Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1888-02-03
A Palmer Reply by Governor Bowie
to Judge Bouic.
FAIRvIEw, Prince George, Co, Nd,

To the Editor of The Sentinel Pardon me,
Mr. Editor, for again obtruding upon your
space, and, perhaps, the patience of your
readers, to notice the reiterated attack OF
Judge Bouic in your last issue. l plead in
extenuation that this controversy is not OF
my seeking and that as an honest man,
having faithfully discharged the high duties
of Governor Of Maryland with which the
people OF Maryland had honored me,
would be recreant to that trust il l did not
now brand and prove as absolutely false the
again repeated charge of Judge Bouic,
(which in mider manner had before
tried to convince him Of his mistake and in
justice,) that had used my official position
10 advance my private interest by comforting
offices upon Senators of Maryland and others
to accomplish the building of the b. & Z.
Railroad.
did send TO Judge B., as he supposes, a
copy Of the american containing my reply
to his remarks at The Rockville meeting -
but the heading, "a Plain Reply" which
seems to have Infatuated him as much as the
Haunting of q red flag In the face of mad
bull does that enraged animal, was not my
doing, but was, suppose, the work of the
managing Editor Of that paper. 1t was,
however, intended, if not SO characterized
| by me, as a plain reply; and, with your
| permission, intend this as u palmer.
For Judge Bouic's edification will ex-
plain that Scaled him to account in no
mistaken language before the Republican
patrons Of the American rather than before
the Democratic patrons Of the Sun" solely
because it was in the american, and not in
the Sun, that his charges against me were
reported. My name did not appear in the
Sun report at all; nor any hing, as re-
member now, that could > Jnstrue as in
tended for me. l did not, 1iHsilI 1iail 70
remember that the AQlHr1cG f,ip
! -sasstit beYn5cratic homes and DIsihess
places, and IL WAS the people OF both parties
whom | wanted TO know how Judge b. had
misrepresented me.
Ii, however, the weakness of his case
causes Judge b. TO seek to create party sym
patty, rather than public approval, am
perfectlyswilling To meet him on this issue
also; and to remind him that never have
failing to receive nomination for any office
turned upon my partys candidate and caus-
ed his defeat, as believe was the case with
Judge Bouic when 10 failed to be re nomi-
mated for the judgeship. Nor have ever
spoken as did Judge b. OF an intelligent
and honorable candidate Of my party, re-
Gently elected to one OF the most response
BILE offices in our State Government, as "as
much fit for that position as a monkey is to
act as clerk In china shop" Nor have
ever reviled the honored living, or lament
ed deceased, leaders of my party as did he.
As regards "the difference in our tastes
owing to the difference in our intellectual
and moral notions and habits" which Judge
b. speaks OF in his letter in last week 8
Sentinel, cannot but remark that have
never for any public or private act OF my
life been rebuked as have vivid recollec-
ton of hearing of Judge Bouic having been
in. ~ 10 nj lat a
Judge Berry for very unprofessional and
very inexcusable breach of confidence.
! The ex Judge say" 1.-THE ex Governor made
q mistake. He has known mt for many
years, but does not seem to understand that
had spent too much of my life in the
woods to be frightened by the hooting OF a
tub owl" What sort OF an owl tub owr'
Is, do not know, as | never heard of it be
fore; but | conclude II is an owl, sus ge,lerts
that the ex-J Judge has found in his woods
meanderiugs. There are some owls, how
ever, whose nature il is TO defend themselves
when attacked, and if this is the nature OF a
stub owl" suppose that is what the ex
Judge meant in his metaphor There are
other owls, such rs the common screech
owl; which is described by ornithologists
as Every common in America, exploring the
neighboring moods Tor prey, making sort
of 6losoing noise like the snoring OF man
with his mouth open, and doing out certain
lugubrious notes." II the ex-Judge does not
belong to this species of "screech owl, "judg-
ing from his own "lugubrious notes" or to
Shakespeare's "mouslng OWL" which was
addicted to "haUking," am perfectly will
ing not to be considered an authority upon
Owls
1t is difficult matter To follow Judge
b. in his self contradictions and Inconsistent
cies For instance in our private CORES
pondcnce, which he published in the Sent
mel, he writes in the first paragraph of his
letter 81 cannot say whether the report, fol
his Rockville specify is correct or not" In
the very first sentence of his Sentinel letter
and following Immediately his letter TO me
which he inserts, he writes IL told him (me)
il was not correct" II seems, therefore, that
Judge BIZ idea of "crystallized truth spark.
ing like diamonds" in him is very different
from what /, (whom he facetiously calls a
"ver1ant old man from Prince Georges W
md other honest men, and the laws regard
is "the truth, the whole truth and nothing
but the truth"
1n plain, whole, unvarnished truth pro
pDse To comment upon Judge BOpic's
'crystallized" utterances He writes in bis
Sentinel letter 81 do say that the Original
charter required the road to be built from
Baltimore To the Potomac river at Port 70
bacco via Upper Marlboro, aoah 5rGncL
from Marlboro to Washington" The exact
words Of the charter 10 the Acts of 1858 are
"Sec ~ And be it enacted, That the Pres
ident and Directors Of the said Company
shall he and they are hereby invested with
all the rights and powers necessary to the
construction, working, use and repair of Il
Railroad from some suitable point In or near
the city nl Baltimore, and thence within
one mile OF the town of Upper Marlboro,
and as near to said town within the limits
ul said distance AS may be practicable an /
by or near the town Of Port Tobacco, to a
point on the Potomac river, to be seecte
by the President and Directors Of said Com.
pany hereby incorporated, not higher III
than Liverpool, point, and not lower down
than the mouth Of st. Mary's river, soiR
such branches at any point Of SAID railroad no.
exceeding tsoenty miles IN length, as The sdid
President and Directors may determiae"
Judge b further SAYS ~ repeat that un Ter
the legislation 10 which he refers toltile he
,Sds Governor the language of the Original
charter was 81 changed as To enable the rua
70 be built from Baltimore To Washington
The route of the road from Bowie to Wash.
ington had not only been located before
1870, when the legislation of which Judge
B. speaks was given, but much work ha
the original location of that line soas aeOei
changed.
The most glazing mistake that Judge B
makes in abiding to the legislation of 1870
is when he says 1.-THE bill for the amendment
of the charter was delayed in the Senate by
an equal division of the Senators for and
against, exclusive Of the vote of Mr.. Isaac
Young, aoho aoGs then the Senator from tbs
county" What will your. county readers
think of Judge BIS accuracy when remind
them that Mr.. VIM. 0. Selman, and not Mr.
Isaac Young, was their Senator in 1870
This etfectually disposes of Judge B IS at
tack upon Mr.. Young aud Mr. Fawcett, who
he is pleased to call Mr.. Young's guardian
angel"
Judge Bouic having been forced to admit
that "C0l. Clarke" (he has been promoted
by Judge B. from the plain Jim Clarke" oil
his speedy was not "in the employ of the
PENNSYLVANIA Railroad when elected To the