The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-09-15
WELLINGTON SELECTED.


peHduOf george Il. w elllnSUOn was
on Thursday last elected chairman of
the republican State central commit
tee to succeed Mr.. Norman B. Scott,
Jr. The selection was made at an ad-
iourned meeting of the committee,
held at Raine's Hall.
Chairman Scott resigned his posi-
ton at meeting of the committee
June 80, having been appointed naval
| officer of the port of Baltimore a short
time previously by President McKin-
ley. 1t is been arranged at that time
that Senator Wellington should be
elected to succeed Chairman Scott,
but the Master leaders fought the
selection so bitterly and urged so
strenuously that such action would
result in the disruption of the party
that they enlisted the support of a
number of the followers of Senator
elect McCOmas in opposition to Sena-
| tor Wellington. The combined votes
of the Malster and McComas people
secured a delay, and the committee
adjourned until Thursday without
making a selection.
During July and August the repub-
can leaders worked necessarily for
| harmony. The first evidence of that
work was the combination entered
into by the fractional leaders in Balti-
more, which resulted in the unani-
nous nominations of Congressman w.
w. McIntire and Mr.. Frank c.. Wach-
ter for Congress. Under this arrange
ment each faction secured recogni-
ton. Then Senator Wellington and
Senator elect McComas met in consul
tation and amicably adjusted all diff
ferences, Judge McComas promising
to support Senator Wellington. FL
nally the Malster leaders were con-
they determined to assist in reinstat-
ing Senator Wellington at the head
of the party machinery of the State if
he could be prevented from taking of
fetal part in the management of local
contests in Baltimore. 1t was Sena-
tor Wellington's activity against the
nomination of Mayor Malster that
brought about the first contest in the
State committee. This condition was
agreed to and was carried out at the
meeting Thursday, when resolutions
were adopted giving to Baltimore city
leaders control of the municipal pri-
mary contests.
Senator Wellington, in accepting the
embarrassing, did not allude to the
curtailed power of the State commit
tee, but spoke of the national issues
and urged the return of six republi-
can Congressman to uphold the hands
Of President Mckinley and the ad-
ministration.
He said in part: Il assure you that
the honor you have conferred upon
Inc demands and deserves my very
hearty and earnest thanks / feel
that your recall OF me is vote of con
tidence so far as my past work on this
committee is concerned, and an ear
nest of your goodwill for the future.
| feel in this matter that we have had
a cessation of factional feeling and
have tremendously united. If there
has been Il discordant note in the
camp let us forget it and look to the
future with harmonious numbers to
bring victory. | believe you know
me well enough to feel assured that
in assuming these duties | will bring
the same desire to win victory as
carried with me in the contest of 1895
LAS party in the State and county,
we are at an interesting period, per-
iod of transition. The republican
party is charged with the formula
ton Of policy for the future. In
the past the party never met the time
that it did not have the energy. talent
and determination to envolve policy
that met the difficulties OF the occa-
sion and that carried il to victory.
But the past is gone The party looks
back with natural pride, but the is
sues of the civil war are dead and bur
led away. All other issues seem also
to have been laid away. In the last
political campaign the great question
of the tariff was before us. We then
promised such system of impost du-
ties as would carry on the govern
ment in times of peace, and so adj
justed as TO protect American indus
tries. Under the Dingley tariff bill
the country was making enough to
support it prior to the war. There
was also another issue-the gold
standard Of money. This is not dead
issue. Democratic conventions in most
Of the States are declaring for the
Chicago platform and for free silver
and the only party that stands be
tween this danger and the country is
the republican party. 1t is the duty
Of the republican party and sound
money men to send six republicans to