The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-10-28
Hartford County RepubIicanism.

The Stalwart element of the Republican
party, which was rejected by the Republican
National Convention, has, by the death of Pre-
sident Garfield, gained the ascendancy in the
general government. Its aims and endeavors
areeven already known and foreshadowed and
it is the eliminating object, through series
of minor efforts, to eventually secure its per-
manent triumph under the leadership and by
the elevation to the chief position in the
country ofits old leader, General Grant All
Republican successes, wherever gained, will
lead up to this end as truly as the needle
points to the pole.
The desperate resolve to make inroads
upon the Democracy of Maryland is proof
of a general plan. Here in Hartford county,
the policy pursued is to be all things
to all mentor the sake of success
That there exists any idea, even on the part
of the most sanguine of the Republican lead
ers, to at once elect fair representative tick
ct of their party here, is not pretended. But
in mixed nomination they look for partial
success. An entering wedge is their only
hope. 1t is now an open secret that for the
sake OF Republican support, they advocate in
their negro meetings strong anti-local option
sentiments. That question having wisely
been placed beyond the barrier of political
partisanship, they are deliberately invok-
ing in order to pander to the prejudices of
the element they hope in this way to secure.
In word, every device that the astute lead
ers, trained in the many schools of different
political compilations, to deceive alike the
friends and opponents oflocal option, is being
tried.
Ola piece with all their other management
is also the pretended claims to set up for q
reform party-they who, when power was
lodged in their hands, added to the burdens
OF the people to an extent that swept them
from place the moment the untrammelled
voice of the taxpayer was permitted to be
heard in Maryland.
We believe, and it is SO acknowledged by
our would-be Republican reformers, that no
county in any State in the United States has
been better and more economically managed
in its financial affairs than Hartford county
This reform, and it is the one that intimate
ly and largely interests our own people, was
wrought within and by the Democratic party
of this county. Seeing its work had borne
good fruit, that same party promptly, by the
voice of a majority of its members, again pre-
scented the same candidates for the support
of the voters, that its pledges might be re-
deemed by further continuance of the good
work. We have confessedly inaugurated the
the needed reform at home, and shown the
sincerity of our party, by affording the op-
portunity for its continuance. We as un-
hesitatingly affirm that within and by the
agency of the same Democratic party will
be brought about in our State affairs, and
contamination devoutly to be wished--in
the affairs of the general government, If only
the Democratic party had chance to hurl
from power the corruptions that exist at the
seat of the general government.
Star routes and kindred Jobs that have
reached even to the precincts of our own
county, should warn our people to mistrust
the promises of Republicanism