The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1873-04-05
The Future.

The question comes to US team Maryland be
redeemed from the miSrule of the dead Demo
cratic party ~ We answer Eyes" 1.-THE time
is ripe and rotten ripe for change" All that is
necessary to be done is to make proper use of
the opportunities that are before Us. That party
that was once Democratic-that boosted of its
great statesmen and its broad measures has lost its
standing with the voting masses of the country.
When it plunged this government into the vor-
tex of rebellion a great host Gifts most honored
sons left its ranks and joined their fortunes with
the party that hoisted its flag and barred its arm
to preserve the Union Zone and indivisible''-
the party of freedom, progress and devotion to
equal rights From that hour up to the hour
when the old, effete Democratic party resolved
at Fords Opera House, Baltimore, in July, 1872,
that
'We recognize the equality ofall men before the
law and that the nation in dealing with its citi-
Zens should give equal and exact justice 10 all
without regard to race, color, nationality or
creed, religious or political"
that old party opposed to the bitter end every
measure, policy or act that has become the SUI
preme law OF the land. 1t stands upon the re-
cord to-day as defantly throwing its impotent
influence in the way of every advance that has
been made. During all this while 1t has been
parading the robe of prophets and the air oil
statesmen. Every prediction they made has
come back to haunt item. None of the direful
calamities they prophescd upon the adoption o.
Republican measures have ever cursed tha-aa
ton. Their false Vaccinations are vexatious and
embarrassing to their would-be statesmen
Every attempt to delude the people has revealed
their incapacity for the times and their unitnes'
to be co-councillors for the Republic. The sover
eign people of the land have again and again
repealed, rebuked, ignored, defeated and con
demned it, its measures and its men.
To-day it has no standing because it has fur
nished overwhelming proof that it is unworthy
of the confidence of the American people. Il
demonstrated its incapacity for the demands o.
the age and nation by its blind opposition tC
every advance in the road of progress. 1t plac'
ed the indellible stain of insincerity upon itself
by the adoption of platform in 1872 in which
it acknowledged that every thing established by
Republican devotion was right.
The people have deereed its death for its sins.
Thomas Hendricks, Indiana's Governor, or some
one else, will soon make the announcement oil
the fact that took place last July. Until some
one does this its remains will think they live
The average Democrat will never know that life
has left it unless some manager tells him. Some
time after il is publicly announced, the Mary
land Democracy will get a vacant suspicion thai
there is something the matter. After the election
they will know what it is. A new party is the
result. When this happens the old organization
tumbles to pieces. The members join their new
fortunes with which ever party suits their sen.
timents and ideas best The new party cannot
win at once. Those who have been reluctant
followers Of the blind Democracy these long,
weary years, will enroll themselves in the ranks
of true Democracy-the Republican party. The
people are well tired and sick of party that has
given them nothing but delusion for advice, in
capacity for craftsmanship and insincerity for
devotion to principle. The State was carried
last fall by only 927 votes. We carried seven
teen counties out of twenty-five and elected two
Congressman out of six. There are conditions
at work which will not fail to give the State TO
the Republicans, if they make a proper use of
their opportunities.