Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1878-11-22
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ROCKVILLE, MD.
Friday Morning. -. November %, 1875
POLITICAL PILGRIMS.

II is learned that day before yesterday a
party of politicians, which included Mr.. Jas
s. Deale, member of the City Council from the
Eighteenth ward, and VIM. H. Leonard, a
clerk in the Record Office, visited ex-Sen ator
VIM. T. Hamilton at Hagerstown to urge him
to announce himself candidate for Governor
and to begin his campo ign in Baltimore The
party went up in the morning and returned in
the afternoon, and it is stated that larger
party will soon visit Hagerstown on the same
mission.
journal, the Baltimore american of the 18Th
inst. Through the dark fog of dependency
which has so long hung over the Radical par
ty in Maryland their chief organ seems to dis
Germ ray of light and success in the insane
chickering's of the leading Democrats of the
State. 1t appears 10 see in the defeat of our
party in this Congressional district an open
ing for wedge that will ultimately split us in
twain. The great cry of ''reform,' is to be
again echoed upon the silent air of Democrat
ic success in this State, and all soreheacs are
cordially invited to enlist for the coming CAM
paigh. Nothing would please the leaders Of
the Radical party better than to have the De-
mocracy of one section of the State arrayed
against the other. The issues to be fought for
in the coming contest are not simply who
shall fill the fgure-head place of Governor
and have the appointment of subordinate Of
ficers in the counties, with the usual chance of
U. S. Senator, but those of interest TO the
bone and siuew of the land, the farmer and
the taxpayer.
The mau who next receives the nomination
for Governor and the men who are to aid him
10 the legislative body must not be profess
sional politicians to insure the support of the
Democracy OF this State. In the next Legis-
lature the great questions of a one Judge
system, 10 place of the three costly yelled
ensigns OF Justice, the abolition entirely of
our present expensive Orphans Court and the
substitution OF n more simple and less expen-
sive mode of settling up estates, equal taxation
OF all property in the State, and the lifting of
the burden from the producing and mercan-
tile classes and placing it where it rightfnlly
belongs will leave but poor margin for those
who wish to go there merely for personal ag-
grandizement.
So far as the nomination for Governor is
concerned we have nothing to say, and shall
cheerfully 10 the future as in the past support
the choice Of the party in convention assem-
bled, but we would in our humble sphere
advise our brethren that this is not exactly
the time to make nominations, for the good of
the party. Let the flush of victory pale upon
the brow OF our enemies, open and secret, before
we again marshal our hosts lei US not be led
estray in personal worship of man who hap
pened TO open his eyes upon the Eastern or
Western Shore or even in the Republican dis
franchised city Of Baltimore
The Democratic party of Maryland is fully
able TO take care OF itself, and all the kind
solicitude expressed by the organs and mana
gers of the opposition is cloves labor lost"
Should our honored statesman, Thomas, Of the
Eastern Shore, or German or Hamilton, of
the Western Shore be the nominee we can as
sure our Radical friends that we have enough
votes in the patty to elect either of them
without an uhholy alliance with the friends
OF fraudulent administration or its pets and
allies in this State.