Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1883-08-03

not much credit Democrats cannot help
inquiring why it is that Republican papers
want Governor Hamilton nominated" Its
correspondent, writing from Olney, says, it
Is because they know that the hostility to
him is bitter and PERSONAL but, Mr.. Editor,
let me ask where has this bitter personal
hostility TO him manifested itself except
with the Adoocate and some other journals
OF the same order? Would it not be more
consistent with real desire for harmony
and more prudent for these journalists to
cease this promotion of factional strife and
pursue the course that you have marked out
Tor the SENTINEL and which | verify be-
lieve has been settled upon by the most in
fluential leaders of the party, and that is,
to refrain from criticiZing any particular
candidate, but leave the matter To be settled
at the primaries and give the nominee a
hearty support. Because, while know that
Republican papers have very little credit
with Democrats, also know that the Ad-
gOcate is popular with Republicans, and if it
has succeeded in convincing them that this
bitter personal hostility prevails in the Dem
ocratic party and will prove irreconcilable
at the general election there can be no dit.
ficulty in understanding "why Republican
papers desire the nomination of Governor
Hamilton"
Moreover, if they succeed in convincing
that large and respectable class of in
dependent voters, who are really Demo-
Gratis at heart, that there is no hope of re-
form in the administration of our State affairs
through and by the instrumentality of the
Democratic Conservative party we will have
to rely hereafter upon less intelligent class
of voters than heretofore, and the need of a
literary bureau of Democratic color will be
transferred from the so-called Hamilton fac
ton to the party itself.
will conclude by the remark that direct
and ineligible answers to some of the fore
going questions may prove interesting to
such OF your readers as are open TO convic-
ton and are earnestly seeking the truth.
Yours truly,
THos. WATERS, of S.
p. S.-Since penning the above my eye
has fallen upon an article in the Ad0Ocdte,
dated Poolesville, July Gath, 1888, and
signed Ex-Hamiltonian." The writer, in
attempting to explain the cause of the al
legged alienation of many of the Governors
friends, among other things, says:
"This opposition, though existing in some
degree at all times against the Governor, re-
ceived its strongest acquisition from the
ranks Of the Governors friends, when it
became apparent that four years ago, to Sc
cure his nomination, he entered into a COM
pact with the ring when it was totally un-
necessary, and rendered ridiculous his very
first effort as a political leader"
Sir, the truth is that he and everybody
else who had given any attention 10 the
matter knew that the fangS of the Ring
leaders were so completely fastened upon
the whole working machinery OF the party.
that they would control the nomination ia
spite of everything. To allay the discou-
tent then manifest in the party. and 10 tide
safely over the then approaching campaign
they awaited themselves OF his great p0pU.
laritY and entered into L compact with him
to give US an honest and economical al
ministratiOH, intending 1t the SAME sicue 10
do just what was done, that : sl sbe his
hands with the Legislature.
Then, sir, all his hlusserinE and v5llesncp
was but the bathurst Of that just in,iign4-
ton that would swell the bosOtzt ami INF L1n.s
the brain u any kOaest. hi.rA-t toned gentle
man who had thus been placed In ! Etise
position and made to appear Ga be h.Ld eEf-
city submiitedl Is = willing 1econplics In 8
fraud upon the people
And now, sif, wbsE frum Gae b5ag Eisa Of
names N distinguished Esnlbenlen whom
their respective friends 4hd admirers have
presented for the GlheruAt3riki nogninasa1u
he who first dared IrOu AZ 0E5siciLl st1tbla to
raise his vOics sg4inss political zrsasrhery
and official Cogrups5oH < singled cat H. 3
special object 0f personal vitaper1sfau MS
friends protest against IL Is i gross injustice
to charge them, as this ~Ex -HamiA9uizn-
does, with assuming that he i the oaIy man
in the State who can secure 10 the people .
pure and economical administration
And now, sir, when by general revolt
OF the people the grip Of these master spirits
of the Ring has been lOosened and they viz
tually admit all that Gov Hamilton has
commended for to be proper and necessary.
and when upon the high platform he has
been so conspicuously instrumental in erect
ing, Messrs. BannOn, Henkle and Cotton a.,s
found seated, is it reasonable to demand of
him that he should rudely push them off ?
Because they kept bad company in their
earlier days, shall they not be permitted to
find repentance and do good in their de-
clining years.
L. W, OF ;.
Spapcarvitia I,,l,- oQ,h 1899