Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1883-09-07
6ORMAN AMI HANI,rox

When Anne Arundel cor,,
anii-ii'milton delegates to ,bo 50 80.
Conventi"n, there was a erv ,,s
rai'ei BY ""e Of the Hamilton y.
= wh'sh may or may not have h.. !
= expression Of righteou. ind;,n...
Il against ''rihg' practices; but .iuoo 80
' y after county has elected delegate. -
/. posed to the denomination Of Govsrnp,
Hamilton. il would seem IN
JUDGED observer that Ilamiltap i. ~,
> after all, the man whom the Don.
Of the State, as body, desire for ,ho;,
next governor. whatever they NAV hin.
Of his policy of reform.
We have heretofore expre.s.d q,
opinion, based on Gov. Hamilton, 49,,
declarations aud the declarations Of .o,..
Of his shrewder followers, that H,mil,o,
imself did not care to be governor a.,
SECOND term; but until very rec.p,lv
some Of his ardent admirers in Bal,;n.a.
and elsewhere have continued to ,.,o,,
aud insist that IIamilton's Damo
mailed to the mast head" and wonld
not be taken down.
The meeting Of Hamilton men at NJ,
john Stewards Oh Monday night com.
posed Of a very respectable and bipb.
toned body of Baltimore bushes, ana
professional men, seems to have given
expression, in great measure. to tn,
sentiment Whieh should sctuste tb. h.
levers in what is known as the H.m1.
ton reform policy. A letter from the
governor was read 10 which he saw,
Il an for the sentiment and not for the
individual. aud am in favor of contest.
ing every inch Of ground as we did in
1881 and have done since, and the
following resolutions were adopted;
WhereGs The continued control of the Dem.
ocrAIic party in this state requires that hoss
rule and machine management he en,ir.ly
excluded from the control Of the party. and
that il be hereafter RENTED to the control Of
the Democratic people; therefore
R,soir,d, That committee Of ten be an
pointed by the chairman, with pow er to sel.c,
such other committees rs v be necessary .
whose duty II shall he TO appeal to The parts
ia this city TO elect delegates to the state con.
VeutiOn entirely unpledged as to candidate,
hut fully in accord with the anti-riny and re-.
form sentiment of the party, and with the re-
forms attempted aud in part accomplished by /
Gov. Hamilton.
ReSoirtd, That Gov. Hamilton ia entitled To
our fullest confidence for the faithful admin.
istrAtiOn of the executive office and while We
recognize him rs n man whose official course
Is entitled to all praise, We hereby announce
as the sentiment OF this meeting that we are
hOnnd TO no individuals in this contest; but
that it will lie our design to advance princi-
pies and not men.
This seems TO be virtual and 6nsl
abandonment Of the idea Of re. nominal.
ing Hamilton for governor, and yet it
is hardly 40 pronounced aud clear as to
preclude the possibility of dominating
him should his friends control the con.
Vcuton It. would have been better to
have put Hamilton entirely out Of the
contest as even possible candidate. IT
For although Gov. Hamilton has many
honest admirers, he does not seem to
possess those magnetic qualities which /
make a man personally popular and a
which make him a strong leader of thd '
W
Whatever may he sail Of NJ a 1
as boss and political wir0-Puller, II can q
not be denied that he has many of the
qualities which make leader. While .
he may have NJ higher objects than to t
attain elevated position for himself and $
10 place his friends in fat Offices, he is I
man who impresses every one who comes
in contact with him, and bcgets for HIM i
lelf personal liking lie may not be II
A statesman in the broadcast sense Of the
term and he may not be able to rise :
above selfish greed, but it must be adj il
lnitted that the mere desire to hold high Il
and honorable position is not, in itself,
lnpraiseworthy. 1t is the method, the :,
ising the public Offices of the State for r
his purpose without respcc: or care for n
he highest interests Of the common .
wealth, that his opponents allege against
hin. 4
I, bchooves, therefore, the friends Of
Hamilton and reform to take iute con-
,iaer.,ion the personal qualities of these
two men, and if they wish to beat Cor
man, they must have more popular
leader than Hamilton. The cause may
be righteous enough, but there must be
a leader.
The question is whether the meeting
.tMr Stewards was not held too late,
and was not, in any event, without ef-
feet for the purpose for which 1t was
held.