The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-10-28
What is the Democratic Voter asked to
do by the Republicans!

To vote for them. Have you, voters, ever
thought of why you should comply with their
requests "As token of friendship" they
say. But are you to give up an old friend for
a new one? Would you think it right to as
sist man in robbery because he was your
friend? Why then help man in politics,
whose principles you do not endorse? "Well
then, to correct abuses" they add. If you
find wrong conduct going on in your bust
ness do you get some else to right it? Why
then not have Democrats correct their mis-
takes themselves, if any they have made?
The Democratic party is made up of fallible
men, and no conservative man will say never
makes mistakes, or it may be does positive
wrong. But is the Republican party made
up of better material? Does their record in
the national government show no blots
Does it not rather present front that the
party should blush to hold up to public gaze
Let us then not give them chance to repeat
their misdeeds in our State government, but
leave it in the hands Of those who have so
lung piONCu WolluJ vi tHC trust.
Democratic voters ofHarford, do you want
to help Grant to third termP Ifso, cast
your vote for the Republican ticket this fall
That will surely be one of the many evils fol-
lowing in the train, should the State of Mary
land pass under their control. A "stalwart
of the stalwarts," Hon. A. j. Creswell
| Grants Postmaster General) was appointed
chairman of the late State Republican con.
vention, and took good care to have all the
working machinery put into the hands Of
Grant men. Picture to yourself Grant again
at the White House and his "strong govern.
ment" fully entrenched, and see if it fills your
idea of a good government for free people
A safe experiment it would be! No, let
Grant fatten on his friends and revel in the
spoils of eight years of the presidency, but
don't let us add the State of Maryland to his
strength for another reign of four years.
The rate of taxation in the State of Mary.
land is 1872 cents ON the hundred dollars, and
has been for several years past. Ten cents
of this is for school purposes. Out of the
balance the State has, during the last few
years, spent nearly one million ($940, 000) dol
lars for charitable purposes on the Deaf and
Dumb Asylum, the Maryland Hospital fol-
the Insane, and the State House of Correc.
ton; has built the State Normal School
building; during the past year has placed
nearly seventy thousand dollars ($GS, SSH
in her sinking fund has paid the interest on
her debt ($7,6s7 6G776D nearly three and a
half millions of which was created by the De.
fence Loan of 1868, and kept her credit un.
furnished in the money market. This has
| all been done, except the passage of the De-
fence Loan, which so largely increased oul
debt, by the Democratic party, and yet this
is the party the Republicans would teach you
to believe is stealing your money, and bring.
ing the State to financial ruin. Will they
show us State under Republican rule doing
half so well? Let the facts speak let them
disprove them ifthey can. Let us see if they
don't hold their peace in reply.