The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1873-06-13
NE sGEZS.
4, Md, JUNE 18th, 1873.
respondence.
The Nominations.


!. EDITOR: Your editorial ola recent date, in
I'D to nomination of candidates for the Leg
K AZ lure and county offices, had the right ring,
bean sound, not circle and was endorsed by
siwho desire the harmony and success of the
Il lnocratic Conservative party in this county.
Pgret you have not followed up the subject
y ID similar pertinent remarks. hope you will
n ~ let so important a question remain dor
knt, but will discuss, and allow to be discus
that all important subject, important at least
sthe Democratic Conservative party, for upon
,ssAe fairness with which the nominations are
NJ gle, together with the moral and political
Assaracter ofthe nominees, depends our success.
nv ~ is your duty, Mr.. Editor, as a sentinel on
y e watch tower, to expose to the party the
yrious combinations created to favor the ad.
WA hcement of candidates wholly unfit for the
{, sssition they aspire to and the petty maneuv
ersof cliques, to keep men of ability and I'M
blemished character off the field. For instance,
one set ofmen, strive to "out manage" the friends
of another, by intimidation. ave know" say,
they, "that our candidate is assailable, but there
are other candidates in the field who are not I'M
impeachabe. We can easily defeat your
honest and capable candidates by bargain
ing for the transfer of Mr.. As and b $ interests
to Mr.. G. Now, this is all mere scare crow.
Candidates and their personal cliqucs may
combine; but the dsinterested friends of any
candidate cannot be transferred from hand to
hand, like the retaners of lord.
hope to see an independent spirit manifest
itself in the approaching canvas. hope to see
Democrats and Conservatives express their
choice for candidates, alike unswayed by die
tation and unawed by combinations against
them.
The Democratic ticket must mean something.
1t must have character; 1t must command the
confidence and respect of the masses OF the
party. In making our nominations we should
make no compromises with political errors; no
conditions with expediency, at the expense of
principle; none with the false doctrine thatthe
end justifies the means, which is o lie invented
to justify fraud and peculation.
We should nominate men who best represent
Democratic principles-Je tfersonian Democrats;
men who have given practical evidence that they
will stand or fall with their principles. We
want no time no eXpediency candidates;
none who are willing to barter principle for
success; none whose moral and political virtue
is of that easy and obliging sort, that can be
in the shape of free passes, or complimentary
invitations to directors excursions or annual
dinners. We have all seen the effect of the i'm
mense influence that rail road companies exert
on State and National legislation. Let us not,
therefore, be guilty of the egregious folly of
nominating for the legislature any candidate
who is afflicted with the weakness of free rail
road riding.
The candidates for nomination should all be
thoroughly winnowed before the day of the pri-
mary election, that the members of the party
may be better prepared to cast their votes for
the best men. The party cannot afford to sup
port any man who shvers before an attack, if
truth is the weapon. Let the capacity and integ
rity of all the candidates be searchingly review
ed. Good will come of it, now and hereafter.
Let the truth appear; but no talsehood, nothing
manufactured, nothing evolved in spite or pre-
judice. DEMOCRAT.