The Morning herald., 1875-09-18
DEMOCRACY BLAZING.
'BALTIMORE CITY LAST EVENING

Forcible speeches-The Potato Bug
J. Party Denounced as Know Moth
ings Mr. Bayard on Finance.
!R Especial Dispatch to tho Hsrald.) 't':
|n., l., q OF BALTIMORE, Sept. II, 1875.
Pursuant to the adjournment of Wednes-
day night, the Democracy Of Baltimore met
en- naasss, in Monument Square, last evening,
with Hon. Reverdy johnson as President,
supported by some eight hundred vice pres
idepts. The speakers stand was sufficient
lily large to accommodate a greater part of
these, among whom were the leading citi-
zens of Baltimore. Several of the various
political Organizations Of the different
wards marched into the Square, headed by
BINDS of music with illuminated transpar-
encies. At eight O'Clock, Hon. Reverdy
johnson, raising his voice that he might be
heard by the immense crowd, opened the
meeting with a lengthy and able speech.
Mr.. johnson said, -,,n ,s,3t..a.".
FELLOW Citizens: ,
Before, submitting the resolutions which it
is proposed you shall consider, or intro
ducipg to YOU the gentlemen who are to
address you, I beg your permission to tres
pass upon your time for a brief period with
some remarks of my own. The elections,
municipal anl State, which are the imme-,
date subjects of your attention, are intrin-
sically important, and are additionally SO by
the bearing thev will have upon the next
Presidentiol election.
In relation to the municipal election, do
not understand that any objection has been
made or can be made to the Democratic can
didate for the Mayoralty, Ferdinand G. La
trobe. His capacity, his perfect integrity,
his interest in the city, are ample guarantees
that, if elected, he will discharge the duties
Of the Office ably and faithfully. Nor do I
understand that any objection has been
made or can be made to your candidates for
the offices of Governor, Attorney General,
or Comptroller. No one who knows them
can doubt the ability of John Lee Carroll,
Charles j. NJ. Gwin, or Levin Woolford.
What then are the grounds of the opposition
to these candidates.
Mr.. Johnston then took up the points of
objection urged by their enemies, and in a
clear logical manner proceeded to show their
utter falsity. He defined the word "Ring,"
now grown so common, and maintained
that by misapplication of meaning only
could the organization that supports Mr..
Latrobe be called "a ring" In regard to
the particular objection to Mr.. Carroll for
the chief office that the State of Maryland
can bestow, viz: that he is Roman Catho-
lie, Mr.. johnson said what is the religious
faith whose followers some would consign
to political seryitude? It is the religion of
Jesus.
Every Roman Catholic believes in it as
firmly as any one belonging to other relig-
GUS sects. They have a different mode Of
worship. So have other sects. But the es-
sentials of faith are common to all. They
believe in the Divinity of Jesus, in the
Trinity and in the Atonement. Whati is the
most reasonable mode Of worship men may
and do differ about, but all Christians be.
lieve in these essentials of the faith. Have
Catholics ever failed to be good citizens
All the duties of life, public and private,
they discharge as fully as all other Chris
tians.
Bringing several historical examples of
the exclusion of Roman Catholics from
their rightful representation he continued !:
should think that the American aware of
them, when proposing to exclude the Cath
olic from political Office because of his reli-
giOn, would blush scarlet from very shame.
Under the third division the debt of the
city was discussed at some length; figures
cited, and an honest declaration of regret
made, that in few cases there had been
some petty administrations. In con-
clusion he said, it seems to me to be most
extraordinary that any rejecting man
should fail to perceive that a continuance
in power of the present dominant party is
not only pregnant with danger to our ma
terial interests, but to the very forms of
Government under which, for so many years
we have lived in prosperity and peace.
Do, then, as am sure you will, roll up
such majorities for your candidates as was
recently done by your Democratic associ-
ates in California for theirs, thus carrying
dismay and assuring signal defeat to the
present dominant party and satisfying the
good men of all parties that our institutions
will be preserved from further encroach-
ment, and enlightened liberty maintained.
THE RESOLUTIONS.
Rcsolved, That while we recognize the in
tegrity and sincerity of many of our fellow
citizens who have been induced to lend the
sanction of their names to the proceedings
taken at various meetings in this city in OPP
position to the nominations of the Demo-
cratic Conservative party of the State of
Maryland and of the city of Baltimore, we
cannot approve of the course which they
have pursued, and we express the strong
hope that those who have been induced to
enter temporarily even into such associa-
tions will reunite cordially with us in keep
Ing the State of Maryland foremost among
those States whose electoral vote can be re-
lied upon in the next Presidential contest to
drive the Republican party from power.
The people Of Maryland will never place
any confidence in a cry Of reform which
proceeds from party whose uncontrolled
rule In the Southern States has been every
where characterized by fraud, aggression
and insolence, and whose administration OF
the National Government has been marked