Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1873-04-24

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which bsd disssrbed the mind Of you
eerspspesdess. S1Asx's RssHIs. a. 10 tn
political idessisy Of. 5sss Hse, 10 now /,
doubt % longer. He 10 not '.nisguid
ed ss'lsses. " - had been supposed. ''bs
~ issidioss ses. lurking in sLeeps' cloth
ing. within the limits Of democratic en-.
trenehments." The unadulterased vii
be happy 10 learn. tbst no doubt" nov
EXISTS upon this Interesting subject
True Blue has been caught and. paradox.
cal - il may appear. he has been caught
oa: and nt out Of the party at one and
the same time. The svideuee Of his con.
Trajectory relations 10 this regard !. over.
vhslmins. snd 10 particularly eli sehine
against bis right 10 teach and expound
"vitbin the Sanhedrim walls" Quotha
has he not pretended to discover some.
thing Of ''nearness in democratic priuci.
pies to moderate republicanism ?" The
proof is positive and matter Of record -
Has be not admitted with malice afore.
thought tha. "many of the governmental
views Of the fs:hers have already passed
into distractions and that others will soon
follow .hem?" Matter Of record again.-
Can be deny that he has. not endorsed,
but recognized. important rudimental
changes ~ having occurred in our politi-
ca! system within the past decade which
"neither your eyes nor mine" will ever
see disturbed I" Proof positive upon this
point also. Argal. True The is mo true
member" Of our party. has turned, in fact,
Ibis back upon its foundation principles,
has bowed the knee Baal and passed
without the psse"
Now. what all this personality. admit
ting i. to be righ,fully pointed. has to do
With the purely impersonal issue which
STATES RIeHrs and myself have been de-
batting. passes my comprehension. Ofthe
:ogic Of the writer I have nothing to say.
except that it does not follow because .
reasoncr admits the existence If certain
state Of facts. that be therefore give. it even
a quasi endorsement" But If the rule
laid down BY STATES Rrenrs is to obtain,
'that be who can see aught Of nearness
in democratic principles to even moder-
ate republicanism" is no true democrat,
then is the whole party. With the excep.
ton Of the Blanton Duncan and stay-at-
home democrats overheard and past pray
ing for. Can STATES Rlonrs have forgot
ten that the Cincinnati Platform was pro-
ducsion Of moderate republicans. that it is
republican in doctrine in several important
respects. that it was re-afirmed without
change By our democratic national con-
vcntion last Summer and that this afr.
nation is the very latest ez eeahedra ut
serauce Of our part; Z? And. If this be
true. who is in or Of the party. the democrat
who follows these uttcrances or tho demo-
crat who sets up and follows q contrary
utterance Of his own? l cannot forbear
to SrArE's RraHrs in this con.
nection that he had better ascertain his
own status in the party before he UNDER
takes again to read other people out of j,
Certain it is. II True Blue has bowed tho
knee TO Baal and passed beyond the pale"
because Ire recognizes certain ..ncarness
in democratic principles to moderate re-
pubiicanism, he has the "Sanhedrim" it.
self and the great bulk Of the democratic
party to countcnance and keep him com.
pany.
But to return. The true and original
issue between SrArE's RlGHrs and myself
IS, shall our party nominate for county
positions. as it did in II. with aefeat in.
svitable staring it in The teeth. or make
common cause with such republicans as
are willing to give and take" in the dis
'ribution Of Offices having no necessary pc-
itical significance And with regard to
legislative positions. is not half a loaf pre-
erablc to no bread at all and the black.
'st OF black republicans in politics prefer.
able TO dishonest Creswcll Of Chorpenning
Fame. against whose etching palm" re-
publican Congress has had to guard the
national treasury by statutory provision
A pet Of this same Creswell is now can
iida'e for Legislative honors in our county
With The avowed purpose of supporting
his former patron for the United States
Senate should he be elected. T. il not
'emething. il We may not proven, the elcc.
lion Of republicans to represen. Us in the
legislature. to defeat at'lcast this fugleman
81 Creswell! But the democrats, il seems,
can win oil these places without maxi M
any arrangements With republicans Ut al.
SrArE's RioHrs utterly denies that We
ire In 4 minority" He eves attempts 70
prove that We we're not in minority ei,h. |
n in II or ~. decline to chop logic
'bout theories and plant myself 6rmly |
1pon the poll-books. repeating once again.
hat 1.-The lesson Of IL Is lesson enough |
or me-" Oar defeat in II .anG '72 does |
sot. Of course. establish the necessary /
allure Of the democratic party in future !
] have never said OF imagined I
'sch thiag. bat this / contend for, that |
- Asvs % ''ratioosl prospect" Of succeed.
ag soe single petition IN she peading !
contest. unless the independents come back |
o ~. which the great majority Of them
10 no ides Of doing until 6osss back. or
- seso coalition With republicans deaf