Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1886-10-22
The Approa aching Election.


In an article last week the TINES en-
deavored to impress upon its readers the
Importance of the approaching election.
We pointed out that our duty to our Dem
ocratic brethren of the State, who are
working confidently to send solid Dem
ocratic delegation to the next Congress:
to our honored representative, who has
won so much distinction in a single term
and who serves the people so faithfully;
and to ourselves, in order to continue the
present excellent local government and
shield US from a return of the bad loca|
misrule, all demand that every Democrat
should 60 to the polls and vote at the ap
preaching election.
The Importance of this election is apt
to be under estimated. Well meaning
citizens are apt to delude themselves with
the idea that there is nothing involved in
the coming election but one seat in a Dem
ocratic Congress and that our candidate
will not need the full Democratic vote to
elect him. This is great mistake. In
addition to the loss of seat to the Demo
Gratis in Congress which may be absolutely
needed to give the party fair working
majority, by sustaining defeat in this
district we should incur the just censure
of the whole party in the State and prac-
tically exclude ourselves from all future
participation in State and Federal patron
age. Now the Federal patronage in the
future promises to be more liberal in its
distribution than it has been up to this
time and hence the utter exclusion from
all participation in it, which defeat at the
coming election would certainly bring
upon US, is not to be regarded lightly.
The idea that Mr.. Compton will not
need the full Democratic vote to elect him.
if any such idea is entertained, is a most
mischievous error. While there seems to
be very satisfactory assurance Of The cleo
tion of our representative by good ma
iority, still all calculations that have been
made are based on a full turn out of the
Democratic vote, and it will require no
great amount of absenteeism among Dem
ocrats in each county to sweep away the
prospective majority and give the district
over to the Republicans. 1t should not
be forgotten that until recently this dis
trict was regarded as Republican territory.
No Democrat, therefore, who values party
supremacy will fail to cast his vote for Mr.
Compton.
But there is another point of view from
which the coming election appeals to the
Charles county Democrat with great force
The continued supremacy of the present
excellent local government with its care
Jul economy and large reduction of taxes,
is in q large measure involved in the pend
ing contest The leaders of the local op-
position are making great efforts to reor
ganize the colored voters so as to sweep
away the Democratic majority of last fall |
and bring the county back under repub-
lican domination. This is the real point
they are contending for and their support
of the republican nominee for Congress is
secondary to this all important question
with them. Next fall we shall have to |
fight over again the contest for local su-
premacy in the election of a board of
county commissioners and other county |
officers. II the Democrats and tax payers
maintain their supremacy this fall, the To-
cal battle of next fall will be already more
than half won. But if they suffer the op
position to again get the ascendancy in
the pending campaign, next falls contest
will be repetition Of the hard battle of
last fall.
1t is Of the highest Importance there
fore, from local standpoint, that weI
should hold our own this fall. To do this
it is absolutely necessary that every Dem
ocratic vote should be polled. To this
end every friend of local good govern
ment and low taxes should exert himself
to the utmost in arousing the people to
a true appreciation of the Importance of
the pending contest and thus bringing
out the full Democratic strength at the
polls.