Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1896-02-13
Saint Maru's Beacon
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ed by public opinion, and satisfy
far better than they have yet shown
either ability or desire to satisfy the
reasonable expectations of those
through whose votes, labors and sac
rifices power was given them.
To Gov. LowNDEs.
81 say to Governor Lowndes that
il he were n candidate for his pres
ent office at an election to be held
tomorrow thousands Of votes which
he received in November would be
cast for his late or almost any other
competitor, and thousands more
would not be cast at all. lie would
be in grave danger of defeat, and /
do not believe that in this city his
vote would equal that of his party
in 1894.
A GATHERING STORM.
''It is fair to say that the gather
ing storm Of public indignation,
whose mutterings may be drowned
in the clamor of office-seekers and
the wrangling of greedy factions
for the Governor and his advisers,
but which grows daily louder and
more threatening, is due TO nothing
which Governor Lowndes has him
self said or done, and it is due
much less to what the General As
sembly has done or its members
have said, at least in debate, than
to what it has left undone and to
the impudent boasts of notorious
political observation-disclosures APP
parently but too we'll warranted
regarding its probable action and
the motives and influence which
will determine this.
TYPICAL REPUBLICAN CLUE.
"The typical republican club is
well known in Baltimore politics.
tbs one of the most unhappy fruits
of our proximity to Washington
and of the long control of federal
patronage by the party here in an
evident minority. It's genesis is
familiar to us all. A politician
booming himself for some office,
rounds up in a room he has hired
over grog shop, a herd of shabby
loafers, buys for them, on the in
stalment plan, secondhand table
and chairs, guarantees them a res-
sonable credit at the bar down
stairs, picks out one relatively sober
rs president and one not wholly il
literate as secretary, and, behold
the Elijah Pogram Republican Club
of the Twenty-Third Ward, born
on its brief life and ready to 'reso-
lutte and delegate in its owners
interest.
"When these gentry tell us that
they detest civil-service reform they
give us no news. We are as ready
to believe this as that they abhor
cleanliness and sobriety and honest
industry, and we'll nigh everything
which makes man estimable, or life
in civilized society a source of hap
piness. II the convicts in our PEN
ltentiary or the prisoners in our
Jail gravely resolved that they didn't
like those laws which prevent or
punish larceny, no one would ques-
ton their sincerity. The Austria
liam chorus was doubtless hearty:
we IL damn tlut Jury. every man.
That sent him to Botany Bay
ANALYZED AS A SYMPTOM.
Zone of the greatest blessings
conferred by civil-service reform
upon community which thorough
ly and honestly adopts it is that it
forces hundreds, even thousands, of
men to work for their living who
would otherwise grovel in penury,
idleness and sordid vice. doing all
sorts of political odd Jobs in the
hope that they may somehow, by
hook or By crook, and usually the
latter, pick up transient aud pre-
carious living at the taxpayers
cost. No one who knows anything
of degraded human nature will
wonder,that it is as odious to those
it would thus transform as are soap
and water to tramp, and their
clumsy expression of the hatred
they feel for it would not be worth
mention were this not serious and
menacing as a symptom-a symp-
tom because it shows the course
which responsible politicians of the
party, on which these men sponge,
will take il they dare; the clubs are
allowed, even encouraged to ask