The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1884-04-26
THE RESULT IN CECIL.


As foreshadowed by the result of the
primaries Of Saturday, the Republicans
Of this county have, through their &C
credited representatives assembled in
convention on Tuesday last, added
Cecil county to the Maryland Blaine
column. This result was not in any
sense unexpected, nor is it an unwel
come one to any considerable number
Of Republican voters in the county.
That Mr.. Blaine has always had strong
following in Cecil county, and through
out the State, no one at all Conversant
with Republican sentiment in Mary
land will pretend to deny and since
the seal of regularity marks the act of
4 majority Of the Convention Of Tues
day in selecting delegation pledged
TO his support, there can be no ground
on which to dispute his right to it.
! ->oi ID IL 'iiSl'ulSt.
Now, if it be true that the prefer
ence of Cecil Republicans for Mr.,
Blaine as a Presidential candidate was
so generally conceded, and what is
equally the fact, that there was no or
gained opposition to his candidacy in
any section Of the county, why then
should the Republicans of Cecil, whose
attachment to the Republican party
(and their desire for its success is
higher and better impulse than mere
devotion to an individuD, have precip-
tated upon them a distasteful contest,
marked by more personal bitterness
and disgraced by more unworthy ap-
peals to the passions and feelings of
men than any recent contest in the
countyo Where the necessity of this
unseemly wrangle over the empty honor
of representing county in 4 State or
District Convention? Why this bile
and bitterness. this fuss and fume, over
| delegates. when no enemy threatened
the Blaine citadel in Cecil, and no voice
was raised in protest against the ex-
preston of the preference OF its Re
publican electors?
Simply because the popularity OF MIR.
Blaine's name afforded unworthy men in
Cecil, and throughout the State, a pre-
text for exciting distrust against promi-
nent men in their party, whose ability
they coveted. and whose influence they
envied.
The Baltimore HERALD strikes the
KEY note of this contest when it SO
forcibly says that ''the whole campaign
in this State has, we are sorry to say,
been conducted upon the principle
Anything to beat Creswell.' \ COM
men instinct of self-preservation i'm
PEELED the small-fry politicians Of all
factions to Join in an alliance offensive
and defensive against man whose
acknowledged ability and wide influence
in State politics had given him stand
ing with the Federal administration
which none of his enemies could hope
to attain and vet which all looked upon
with envious eyes,
Can it be that the intelligent and
better sentiment Of the party in Mary
land does not condemn such warfare
upon any Republican, whatever his
prominence
Indeed the Republican party in this
county and State can lily afford to lose
in its councils man whose reputation
is national, and who possesses so many
elements of usefulness to his party.
Who is to take his place:
If the men who seek Republican con-
troll in Maryland aspire to nothing higher
than to see the Republican party live
on d hopeless minority, they are taking
the proper course to realize their I'M
worthy ambition. For certainly the
men who advocate this proscriptlve
policy cannot desire the success Of Re
publicanism.
The Republican party in Cecil county
has indeed fallen upon evil times when
! her ablest' representatives are set aside
for men who are too willing and ready
allies of the Democracy, and whose
personal attachment to willy Democrats
is higher impulse than allegiance to
their party or devotion to its principles