Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1879-06-20
H4RuONY RESTORED.

ences Of opinion between Senator Baya-d and
other members Of his committee, over the fate
of the Warner bill, is matter Of congratula-
ton, first because it is much better TO keep
the Democratic party in perfect accord with
those men who are regarded as the opponents
cause tits not matter Of any grave impor-
lance to the interests Of the country how long
that particular financial measure is allowed
to rest before the bill comes before the Senate.
The present craze in certain sections for finan-
cial legislation is temporary, and the Demo-
Gratis are unwise in INDUCING the same to such
an extent, which more than any other agent
has been Influential in reducing the Demo-
cratic majority in Congress. What the coun-
Try most needs is a relief from the rem
nants of war, sectional and class legislation,
and the Democratic prrty had better address
itselfto these issues more completely than be
wasting its time and jeopardizing its chances
on financial schemes which, after all, may be
nothing but doubtful experiments.
We say that this devotion Of time and en-
ergy to finance when other issues were more
profitable was the cause of many Democrat
ic defeat last Fall. And now, when Ohio is
regarded as the pivotal State in the coming
Presidential fight, we have lot of men who
by such rashness would divide :he party upon
the same unpressiag questions, and thus check
the much more Il be desired purposes Of the
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as far as possible, the tremendous power of
the monied element But the effort is prema-
ture. What can party, even with MAORI
ty in Congress, hope to gain in this direction
very element we wish TO depose and who has
in recent cases illustrated what check he can
place upon the wishes Of the American citizen
by shameless abuse of the veto The time
to gain the accomplishment of what may be
really necessary is when we are able, and not
now when every effort is perverted and the
chances of victory lessened by every embar-
assment Of position in which the party is
placed.
Every veto places the party in position
where tact and skill are required, and every
repetition brings chances that some error
might be made. AS long, however, as these
vetoes are appended to efforts to reform abuses,
check the idea of Capitalization and to repeal
those statutes that are the great barries against
the entire pacifcation Of the country, an in
strument is placed 10 our hands by the enemy
tul ,iah ha tnrn ad 10 Dr.
every veto to financial measures is a blow to
Democratic hopes of controlling the entire
government, and is source of fearful dissen-
sion in the party. There is no need for more
financial laws. But there is need that more
driving effort be made against continuation
in power of a corrupt party which will stoop
to any depths Of rascalty to maintain lis
supremacy.
To elect Democratic President the party
must be consolidated. At heart and by re-
cord upon the money question the Demo-
cratic party is sufficiently correct and safe, al
though at present divided but upon the issue
that the Radical party and its policy is and
has been subversive to the will of the people
the party is united to man. This is the pol
icy to pursue and 1t can be done successfully.
The battle nf.hA y. .s.,--i e,--.- = r~.o.-.-.
is fearfully and wonderfully pictured by that
very wicked sheet The Chicago Times, which
says: "Combatants that have been assailing
each other with every opprobrious epithet for
three months in a battle over the meaning of
words, came together in mutual agreement
upon form of words which neither repeals
any existing law nor makes any new law, yet
is accepted by both as expressing exactly what
was meant all the time. When one meditates
on the revolutionary uHimatum of Marshal
Thurman aud recalls the specter of starvation
painted by Chief Garfield, and reflects on the
lurid explosives of the terrible Mr.. Beck, and
shoulders at the raw head and bloody bones
conjured up by the awful Frye, and recalls
the CORY stars and bars waved over the last
ditch by the hero Of Fort Pillow, and thinks
about the ugly language of the exasperating
Michigan member in the swallow tailed coat,
and ponders the bood-and- thunder announce
ment of Brigader Blackburn that he who
dalles is a bastard and he who doubts is
damned, and then when one beho!ds in these
last torrid days Of the ridiculous session, these
implacable hostilities lying down together and
swearing by all things holy that there has
never, no never, well, hardly ever, been any
difference between them respecting the en-
ployment of troops at the polls, one can
hardly avoid thinking that the millennium
must be close"
For years past The lawyers and doctors and
others who have composed our Legislatures
have repeatedly turned out dog laws' and
'sheep laws" but every one in some way or
the other failing TO give satisfaction. Now
when our farmers meet again in The tax-pay-
ers' convention 1t would not be much foreign
to their purpose and interest for them 10 draft
a law on the subject 10 be presented to the
next Legislature by the county's delegation.
The recent ravoges of worthless ours upon the
nocks Of sheep bcFengiug TO our citizens make
it necessity that some protection should be
secured to those farmers engaged in the bust
ness Of sheep raising. We suggest that the
Taxpayers convention do this, because that
body is composed almost entirely Of farmers,
and they are best suited to determine what is
necessary aud what they want in order to