Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1886-08-13

Friday Morning...........August lS, 1856
The Congressional Campaign.
At the meeting of the Democratic State
Central Committee held in Baltimore city
last week, the times and places for hold
ing the conventions in the several districts
of .,e State to nominate candidates Tor
de next House of Representatives were
fixed. The place fixed upon for holding
the convention for this Congressional dis
trict is Upper Marlboro, and the times
September 18th. The time Of the county
convention for this cc.znty to send dele
gates to tn; district convention will be
fixed upon and duly advertised by the To-
cal committee during the coming week.
The prospect in the State is very sat
isfaetory one from the Democratic stand
point. There is little doubt, if the appar-
ent party dissensions in some of the dis
tricts be judiciously dealt with, that the
Democrats will hold their five districts in
tact, while there seems to he fair proba-
bility, if strong nomination be made in
the sixth district by the Democrats, that
that district will also be redeemed. Col.
L. Victor Baughman, editor of the Fred
erick Citizen and now President of the c.
and O. canal, is spoken of as the man who
can redeem the district and we hope to see
brother Baughman make the race.
In this district there is no doubt OF the
denomination and reelection of our pre-
sent able representative, Hon. Barnes Comp
ton. The ability and influence which has
been displayed by Mr.. Compton in the
forum and in the councils of the Fedora
Legislature are unusual for a member
serving his first term, and have won for
him well recognized distinction. The
necessity of an endorsement of his able
and important services by denomination
is recognized by common consent through
out the district and the slight under cur
rent of dissatisfaction which had begun to
manifest itself in some quarters as result
of the deferred hopes of anxious aspirants
for office, has been lulled into stiffness by
the strong and universal popular endorse
ment of the effective Congressional services
of our representative.
The redundancy and conflicting charac-
ter OF the far too numerous claims to Off
cial recognition set up from this district,
have been a source of much care and anx-
iety to our representative, and, added to
the essentially laberious character of effec-
tive congressional work, have made his
he has listened with the greatest patience
and courtesy to the pleas of all of these
numerous applicants and no one who has
applied to him in that capacity can fail to
recognize his cheerful disposition to serve
them to the best Of his ability. But under
the civil service policy of the present ad-
ministration, as thus far developed, Off
cial changes have been few and the infu-
ence of Congressman in that behalf in a
great measure diminished. Considering
these facts, Mr.. Compton has done remark
ably we'll for his district in the way of Of
ficiaf favors, sur passing in that respect al
most every member of the Maryland dele
cation. He is one of those party leaders
who fully believe in the principle that ac-
tive party services deserve to be rewarded
by official favors and, were the appoint
ing power in accord with his views, every
man in the district who has performed any
deserving service for the party would long
since have received bis reward. 1t is pro-
bable that in the not distant future, as the
policy of the administration to weed out
from the public service all offensive Re-
publican partisans shall be more fully de-
veloped, more can be accomplished in the
way OF obtaining official favors for our
district. Every party man in the district
knows that whenever there is any oppor-
tunity to obtain such favors afforded, he
will find in Mr.. Compton an influential
just and faithful friend.
Mr.. Compton's services to the true in
terests of the district, as distinguished
from those of the politicians, have been
very efficient. Many measures of import
ance bearing upon the material interests
of our district, which had been pending
before Congress for number of years,
neglected for want of an efficient advo-
cacy, (notably among them the bill for the
establishment of public building at An
napolis) have been pressed to successful
consideration by the influence which Mr..
Compton brought to bear upon them. Mr.
Compton's denomination will be by COM
mon consent throughout the district and
without opposition, and his election by a
handsome majority will "folow, as the
night the day" His candidacy, now as
heretofore, will arouse the people of old
Charles to the fullest activity and bring
every true Democrat and many of his ad-
mirers and friends among the alleged re-
publicans out to the polls to give "old
Barney" their vote.
The sixteen delegates appointed by
Gov Lloyd to the Farmers National Con-
gress, which will be in session in Minnea-
polls, MIMI, for three days, commencing
August 25tb, will be credit to the State
in that assembly. They are men of intel
ligence and standing, fully versed in agri-
cultural matters, and able to present in a
forcible manner the agricultural needs Of
their section. 1t is to be hoped that they
will all attend the congress. Maryland
belongs in the front in agriculture. Our