Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1884-11-28
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PORT TOBACCO:
Friday Morning. November %, 1884
Meet and Proper.

1t is meet and proper that the Democrats
of Charles county should rejoice and be
glad over the great victory which has
been achieved by the Democracy OF the
country. 1t is a source of joyful demon
stration throughout the length and breadth
of the country, even where the heavy
hand of Republican misrule in Federal
affairs is in measure warded off by the
bulwarks of free and representative local
government; but here in this county,
where the degradation of local misrue and
"taxation without representation" has
added a greater poignancy and sharper
sting to the malevolence of the Republican
party toward the South, the triumph of
the Federal Democracy is welcomed with
q peculiar pleasure and an unctious joy.
The Democratic ascendancy means a
revival of faternal feelings and NATURAL
good will between every section of our
common country. 1t means reinstate-
ment of the common brotherhood between
lawabiding people ofthe 'indissoluble I'm
ion of indestructible States" which was in
terrupted by the civil war of twenty -four
years ago, and which has since been kept
broken and divided by the Republican
party for narrow partisan purposes. 1t
means that the dead past, in the history
of this country shall be left to "bury its
dead" and that the active, intelligent and
enterprising people Of this great and ter
tile country shall catcb sap in the march
of economic and industrial progress and
press ON to the attainment of the full
measure of the blessings the fu ure has in
store for an industrious and peaceful free
people, unhampered by onerous class le-
gislation and the oppressive competition
of monopolies. 1t means that trade and
commerce, tillage and manufactures, shall
not any longer be kept in unhealthy con-
f1ict and abnormal competition by the
fostering hand of partial and unjust
paternal government, but that these several
industries shall be, as far as practicable,
left to regulate themselves upon the har-
monious orbits laid down by the immu-
table laws of trade and commerce, tillage
and manufactures. 1t means, We believe,
revival of peace and good will, plenty
and prosperity throughout the land.
The final triumph of the opposition par
ty, after so many years of defeat will bring
eminent satisfaction to the friends CT our
Republican government. by the demonstra-
ton of the fact that public elections under
our constitution are still safety valve OF
popular discomfort" This great achieve
ment, fraught as it is believed to be with
SO many blessings to the masses, will be
glad tidings to the weary and poverty bur-
dened in all sections OF our common coun-
try; but especially gladstone will it be 10
the little Spartan band of Democrats in
Charles county, who in the past 10 years
have so courageously and heroically waged
the unequal contest With the outnumber-
ing columns of the organized ignorance.
1t will be especially gladstone to them, be-
cause with Cleveland in the Executive
chair and Compton in Congress the begin
ming of the end of the bad local domino
ton has been reached.
The colored voters will now have an op-
portunity to learn who are their true
riends and to disabuse their minds of the
bad teachings which have jeen instilled
into their too credulous ears. Let US hope
that the just Providence that rules over
the destinies of nations and of communi-
ties will speed the final deliverance.