The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-10-13

ADAM K. KING,
Chairman.
A, J. MOWBRAY,
JOHN T. ENsoR,
JOSHUA HoRNER, Jr..
3. G. SToNEsTREET,
JOHN c. MoTrER,
Committee.
To this Mr.. Mathews has replied as
follOWsi
230 North CHARLES STREET,
September 30th, 1883. !
NesSrS. adam u. King, A. j. Mo,0-
bray, John I, EaSor, Joshua Horn
er, J'., B. G.. Stonestfeet and John
g. UOtter:
Gentlemen: Ihave the honor to ac-
knowledge the receipt this morning
of your favor under date of the 9th
instant, informing me that the Re-
publican State convention at its re-
cent session unanimously nominated
me for the Office of Attorney General
of Maryland, and requesting an inn
mediate acceptance Of the nomina-
tiOn.
am neither insensible TO the par
tiality of friends, nor wanting in a
proper appreciation of the distin-
guished honor which has been ten-
dered to me by the representatives
of the Republican party, and would
gratefully acquesce in their prefer
ence if ii could be done without risss-
to interests which imperatively de.
mand my serious consideration.
No one should be selected for public
office, under existing circumstances,
who does not possess the physical
ability, as well as the earnest desire,
to perform full share of the labors
of a canvass which promises to be not
less exacting on our side than, from
the very necessity of things, it will
prove to be desperate on the other.
At no former period since the adop-
tion of the constitution of 1867 has the
Republican party been afforded so
auspicious an opportunity for COM
pIete success as that which invites the
co operation and activity of all its
members from the present moment to
the closing houis of the election in
November. The time has come for
far-reaci1ing political revolution.
Long-continued power and undis-
puted control for sixteen years have
led to the decentralization and conse-
quent dislntegration of the Demo-
cratic party.
Itsleaders are denounced :; its meth
ods are arraigned; its practices are
openly assailed by conspicuous mem.
bers of its own household. Unless
the midsummer letter of His Excel
lency the Governor of Maryland-a
lifelong Democrat of the most pro-
nounced type-is to be regarded as
wanton libel upon the party to whose
suffrages he is indebted for his ex-
allied office; unless the respectable
gentlemen who haveannually, for the
last decade, protested against the
management of their party, and as
severated with every profession of
sincerity the imminent need of its
thorough purification, are to be treat
ed as arrant pretenders and false Wit
nesses against their fellows unless
the vehement denunciation of profli-
gancy and greed with which the
hu5tings and the press have been
resonant since the INCAPABLE frauds
of 1875 have no higher source than
the distempered imaginations of
disappointed office-seeKers ; unless
the examinations and recriminations
which have been exchanged year after
year between the clashing factions Of
the Democratic party are to be ac-
cepted as nothing more than the or
dinary ebullitiOnS of personal rival
ries and ambitions inseparable from
partisan intrigues under free institu-
ii ns-surely, never since the pre-
miership of Robert Walpole, during
the Infamous reign Of George l., has
any people of Anglo-Saxon lineage