The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-10-31
4 RARE MEETING.
HEAVEN HELP TIE REPUBLICAN PARTY, FOE SOME
OF ITS CANDIDATES DON'T % IT!

of Judge Brown, his OPP
ponent, was generally regarded as an
organized movement against politi
cal managers and bosses, in the in
terest of better local government.
The conservative business men and
taxpayers of that city. irrespective
of party politics, have long since be-
come tired of this apparently eternal
and everlasting Setting up" of po-
litical nominations for places of re
sponsible public trust, at the dicta-
ton and in the interest of an indl-
vidual or two.
They saw just what our people in
Cecil county are now treated to a
sight ola little junta of Elkton pol
iticians of mixed political complex
ions, shaping and controlling the or
binary machinery Of party organiza-
ton, for mdla1dual use solely.
They saw, just what we now see,
the local bosses tramping down party
lines honestly drawn by honest diff
ferences Of individual political opin
ion, for the service ofpurely personal
ends, and the whole business of Sc
lecting faithful officers to fill places
of public trust, relegated to single
individual.
But with all the selfish scheming
that ever darkened the political an
nails of Baltimore the Republican
voters of that city ground down meath
the upper and neither millstones of
aristocratic Bourbonism on the one
hand, and the mobism of popular
Democracy on the other, never wit
messed a more unwelcome sight than
was exhibited in the town of Elkton
on Wednesday last, when the lead
ing candidates upon the Republican
ticket in Cecil county came here, and
seeking the congenial companion
ship of Mr.. Albert Constable, the
local Democratic Boss" held their
final conference of the campaign in
his closets, drew fresh inspiration
from his whispered counsels, and
went back to their Republican con-
stituents strengthened and encour-
aged CD, to renew their appeals for
support and for votes.
How comfortable Mr.. James A.
Davis, and Mr.Thomas p. Jones, Jr.,
and Mr.. VIM. D. Bradford, and Mr..
Samuel Johnson must have felt in
that congenial atmosphere
And yet, how many objects, plans,
or hopes, have the Republicans in
Cecil-whose support these candi-
dates solicit-in common with Mr..
Constable?
Few indeed if any.
And yet these candidates were per-
fectly "at home" in his office, some
common instinct of self-interest SEEM
ingly dra ing them together.
And why?
Simply because it was, and is we'll
understood, that these same gentlemen
were MADE candidates, not in defer
ence to the prevailing Republican sem
timent of the county, but to please
and appease this self-same Democratic
"Boss." They are to be the means
by which he is to crafty his political
vengeances. Their reciprocal service
is to elevate and magnify his bossship.
Else, why this planning and plot
ting, this hobbing and nobbing twixt
him and them.
Now if it be the fact, which no intel
ligent Republican will haye the te-
merity to deny, that Mr.. Constable has
nothing politically in common with the
Republicans Of Cecil county except
such of them as he has, in order to
crafty his revenges aided politically.
Then, is it not repugnant to the feel
ings of all other Republicans, not so
bound BY Political obligations to this
"B0sS," that the leading candidate on
our Republican ticket, should so place
themselves under the control and dom.
nation of the man who has more po-
litical vengeances to crafty than any
man in Maryland, and is kept buster
gratifying them than any politician in
the State, and whose sole political aim
is the disintegration of both the Re-
publican and Democratic organizations
in his county and the founding of a
new political oieharcy on their ruins
with himself and Mr.. Warburton, and
Mr.. Smith, and Mr.. Washington DAVIS,
and MIR. Ben Thomas, as its local d.
rectors, managers, and bosses?
Heaven help the Republican party
in this day Of its unwelcome degen-
eracy in Cecil, when its prominent
candidates walk past the doors of
every prominent Republican in Elkton
to seek sweet words of counsel in the
closets of their most inveterate and
insidious enemy!
1t bodies no good to Cecil Republi.
canism that such representatives in
their reckless greed for Office, so over
look the Obligation they owe to the
Republican voters OF Cecil.
The evil day is upon US.
We can only hope that the popular
revolt against such "bossism" in Cecil
will be more emphatic next Tuesday,
than it proved in Baltimore last Wed.
nesday.
Let us be thankful that there are
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