The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-09-24
III 1 S. eIEane o us.
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OF TIE
Democratic State Central Committee.
TO THE PEOPLE OF MARYLAND.

The Democratic Conservative party in this
State has had control of its government since
the adoption TIE constitution of 1867. In the
two contests for Governor and other State Off
GERS it has elected its candidates by overwhem.
ing majorities
1t has again presented to you candidates for
the highest State offices in the persons of some
of its best and ablest citizens, and in anticipa-
ton of your action on the I'd day of November
next, we, speaking in behalf of that party, de-
sire to submit to you few considerations. In
the past few years its principles and the conduct
of those into whose hands the administration of
State affairs was committed have stood the test
of public scrutiny. The opposition of the Re.
publican party has been futile TO disturb its hold
upon the public heart, and to-day, while the
Democracy is rising up everywhere in its might
and giving promise soon to regain it's hold upon
the national administration, to which in former
years il gave so much force and lustrc, the De-
mocracy ofthis State would really have no con
siderable opposition in the field to contest with
it the power it now wields in Maryland were it
not for the extraordinary exertions made by its
opponents through gross misrepresentation to
excite discussions and differences in its own
ranks.
These efforts have been undertaken with the
purpose of diverting the public gaze from the
violations fthe constitution by the republican
party; from its plunderings of the treasury at
Washington; from its revenue and Indian frauds
and from the common misconduct of its Off
Gals under the general government, and thus
to make "ncw departure" to the end that it
may recover, by sinister and indirect means, the
control of the political power and patronage of
our State government, and plague us once more
with the DISTINGUISHING and illibera constitu-
ton of 1864. The revival in our midst of the
dangerous eXpedients of secret political organi.
cations, intended TO prescribe citizens of our
State because of their birth or religious opin-
ions, with reckless and irresponsible secret
lilo tl.rnnt DtNa l,nt
this community, and no honorable citizen and
well-wisher to republican institutions remcm.
bering the evils which similar organizations have
inflicted, will willingly contribute TO bring the
people of this State under the control ola party
so constituted.
The recent nominations of candidates for office
in Baltimore city by a secret conclaye, and the
concurrence therein by some good citizens who
have not sufficiently reelected on the ultimate
results of their action, are but repctiions of the
incipient movement in 1854, which led to the
subsequent and shameful subjugation of that
city by band of desperate ruiiians, whose acts
of violence were encouraged by the acquescence
of partisan police. The duty, therefore, is
upon us TO warn you, at this carly stage of the
proceedings Of this new party, that ii may be
expected, if successful, to repeat the outrages
inflicted upon the people of this State in 1854,
and in subsequent years.
The republicans Of Maryland, wearied by con-
slant defeats under their own leaders, and hold.
ing those doctrines and views of policy now be.
ing repudiated in the State election everywhere
seek, under cover of this secret organization, to
drive the democratic conservative party from
power, and while yielding temporarily to the
leadership of men whom they have in the past
treated with cruelty and bitter hostility, hope,
after the destruction of the powerful democrat
ic organization, to retake the field as q distinc-
tive party organization, and to carry MARYLAND
in behalf of the republican candidate for Presi-
dent in 1876. The return to power of secretly
organized party, with proscriptive doctrines and
un. American tendencies, would be bad indeed {;
but equally injurious, if not worse, in fact,
would be the restoration of the radicals to the
management of our State and city governments
Can it be possible that the people of this State
can so soon forget the past history of the repub-
| liCan party, that that party should be allowed
| by any schemes or devices, or under any spuri-
Gus cry of "reform," to obtain control of Mary
land and its great heart, Baltimore city? Can
your memory be so treacherous as to blot out
the infamous means by which n defeated candi-
| date for Governor was installed over the people
| of Louisiana, and their rights trampled under
| foot? Has the interference of armed soldiers
| in the legislative affairs of that unhappy State
been forgotten? Is it no longer fresh in your
memory how the Southern States have been
bankrupted by carpet baggers and adventures,
| kept in power by the republican Executive and
the radical majority in Congress Are the Cred
| it Mobiler, the Pacific Mail and Sanborn con-
| SplracleS all oDlltcraIeu from your memory
Do you wish new horde of spies and inform
ers let loose upon your mercantile communities,
and severe cXtortioners turned upon your farm.
ers and manufacturersg Do you desire con.
tnuance of the mismanagement of the national
| finances, whereby the present depression in trade
and business OF all kinds shall continue and
ships rot at the whawes, while artisans and la.
borers wander through the streets ofyour cities
seeking employment and find money Can the
people of Maryland long to retrograde to that
state of radical misrule from which the people
of SO many of our sister States are just begin
ming to find deliyerance? Ill
Can you lay down your arms and sleep on tho
eve of a great presidential election, when the
auguries on all hands give us the brightest
hopes of wrestling the national administration
from the hands Of our political enemies, ant
placing it where it will be welded, as before Tho
war, in the interest of the whole people, and fol
the benefit of all sections?
To destroy the Democratic party now by ait
| of the secret organization, the republican news