Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1881-04-08
Maryland Politics.

1t will! be = source OF uafeisned regret
and real anxiety to all true Democrats.
whose Political convictions are paramount
to all personal animosiries and private
discord in our party ranks are again being
famed into an active and dangerous fame
We had earnestly hoped that the unfavor-
abe result Of last falls Federal elections
would have had the effect OF awakening
the Maryland Democracy 10 the paramount
importance. nay, imperative necessity, Of
at once closing up our party ranks, an I
restoring harmony to eur party councils.
All rejecting citizens must see that with
the great influence e1erted by the enor-
mous Federal patronage in Mary
land i. behalf of the Republican par
ty, and the perfect organization and com
plete discipline that party always pre-
serves, that any serious internal strife
within the Democratic party at this time
will greatly endanger the the continuance
of Democratic supremacy in the STAG
The whole question presented by the re
forms and retrenchmsnts" demanded OF
the party, as we think with unnecessary
vehemence and parade, aud which so ser
iously threatens the unity Of its erganiza-
ton, has reiereHce almost solely to cur
failing Of the extravaganza in several of
the branches of he public service inaugu
rated by the Republicans for The sake Of
political patronage in 1864. This extra
vagancs has been already To . on-idera-
BILE extent gradually curtailed by success
sive Democratic Legislatures, and doubt
less would be at ne distant day, through
the influence of the reform element in our
party, legi,imately exerted in the regular
party councils, entirely swept away, and
the management of our State affairs brought
back to the economy of an:e be lum times.
1t was certainly to he expected that our
party leaders, however honest and up
right in their purposes, would be found
reluctant to dispense with every vss'ise of
this patronage which had been created by
eur adversaries for eur subsection. l. WAS
hardly to have been expected, and would
not, perhaps, have been prudent, that
these reforms should be brought about
BY . single stroke. The well known
course Of political methods forbids any
such expectation So long, therefore, as
the tendency is to the gradual and sure
attainment of the end desired through
the Legitimate influence of the int ligent
sentiment within the party, We do not
think that any prudent or conservative
citizens will see any justification in VIC
lent and revolutionary crusade that threat
ems the unity Of our party and Democratic
supremacy in the State.
When it 10 seen, - it must be seen, that
such internal strife within our party a,
this time will have q direct and danger
GUS tendency to subject US again to the
domination of the party that originated
all the abuses now complained of, We
think the necessity for the ex rcise Of the
virtue Of forbsarance will 20 reorganized.
These reflections have been prompted
by the repeated announcement 5, that have
appeared in the State press of late, that
Gov. Hamilton is preparing a bomb"
which 10 seen to he thrown into the party
councils, and bv the acrimonious discus
sions now current in some Of the papers
of the State, notably tbs Hagerstowu Mail,
(which is said to voice Gov. Hamliton's
views) and the Maryland Republican,