Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1880-04-09
THE DEMOCRAT TIC PARTY At GIN
CINNATI


bling of the Cincinnati convention, which
is to take place in June next. Every day
impresses us with the grave importance
which will attend the sittings of this body
every patriotic heart and mind throughout
the land is anxiously absorbed as to what
will be the result of its deliberations.
A great writer has said that knowledge
is power" The Democratic party has had
a vast deal of experience theoretically and
practically, and if brought into requisition
they will be able to avoid the rocks which,
upon former occasions, they ran against, and
which have resulted in their defeat. Itmat-
tiers but little who shall be the nominee of
the Cincinnati convention, if he be a man
whose life-record demonstrates that he is
loyal to the principles with which the Demo-
cratic party has been identified from the first,
and which have, as the years have rolled on,
conferred imperishable renown upon the
American Republic. No one man is essen
tial TO the perpetuity of their principles,
they are above and beyond any man God
ever created. No Samson can tear down
the pillars upon which the grand super
structure is reared. No power can crush
them. A Judas may betray and Plate may
order their crucifiction, but on that day when
their enemies exalt in the downfall, they
are more powerful than ever, and when
subjected to the rack of prejudice, the jibbet
Of hate, the cross of humiliation or passing
through the fires of partisan malignity, their
power is more universally displayed and
their majesty more widely acknowledged.
| so far as men are concerned, the Democratic
party demands standard bearer whose pub
lie record is guarantee that his knowledge
ofDemocratic principles is thorough and pro-
| found, and that he is so permeated with these
principles that they will influence all of his
public acts and be impressed upon the policy
he will pursue This being understood, the
Democratic party comes before the country
with its principles. The man to represent
them, when selected, unites the party, har-
monies every section, bushes every faction
If the Democratic party in convention as
sembled at Cincinnati, recognizes and APP
precates these great truths, it will show
itself competent to carry forward govern
mental enterprises based upon the eternal
verities of right, and likewise show itself
capable in the future as in the past of solv-
ing the problems Of free government If it
will cease its wrangling about men and de-
vote its power and its opportunities to the
solution Of problems which underlie the
future greatness of the country, we shall
have but little trouble and no doubt of the
election and Inauguration of Democratic
| President
! A party organization is, at BEST merely an
expedient for bringing about certain results
in government, and the members of such an
organization certainly have the right to dis
cussamong themselves the methods by which
such results are to be Obtained otherwise
they are liable to renew the expedient in
another shape and more in accordance with
their own views, overlooking themselves as
well as their friends. Hence, we think, that
it is eminently fit and proper that there
should be full and free discussion among
the delegates TO this convention, but its pro-
ceedings should be characterized by har-
mony Of sentiment and interest, and be
able to rise to the sublime dignity of throw
ing aside personal jealousies and animosi-
ties or sectional dislikes, and look to the
good Of the country and the success of the
party that its record is writ
ten in letters of living light for patriotism
pure as the dew of dawn; for devotion to
law us proud and defiant as the rocks of the
sea. From the lofty lettering of its glorious
record the beautiful and blessed light of
peace economy and good government shines
with steady and unfailng splendor.
They must not loose sight of the fact that
the party which they have to oppose stands
to-day before the country without peer in
its pollution, unrivaled in its wickedness and
Incompatible in its meanness They should
bear in mind that if by any unwise and i'm
prudent act of theirs Grant should again
come into power, then will the military
spirit and genius once more overshadow
and darken the councils Of State, and borne
along by mighty reclamation and enthu-
siasm the INSCRIPTIONS decorators and de-
! stroyers of our liberties will proclaim him
Emperor. They should likewise remember
that either Blaine or Sherman would be as
Objectionable by inaugurating II policy of
sectional hates. That no good to the coun-
try can be anticipated by the triumph of
the Republican party. The principles of
the party, if carried out, no matter who is
elected, means Capitalization and the final
down fall Of the Republic
If they be guided by such views as we
have but poorly expressed, and the truth
and wisdom contained in the old adage.
measures, not men" the great evils under
which the country has been laboring for the
past twenty years will soon be oblterated
and we will once more be blessed with an
era of peace, prosperity and an honest adj
ministration Of the government.
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ACQUITTAL or JUDGE PEARRE
After several weeks of a thorough and
sitting investigation the committee appointed
by the Legislature TO examine into the mat
ter of malieasancc in Office reported three of
the committee recommended the House to
pass a resolution generating him. This
news will be gratefully received by the many
friends of the Judge in this section of the
State who were justly incensed at the at
tempt to su,ly his name The editor Of the
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