Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1883-12-06

McssFs. Editors The very sensible rcfec-
iions OF writer in your List PAPER, those
chosen soHbriqnet Is Srnex, I" have aroused
ine from n lethargy that had overcome me,
and frustrated the execution ofa design some-
what akin 10 his, and prevented my humble
ideas from icing thrown ont 10 lhe readers OF
yonr Journal, touching the late election In this
county and matters eermane thereto. Like
your valued correspondent 'sSenex," too
have to lament the sad degeneracy that char
acterizes our representative mcn OF to-day, as
compared with those who held the public in
teFesis in trust forty years or more ago. Time
WAS, in the recollection Of many now living,
when the average representative Of st. Mary's
In the halls oftieneraI Assembly ousranked.
Intellectually aud morally, that which guards
our States interests in iae Capitol at Wash.
ingtop during the present era. Men aspire TO
high places nowadays, which call for educa-
ton, sound Judgment and cha .acter, who
would not have had the requisite audacity TO
do 80 three or four decades ago. And why Is
this 50 . II canaot be fairly charged 10 party
and a blind adherence thereto, for when was
party spirit more wildly rampant than during
the twenty years, running down from ls4O 10
90. except perhaps during the two last cam
paigns Of the old much abused hero Of New
Orleans? And during what epoch Of our his
tory IS county did we have ADLER aud purer
meh 70 act as custodians Of our interests In the
State nonse II ARnapolisg think Il can
with more business be ascrihed 10 the deren-
eracy OF the times aad the dwelling spirit that
spEang Ep from the late civil war. Plenty Of
1 instances there we're. during thar unhoIy sirus-
gie, where men without education or pen cul-
ure jumped into prominence rs fighters and
welded bloody swords with drxterity. In
whcse hands, THAI .'mirhiy instrument OF lit
ile men," would have indeed cut . very sorry
figure. Other cases there we're, in which men
OF high culture and finished military eauca-
lion, were found 70 be dead failures as leaders
aud fighters. and thus learning lell 10 a die
count and ignorance ran up 10 q high pre-
laium. This feeling and the Inevitable de-
nsoraliEaiion ola civil war threw incompetent
men on the surface, and being in a majority
they have coatiaued to hold the vantage
ground, and TO keep uader foot nsen or vastly
more itness and sterling merit than them
srtSes. There IS no sEse 10 clamOr and caIl at
teniion 10 this suhveEsion Of the proper order
81 'hings. Scr the popular Sentiment favOrs
largely the present states Of affairs aud time
alone caH bring into active play the adequate
resnedy % naeet the case. Allkaow that when
the air becomes EOai and murky there / Meth
ins 70 Be done about ID, but wait and bear. IN
III such time as . storm com1s and rariIies The
elemeaas in which we FAUST move and breathe.
Uiliesas - very many suppose will be the case.
our syssem Of democratic g0vernnent proves
- Be . dead failure, change mist cone. and
The cable clouds that hang about the hOrizcn.
iH : short time win BE- blown away, and =
nsw order dawn upoa our STATE and coansy.
more prOpiiious for shs stability ard prosper
~ q both. Senex, mr. brother croaker. Ii
- wait TN The clouds ron by - the pop
Hlar City q she day b. il. Our sands q
hse being veil nigh exhausted, We may not
live . sse such pure and able men Is !. Teae-
kie Wailis Wm- =. and n. +. Merrirk araiu
sailea from thc 0aium or private ssasion ID
s.sse tie people, Lat II mist appear 10 u 4