The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-06-09
Virulsnos Of the Baltimore American,

The Baltimore Ereniag Bulletin takes
the AmericaR 10 task for its bitter yiru-
lence towards the Democratic party. In
season and out Of season the american
never omits an opportunity to pour out its
vituperatiOn upon that party, most reck-
lessiy charging it with corruption, extray-
agance, and subservieueY to ring rule.
Whenever that journal is charged WITH
more than usual bitterness it vents it by
inveighing against ''the Ring" its favOrite
synonym for the Democratic party. The
BulIetia says
Gas to the general charges of corruption
and extravaganza SO recklessly hurled against
the Democratic party, it is only necessary to
say that that party which is the large majority
Of this community, the majority of its proper
ty-holders and tax payers, the majority Of its
solid business men, its capitalists, bankers,
merchants, manufacturers and workingnen,
is at least as much interested and as likely TO
be as sincere in desiring q reduction Of taxes
and economical methods Of municipal admin
istration, as the hungry faction which the
american represents, and which depends
largely for its votes upon the class which has
least intelligence, pays least taxes, and is
least capable Of approaching the need or un-
Outstanding the nature Of financial reform.
There is another point in which the Aneri-
can habitually, stndiously and wilfully misre-
presents and maligns the Democratic party.
1t is in Systematically representing the party
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er.hitters, ballot ox.stuffers and roughs.
The only political organization in this city
which was ever exclusively under the control
of the worst men in it, leagued and banded
together in clubs, the very names of which
Blood Tubs 'Black. Snakes,n "Hgers,"
"Plug- Uglies,n etc, indicated their brutal
and lawless character, and made the name of
Baltimore for time byword and reproach
throughout the land, was the party Of which
the AReTicdH was the organ, apologist, and
champion. Rough, dsorderly and lawless
elements, as well as selfish and INSCRIPTIONS
politicians, are undoubtedly contained in the
Democratic party in this city at this day, as
in every other political party. Every large
city nurses in its bosom just such elements Of
violence, and naturally they attach themselves
in largest numbers to the political party
which, for the time being, is dominant
Twenty yeas ago the americans party had
monopoly Of these bad elements. If, since
that time, some of them have drifted over to
the Democratic side, it must also be borne in
mind that during that period our election laws
and police system have both been greatly i'm
proved by Democratic legislation; and that
there is no danger now either of the party or
Of the city failing under the rule of organized
rufhanism, as in the days of the ''Plug. Ug.
lies and the Tigers 1t may suit the
Americdn's purpose to represent the facts
differently-to make its local columns daily
tissue of exaggeration and misrepresentation,
and to ascribe editorially whatever nomina-
tons the Democratic party may make
whatever respectable 6gureheads it may put
upon its tickets''-to the influence Of the
ring and the "roughs. That is the
american tactics. Everybody understands
that, and everybody will speedily learn how
much, or rather how little, credit to attach to
anything that the american may say, or that
may appear in its columns, respecting the
Democratic party. Upon that subject, at
least, its opinions are as Enthusiastically as its
statements of fact, and its statements of fact
no better than its opinions, and more than
this It would be impossible to say. We have
no sympathy with either ''ringsn or "roughs,n
of any designation or political afiliation,
whether they have their headquarters in q
Court hourse" or in "Custom- house," and
it is because we believe that our feelings in
this respect are those Of great majority Of
the Democratic party that we reject, as i'm.
pertinent and untrue, the americans insin
uations and charges TO the contrary