The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-08-27
REPUBLICAN POLITICS.
Thaekery's withdrawal Saves His Supporters
in Carroll from Overwhelming Defeat.


A letter from Robert C. Thackery, of Cecil,
declining to have his name used in Carroll AS
candidate for Congress, has saved the anti
McKellip faction from Waterloo, and that
faction must feel very graceful to him for thus
coming to their relief. The fight had pro-
crossed so far they conld not well abandon it,
and they well knew certain defeat awaited
them. Col. McKellip would have carried
eleven of the thirteen districts, aud most pro-
badly all of them. Itmay be remarked that
early all then opposition to Col. McKelhp
was confined to this city, and it was nearly all
inspired by mere handful of persons. The
Colonel would have carried this district by a
good majority, had the contest continued.
The anti McKellip faction have been work
ing hard, Notwithstanding they observed the
ground sliding from under them. They had
declared against the Colonel and carried their
organ against him also. Having thus burnt
the bridges they pressed forward. There was
no honorable retreat. They never reached
the ''last ditch, however. They died in the
first, and without struggle.
To outsiders the contest was amusing,
though it was warm and bitter. So excited
did some of the partisans of McKellip and the
other side get that they declared they would
not vote for the nominee, unless their side won.
Each side was closely watching the other.
lChelS were Oul III every ulIcClOH
every move was watched. On Tuesday
night conference of the anti McKellip lead
ers was held at private residence on Liberty
street. The doors and shutters were closed,
but one of the other side was present also.
He did not get seat at the counsel board
but he took seat on step-ladder beside a
window where the sash was up, and he heard
all the grand sachems talk. When the con-
ference ended he left in such hurry that he
forgot to take his step-ladder with him.
There has been more of a scramble for the
Republican congressional nomination this
year than for some years past. And as the
nominee would run to certain defeat, just as
the anti McKellip faction in Carroll did, there
more than the distribution of patronage.
Col. McKellip seems to have been forced into
the fight. Some of his friends proposed his
name, and Immediately the name of Thackery
was mentioned. 1t was further alleged that
the anti McKellip leaders had promised the
county to Thackery, and there was nothing
left for him to do but go in and wipe up the
earth with the little faction who pretended to
be the party, and to show to the rest of the
congressional district the exact position they
occupied. While Mr.. Thackery has declined,
it is quite certain he would like to have had
the nomination. His declination, perhaps,
was lOuuueu upon Iue uncertainty muStnSi vi
not Mr.. Warburton, the Half Breed leader in
Cecil, would let him have the county dele
gates. 1t is not thought that he would, hence
Mr. Thackery's Discrimination to go into the
contest.
In Hartford last Saturday there was con-
test in the Republican primaries. Collector
Marine lives in the county, and undertook to
carry it. He sent his employees to the county
for that purpose, but George A. Baker, a
Gamer, near Aberdeen, wiped up the earth
with the Collector and the custom house en-
poyes, and on Monday had the county con-
vention all to himself, electing delegates to
the congressional convention favorable to his
nomination.
The primaries in Cecil ard Baltimore coun-
ties will be held today. Warburton will likely
have control of the Cecil delegation and John
T. Ensor will boss the Job in Baltimore coun-
ty. The congressional convention will he held
in Baltimore next Wednesday, and the NOM
nation will lie between Col. Mckellip and
Mr.. Baker Mr.. Ensor is said to be favor
able to Col. McKellip, and if this be true he
will likely be the nominee, and will again re-
visit the familiar scenes up that famous river
where so many unwilling excursionists go
aUarv fall