Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1885-09-25

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Ia pursuance of call from the central
committee the republican county convention
met in the court house here on Monday last
and was called to order little after II o clock
by Dr. Geo d. Mudd on The raTt Of the cen
trail committee. The convention az uSul cen
81, ted O ut out two thirds colored and one-thlrd
white men. F. Q. Medley, Of the 9th district,
WAS made permanent chairman and S. s. Nc
Is me colore1, and James b. Sheriff were chosen
as secretaries On taking the chair Mr.. Med
lev eterred to t e fact that James &. B'"lne,
the noblcst and pures, ~ statesman in the
country, had been defeated iy the commoneSt
Democrat in the ranks of that party, and a!lnded
to the event as a great public calamity. HIS
remarks were tame and elected 20 tnthensiasm
TILE convention erg ,h'n ready ior nomina-
|tious TIE name of B. G. Stonestr,et was Fl, +
ed for cclk of Tie Cir, nj Court, and on often
liz was;srttd TO liz ke This rcn,:n ten ~ accia-
nation, which was done without dissenting
voice. The name cf James NJ. Harvey YVES pro-
lose d fer register Of vii 5 aud he Was likewise
nominated by reclamation. Tie name Of DR..
IF. NJ. Lancaster then proposed tor the
lSrnate, and a motion made to have him
la SO nominated l.y scelama'ion, nut AT this
point a tolored DemUrhene arose ard in
laundering hurS' OF oratery proposed Mr.. K.
IS. Mitchell for this position. This WIS not in
order of sffair. arranged hy tie leaders and it
place them in quardary, ms IL NJ peared that
Mr. Mitchell had quite large aud active toll
lowing in the cCnr'ntion for this position, md
Indeed it looked 10 Us rs if he mi SHIT have car
ried the day. As tie leaders were discussing
the best means o. getting rid of this vextd
question, Mr. Mitchell arose aud sid that IN
the interest of peace and harmony he would
withdraw his name in this ceanection.
motion was made IL second time that DR.. Ian
casters nomination be made by reclamation,
but now Campbell. a cclore6 delegate from the
4th district, arose and proposed The name OF
Richard Z King, the famous and only colored
lawyer of Newport, as Senator. The chair,
however, put the mo,icn as to DR.. Is nominal
ton and it was carried, with a protest, how
ever, from the 4th district, who said that they
h ID come t ere Instructed 10 vote for King for
tia, position AID would stand hy him. King
was. howertr. set down upon by he convention
hard enough 10 fl ttten even his hard and elorg-
ated head For the House of Delegates the
nam,s of Sidney Z Mudd. VIM. DEC. Mitchell,
in nomination, and for the first time the con-
vention proceeded to ballot. The b-lotiug
resulted in the selection OF the ticket et tie
leaders. viz NeSSrs. u m Pee. Mitchell, Nudd
md Souther+ud; r. 5 Mitchell being left.
Tie natucs of Edward Ede!en, S G Lancaster
GEO A Wade we're ttsn put IN uomina-
ton for sheriff nd again a ballot was ordered, /
and again Tie man chosen by the Leaders, ). /
G Lancaster, game out ahead, and lie was de-
cared tie nominee Ten names were pui in
ballo,ing ro>uied in the selection oil tie follow
ing: F. o Medley. Wnn. v. Dubois, F. \.
Richmond, S. E Hanmers!er and Benjamin
WEIGH Jr. ard their ucn,inslious were made
unanimous Ed $ Harmed Was men made he
nominee for surveyor by aC,lemaii2n, ard II E
republican county ticket WIS completed The
con ven,on then selected as delegates to the
State convention, which met IN Baltimore ye.- (.
terdav, b G Sicnestr.e', F VI Lancaster, \. 4
Posey ard Washington Burch. The centr,i
com a1iJtee of the county as a; present couStitu-
ted was hen reelected. they are. Is. G. Stone
street Dr.. Geo D. Mudd, James ". Harvey
and Hiliery Wade, colorsd. TIE conveniion
was in every respect Harmonious, for as Nc
b I'D previously surmis, d he ii ket had ali been
arranged befort hand and the body VAS only .
called upon to rati.y il, " hith ihey did. DR.. .
lancaster was on hand but not delegate. .
aud no effort move was made hy him TO seek
he clerk ship, the plum viii, b he has 80 earnest
y sought. Some high and mighty power per-
1aps had induced the DR. TO withdraw. The
DR.. made a speech at he end Of :be convention .
Z whicl he extolisd the great and glorious ~ .
,epublican party and still sworc allegiance TO
Is ma udates Many o: tie o'her candidates
ir-d off themselves IN nicely prepared ana pre-
'ioHsly arranged speeches, shoa IN conclusive
Y hat they knew many weeks beforehand that
hey would be cal cd q on TO deliver hem ST
er the nominations. Wei, ue can only com
ue I'D the party manag tment that can succeed
d. securing such absolute control over con
reu,on to make Them 90 their very wish.
It Is lesson in ring rule which perhaps
Democrats mi hit learn with profit. The
treated man of the lot was Geo. \ Wade. lie
too it seems had received the promise Of the
eaders OF support for the sherif'lty, but at the
last moment hese promises were forgotten, and .
l. al
tor, and Al a'so was sat down upon. The .
ticket has many elements of weakness aud it .
now Only remains with the Democrats 10 put n
good, strong and representative ticket in The .
field TO carry the day this lali.
Fer Sale.