Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1883-07-20
A SMALL ,sURJECT

"a short horse is soon curried," is an old
adage, and could hardly find more forci-
BILE demonstration than when applied to Geo.
{. Patterson, who appeared in last weeks
| MontgomerSan with one of his usual Quix-
otto statements. Fortunately Mr.. Patter-
son is well known to the people of the coun-
ty, and they have not forgotten that his first
public act was one of political treachery,
having been elected rs a Wing and hardly
in his seat ere he turned traitor and betrayed
the confidence of the party which had Civ.
en- him their support. -Four years ago he
was elected on the reform" issue TO the Leg
islature, and two years thereafter he was
candidate for the State Senate, receiving
some two hundred votes, the people eyi
dencing thereby that his proper place was
at home.
1t has been evident for some time, how
ever, that Mr.. Patterson would like to be
candidate this Fall for the House OF Dele
gates, and 1t appeared TO him that he might
ride once more into position by taking the
ground that every one could drink whiskey
Gd H6itum. He was not slow in discover
ing that the intelligence and moral senti-
ment of the county was against any such
an invasion of personal and social safety,
and that there was no disposition to drag
the question of local option into the cam
paign. Realizing this condition of affairs
Mr.. Patterson, like the forlorn little boy
who wrote a love-letter TO himself, had
friend, who we believe is mot president of
the county or State, TO makoA call upon him
through our columns to become candidate
And for what !? Simply in order 10 enable
him to have an opportunity TO BLACKBOARD
the Democratic party.
We never refused to publisira card of de-
CLEMSON from Mr.. Patterson, but did decline
his animadversions upon the party, and
particularly his vile abuse of all Demo-
Gratis who saw fit to vote for and still
sustain the local option law passed by the
assistance of his vote in the Legislature
To give some idea of his "declination" card,
(two-thirds Of which was in the following
vein,) we insert one extract In speaking
Of recent elections in the West he says:
"But the funniest thing of all, in this con-
nection, is that Notwithstanding prohibition
was swept by the board by the Democrats
OF those States, by none was the news of
their astonishing successes received with
more lively sensations of qualification than
by our Democratic prohibition friends here
thus exhibiting II degree Of inconsistency
10 say the least, unequaled in all time, un-
less, perhaps, when
THE devil was sick, the devil a saint would
be,
The devil got well, the devil saint was he"
So far as refusing to publish his long effu-
sion on account of its advocacy of measures
of REFORM" the statement is simply untrue,
and our readers will bear witness that dur
ing the recent agitation Of the question of a
candidate for Governor our columns have
been free from criticism of Gov. Hamilton
or his friends, we being perfectly willing to
let that question be settled by the people at
the primary elections, and to give warm
support TO whoever may be nominated.
When we told Mr. Patterson, in person.
why we declined to publish his card his
reply was: "All right, it only gives me
better opportunity" Opportunity for what I?
Simply to heap vituperation upon the Dem
ocratic party through the columns of a
Black Republican sheet, which is only kept
alive by the drippings and oflal OF the Rad
ical sewer.
This is all there is in Mr.. Paiterson's
statement, and we hand il and him over TO
the consideration and tender care of the
Radical sheet, where they properly belong,
assuring our readers that in the future we
will find other and more interesting matter
for our columns than the personnel of Mr. p.
or his illusions