Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1882-11-03
A LAST Appeal

We WELD no spear or scepter, save truth In
our cause. We have no money to offer the
free voters of the Sixth Congressional Dis
trict Unlike our opponents, we neither buy
nor sell our suffrage. Our hopes of victory
are based upon the love, honesty and pa
triotism Of the people. Principles and not
price is our watchword. Local self-govern-
ment depends upon free ballot and an
honest count That is the cornerstone of
our civil and religious liberty. Centraliza-
tion-the cherished desire Of our enemies
that TO which all their aspirations and ef-
forts tend, and for the consummation of
which, during the last two decades, their
leaders both openly and in secret, have
labored with zeal worthy OF better
cause, can only be brought about by fraud,
deception and the utter decentralization of
our suffragists. You take away mans
liberty when you buy his vote. Morally,
you educate him down TO something less
than man when you make it possible for
him toIsell his vote. He becomes chattel,
and has no legitimate place in the body
polite This is what the Republican party
is doing to-day with their vast corruption
fund. Its agents, grown bold through years
of successful practice of these criminal OPP
erations, make no secret of their cupidity,
and levy their assessments with the daring
and determination Of practiced highway
men, using their ill-gotten gains, first 10 en-
rich themselves, and secondly to debase the
weak and the unsuspecting. The teachings
and the tendencies of the Republican party
lead directly into the broad downward road
to the certain dissolution of our Federal
form of governments government, the
fairest and most desirable ever devised by
man. 1t is for the perpetuity of this gov
eminent that we now plead, and to that
end we call upon every free man in this
Congressional District, and who has a free
vote TO cast, to cast that ballot on the 7th Of
November for the Hon. Montgomery Blair
and the Democratic Judicial nominees.
The questions which will absorb the time
and attention of the coming legislative ses-
sions of Congress are OF more than ordi-
nary interest and importance to the country,
and its veal or woe depends upon their
proper adjustment. Our monetary affairs,
both as regards the regulation of the cur
rency and the revenues of the government,
need in their settlement the most careful
handling. Crude and unphilosophcal rea-
soning, one-sided and dishonest arguments
which lead TO false conclusions and which
conceal and gloss the evil methods by which
the monopolists carry their points to the
detriment and final ruin of the unsuspect-
ing toilers of the land, must be met by the
cool, calm logic, based upon right princi-
pies and fortified by irresistible arguments
For this the best mental calbre in the coun-
try is needed. The elements to be met and
overcome have in their aggregate cunning
deceit and ignorance. They afford un.
limited means of personal ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
to few, while they debase, pauperize and
enslave the masses. That legislation which
seeks, not the greatest good to the few, mol
yet the greatest good to the greatest number
but God-like, the greatest good to all, will
soon do away with labor-strikes and trades
Unions Labor and capital adjust them
selves as does heat and cold, light and dark
ness, in obeying the perfect laws by which
they are governed
The strength of government is in the vir
tue of the governed, and everything which
destroys the confidence of a people in the
agents which they appoint to regulate theil
public affairs, has tendency to weaker
their virtue, by first weakening their faitl
in humanity and their attachment to theil
country. Selfishness begets selfishness and
breeds dd ihtnitum.
1t would be work of supererogation tC
cite the wickedness consequent upon the III
legislation of the past few years Our courts
of justice day are burdened in the trial
of cuprts from high places, who, educated
in school OF corrupt politics, were led steT
by step in the broad way which finds It's
legitimate terminus in the penitentiaries OF
our country
is for you, free voters in this yet free
land, 10 check this great and damning evil
to lead into a better and purer atmosphere
to destroy the Republican miasma which is
poisoning the vital principles of our Fedora
Republic, and which, if not soon exterml.
mated, will make us but the sickly slaves Of
autocratic dcmagogues.
You have, indeed, taken the first steps in
the right direction. In your primaries you
selected men upon whose integrity you could
rely with safety. The stream is not higher
than its source. Your agents but followed
out your instructions. They chose man
worthy of the men who appointed them
and a man in every way worthy of your
free suffrage, man that will not disappoinl
you, be the duties of his office never sc
arduous.
Look at our candidate, freemen of the old
Sixth District Where will you find his
superior for the high office to which your
representatives have called him, and 10
which your votes must elect hmy A man
OF noble bearing, of strict integrity, of un.
questioned legal ability, q scholar, and long
familiar with the most intricate and import.
ant political questions both Federal and
foreign, of experience in federative coun.
ellis, of acquaintanceship with leading states.
men, he comes to the front as the peer Of
the best, and at once becomes leader in
the House of Representatives, the beat Of
whose heart is the beat of the peoples heart
and to which the people directly look fol
wise and honest legislation.