Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1875-09-24
The Primary Elections.

that it is with some reluctance we again
allude to the subject. But sense of re-
sponsibility admonishes us that we, at
least, should discharge our duty, however
careless others may be- As many of our
readers will not again receive the paper
until the day of the primaries or perhaps
afterwards, we must take the present OPP
portunity to urge upon all the Importance
of full turn out on the Cd Of October
We have heretofore said that it was the
duty of a citizen always to attend the pri-
mary elections of his party; but on this
occasion we deem i matter ofparamount
For fifteen years the Federal Govern
nent has been under the almost despotic
sway of the Radical party. During most
OF the time every State and every county
in each has been under the same DONNA
ton. During all this time and wherever
this supremacy existed constitutional
rights were wantonly violated whenever
they stood in the way of the purposes of
that party or its leaders. The people al
ready oppressed and suffering from the
legitimate effects of an unnatural war; and
staggering amid PROSTATE industries under
the load of debt thus imposed upon them,
were robbed of their precarious earnings
that Grant, Attorney General Williams and
the rest of them should reveI in wealth
and luxury. What is the result? At the
end of ten years we find the country in
worse condition than it was the day after
the surrender at Appomattox In order
to manufacture votes to keep this corrupt
party in power the ignorant and half civ
ilized negroes of the South were enfran-
chished, and that fairest and most pro-
ductive half of our continent handed over
to them to pillage. What was once a
smiling garden, a land whose produce did
more to swell the Golfers of national pros
perity, than perhaps all the rest of the
Union, has been made wilderness of des-
olation and ruin, where the decent white
man has no rights Radical is bound to
respect, and where roam and fatten as
beasts of prey the carpet-bagger and the
odorous African. Is it any wonder that
hard times prevail throughout the coun
trys When the cotton fields of the South
are abandoned can you expect to hear the
hum of industry-n the Northern factories
his IS one of the fruits of the misgsvern-
ment of the party now In power. For
- ss-ttss..e Democratic party has been strug
Cling to free the country from this incubus
which was dragging it down to destruc-
ton. Under the earnest and well directed
efforts of that party, having always for its
guide the principles of the Constitution,
State after State has been emancipated I'M
til now all the indications point to the sue
cess of the party of the Constitution in
the Presidential election next year. In
this great fight shall the good old State
of Maryland be laggard? We are now
entering on the preliminary contest. If
we are successful in this years election we
may be assured of victory in the next
Desperate efforts are being made by the
willy foe this year to defeat US.
In this State we know too well what
Radical rule means for them to hope for
success by open avowal, but they seek to
approach US under the more insinuating
guise of independence and Reform. 1t is
charged that our party needs reform. Ad-
nit it for argument sake. There are bad
men everywhere, and it would not be sur
prising if some of these had obtained I'M
due influence within our organization.
But now that attention has been called to
it, it is for US to reform the party our
selves Assuredly this cannot be done by
abandoning it and joining that most mi
quitous of all parties, the Republican,
The Democratic party has always been
the party of reform. Let US show that it
isScx and whilst reforming these rascals
: :. of the National Government let us re-
form the rascals out of our own household,
who may have crept in under the garb of
friendship. Wewant none of them. And
we must strike them wherever we find
them. This would be true reform, and
there is some hope for it, if we follow this
plan, but God spelp us if we have to trust
it to the Republicans or Potato Bugs.
This reform we cannot have unless pro-
per men are nominated for all the Offices
and these nominations cannot and will
not be made unless the respectable por
ton of the people turn out and go to the
primary elections. Give US good men,
and the people will vote for them; give
US bad ones and the people ought not to
elect them. With proper ticket there is
no reason why we should not carry this
county this fall; with bad one we had
better be beat. There are now no more
negroes in this county than there were
four years ago, yet we elected our ticket
then. The Republican vote has not been
increased by the handful of white self-styl-
ed Independents more than it has lost in
really independent negroes who have come
over to us in the meantime. The truth is,
that whilst our ticket two years ago was
composed of most excellent men, it was,
take it all in all, most unfortunate one,
and failed to bring out our full vote,
whilst it did more than anything else to
give strength to the then initiated indie
uuul1utuunoa-7 With this warning
pie should avoid a
sct ticket which
n the same way.
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