Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1881-06-03
DortQ oboffo Times
PORT TOBACCO O:
Friday Morning, June Sid, 1881.
..Justiiia" Again.

ssJuStlila" "A gam.
We have no desire to enter into con-
troversy with "Justitia." We were entire
~ willing to allow him to wri e his long
winded articles in the Independent, under
the nome Ge plume OF "Justitia." or "Demo-
crat,oor By whatever name or names he
might be known or called, and make all
the political converts he could thereby,
without any comment on our part. 1t was
only when he 'ook for his text the conduct
of the T. Es, ard attempted to show thai
we had been inconsistent, that we thought
it proper to say word in refutation OF
his accusations. This we did to our own
satisfaction, and, we believe, OF all the
fair minded readers Of the TINES. He
does not seem to be answered yet, how
ever; and it seems that, like the village
school master, .'e'en though vanquished he
can acgue STILL He holds forth in last
weeks Independent in another long effus-
ion. in which he seems determined to
force controversy upon US. We are re-
luctant to engage in any such discussion,
first, because we believe that Gov Hamil-
tens movement is already in articulo morris
and we do net wish to "waste ouf IRE on
dead ducks;s and, second, because we
fear that the tendency of such discus
sion, unless it be conducted with great
circumspection, viii be to still further dis
tprb he harmony Of our local Democracy,
already So seriously impaired by the pol
icy o. "Gev. HAMILTON and his frienos."
As there seems to be no escape, however,
we suppose We must accept the inevitable.
He still thinks that the tn IS has been
inconsistent in not commencing the Gov
erro 8 bsmbshcll, and even suspects that
we have been influenced to change our
mind" by some sail powerfulcause,n which
he does not name. We would have been
pleased if ne had been more SPECIFIC upon
this point, but we entertain some slight
hope mat our reputation for homes /. will
survive this suspicion on his pat 1t
was Shakspea e, We believe, W no said that
''sus, ,ic;on ever hauns the gully mind"
We shall net he equally un:ene-ous and
accuse "Cov. Hamilton and his friends"
Of being ae.ua teu IN the,r extraordinary
movement by any sail powerful cause, y
such as desire 70 control the Board of
Public Works, aad through i. the Cnesa-
peal e & Ohio Canal ana ether State pa
.ronage. If there are any of our intelli-
that the Governor and his friends" are
actuated in their exiravagant and unpre-
ceden.eo course. by the simple desire to
reduce tie salaries OF few sta officers.
and 10 nave new registration law en-
acret, we shall not disturb them in their
belief by making any insinuations to the
con rary.
Our critic lays great stress upon The fact
that he knows taro of the sever parties
who were made to appear as soliciting the
bombshell. not to be trade politicians, and
is loud in extolling their virtues. With
this statement for his premises, he makes
the following deduction: "Thus it will be
seen that the TIN Is is in error when it a.
attemps to belittle Gov Eamilton's letter
by characterizing it as an 'arraignment Of
his party and simply addressed % few
politicians of Baltimore city," We
think this will be regarded as verv lib
erai deduction from such slight premises
We regard it as typical exhibition of
Hamiltonian. or as We impiorsly term it
.-bsmbshell logic. We did not use the
term politician, as applied to these par
ties, in its offensive sense; but, although,
We do not profess any acquaintance with
the leading politicians of the State" we
are credibly informed that at least tuo Of
the seven gentlemen whose names appeared
in that paper are professional politicians
and one of them Of the regular Dugald
Dalgetty type. The land others, NO
doubt include the great Lieutenaa ;, Mike
Bannon and Henke, and others of the
same stripe. Indeed We are surprised that
the names of any trade politicians at all
appeared to this paper, as it is a well
known dodge OF the craft to procure The
cooperation of few honest, but no. over
sagacious citizens, behind whose fair name
they mask their movements and designs,
and cheat and deceive public opinion
But, be this as it may, it has no bearing
upon what We stated in our justification.
Conceding that they were all seven pure
and upright patriots, still the force OF
what we said remains the same. The
Constitution does require the Gov
erEor''from time to time, to inform the Leg
islature of the condition of the State, ana
recommend 10 their consideration such meas
ures as he may judge necessary and expe-
dent; = but it nowhere requires or per-
mits him to wrire an open letter for pub
LEGATION, condemning toe Legislative lie
partmeat of the Government for what he
deems its capabilities, though it be ad-
dressed to the purest citizens in the land !;
and decent aspect for the dignity OF he
Office he holds, and every principle of de-
corum and propriety, in our judgment,
forbids such course. We reiterate,
therefore, that an honorable and disiaier-
ested citizen may with perfect prspriety
and consistency commend certain princi-
pies when stated in the message Of the
Goyernor to the Legislature, and condemn
his course when he resorts to the latter
sxtravagant method of arraigning his
party.
"Justitian is not sure that it is fault
to be selfish, il selfshness consists in that
"ths Governor wants the credit of having
endeavored to fulfil the pledges he made,