Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1874-02-13

in the pronounced eulogy of your cores
pondent, is a proposition we shall not con-
trovert. SO far as we are aware, he has
administered the duties of his office effici-
emily and faithfully. But if it be the OBJ
ject Of your correspondent to forestall &C
ton, on the part OF the School Board, by
attempting to create the impression on the
public mind that the late Examiner is the
only individual equal to the position of
EXaminer-that he alone is qualified by
scholastic attainments to properly and etfi
GENTLY promote and carry on the interests
OF public education, and that the fact of is
having held the office for six years is con-
elusive and cogent reason that he should
continue to hold ito propositions so
palpably nt01strOus trust | shall be par
doned III the estimation OF all fairminded
and honest men for entering a decided and
emphatic demurrer.
If the position of your admiring and en-
thusiastic correspondent be tenable, that
efficiency in office is valid and conclusive
reason for continuous appointment, then
it follows as Il necessary deduction from
such a premise. that the first incumbent of
an office whose administration Of its du-
ties is efficient and faithful, would by rea-
son of such a rule enjoy a life tenure in its
emoluments to the exclusion of all other
applicants. The deductions of such soph
istry are its conclusive refutation.
How long could political organization
be preserved and maintained on the basis
of rule so unfair and invidiously discrim
mating? If this rule of continuous reap
pointments, as reward and appreciation
Of faithful! services, is to apply to the office
of Examiner, (according to the late PRO
muIgation.'D then we insist that its appli
cation should be general, and the first and
present incumbents OF all offices be contln-
ued dsriay faithful and efficient services.
Why, pray YOU, should the office of Exam
liner be EXCEPTIONAL
But it will perhaps be said that the
office of Examiner is not in its nature pc
litical. and that all considerations should
be ignored save the qualification of the
applicant. Our reply is, that by party
rule and party usage, it is made just as
much a political appointment as any other
under the law, and stands, in its relations
to political considerations, in precisely the
same category. Should the Radical party
again obtain control Of our State, how long
would it be ere the head of the Democrat
ic Examiner (whoever he be- would be laid
on the political block? How was it with
the Examiner under the Radical school
law of "a 4? Was he not unceremoniously
ousted by the Democratic School Board
organized under the Democratic law of
o. and the late Examiner appointed to
succeed him! We never heard it even in
timated 10y his enemies, that he lacked the
qualifications essential to an efficient and
faithful and Jealous administration of the
duties of his office. Yet he, as a matter of
course, and think very properly, was re-
moved on party grounds Such was the ac-
ton of the Democratic party throughout
the entire State. DR.. Van Bokelin and the
whole Radical nest were thrown overheard
and Democratic school officers appointed
in their places. So then | am borne out in
the opinion that the office of Examiner is
not exceptional in its relations to politi-
cal considerations: and therefore that the
principles of rotation "a principle vital to
the existence and preservation of party or
ganization and party success) is as appli
cable to the office Of Examiner as to any
other office under the law. The violation
OF this cardinal principle and the Insane
and suicidal attempt by the Democratic
party of this county To perpetuate in office
ncumbents whose turn 1t was to retire,
and who ought to have beer satisfied to do
so, disguised and disheartened many good
and true men in our ranks and eliminated
in dire defeat.
OF one thing | can safely venture to as
sure your correspondent, and it is this:
That no School Board appointed with
reference to their individual predictions,
and pleaged already to some particular APP
pliCant can ever give satisfaction to the
honest people of Charles county. And |
can equally assure your correspondent that
u School Board selected with single eye
To fitness and scholastic attainments-men
of whom the President of the late School
Board is type 81. II. Mitchell Esq .)-lcW
give entire satisfaction to the honest and
intelligent people OF our county in the APP
pointment of Examiner, whether it shall
be the late incumbent or some other in
diyidual "desirous of serving the people"
whom, such Board, undismayed and I'M
moved by the thunder of 'promulga
ton" shall dare to appoint ,cithoat the
advice and consent of even SO important
and distinguished a parsonage as Justicia,
who, with such SUBSCRIPTIONS care" has
paraded his ideal standard to the public
gaze, and to whose exalted height he would
invite the ardent aspirations of all ambi-
tious School Examiners.
VERITAs.