Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1881-10-07
ALL FOR THE HONOR OF IT.

Mr.. Francis Miller ever since we have
known or heard of him, has been conspicu-
GUS in the Republican party of this county,
and conspicuous only from the fact that he
is ever an aspirant for public favor. He has
an overweening desire for notoriety, and his
inordinate vanity is never SO much flattered
as when his name is mentioned in connec-
ton with some place of political prominence.
He is a politician of the Osc1ttle school,
always turning up" only to be always
turned down." With him ambition has
long since overleaped itself and fallen on
the other side" and did he possess half as
much modesty as he does brass, he would
have long since retired to the walks of pri-
vate life. which experience has shown him
to be so much better fitted for. But there is
not much modesty in Franks" make up,
and his repeated failure in the house of his
friends to secure a nomination, has only
served to stimulate him to further and more
desperate efforts, until at last and in the
course OF events, his party, not from pity or
sympathy, nor because they desired to do
SO, but simply because their was no other
available Republican lawyer in the district
willing to take the nomination, have Sc
lected Mr.. Miller as their candidate for the
Chief Judgeship of this district. Thus the
Honorable Frank" is a candidate, and all
for the honor Of 1t, for no man who has
respectable knowledge of the people of the
Judicial District, and the relative effect OF
the professional bearing of the two rival
candidates, will for a moment admit that
Mr.. Miller has the ghost of chance for an
election.
The Chief Judgeship of the district is
position of dignity and grave responsibility
and should be accessible only TO the ripest
and purest legal minds. Mr.. Miller is at
best lawyer of but fair mediocrity and mod
ern growth, possessing none of those native
qualities of mind which are SO indispensa-
BILE in grasping and weighing great legal
problem; certainly none Of those essentials
which enable a Judge TO rise above preju-
dices and partialities and look only to an
honest, legal and equitable conclusion of the
cause before him. Even though Mr. Miller
possessed the necessary legal qualifications
for the position, the education he has re-
ceived and the prejudices he has imbibed by
running with the soup house clique of his
party, unfit him for the impartial discharge
of its trying and ofttimes delicate duties.
Every one who is acquainted with Mr.. Mil
Ter, is fully aware that the horizon of his
intellect is bounded on the one side by Re-
publicanism and on the other by hate and
dislike, the latter qualities coming to him
in his cradle and which he has nurtured and
brought into active play in his more ma
ture life.
OF Mr. Miller's personal and moral char
acter we have naught to say, for SO far as we
know, it stands as fair as that of any man in
the State; it is the want of proper qualifi-
cations and the other objections which we
have named that in our opinion render
him unfit for the office. OF these we have
spoken fearlessly and above board and will
continue to do so until the day of the cleo
ton.
If there be anything in the history OF
Maryland Of which her sons can feel an
honest pride, it is the spotless purity and
integrity of her Judiciary; above reproach,
beyond suspicion, the fairest jewel in her
civic wreath, as it is the great bulwark of
our civil rights, and it should ever be the
duty as it should be the pride of every
honest citizen to see that its lustre is not
furnished, nor its usefulness impaired.