The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-11-05
Protest of the Democracy of Balti-
more Against Thos. ]. Keating.

| AH0luob 1uVos u AAO0O1uSs
TO the members of the Democratic
State Convention and the Real De-
naocracy Of Maryland:
The undersigned, delegates to the
Democratic State Convention which
assembled June %, 1881, to nominate
candidate for Comptroller of the
Treasury, were selected by joint
committee composed of one hundred
representative members of the Dem
ocratic party, equally selected from
the twenty wards of Baltimore City,
which joint committee assembled at
Central Hall on the 7th of June, 1881,
and unanimously elected US the dele
gates, and our election was unani-
meusly ratified and confirmed at a
Democratic mass 1,aatiuss. held attIis
Maryland Institute on the evening of
the 8th of June. 1881.
The primary ballot-box, once the
means of expressing the will of the
party, having lost all claim to public
confidence, and become an object of
contempt and derision, the real De-
mecracy of the city of Baltimore, rep
resented by the committee above
named. determined to ignore and re
pudiate the system of primary eec-
! ton in this city have been purged of
the $4,000 or more spurious and NOR
tuary names, and the general elec-
ton laws of the State, with all of
their pains and penalties, are made
to apply to the primary elections.
Hence it is that the real Democra-
cy of the city of Baltimore have been
compelled to meet in mass meeting,
in open assemblage and before the
whole community, ID ratifiy and con-
firm the delegates so selected. We,
the delegates SO selected, having
learned that conventions held in the
several legislative districts in this
city. pretending to represent the
Democratic part of this city, have
sent delegates to the convention with
the purpose of forcing upon the Dem
o:ratic party tho nomination of Mr..
Thomas j. Heating as candidate for
Comptroller of the Treasury, and
being fully convinced that such
result will end in fatal disaster to
the party, and be the end to every
hope of success. are now here protest.
ing that the said Legislative District
Conventions, which have so sent del
egates to this convention, do notrep-
resent the wishes or sentiments of
any respectable part of the Democrat
ic party of this city, but are the mere
shadows of an expiring "Ring and
Boss" power, having the support of
no intelligent, nnselfish Democrats
behind it. We do here now, with
out indicating any personal choice.
and with no feeling of personal hos
tility to any one, but animated with
the sole patriotic desire to have a
united party upon the substantial
foundations of right and justice, as
sign the following causes why such
nomination is not fit to be made:
1. That Mr.. Heating, in his official
declaration, and by mis- official acts
displays uncompromising hostility to
the sinking fund policy, established
by the Constitution of the State of
Maryland, the gradual and certain
payment of the public debt within a
limited time, and has failed in this to
regard either the constitutional re.
quirement or to execute The plain
commands of the law, passed in pur.
suance thereof,
2. That he has allowed taxes spe-
officially levied and dedicated, both
by the constitution and the laws
creating the debt and Ievying the
taxes for the payment of the interest
and principal of the debt, to be ap-
piled to other and foreign purposes,
when it was his sworn, legal and con-
stitutiOnal duty to resist it.
8. That IN receiving these loan
taxes he has knowingly violated the
law requiring them to be kept apart
in separate accounts, and be solely
applied to the debt.
4. That he allowed the payment of
eleven newspaper correspondents, at
the last session of the Legislature,
out CT the treasury, without any au-
thority whatever, and which can
only be regarded as a payment of the
peoples money to deceive the people
and help to fortify those with him in
power.
5. That he allowed for the same
session of the Legislature the pay
ment of nineteen officers and employ
ees of the House and Senate, net only
without any authority of Law, but in
open defiance and direct and positive
violation of the law expressly forbid
ding any such payment to be made.
and to that extent he has paid out