Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-07-03
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PORT TOBACCO:
Thursday Morning, July..............3, 1873
, The Democratic Party

A perusal of the prominent political
journals ofthe country will satisfy the most
casual reader, that there is certain class
of political adventures who give mouth
to the cry that the Democratic party is in
danger of dissolution. 1t may be that, with
them, the wish is father to the thought,
and hence they undertake so speak by au-
thority, and preach lessons political duty
to those whom they have hitherto persist
emily opposed. The pretense put forth by
these essayists, that the perpetuity of the
Democratic organization necessitates the
repetition of last falls folly is urged from
motives of self-interest, and is too trans
parent to invite a moments serious con-
sideration. This class Of alarmists is, for
the most part, nothing more than mere
agency operating outside the Democratic
party for the purpose accomplishing that
party's ruin. Lead on by blind infatua-
ton, the managers of our party tactics, last
year, allowed themselves to wander after
strange gods, and offer worship at strange
shrines. AS for ourself, while we steadily
protested against the nomination of Mr..
Greeley at Baltimore, yet, when that nom
nation became an accomplished fact, We,
in common with others, labored earnestly
to bring about the success of the ticket as
matter ofparty allegiance and as the only
means in the shape of an organized oppo-
sition, which gave any promise, however
feeble, of Grants defeat. The short sight
ed policy which permitted our Convention
at Baltimore to ratify the foolishness OF
Cincinnati, and put in nomination the life
long devotee of high protective measures,
bore its legitimate fruit, and, of course, re-
suited in the election of Grant. We cannot
accept the election of Grant, however, as a
defeat of the Democracy. The Democracy
was really without candidate in that
campaign, and the election of Greeley, en-
dorsed even, as it was, by convention of
Democratic politicians, would have been
really the triumph of high protective tariff
doctrines over Democratic free trade prin-
ciples. While the action of the Baltimore
Convention was, to certain extent, con-
yiction of weakness on the part of its par
ticipators, it has, nevertheless, been at
tended with no seriously disastrous conse-
quences to the party itself. The refusal of
a vast number of old and tried Democrats
to confirm, by their votes, that departure
from principle and to follow in enthusiast
tic alteration after the new god was un-
mistakable evidence of devotion to early
teachings, and of a determination to re-
buke those who had so unbecomingly tri-
fed away the ,party''s pp2u& 2SIS 1E0t-
wit6standing all this, It il alfa ybeing
urged upon the party, in advance, to re-
peat the madness of last year, and to look
for its hope Of salvation to securing again
the willing services of some hereditary foe
for the future. This solicitude for party
success is displayed only by that unhappy
coterie of professional politicians, who are
now beyond the pale of both the Demo
cratic and the Republican organizations,
and who are anxious to lend a helping
hand to the destruction of either, SO as to
build up their own sunken fortunes upon
the ruins they shall have wrought, and
thus to find ready hostile alliance against
the survivor of the two. AS far as the
Democratic party is concerned, we believe
this hope is without the faintest promise
of fulfllment. These officious advisers are
the old time foes of Democracy, in whom
we can take no interest save as deceitful
adversaries, and whose fantastic humors it
would be suicidal for us to respect. If
they really desire the success of our party,
let them be patriotic in modest way, not
arrogating the right to- mould our policy
and direct our course, but quietly content
ing themselves with giving us their votes.
1t will be quite time enough for them to
assume the prerogative of authority when
their fitness to do so is established, and
their right of respectful audience will be
considered after their sincerity has been
tested. The Democratic party is as vigor-
Gus to-day as of yore, for it rests for it's
support upon principles ofpolitical equity,
which no momentary success of its foes can
hold in permanent suppression. By al
faithful fealty to these old principles we
have triumphed in the past, and by firm
adherence to them, through good and evil
report, we shall surely succeed in the flu
ture. We should not go beyond our own
fold and select as our banner bearers the
discarded political fossils of opposing Or
CARNATIONS. In every aspect of the case
we should be true to ancient doctrines,
and decline to gather up the rejected trag-
ments of tottering platforms as supports
for our own party fabric.
The Potomac Railroad Tunnel.
The first regular passenger train passed
through the Baltimore and Potomac Rail-
road tunnel Sunday LAST. The train was
one from the South, which heretofore have
been stopping at Lafayette station, Town
send street extended, at $50 A. M. This
train went through to the Calvert station
of the Northern Central Railway, reaching
there at 6:45, the time between the two sta
tions being about fifteen minutes. Engine