Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1884-10-24
A False and OdiOuS Comparison.

Mr.. Blaine of Maine, in his i'll tempered
bloody shirt speech on Monday, after re-
viewing the fact that three -fourths of the
Democratic representation in Congress
comes from the Southern States, INDUCED
in the following false, deceitful aad auda-
eious comparison:
''To give them the control wonld moan a
change the like of which has not been known
in modern times. 1t would ne as if the dead
StuartS were recalled to the throne of England,
as if the Bourbons should he invited t. admin
lister the government Of the French republic as
though the Florentine duks should be called
back and empowered to govern the great king
dom ofltaly''
This blatant, audacious and corrupt cd
demagegue, who never makes a public
harangue in which falsehood and deceit
are not large elements. has not. of course
the honesty to admit that in all the most
influential and wealthy agricultural, and
even manufacturing S ates of the North
and West, there are most respectable and
intelligent Democratic minorities, which
to ignore is to basely insult. In many OF
these States this minority is really ma.
Jority, on Y smothered into minority by
The systematic frauds, corrup ions and in
timidation of the federal government as
now basely administered by Republican
denagogues, This is proven by the fac
that in the ''off years. when the corrupt
ing and intimidating influences of the fed
eral government are not present, and The
people of the States are left to express theil
will fairly and peaceably at the ballot box
the Republican party is always left behind
in those States. When the federal govern
ment is once wrested from the bad contro
of the Republican party, these real major
titles will assert themselves in many of thoss
States, and the last shadow of that fal Sc
and bad faction of which Blaine is the
leader will be forever cast out from the
places it has so much abused and disgrace
ed and will live only in the darkest pages
of the darkest era of our national history
That once accomplished, and no State
whose predominating interest is agricul-
ture, will ever be found stu tifying itself
10y giving its vote to the mercenary fac
ton whose open policy is to tax that great
fundamental industry out OF existence in
the interest of rich monopolies.
But even conceding that the South
would be the predominating influence in
the Democratic party, no man of honor
and conscience, who reviews the past pol
itical history and present unquestioning
allegiance of the Southern States, will see
anything in the free exercise of the privi-
lege of franchise by that section OF the
country and its honest representation by
honorable men in the federal courcils to
operate as menace to the perpetuation
of Republican institutions; but, on the
other hand, will concede that the direction
of the government could not be entrusted
to safer hands than those Of that brave and
honorable people. Driven into what this
cowardly and false old demagogue calls
the rebellion by the fanaticisn and dis
honesty OF his bad element in politics, TO
which Blaine naturally belongs, the con-
duct of that honorable people during the
struggle that ensued apd in throwing off
the damn .ble political thraldom that
Blaine and his co cosspira.oEs sedsavorsd
to fasten upon them. affords the fullest
measure of proof of their capacity Of self
government. The bloody shirt as poll
teal battle cry is now dead and the willy
old demagogue to whom belongs the ques-
tionable honor of its invention is about TO
follow it to disreputable grave, bat it is
manifest that he is dying hard.