Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1890-12-12
Mr.. Hodson's Council.

a committee Of Republicans me, in Bal
ianore last week to formulate and sug-
gest plan for the future guidance Of
the Republican party Of this State How
il succeeded will be best known later on
when the convention announced to be
called on the 3rd Monday Of January
next meets to approve its work. The
plan suggested Cor the counties provides
"for an election on some day before
the first Monday in May, 1891, and
biennialy thereafter. Of district commit
tees in each election district Of the sew
eral counties, which committees shall be
composed Of not less than three nor more
than ten in any district, and shall serve
for two years. The district COMM tees
shall organize by the election of presi-
dent, and the presidents of the several
district committees shall form county
committee, which is authorized under
certain conditions to increase its mem
bership. The county committee in turn
shall organize by the election Of officers.
and the chairman Of such committees is
to be ex-ollicio a member Of the State
Central Committee from his county. -
The remaining members to which each
county is entitled shall be elected either
from within or without the membership
Of the county committee. The district
committees of the several counties are
charged with the supervision of all mat
tefs Of registration and the conduct Of
the primaries to select delegates to the
county conventions"
We canno' say that We are at all in
love with either the call for the conven-
ton or the result Of The committees ac-
tion. In the first place we question the
right Of Mr.. Ilcdson to call the
committee EARLY in the fall just prior
TO the beginning of the congressional
campaign some half dozen members, a
minority OF the State Central Committee
held a meeting in Baltimore aud APP
pointed a committee, it IS said, to devise
some scheme whereby reconciliation
could be effected between the warning
factions of the party in Baltimore. The
committee had Il meeting and no practi-
cal good was accomplished The work
which the committee was constituted then
10 do, whatever that was, has been
done, the election is over aud the com
mttee is therefore fttHctus o6icio. Its
meeting aTafn at the request Of Chair
man Hodson for new and different pur-
pose, therefore, while possibly praiswor-
thy in itself so far as the good intention
of the committee goes, is Unauthorized
and can have no binding force. The
State Central Committee is the recog
hized authority to con .rol and direct par
~ management, and any attempt on the
part of any individual to assume this au-
thority is bosssm III is worst form -
But passing over the action of Chairman
Ho1son in this particular, is it the time
% Segin stirring up political excitement?
The people have just passed through a
heated camraign, and want rest. How
ever Jealous the partisan. however loyal
party workers are to their plrty's cause
they occasionally want rest and recrea-
ton from tie excitement Of a campaign,
aud one having lust ended they cannot
be expected to tumble pell-mell iuto an
other. And besides the business interest
Of the State den auds a diversion from
politics. Men are unwilling to give
their time and thought to politics from
one years end to another. Good Judgment
does not suggest it, nor the necessities
Of the country demand it. And too.
would it not have been better to have
allowed more time for the angry ssings
of the fighting factions in the party to
cool. Experience teaches that excite
ment dethrones reason. and may it not
then be supposed, that those who have
SO recently suffered from cruel aud un
warranted disappointments at the hands OF
she administration. and those who suffer
Cd defeat at the recent election are not
in condition to intelligently consider
what is best for the futsre welfare of
the party. 1t seems to US it would
have been much better to have waited
later on until the usual time, when the
people would have been in a humor to
talk politics, aud the Republicans in Il
better condition to think over and proper
ly digest questions of party management
and would be ready aud willing again to
begin assw the fight for their party's
success.
AS to Shs plan the committee suggests;
So far as the counties go there is no need
d a change from the present mode o
conducting the party manageme 1t. 1t is
entirely satisfactory. 1t isplain, simple
AMI fully understood. a committee o
three Directs the helm of the local or
ganizatioa and we fail to see any neccs-
sity for committee as unwielly in
numbers as tha' suggested All elec-
tons ape attended with expense and la
Dor, ane the elections for officers of the