Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1881-06-10


We really have some curiosity to know
what kind of Government the Governor
and his friends wodld have fixed US up il
their crusade bad no. flashed in the pan
Would it have been an oligarchy, ar what
other kind OF aristocracy2 Certainly II
would have had no relation to Democracy
"Weighed in the Balance and Found
Wanting"
! 1t has been a favorite remark with the
Governors friends that ''if the subsidized
press are not really subservient why don't
they controvert the Governors argumentsf
1t is this vaunted saying that has induced
US to devote more time and space to the
different bombshell preclamaiions, than
otherwise we should have deemed proper
Having knowledge that both the Bali
more and Hagerstown organs have been
circulated considerably among our read
ers by the Governors friends, we have
felt it necessary to take occasional notice
of some OF their usterances, which ether
wise we should not have done.
The Baltimore organ, in its last issue
puts the Governors case with degree OF
frankness that we had hardly expected
Speaking of tue coming election OF Comp,
trolle., it says:
They ttbe Cover lor's friend.,) desire
to place man in the Office Of Csmpsrol-
Ter, who VIII be able ut all times to direct
the fiscal affairs of The State SO rs 10 pre-
serve her credit and honor; ,oho rid not
permit any miscppror ria: ion o. heT rerenue
who will not eypend the money of the peo-
pie for The payment OF subsidies % The
henchmen of Bosses and newspaper cor
respondents Or he publishers OF newspa-
pers; woo will cooperate with The Gov,
ernor in promoting al needed reforms in
be public service; nh0 toiu act 81 harmony
ut,a the Gocernor as a member Of the Board
Of Petite Works SO that The Chesapeake
and Ohio Canal and other enterprise. in
which the State and her Citizens are in
tsrested, shall be honestly and economi-
cally Administered, aud mot Prus.itutcrt 10
the uses OF political dema.ogues as mere
machine for Iewarding ballot box stuffers
and the tools o. the Bosses
The organ, cf course, is not quite frank
enough to say tbat the purpose of the
friends in having a Comptroller who will
act in harmeay with the Governor as
member of the Board o. Public WORKS."
is, that he may thus enable the Governor
to appoint toe fr;eads to all the Offices
connected with the Chesapeake & Ohio
Canal and other enterprises" but that
conclusion is irresistible from tho State
ment. The sstensible reason, which tbev
attempt to assign as ap.etended justitica-
tion for the claim, is so patiently false that
no child, whs has reached the age of rea :
SON. could be asked to believe it 1t is
entirely 100 thin" to be believed even by
such complete simpletous as he Governor
and his friends seem to regard The Dems-
cratic voters of the State The action o.
the stockholders of the Chesapeake &
Ohio Canal on Monday last, so completely
negatives the assertion that that in
>titaiion is net admin stored economically
but in the interests of tue bosses" that
We really think the Governor and his
| friends will have to hide their heads in
very shame. We call especial attention
to the proceedings published elsewhere
Look at such men as w. w. Colcsran,
Geo. w. Riggs, Riggs & Co., Crosby s.
Noyes and other eminent citizens and
careful financiers, residents of The District
OF Columbia, and in no way interested in
Maryland politics, with full knowledge
of the assertion of the Governor and his
friends, earnestly endorsing the manage
ment of the canal and, together with an
overwhelming majority of the stockhold-
ers, urgently and unanimously requesting
the continued services Of President Cor
man, VINO has been SO recklessly and
Wiley abused by the scurrilous organs
who are acknowledged to voice the Gov
ernors claims. 1t was supposed that, after
his complete vindicaiiou by Republican
court after an exhaustive investigation
brought about bv the Governors ffieads,
which put the canal 10 an enormous ex-
pense, they would have ceased their mis-
cradle twaddle, but now they surely are
effectually silenced.
So that the sstsnsible reason they have
endeavored TO assign for change in
the Comptrollership being shown to be
entirely false, the real motive of the Gov
ernor and mis- friends is effectually un-
masked.
1t will have been observed by our judi
cious readers that the Governor and the
friends have been slow and reluctant in
coming up to this Board of Works part of
the question. Bent on their end of gain
ing the control of the Board and the pa
tronage it dispenses, they at fist endeav-
ored to accomplish it by equivocal and
abstract means. They at first set out with
the idea that the Comptroller should have
usurped the functions of the Court of APP
psals and declared acts of the Legislature
void and for his failure to do so he should
be superce led but, as this false pretense
came gradually to be put to the test, it