The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1884-08-01
The Claims of Hartford for the Con.
gressiOnal Nomination.

The convention to meet at ElktOn on
Wednesday of next week is looked to with
much interest by Democrats of the counties
composing the Second Congressional Dis
trict. Whatever the Individual claims of any
gentleman named as prospective candidate
for Congress, something also should be al
lowed in the selection to locality as well as
fitness as a means of consolidating and har-
monizing the district this fall. Every county
composing our district is already represented
in the State and National Governments in
some of their branches, with the single ex-
ceplinn of Hartford. We are loath to con
TESS, and do not in fact believe, that our coun'
tyisnnder any ban that has brought about this
state of affairs. hut at all events simple justice
should prompt the representatives OF the
other counties to regard the fact. We are
united Democracy here and have but one
name TO present to the convention. We do
not intend to trespass upon good taste by
comparisons, but yet cannot in justice TO our
people abstain from saying that the name we
do and shall present is unercepttondde-
wise unexceptionable as to character and
qualifications, but in the name of the united
Democracy of II largely Democratic county,
we respectfully claim recognition at the
hands of our sister counties of the district.
The dawn of a glorious morning is, We be-
lieve, about to break upon the long suffering
people of these United States. The spirit of
strict justice is the keynote that is now ami
mating the National Democracy to nerve
themselves in the fight for the overthrow of
our political enemies. 1t largely predomi-
mated at Chicago in the selection of Cleveland
and Hendricks. 1t is this belief that has al
ready attracted to our support in the nation
al campaign so large and 80 respectable
body of Republicans in the Northern States.
Let this same spirit of justice, rising above
advantages of party manipulation and party
methods, also animate and dominate the
Congressional Convention at Elkton. Sure
ly, if such should be the case, we can with
weighty reason urge the claims of our people
upon that convention. Let it be but fairly
understood, that the well being of the party
is to be trusted only, after sufficient guaran
tee of character and qualifications, on the
broad platform of strict and equal justice to
the Democracy of each of the counties COM
posing our Congressional District, and we
are content.
The nominee of that Convention will be
yond all doubt be our next representative in
Congress. To his election, whoever he may
be, Hartford will contribute us largely in pro-
portion to her voters as any other county in
the district. Our party is solid and our
strength largely recruited from the ranks of
the younger element of the Republican party
and although, like the old guard at Waterloo,
we do not require music and banners to en-
courage our charge upon the enemy this fall,
we do wish leader to head our ranks pecu-
liarly acceptable TO u.s. and of whom and of
whose career in Congress the noble old coun-
ties of Cecil, Baltimore and Carroll will be
as proud as ourselves.