Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1881-05-20
FACTION FIGHTS.

my WV
-, 81 ,b, current Of events for the .
last few years cannot have ''led TO "4
immersed with the neutrality-suspicious.
n modern politics. Whilst tue great
mas, Of the people may vote their honest
political sentiments on election Day ''er'
!. another, aud very influential cas- are
who appoiutly have no true pYi','O'
opipjoDs. but are actuated ny '"e io'e
Of place and power These latter make
of politics a regular business, devotng
al their time and energy to it, just as
other men 60 into the trades or the
learned professons-thcy are literally pro-
fessionsl politicians. We have no doubt
but that tie undu frequency wi h which
elections are held has very much to do /
with promoting the growth Of these po-
litical parasites. 1t certainly great
and growing evil, and one which we can
hardly hope to see cradcated in our day
and generation, but could, but be bene
fetal if mitigatcd, in any way. We can
think Of but one means to accomplish
this desired end, and that is to have our
elections few and far between, say once
in four years.
As things are now, every year nineteenth
os.he people of the nation arc stirred up
and set by the ears over some election
excitement; one year it will be aboSt
the national Congress and the next year,
IL will be over the State Legislatures.
The amount Of time wasted money
spent, liquor drank by these equally re
curing elections, if committed int
money would soon pay the national debt
We believe in frequent eletNons. asnece.
rnry to our form ofRoverninant' put ="
submit. once infour years is often enough
If the President, with bis immense pa
tronagc may be trusted not to ruin the
country in four years, surely we can
trust the comptroller of the Treasury Of our
State or the county Commissioners, and
other small officers, with the same tenure
Of Office. Politics is a good thing in a
republican from Of government like ours,
and it is the duty of every citizen to be
n politi ian to such an ext mt as to ena-
bic him intelligcntly to vote his scnti-
mcnts. But there is such thing as
having too much of the best of things,
and just about this time We think lit
tie politics would 60 a great ways with
a satiated and fatigucd people.
We give this as our individual opin-
ion, not because we are less decided il
the political sentiments we have so long
entertained, but because we see 50 mucl
squabbling going on around us not a fgh
Tor principles, but squabbles as to whc
shall boss" the respective parties, am
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Were is the Senate Of the United State
composed equally of eminent Democrat
and Republicans and among them me
Of towering intellect, squabbling 70
nearly two months over the election q
three petty officers, Secretary, Sergcan
at arons and door-keeper; and the affair
of the nation kept il allegiance all tha
time. No sooner is this ignoble stnt
ended, than another faction fight. ifauy
thing, more disgraeeful springs up b.
tween the Chief Magistrate of the nation
aud the would-be autocrat of the Rcpub
Lean party, the senior senator from Ne,
York; fight in which a large numbc
Of Senators have taken sides with Conk
ling. and all too about the right Of tn
President to make an appointment to tn
New York Custom House, without thu
approval of Mr.. Conkliug Is it no
enough to disgust one 1t is scramble
scramble all the time for Office and
nothing but office; and those who wish
TO boss" the party. if they cannot
have their own way. at once become.
"Reformers" independent" or any
thing. Ito bust N.Y. Naings generally.
We have the thing going on IN
this State. Gov. Hamilton, arrocating
to himself more wisdom than the two
houses Of the Legislature, demanded the
enactment of certain measures which he
proposed, aud because the Legislature
could not agree with him, o
did not choose to recognize his dicta
torial powers, is disguised with what h
chooses to look upon at the corrupt prac
tees Of the party, and is now busy show
ing how wicked the party is, how unfit
Ia to be trusted with power again, unles
selections for position are made fror
among his satellites, and how much bette
it would be for the state to be handet
over to the tender mercies of the Repub
hcau party, than for him not to have hi
own way. We do not propose to cham
pion the last Legislature. Its extrav
sgance. in the way ofextra pay to, and
unnecessary employment of officers, i.
deserving of severe Reproduction. We
do not expect to find perfection in any
human institution, especially one of a
political character. but We doubt very
much whether the last Legislature was