National Republican., 1883-09-15
LII RnncnmI,n or nnsincss !

Gov, Hamilton, of Maryland, has been
invited to address a meeting of democratic
relormors, and has advised against a public
demonstration in letter to tho chairman OF
the executive committee Of the anti.ring
democrats, who extended the invitation The
letter is compound of sonse, sentiment, and
partisanship. The governor draws dismal
picture of the democratic situation. 1t is
all summed up in the following:
Everywhere rotry wo have the heated rival.
rics OF individuals aud of factions, the conflicts o
personal ambitions Uf sG7i--- Interests. The
alarming truth would appear that whilc all have
their Hdhesions, the party and the commonwealth
| have none
| What redemption can there be for party
thus divided up into factions, neither of
which represents either the party or tho COM
monwcalth? And yet the governor, in this
same document calls for an exhibition of
| qualities rather moro than human from the
democrats Of Baltimore who are pleased to
term themselves "anti.ring.' Since all arc
in some ring, as he had said in the previous
| quotation what beatifc element is left to re-
spond to such q call as this
Your purposes are honorable and patriotic, and
| II iCRCcompl sbol will avert the dangers that now
threaten the party aud yonr efforts should have
the hearty cooperation of every sincere democrat
III Baltimore. 10 make 1t manifest to the people
that you have no other purposes, II is important
That your efforts should be directed to the selection
of delegates distinguished for their sound demoC-
rNcy, their uublCmishcd reputation and entire
freedom from the suspicion of political intrigue,
and whose political character and conduct in the
past will be a guarantee that 10 personal aims,
whether for thcmselves or for any other, shall
direct or inAncncC their action rs such free dele
gates, but that, regardless OF individuals, aud
Gpprc'sng friendships enmitics and preiudicGs
alike for the time, will exercise therunIrammelcd
judgments IN doing that which shall secure and
preserve the democratic party in It's integrity, and
promote good government
Almost enough to take ones breath away,
isn't it? BE there any such people as those
men free from prejudice, affection, self love,
and all else that makes man a little lower
than tho angels? And their election will
alone preserve the integrity of the demo-
cratic party, which party has, tho writer
assures u.s. no element in it which adheres
either to the party us whole or to tho
commonwealth. The governor secs no cause
for despair and begs the people to allow tho
old party u chance to pull itself together.
Ho gives notice that, like the old tradesman's s
wife in tho play of David Garrick," "it
takes her plaguayed time to clean herself"
lie says:
Relormations are not the work of the instant
1t is easier to get along in old ruts than to make
new ones; easier to get into bad ways than to get
out of them; easier 10 pitch into pitfalls than to
struggle out of them. There must bc patience
and courage, persistence and endurance, in cor.
recting old abuses and III rectifying old estab.
Iished wrongs.
This looks little as though the governor
rcpcnted himself of his recent utterances.
lie may not be backsliding, but it looks
nightly like it when he asks the people
to let their load remain i'll the ditch until
hauled out by tho old wheezy horse that
dumped it there. The governor has been
beaten. He may be preparing for retreat
under cover of an apparant reform within the
party which leaves him out of the governors
office. viii the "rascal wing fail to have
their share in such a pool? viii they save
up a scat in the senate for the governor in
exchange for his motion to postpone bolt d?
Perhaps the governor is only hoping against
hope, in preaching parlance, and that when
his party refuses TO heed his counses he will
refuse to be party to the corruption which
he has so intellgently exposed and so elo.
quently denounced.