Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1875-08-06

Bannon and Berrett as Directors in the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. We are
frank to say that as at present advised we
would not appoint either Of these parties
to any public position Of profit or trust
whatever But at the same time we should
recollect that the Treasurer is but one
member of the Board of Public Works
and it is hardly fair to pat the entire re
sponsibility for these appointments on
him. When the Nail says Of NJ. Comp
ton, "He is in truth dependent upon
office, the last in the world that should
be put into such an office, where oppor-
tunity and temptation are present every
day VIC must express our disapproyal.
That Mr.. Compton is poor and dependent
upon the salary Of his office is nothing TO
his disgrace and should not be the subject
of reproach by any right minded man.
Time was when his CIRCUMSTANCES were
far different, but the Government, which
took his property without making him
any compensation therefor, left him Ike
many Others in this section Of the country
dependent" upon their own cNertions ior
livelihood And it is to his credit that,
after more than fifteen years OF service IN
public life. and this too during a time
when corruption was ever ready with lis
temptations, he is to-day poor man. We
cannot agree with the MAJ that poor ucn
are more prone than rich to dishonesty
and therefore are 1.-THE last in the world
that should be put into such an office
where opportunity and temptation are pre-
sent every day" If this view Is correct
then we should have none but the wealthy
filling all the offices, for they alone are
able. according to the Nal. - resis; the
inclination to be dishonest, where oppog-
tunity and temptation are present every
day" We arc unwilling to ascribo such
sentiments to any respectable paper and
cannot but think that in this instance they
were written cugrsa{o caRaJao and publish
ed without revision. We hayeno purpose
in taking issue with the -Uea a; thi&imo
relative to the claims Of Western Maryland
for the Treasurership or any other Office
that section may deem itself entitled TO:
but we do object 10 the grounds upon
which that claim is based by the Hf5 and
take issue with it on most Of them.
The Nal says Charles county hasa po-
pulation of less than $4,000 and less than
one half ofthem whites, SO that
besides It's small population it is q Rcpa5-
lican county, and Jet from this cauaty
comes the Treasurer. This is al true.
sadly true, but we did no. suppose thai it
would ever be made = subject Of reprnaeh
TO us-least of all by any one In Western
Maryland, That section has always found
in the southern tier Of counties Its w-r.a-
est friends-friends in deed and friends
in need-friends who not oaly advocated
earnestly the costly system of internal in
provements which has done So much To
develope the wealth and respurecso or Yves
tern Maryland, but friends who cheersuliy
contributed out of their then abundant
means a large portion of the money SO NJ
cessary to carry out these plans, ana this
too without any hope or prospeetoi direct
benefit to this section. In all this the his
tory of the State shows that ChaIles coun-
ty, though with "A population ofIcss than
10000 and less than enc half Of them
whites was no laggard. Whatwa then
a source of wealth to her, and by tie TAX
ing of which she was thus enabled 10 CON
tribute her share to the great public works
in what was then the wilderness of the
western counties, has now become . poll
teal curse. And it is both unkinl and
unjust to reproach Us with this latter tlct
1t is unjust because the political record of
our county viii To-day compare fyarably
with that of any III Western Maryland.
Since the disintegration OF thc old Wing
party, this county has never failed once
to cast its vote for the Democratic party.
until its intelligent and substantial! voters
were numerically overcome by tae solid
negro vote, under the leadership Of a
few Federal Office holders and office
seekers. We have total population Of
1918, of which only G,ftS are whites,
whilst $500 are blacks This should
give voting class OF 1,2Si whites and
1854 blacks, making q majority Of go
blacks. Every man, at least in this see
ton, knows how thoroughly drilled the
negro vote Is; and tina, 50 ss!;ditied is il
that it is next to impossible t. make any
inroad upon it. Yet in the face of all
these difficulties, and Others which space
does not permit to allude to, and with the
assistance Of the few misguided whites and
the influence of the Federal Government,
under the shadow OF whose capitol we
live, we were only beaten last election
POS votes. Can our friends OF Washing
ton or any other western county, looking
back through the political vista Of the
last 20 years, show such ii political record:
such consistent fealty to Democratic
Nay, how is it with Western
now, that we are to be ostracis-
ed politically because OF Republican
Take the four westernmost
at the last election: Garrett gave
10 Republican majority, AlIegany PSI,
Frederick 159 and Washington county,
the home of the lNajI, went Democratic by
the enormous majority of 10, and all this
any negro vote to contend against,