Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1881-10-28
SURVEYOR.
JAMES L. BRAWNER.
Possible President Davis on Republic
can MiSrule.

Possible President Davis on Republic
can Misrule.
Senator David Davis's views on the
managers methods and principles of the
the Republican party which hasjust placed
him next in the Presidential succession to
General Arthur may not be without in
terest to our Republican friends and the
public generally. During the last Presi-
Dental campaign he voted for General
Hancock and against General Garfield, for
various reasons alleged in his letter of
August 4th to Mr.. James E. Harvey. 81
have no hesitation in supporting General
Hancock" he wrote, because his election
will put an end to sectional strife and to
sectional parties, and will revive patrio-
tic sentiment all over the land which poll
teal leaders and factions for sinister ends
have sought tie prevent" Senator Logan,
who proposed Mr.. Davis for President pro
tenn, and his Grant brethren will remem
Der that in that letter Mr.. Davis said:
General Hancock's Order No. 40 stands
out in striking contrast with the actions
of his superior, whe soon after rebuked
and drove him from that command for
uttering sentiments worthy of all honor"
And the faithful who annually point with
pride to the record of the great Republi
can party and approve its successive ad-
ministrations will be pleased to put this
in their pipe of peace and smoke it:
CATER twenty years of domination by
the Republicans, chronic abuses have be-
come fastened upon the public service like
barnacles upon the bottom of a stranded
ship. There is no hope ofretorm 10y leaders
who have created system of maladminis-
tration and who are interested in prepetuat-
ing its evils. Nothing short of the sternest
remedy gives any promise of effective re-
to n, and the first step towards it is in a
cha lge af rulers. New blood mat be in
fused into the management OF public at
fairs before relief can be expected. The
people. demand change, and, being in
earnest, they are likely to be grati6ed.'
Thus eur Republican friends, by way OF
attesting their reverence and respect for
the memery OF President Garfield. have
arranged that his successor, should any
thing happen to Mr.. Arthur, shall be a
man who had net sufficient faith in Mr.
Garfelds's patriotism and integrity to
vote for him, and who believed that it
woufd be impossible to obtain good
government without first destroying the
Republican party! In his letter to Mr.. o.
II. Browning, May IA, 1880, Judge Davis
laid down his views on the cardinal points
of Republican policy as follows:
ssThe demand made by adherents OF one
of the great parties fer strong govern
ment means substantially a centralized
government, destructive of home rule in |
the States and the very reverse of what
Mr.. Lincoln well described as govern
ment OF the people, by the people and for
the people. Carried to its logical conclu-
sion such change would finally over
throw the republic"
Hurrah for Davis, Republicanism and
State Rights Let US go on:
1.-THE existing tariff is regarded as a
confused mass of incongruilies and mo-
nopolies, created by special legislation and
open to constant fraud On the revenue 1t
taxes the consumer heavily on those ar
ticles especially that are most needed by
the toiling masses. 1t taxes every news
paper every school-beok, every Bible and
the salt of the workingman with gross
injustic, because the poor pretense OF
revenue does not exist to cover the wrong
A revision, therefore, which shall be at
once searching and fair, is demanded and
should be promptly and efficiently made"
Add to this Mr.. Davis's declaration in
the Senate, March Is, 1880, that 1.-The time
had come when the mass of incongruities
and huge monopolies commonly called
tariff should be reviewed and adapted to
the spirit ola progressive age"
Hurrah for Davis, Republicanism and
Free Trade Let US go on:
Elections ought to be exempt from any
menacing force, and to be free from the
contamination of corrupt returning boards.
No party deserves confidence that seeks
ascendancy by striking down honest suf-
frage either by the use Of troops, by fraud
or by intimidation"
Hurrah for Davis, Republicanism and
no Troops at the Polls nor any Deputy
Marsbals! And finally let US contribute
to this new era ofgood feeling the follow
ing extract from Mr.. Davis's speech in the
Senate, March II, 1881:
can honorable recognition OF the trust
generously cenfded to my keeping by
Democratic votes in 1877 requires me to
sustain the existing organization of the
Senate. Whatever may be the result,
can accept no honor at the hands of either
side"
"When I said I would die a bachelor
did not think I should live till I were