The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1884-09-05


Democratic Executive Committee for Hartford
County.
The Democratic Prospects Bright.
The outlook for Democratic success in the
pending Presidential campaign is everywhere
bright and cheering. The Blaine managers
are dismayed at the want of enthusiasm for
the Plumed Knight in his own State OF
Maine, and are calling loudly for campaign
funds, which are received very slowly and
given grudgingly. The Democrats do not
expect to carry that State, but unless voters
are bought tor Blaine by the thousands the
Republican majority in Maine in September
will be alarmingy small. In New York it is
said that change has even come over John
Kelly, and that he will join with almost the
entire Tammany Hall association in support
ing Cleveland. The only prominent Tamma-
ny man who will not support Cleveland is
Senator Grady, the same who opposed Mr..
Cleveand's nomination at Chicago He has
sold out completely to Blaine and opened
headquarters in New York, from which he
will make an effort to draw Tammany Dem.
ocrats to the support of Blaine 1t is said that
he has not their confidence and can effect no
changes beyond his individual vote
The Butler izzle in New York, last Satur-
day night, is also calculated TO depress the
Republicans. 1t is apparent now to everybody
that Buffers support among the workingmen
is ridiculously small, and the novelty of his
candidacy is wearing away.
The Republicans see, too, that the Irish
Americans are not to be drawn away from
the Democratic party, by specious appeals
to their love for Ireland because that par
ty has always contended for the rights of all
naturalized citizens.
In Ohio, as well, panic is reported in Re-
publican circles, and there is good prospect
that the State will go Democratic in October
The Republican press in that State, during
the past eight years, has been exceedingly
hostile to Blaine and has ventilated his career
and character in the most bitter manner. 1t
is very hard for these newspapers to eat their
own words now, and Republican voters who
accepted their deliverances as truth then re
hard to convince to the contrary now.
All through the West, indeed, the Republi-
can cause is lauguishing. The promised bold
brilliant and aggressive campaign has not
begun. Besides Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, Wis.
consin and even Iowa and Kansas are now
doubtful for the Republicans. The German
vote seems to be generally opposed to Blaine,
and in some of the Western States it is a con-
trolling factor.
1t will not do, however, for the Democratic
party to be too sanguine. Reverses in poll
tics are sometimes effected rapidly and an en-
tire change may take place before the 4th day
of next November. Every Democrat should
therefore work as though all depended upon
his individual efforts, and the right will as
suredly triumph.
Political.
The Republicans find it hard to get their
congressional candidates to stick. In the
third district Mr. VIM. j. Hooper declines,
and in the fifth district Mr.. Hoton keeps
other would be candidates on the ragged
edge by neither accepting nor declining the
nomination.
-Ex-Judge Richard Grason is out in a
card in which he announces himself as can
didate to contest with Hon. ]. Fred. G. Tai
bott for the Democratic congressional nomi-
nation in the second district.
The prohibition campaign is being Wig
orously prosecuted in Washington county,
Md, where the colored vote is being looked
after. Mrs. Harper, colored, of Philadelphia,
has been employed to labor among her race
in that county.
Soap Soap More Soap" is the cry
that comes to the Republican national COM
mittee from every quarter. Chairman Jones,
who, it was stated, had promised $25, 900, at
late committee meeting in New York said
it was on the condition that nine others
would do likewise but where are the nine
He now generously offers to lend the COM
mittee $40, 900, on good security This dis.
gusted other members, who left the meeting
The Republicans may have claimed West
Virginia too soon. The Democrats there are
working like beavers and say they will carry
the State in October by their usual majority
An election took place in Vermont on
Tuesday, in which the Republicans were, as
usual, successful, but by largely decreased
majority.
The Blaine managers have been trying
to get Senator Conkling to come out of his
tent and work for the man who once called
him turkey cock but the attempt seems 10
be unsuccessful. 1t is believed that Conkling
Is for the prohibition ticket.
The Republican convention of the Sec.
ond congressional district, which met at Wa
verify on the 2Sth of August, unanimously
nominated Mr.. Thaddeus c. Blair for Con-
gress. Mr.. Blair is manager of the Ashland
Iron Furnace, Baltimore county, and was the
Republican candidate for Congress two years
ago. when he was defeated by Hon. j. F. G
Talbot.