The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-09-15

dishonest and INSCRIPTIONS bosses.
supported by a perfectly organized
lobby, these men have made the
Democratic party of the State their
subservient tool and their plant in
strument. They have sold offices;
| they have auctioned off denominations
they have bartered governorships,
and have bought United States sena-
torships by money levied on the peo-
pie, and by blackmail eXtorted from
the Legislature, at the City Hall and
at Annapolis.
mo citizen of Maryland has been
so humble as not to feel insulted at
the insolent ostentation with which
these men have paraded their ILL
gotten spoils. No one has been so
high in character, in achievement, in
the honorable respect won in we'll
spent life, as to be above their imper-
tinent intrusion and vulgar domina-
ton. The State has been governed
by their will, and not by the laws and
the constitution. No high-spirited,
honorable man would subject himself
to their base rule. Therefore, the
great body of the respectable citizens
who have made the support of the
Democratic party for generation are
ostracised, and the group of ambi-
tious young men, whose intellect,
training and energy fit them for
public employment and public trust,
are as utterly DISTINGUISHED as if they
were deprived of political rights by
a provision of the constitution"
"The crimes of the bosses and the
lobby against the Democratic party
are so fragrant that the great mass of
Democrats are now hesitating wheth
err it will not be wise and better for
the party to stand aside and permit
it to be defeated, as the Republicans
did their party in Pennsylvania and
New York in 1882. They are now
debating whether temporary defeat
be not the best way to get rid of the
machine, and as the most practicable
measure of reform. Such condition
of the public mind forebodes danger
to the dominant party. The conven-
tion and the caucus have become
more odious year by year. The signs
that their power is broken are I'M
mistakable."
mo candidates selected by them,
no ticket nominated by the machine,
can be elected, and the alternative is
either to allow the Democratic peo-
pie to make their own free nominal
tons or to permit the city and State
to pass into the hands of the Repub-
lican party. Notwithstanding this,
the bosses have been and are at work
now to pack the State convention.
They have passed the word to their
henchmen, and they have labored in
season and out TO secure the nominal
ton to the place Of Governor of
man who will be hesuperseryiceable
tool of the ring. Where the canal
ring had power, it has succeeded in
electing delegates pledged to such
man. Wherever the patronage of the
Board of Public Works could be made
to be felt, county conventions have
been carried for the ring candidate.
$50 secretly, so skillfully, so adroit-
ly have these people done their job
that large portion of the State con-
yention has already been elected for
the purpose of carrying out the Or
ders of the bosses and the machine.
If this conspiracy against the Demo-
cratic party is accomplished the dam
ger of Republican success is immi-
nent, for the Democrats of Maryland
will not elect a State ticket mere
tools and puppets of the managers
and the lobby"