The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-06-12
POLITICS IN CECIL.
DEMOCRATIC FORCES LINING UP.
AT the Primaries on the Nineteenth
There Will Little Strife-The Fight
to be Made in the Convention.

Calmly and peacefully the Democratic lion
and the Democratic lamb are lying side by
side, just now, in Cecil county, talking over
with placidness and in friendly council the
affairs Of the county Democracy, and the
primary fight on the nineteenth which leads
to the naming of the ticket to be placed in
the field on the twenty second
At present not zephyr strs the political
leaves in the woods where the picnic is to be
hed-everything waits for the meeting OF the
picnickers. to find out which one will take
this, and which one will take that out of the
great big Democratic pic mic basket filled full
of Cecil county good Cuttings.
In that Gibraltar of Democracy-the Fourth
district-there is quiet and seeming con-
tentment, and the sweep of a field glass over
the county shows no evidence of Il coming
primary fight except possibly in the First
district where Richard B. Merritt, Il candidate
for County Treasurer. is fighting for sup
| port against an independent delegation with
respect to that office. 1t is so quiet thn even
| in the Sixth district where there are three
candidates for the nomination Of Clerk Of the
Court-Samuel r. Hindman, William T.
| Fryer and DIR. George s. Dare-the primaries
will undoubtedly roll along as though there
was no candidate in that section, for the three
have agreed, it is understood, to have equal
recognition and support from their own dele
CATION.
| Clerk of the Court John q. Williams, Of
the Fifth district; Register of Wills Reuten Z.
| OF ii ,,,in ba
vcntion with their own delegations seeking
| denomination, and it looks now as though
Mr.. lamar will have no opposition. Mr.
Williams, although strong. and at this time
apparently in the lead, has Il hard fight
to make-arrayed against him being the three
candidates named from the Sixth district, and
Thomas Howard, of the Second, who will
come to the convention. it is said, with the
Second district delegation backing him for
| the clerkship.
EX-States Attorney Austin l.. Crothers it
would seem. will receive the nomination for
State Senator. There has as yet been no
other likely candidate mentioned. and
although be states that he is making no fight
| for the honor whatever, it is more than likely
that he will head the county ticket.
For Sheriff, T. Ross Comfy, of the Ninth
district, is prominently spoken of-in fact is
the only one much heard of around the
county seat-wherc politics are supposed to
| have Il common centre. He has sought the
nomination Il number of times, but ii looks
as though the lightning will strike close this
convention that seems to be the opinion
Judge Stump was in Elkton. the other day
on a political errand or not-we do not
know. The Democrats of the county will
support him. it looks, without opposition,
| for the Judgeship of this Judicial district
Ex-senator John $. Writ, it is heard every
where, desires to go to the Legislature in
which event it is natural that he would make
Il fight for the Speakership which would
open the way for the United States Senate -
in case there is Democratic Legislature.
George S. Woolley, of the Second; Joseph
Coudon, of the seventh; Wilson L. Coudon,
Of the Seventh, editor of the Perryville
Record, and Robert Mackey. of the Fourth.
are spoken of as Legislative aspirants.
For County Commissioner Harvey
IIindman, of the Sixth; Ross Bies, of the
Fourth; and |. $. Deford, of the Fifth are
brought forward by their friends.
There are Others, of course, who have their
eyes upon the honors, but they are keep
ing in the dark, planning and padding their
own canoes. Strange rs it may seem, there
is only one candidate talked of around for
County Treasurer, as we'll as for two or three
other offices. 1t is not because they are going
begging at all. but because the fight royal
will be taken up Immediately as soon as the
nine district delegations are chosen on Satur-
day next. The three days and all the hours
and spare minutes from that time up to the
meeting Of the convention on the following
Tuesday will witness political scene of
activity.
The coming convention is looked to with
much interest.