The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1879-10-04

this State, which was originally Wing. .
Well may Mr.. Hamilton ask why both
Wings and Democrats responded with ths;
majority Of 10000 votes The reason
was, 10 the vigorous language Of our next
Governor, 'sthey wished TO wipe out aud
bury the wrongs Of the twelve years pre-.
vious. You know the wrongs which were
perpetrated by the American party, Don't
forget il. You may forgive, but you
should never forget tho past.
Twelve years afterwards, presuming
upon popular forgetfnlness, the Republi-
can party, which was expelled from power
BY SO overwhelming and emphatic ma
jority, comes before the people preaching
reform and honesty Were the Demo
cratic party never so corrupt and its adj
ministration ever so imbecile and dishon-
est, 1t would not lie in the mouth Of a
political organization which had SO thor
oughly disguised the people Of the State
as the Republican party has done, to prate
about "eyilsf and "abuses" Popular dis
appreciation was never more emphatically
expressed than 10 the vote by which the
Republican party was thrust out Of power
in 1867. The 10000 majority which wss
recorded against it in that year was the
voice not Of the Democratic party merely,
but of the people Of tho whole State, and
there can be no doubt that thousands Of
former Republicans Joined in the supreme
effort by which shameessly corrupt or
ganization was finally overthrow. 1t is
rather too much to expect the people Of
Maryland to forget the monstrous abuses
and evils of every kind which existed
under the Republican regime, or the
shameful tyranny and oppression Of which
the Republican administration was guilty
No sane man is anxious to repeat that ex-
perience, and the Republican party will
have to conceal its identity under good
deal more capacious sheepskin than it
wears at present before it can hope to
regain political power
If the Republican party in Maryland,
during the twelve years since the Democ-
racy have been in the ascendent, had
shown any evidence Of change Of heart
or an amendment of life, its present as
sumption of political virtue would not
seem so utterly absurd. But il would APP
pear to be an organization which is not
capable Of being purified by adversely.
IL can no longer carry elections by false
voting and intimidation, but it still loves
so well the methods which it once delighted
to practice that it dallies with fraud at its
own primaries, and at its little family cleo.
tious makes constant attempts to violate its
own ballot-box. Corrupt, deerepit and
dishonest, with not enough administrative
ability to govern even itself, or to keep
the peace even among its corporals guard
of followers, this orn-out and rotten or
ganization has the supreme audaeity to
fancy that the State Of Maryland will turn
a favorable ear to its wooing, and consign
itself once more to its deadly embraces.
As Mr.. Hamilton well says, though
abuses may exist under the Democratic
administration, the way to weed them out
is not by transferring political power to
the Republican party. Such remedy
would be much worse than the worst dis
ease which could originate under Demo
cratic rule Wherever reforms are need
ed VIC have tie assurance Of Mr.. Hami-
ton that they win be undertaken by the
Democratic party, and that he win make
it the aim of his administration heartily
to cooperate with all proper efforts to-
wards the elevation and publication Of the
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