S84-Holton for Governor, Talbot j. AL
bert for Congress and Creswell for Senator
A friend of Col Dirty was asked how h
liked the boom for Mr.. Holton.
81 recognize the fact, said he that Hol
tons nomination is probable, and | think l
is true that combinations have been forme'
around Ditty's official corpse. But one thin
is certain: There are good many men in thi
community who have influence but who ar
not politicians. Many of these are Dirty
friends, and when Hoton is nominated the,
will knife him to the hilt. And they will d.
it without remorse and with the pleasure tina
only vengeance knows, not because of Dirty
removal, but because of the miserable means
the subterfuge and the deceit which Holtol
employed. If the bosses have patched up
truce over the removal of Dirty by such dis
reputable means, they have stirred up hOr
nets nest they did not dream of, and this tal
will show us split up into factions worse thai
for some years.