Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1875-09-24
The Republican Nominations

The Republican State Convention met
in adjourned session in Baltimore on
Wednesday, and nominated full State
ticket as will be seen by summary given
elsewhere. The Convention also adopted
platform which commences by saying
I'VE, the representatives of the Republican
party of the State of Maryland in Conven
ton assembled, while adhering to those
principles which that party has in the past
so triumphantly vindicated" then
goes into declaration in favor of reform
and the ordinary platitudes ofsuch an occa-
sion. 1t will be seen by the above, that
whatever the gentlemen who have been
nominated may choose to say about it, il
is clear and PLAIN that they are the nomi-
nees of Convention which approves and
endorses all the iniquities which have Sc
outraged law and decency during the adj.
ministration of the government by the Re
publican party. They may choose to call
themselves Reformers, but they are in fac:
Republicans. The tree shall be judged
by the fruit it bears. and the election OF
these gentlemen will be triumph of Rad
icalism over the Democracy Its effect
will be to reinstate the Republican party
in power in this State and TO strengthen
it throughout the country. We cannot be
leve that the Intelligent American citizen
will be deceived by any such subtcrfuge
into endorsing and UNFOLDING Grantism
with all its denominations and corruptions.
Under the pleasing guisc of reform they
have, most strange TO say, captured respec-
liability in the person of Mr.. Wallis But
when you leave his name out you find in
the rest of the ticket nothing but rank
Republicanism. Nay. more than that,
you find in the person of Mr.. Morrison
Harris man unknown to fame. save as a
member Of Congress twice elected as such
by the Know Nothing party when it had
by its outlaws and murderers suhjugated
the State, and disfranchised many of its
best citizens, because they worshipped
God according to their own conscienCcs.
Morrison Harris and Henry Winter Davis
par mobile .fratrum during that bloody peri
cd were the representatives in Congress
and the leaders at home Of the Bloodtubs,
Black-snakes and Plug -uglies. When law
and order was again restored Harris WAS
consigned that obscurity from which he
had been dragged, because even his medi.
ocrity gave some slight appearance of re-
spectability to party based entirely on
muscle and composed of cutthroats. And
this is the man whom these "Retormers
present to you for your suffrages on the
score of decency and honesty in prefer
errce to John Lee CARROLL Such unblush-
ing impudence is beyond comment. OF
Mr.. Wallis we would say nothing except
in kindness. We have known him well
for twenty years and believe him to
be the soul OF honor and have no doubt
that he now belives himself to be actuated
by the purest motives. Gifted beyond
other men. brilliant as a meteor, like it
he lacks stability. Ever bitter towards
those who did not agree with him during
the Know Nothing times, he would not
speak to Morrison Harris or Henry Winter
Davis or recognize them as fit associates
for gentlemen. Davis died without ever
having been forgiven, whilst Harris lives
unrepentant to be held up by Mr. Wallis
to the people of Maryland as fit man to
be their Chief Magistrate, because if he
should occupy that position it will be due
entirely to the respectability which he will
desive from Teackle Wallis, who stands
side by side with him as the nominees OF
Republican Convention, which boasts
that it 'adheres to those principles which
that party has in the past vindicated.
Verify, consistency, thou art a jewell.