Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1878-11-01
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Importance of Your Vote.

Mr.. Editor For seventeen years has this
country labored and struggled under the
hideous and hellish misrule of the Radical
party. For large portion of he time that
party has had full sway without the slightest
impeachment, and yet did nothing whatever in
that time 10 reflect credit upon the organiza-
ton as national party, but rather consumed
those golden hopors by embracing the oppor-
tunity that presented for passing laws in Con-
gress and recognizing the State Governments
IN The South with the sole view and purpose
OF perpetuatiUg its existence after the time
should come when it should surely begin to
crumble through its own loaihsome and gan
grenous corruption. Through such means,
aud through the Internal system Of requiring
all subordinate employees OF the Government
| TO subscribe portion of their pay for the
| expensive fabrication of this mammoth engine
| OF ignorance, vilainy and corruption, the
incipent corpse was bosiered until, as last
grano crowning emanaiion, we have in the
Executive Char of the nation a man placed
there by actual fraud on the part OF the Re-
publican leaders, confirmed and legaized by
the Republican members of the Supreme Court
OF the nation, and although there are men
who say that Hayes has made q good Presi-
dent and hence sanction his unholy occupancy
of the nations highest Office, vet his presence
there is a stencil in the nost:ils of honest
men, such as the efIluvum which drew the
vnltures from afar TO their carnival on the
CORY plains of Bull Run. But we believe and
God grant that the future may sustain our be-
llet. that this last great wrong sounded the knell
that summoned ''Duncln" and awakened the
country 10 the awful Impending ruin Of our
institutions it left longer 10 the guardianship
of the Radical party. Now 10 the conempla-
ton OF this last black stain upon the fair fame
Of our history, II is Our wish TO call the at
tention Of the voters Of the Sixth Congress
sional District TO the fact that one single
vote recorded in the negative, enabled the
Republican party to perpetrate the yllinny of
placing Hayes 10 the Presidency One single
member of the Electoral Commission voting
against any investigation of the returns ena-
bled the Radicals TO compass that great crime
of placing the nation ia the disgraceful posi-
ton of being presided over by man elected
by fraud.
1t is scarcely possible that there can arise
in this country the danger of repetition of
this last great infamy. But The political at
mosphere is rife with hidden sources of dam
ger and trouble 10 the nation, and il is not
impossible that measures may come before
Congress of greater practical importance in
their consequences than even the fraudulent
election of II president, and hence it is of
y
and principals of the Democratic party should
be represented by as heavy a majority as il is
possible for the patriotism and intelligent re-
Election OF the people 10 make it. Therefore
IL is but the proper response to the demands
of patriotism for every voter in the Sixth
Congressional District to consider the impor-
tant fact that his single vote may be the means
of adding one TO the majority Of the Democrats
in the next House of Representatives, and
therefore urge him 20 the polls and determine
him TO support the organization of the Demo-
cratic party by voting for the illustrious can
didate OF the convention, whether or not they
agree with the convention that our gifted and
generous felow-cilzen, the Hon. Geo Peter,
sheds their ideal lus,re upon the campaign.
Remember that if you remain absent from the
polls You do not simply not vote for Mr..
Peter the chosen candidate of the organizl-
ton. But your absence enables some oppo-
nents vote 10 count one against him. This is
no time for indulgence Of personal prejudice
or fancy in our ranks. The strength of the or
ganizaiion depends on the harmony of its
elements, then let these elements harmoniZe
upon Mr.. Peter by Democratic majority that
shall bury from sight and memory for ever
in our district all signs Of radical organiza-
ton. DIXIE" 1878