Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1875-09-24
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Friday Morning, September "a, =. 1875.
ADDRESS OF the DEMOCRATIC STATE
CENTRAL COMMITTEE.
To the People of Maryland.

Ao Iue Itople VI MAI yldnu.
The Democratic Conservative party in
this State has had control of its govern
ment since the adoption of the Constitu-
tion of 1867. In the two contests for Gov
ernor and other State officers it has elected
its candidates by overwhelming MAORI
ties.
1t has again presented to you candidates
for the highest State offices in the persons
of some of its best and abrest citizens, Hrrrii
in anticipation of your action on the I'd
day of November next, we, speaking in
behalf of that party, desire to submit to
you q 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 opposi-
tion of the Republican party has been fu-
tile to disturb its hold upon the public
heart. and to-day, while the Democracy is
rising up everywhere in its might and Civ
ing promise soon to regain its hold upon
the National Administration to which,
in former years, it gave so much force
and lustre, the Democracy of this State
would, really. have no considerable op-
position in the field TO contest with il
the power it now wields in Maryland, were
it not for the extraordinary exertions
made by its opponents through gross mis-
representations to excite dissensions and
differences in its own ranks.
These efforts have been undertaken with
the purpose of diverting the public gaze
from the violations of the Constitution by
the Republican party; from its plunder-
ing Of the Treasury at Washington; from
its revenue and Indian frauds, and from
the common misconduct of its officials un-
der the general government, and thus TO
make a new departure" TO the end that
it NAV recover. by sinister and indirec,
means, the control of the political power
and patronage of our State government,
and plague us once more with the disfran-
chising. and illiberal Constitution of 1864.
The revival in our midst of the dangerous
expedients of secret political organiza-
tions. intended 10 prescribe citizens of our
State because of their birth ur religious
opinions, with reckless and irresponsible
secret councils, threatens the peace and
good order of this community. and no
honorable citizen and well-wisher to re-
publican institutions remembering the
evils which similar organizations have in
fiicted, will willingly contribute TO bring
the people of this State under the control
of party so constituted.
The recent nominations Of candidates
for office in Baltimore city 10y n secret
conclaye, and the concurrence therein by
some good citizens who have not suifi-
ciently reflected on the ultimate result of
their action, are but repctitions of the in
cipient movement in 1854, which led to
the subsequent and shameful subiugation
Of that city by band OF desperate ruttinS,
whose acts of violence were encouraged
by the acquiescence of partisan police,
The duty. therefore. is upon US TO warn
you, at this early stage of the proceedings
Of this new party, that it may be expect
ed, If successful, tn repeat the oUtrages in
f'icted upon the people of this State in
1854, and In subsequent years.
The Republicans Of Maryland. wearied
10y constant defeats under their own lead
ers. and holding those doctrines and views
of policy now being repudiated in the
State elections everywhere, seek. under
cover of this secret organization, 10 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 Democratic organization. to
retake the field as distinctive party or
ganization, and to carry Maryland in be
half Of the Republican candidate for Pres
ident in 1876. The return to power of n
secretly organized party, with proscrip-
tive doctrines and uu-American tenden-
cies, would be bad indeed; but equally
injurious, if not worse. in fact, would be
the restoration of the Radicals to the man
agement of our State and city govern
ments.
Can it be possible that the people OF
this State can so soon forget the past his
tory of the Republican party, that that
party should be allowed by any schemes
or devices, or under any spurious cry OF
reform to obtain control of Maryland
and its great heart, Baltimore cityl Can
your memory be SO treacherous as to blot
out the infamous means by which de-
feated candidate for Governor was install
ed over the people of Louisiana, and their
rights trampled under foot Has the in
reference of armed soldiers in the legisla-
tive 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 Repub-
lican Executive and the Radical majority
in Congress9 Are the Credit Mobilier,
the Pacific Mail and Sanborn conspiracies
all obliterated from your memory2
Do you wish a horde of spies and in
formers let loose upon your mercantile
communities, and severe extortioners turn
ed upon your farmers and manufacturers
Do you desire continuance of the mis-
management of the national finances,
whereby the present depression in trade
and business of all kinds shall continue,
and ships rot at the wharves, while artl-
sans and laborers wander through the
streets of your cities seeking employment
and find none? Can the people of Mary
land long to retrograde to that state of
Radical misrule from which the people of
so many of our sister States are just be-
ginning to find deliverance
Can you lay down your arms and sleep
on the eve of great presidential election,
when the augurics on all hands give us
the brightest hopes of wrestling the
national administration from the hands
of our political enemies, and placing it
where, it will be welded, as before the
the war. in the interest of the whole pee-
pie, and for the benefit of all sections
To destroy the Democratic party now
by the aid of the secret organization, the
Republican newspapers are charging a
gainst the Democracy, without specifica-
tion or proof, but by shameless perversion
of facts and figures, the very sins of which
their party at Washington, even under
the palliating reports of their own party,
have been found guilty by the verdict of
the whole country
The attempt to throw discredit upon
the management of the State Treasury is
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