The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1895-06-15


1t is true that upon DR.. Ellis refusing to
usurp the power of the State Committee of
which he was member Mr. Drennen was
forced to strike out that portion of his call
that dealt with the delegates to the State
Convention but he persisted in his attempt
to usurp the whole power of the County
Committee and to ignore his contender. Mr..
Hess.
We have not referred to Mr.. Drennens
attempted justification for this outrage,
namely. that it was eoncurred in by Mr..
! George $. Woolley, because the excuse is 50
thin that it has found. thus far. no defenders,
and has deceived nobody.
What possible shadow of right had DR..
Wallace. because he had been the chairman
of II county convention In 1893, to undertake
two years thereafter, that is in 1895, to
appoint Il new member of the County Central
Committee? The convention of which he was
chairman adjourned two years ago, and the
adjournment was sine die. The chairman of n
convention is nothing more than its mouth
piece, and of consequence, can only live,
politically, while the convention itself lives.
AL IpuIlllltut Sti' hif hlSSOlNtS lHt tOuNtu
ton, puts an end to all of its political powers,
AMI dismisses all its officers. An anomaly,
such ~ the head living after the death of the
body, has no more, heretofore, been known
in the political, than in the physical world.
Justice to DR.. Wallace, who is IL most esti-
mable gentleman, induces us to add, that we
learn he has since said, that at the time
he appointed Mr.. Woolley to fill Mr.. Bratton's
place, he did so because he was Informed
that the convention Of 1898 had delegated to
him that power, but he had afterwarl
learned that no such resolution was passed the
only resolution being one authorizing him rs
the chairman of the convention, to appoint
the committees mititjH hro ,rcehS from the
adjournment; that had he known the true
facts, he would not have attempted to appoint
Mr.. Wooley.
Upon this. two questions naturally arise,
~ who were the persons who misrepresented
the facts to DIR. Wallace, and t2) what We're
their secret motives for so doing? We think
the answer to both these questions is very
pparent.
| We are sorry to have been obliged to use
! Mr.. Drcnnens name so often. But what has
been thus done illegally, and with II high
hand. has been done in his name. No one,
we are sure for one moment, thinks that Mr..
Drennen is II man who, of his own notion
would attempt the unparalleled outrage
which has been pcrpetrated upon the Demo
cratic party Of this county. his name has
been publicly used but the real authors OF
this outrage keep themselves in the back
ground and work the wires; and they are
men who scheme in this way to gather for
pelf and profit. into their own hands, the
whole power of the Democratic organization
of this county, to be used by them without
scruple or conscience in pushing their pc
sonal and political fortunes. Ii it is submitted
/ to, il wW mate stare IF every Den,0crW IN
/ cecil COnnty.
II being now conceded by all ust-thinking
| Democrats in the county even including DR..
Wallace who was mistakenly led into the null
and void act of the Woolley appointment.
that Mr.. Bremen had no power to call the
imares without the concurrence of Mr..
Hess, and it following consequently,that those
! primaries and that convention so illegally
called, were null and void and bound no
one: with the further consequences that the
gentlemen nominated by the Drennen con-
vention have no legal claim to the positions
assigned them, it seemed to us, that the
proper way to repair all this multiplied
laundering, was to call new primaries and II
new convention at which every interest could
be represented.
With this view we called IL meeting of the
State and County Central COnNittees in
dccOrdGnce rWt he ancient PARTY ~Sagc to
which Mr.. Drennen was Spr"iHNy invited.
Mr.. Bremen did not attend. But majority
of the State Committee, feeling that il was
incumbent upon that committee to call a con-
ventiOn to send delegates to the State con-
vention to assemble in Baltimore on the 3lst
day of July next, signed Il call for the pri
maries and. as Mr.. Hess was present, Mr..
Bremen declining to attend, having appar-
emily by his previous action, incapactated
himself from acting, at least showing that he
would not Join in II call, we prepared and
have published the call which appears this
week We thought that, as Mr.. Hess was
bremen, by his previous action, had
shown that he would not act further with
Mr.. Hess, and as the primaries already held
We're clearly illegal, that Mr. Hess, as Il
member of the county committee, had the
right to act
In regard to this call for primaries appear
ing as an advertisement in a Republican
paper, after having been refused place in
the AerS and Democrat. it will be sufficient
to say, that while Elkton has, OSieHSjbiy. two
Democratic newspapers, they are both in
reality personal organs. OF course, nothing
which has Il tendency to antagonze the per-
sonal ambitions of those whom they serve,
could hope to find place in their columns.
ALBERT CONSTABLE.
j. b. SLICER,
HESTER Hess.
Resolutions of Respect.
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