Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1885-01-22

A SUGGESTION. an interview
with a thoughtful and earnest demo-
crat few days ago. he suggested that
an early organization ofthe democratic
party of st. Mary's was of prime i'm
portance to its welfare and he urged
us to press upon our party authorities
the call of Con vention to make such
nominations as the party might deter
mine on not later than the month OF
May. His reasonings were, that the
longer the Convention was postponed
the more candidates for nominations
there would be and consequently the
greater the difficulty of reconciling
them to its ultimate choice. Besides,
he went on to urge, if dissatisfaction
outcrop with the May nominees, there
viii bssnfIicient cooling time between
THAT and th0Sssvssou for the disap.
pointed aspirants and their friends to
escape their i'll humor and become sat-
isfed with and welded to the ticket, II
they enot shamefully self seeking and
disloyal at heart, whereas, il the Con-
vention be postponed until August or
September the disappointed aspiranis
will be multiplied, the dissatisfaction
IN the party increased, and this be
manifested in the party at moment
when there will not be sufficient time
10 reconcile the art-burnings, which
are almost inevitable frem disappoint-
ments of this kind. He urged many
more reasons for early action by the
democrats in this matter, which we
have not now the space to report, and,
among other things, he told US that a
republican caucus had already deter
mined upon the nominees of the re-
publican party in the county from
Senator TO Sheriff, and he even named
the candidates selected. but as he did
not give his authority for using the
names he mentioned, we do not now
feel ourselves authorized to repeat
them. One thing he insisted on with
great earnestness, and that was, that
the action of this caucus gave the re-
publicans great advantage, (if their
party would submit to IT'D over the
democrats. He described it's work.
ings as a combination between certain
ofiice-seekers to help each other to a
nomination in their party. The part
Ct each aspirant, our informant went
on TO state. was, first, to work up a
public sentiment for himself in his
own district, and secondly, to secure
such delegation from that district to
the county convention as would, not
only support him. but be sufficiently
pliable TO assist other members of the
scoalition when the occasion arose.
This, If successfully carried out, he
commended, would secure the nomina-
ton OF the caucus favorites and Sc
cure it by a sufficiently large majority
to make it appear as free will offering
of almost the entire party. When the
Convention met, he said, the trouble
in regard to the nominations would
be found practically over with, and
with such Convention, he continued,
it would not much matter whether it
was called early or late in the year.
We asked him if he would approve of
such proceedings as these if they were
adopted by his own party9 He hesi-
tated awhile. but finally answered,
that he would not. All the same,
however, be insisted that it gave a
great advantage to the republicans
over the democrats. and he again re-
newed his arguments for an early call
Of the democratic convention as The