The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-05-30
Freedom MISCELLANY.

On Sunday, the 18th, our aged and esteemed
friend, Mr.. VIM. Brandenburg, while driving
out in company with friend. their horse be-
came unmanageable, and, dashing down hill
with great speed, threw the old gentleman
out of the buggy, cutting and bruising his head
in fearful manner. lie was carried home
in an unconscious condition. DR.. J. w.
Steele was called, and upon dressing his
wounds expressed fears as to the result of his
Injuries. but hopes are now entertained that
he will recover.
The refreshing showers of the last few days
have changed the face of nature in this sec
ton. Grain and grass are rapidly improving,
corn and potatoes are coming up we'll, and
locusts and legislative candidates are appear
ing in s'great multitude that no man can
number" and we anticipate some noise be-
fore their respective campaigns are ended:
But if our candidates for nomination Will
heed the mandate of holy writ, which says,
''know myself we may be able to select
from among their number a ticket that will
give general satisfaction without creating dis
cord or discomfort. In this connection we
know of nothing we can say more to the point
than to call the attention of our candidates
and their respective adherents to the late ed
itorials of the ADVOCATE, which seem to have
taken in the situation and plainly set forth
the duty every man owes to himself and b;
party We want ticket composed of good
men. By this remark we do not mean to in
clude simply those who are 'learned in letters
and in law, but men of good sense, who
think for themselves and form opinions of
their own, to be yielded only upon conviction
that those opinions are erroneous. We want
men who can vote in the negative as well as
in the affirmative; men who worship at some
other shrine than that altar laid with silver
and gold; men who know the wants of the
people, and the legislation needed for the
protection of the manifold interests of the
state; men whose patriotism will prompt them
to respect the sovereign rights of Maryland,
and to teach some of her great corporations
that they are but creatures of the state, and
owe their existence and their present gigantic
proportions to that spirit of enterprise which
prompted her. as their alma mater, to bear
the burthen in the heat of the day, and foster
them in their crawling infancy by an unpre-
eedented appropriation of millions of dollars.
We want men who have courage to let those
CORPORATIONS know that, while their franchise
in the right of way enables them to remove
our eonsecrated homesteads AID "bones of
our fathers as public necessity, that fran
chise does not authorize and this public ne
cessity forbids this unjust, unlawful and OPP
pressive discrimination between the citizens
of our state and those of the more highly
favored West And if there be any states
rights that have not been throttled and gull
otined by Federal usurpation in the past, and
the potent influence of the almighty dollar,
which seems to WELD the sceptre in church
and state, we hope to select men who will
give us some manifestation of the fact in the
next General Assembly of Maryland.