Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1895-11-22
LCOMUNICATED.
OPEN LETTER.

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taken by the State few Tuesdays
ago was most deplorable and it is
to be hoped most untenable for such
a State as Maryland. That it
should have so completely changed
its colors Tor shall ! say "color Ply
is a matter of sorrow and regret,
and truly it was a sad falling off
from the paths trod by our fathers.
That Maryland, which has stood SO
long in the front ranks of Democ-
> racy until the names of State and
party have become almost synono-
nous terms, should have again put
in power that party which terror
lied the people with sword and
musket in the years succeeding the
war is a sign of recklessness which
should not be COMPOUNDED with
courage. The Reformers," to
whom this great calamity is owing,
are willing to put their detection on
the shoulders of Reform-no Boss
ism-Purity at Elections, &C., &c. =,
but they are now, even now in the
face OF their victory, repenting and
questioning inwardly If their course
was right one. That it was ow-
ing to these Independent Demo
Gratis, Reformers, Mugwumps. Dem
ocratic traitors, or whatever you
may wish to call them, is an undis-
puted fact, and the Republicans
recognize it as such.
The Maryland movement toward
so-called Reform reminds one very
much of the action of a spoiled in
FAINT when medicine is being admin
istered to a child near by. 1t puts
out his hands and cries for dose
too, though the coveted syrup will
throw it into commissions.
New York needed strong pur-
cation to rid it of its accumulated
wickedness and so too did Penn
sylvania a year or two ago, but it
does not stand to reason tina. be-
cause these two States needed a
change of rule that Maryland did
too. The fallacy of such reasoning
is clearly shown when we look at
the police force in New York and
Baltimore. The Lexow committee
showed that the New York police
force was a corrupt body of unprin-
cip!ed toughs, whose only object |
was booty, whose only duty was the
protection of wickedness and vice.
In comparison we take the police |
force at Baltimore, which is con-
sldercd, and justly so, one of the |
finest, if not the finest, corps in the |
country, and where is the necessity |
of IA Lexow committee here in this |
particular Bat bear in mind that |
the Reform in New York was started |
against this evil, and that at no |
time was the party deserted be-
cause of alleged Bossism of one man |
power.
Again We have gone s.to evils that
We know not Of" and we have not |
altered the existing conditions of |
our political system where certain
amount of leadership is required, |
but We have changed our political
leaders who, whatever may be said
against them, were in sympathy |
with the people and party, for Re-
publican bosses whose record in the |
past will not bear very close or |
careful scrutiny.
That there was a certain amount |
of chicanery and corruption, espe-
cially in municipal matters, is not |
denied, and we hope that they will |
be corrected as they should be, and |
as far as the cleansing of the party
from corrupt ring rule this is a good
thing. but that the State should |
go unreservedly Republican merely
shows the blindness of the vote.
the unreasoning hatred of single
man to the exclusion of all thought
of party, OF principles, of the safe
ty and welfare of the State.
To illustrate this Messrs. Bond |
and Brewer were unanimously en-
dorsed by the Bar of the City of
Baltimore as being the best quail