Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-07-04
MINING JOURNAL.
FROsTBURG MD, JULY 4, 1891.
"Veni, Nidi, NiCi :"


Supposed to be the laconic report of
Hon. Frank Browns visit to Allegany
county, delivered by him to his Balti-
more friends on his return home last
Sunday.
IF it be true, poor, unsophisticated,
susceptible Allegany county! How
easily captivated, fascinated, caught !.
The "early bird captured the worm
bird of no extraordinary sagacity, or
. plumage either, and the worm one of
apparently less than average stupidity.
But so it is reported, and so the word
comes up from other counties.
Verify, this is a day of small men ,
The people who boosted E. E. Jack
son into the gubernatorial chair have
made the States highest honor mere
prize for which intellectual mediocrity,
blessed only by wealth, may outride
native ability, scholarship and states
manship.
f. E. Jackson makes Frank Brown
possible. The office which adorns the
one is to become an ornament to the
other. 1t is the kohinoor diamond of
MARYLAND. a gem whose lustre must be
dimmed and whose value must be low
cred to make it available to the
peonage of latter-day craftsmanship.
1t is quietly stated, however, that
women, ambitious to shine in the gilt
ter and glare of social life in our high
est places, are the active spirits IN
these upgrade movements to occupy
the peoples pre-eminencies; that, IN
spired by the aspirations of ladies who
want to '.set the pace for the Coos
of Washington and Annapolis, and
Law down the laws of aristocratlc eX-
clusiveness in our capitals-our friend,
the governor, wants to go to the Sen
ate, and Mr.. Brown desires to sit IN
the chair gubernatorial.
The JOURNAL hopes there is no basis
for such talk.
Still, it hopes against hope, for how
are some aspirations to be accounted
for except upon some calculation
which brings the high places down to
servitude of some personal aggrand-
izement and to the hattery of some
snobbish wish of those whom wealth
has already blessed with an ample
share of preferred claims at the shrine
of shoddy'
1t is to be feared that the ligatured
twins, ''the farmers FRIEND" and ''the
miners friend''-Frank Brown, the
the Chang and Eng of this campaign,
whose "plain statement of his can
didacy' is so highly extolled by his
sanguine friends, does not embody the
gilt-edged considerations which really
fill his bosom with ''illusions of hope"
and the ''phantom Of fitness" for the
place he wishes to occupy.
Were his real aims an open book
and his voice a faithful interpreter Of
the volumes text, we should doubtless
hear statement which would exhibit
poor old human nature in its favorlte
mood-cl for the promotion of
No. |. This, in accord with a cardinal
but unwritten principle Of the Knights
of Labor-a postulate which reigns in
the seltishness of each, to be rewarded
without merit and advanced without
fitness.
When the time comes, therefore, for
the democrats of Allegany county to
decide between Mr.. Brown and the
best in the field, it is to be hoped they
will not link themselves to his political
fortune. 1t is to be hoped that in this
State, as elsewhere. they will help
speed "the day of small things" to its
merited place in the calendar of
oblivion.