The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1888-11-16
The Egis Intelligencer
Bel Air, Md, November rs, 1883.
WAS IT GENEROUS?
For The .Egis and Lnteiggsneer.

For The E1is and LateLjgeHeeT.
We confess that we were surprised upon
reading 10 the Times of November 9th, that the
Third Party vote Of Hartford shows VERY
GRATIFYING falling on
Tine tight on the question of High License has
been fought, and won BY the Amended Law. and
We venture to assert that almost every Third
Party man in Hartford county was on the SIDE OF
that law, and voted for its adoption. Their vote
being small, the law would have carried OF course
without them. hence we have nothing To say
upon that phase of the question, but what we DO
wish to enter our earnest protest against. is the
uncharitable effort on the part of the Times to
Inisrepresent and belittle the honest and manly
efforts OF the Third Party men of Hartford, who
were heart and soul in favor OF the Amended
Law and did effective work for its success.
We will explain to the Tunes the reason for the
small Prohibition vote 10 the county by
Informing 1t that the leaders OF that party pur-
posely refrained, after consultation from push;
Brooks, because they feared such agitation
might initiate against the Amendment through
words the Prob btionists OF the county sacrificed
their national ticket for the sake OF the county
law. Why then should the fact OF tho falling of
be so gratifying TO the Times Does /. not know
that 1t was due IN a great measure 10 the manly.
generous, non-partisan sacrifice OF the Third
Party leaders and voters
Amended Law, so far as we know. care
fully and faithfully avoided anything that
could be construed into a desire to make
Prohibition party votes. and yet these men
who worked and voted for the law, and did so at
the bidding of the Hartford alliance, OF which the
Editor OF the Times is the chief ExeCutiyu, must
be stabbed In the back by a partisan thrust from
the very journal that proudly boosted all through
the campaign that the fight was being waged
with the utmost freedom from partisan feeling
or interest, and urged men OF all parties to unite
and carry the law by joint effort.
The Democratic party has lost In the recent
Presidential contest and has manfully accepted
the result yet the Times seems to rejoice over Its
defeat less than over the falling of Of the Iiar-
ford Prohibition vote. Does the Times think
there is only party that has the right TO live
What would we be II we all thought alike2
have no shadow OF respect for the man who
has no opinion. no convictions of his own, and
who has not the courage and manliness to stand
up for those convictions, be they favorable TO
one party or another, but we have high regard
for him who is generous enough to grant every
man the right to think as he pleases, politically,
without mourning the charge of being either a
knave or fool, and we beg leave to say that we
think the eXultation of the Times over the de-
cline In tho Third party vote in Hartford, In view
of the above considerations and circumstances
neither kind Charts able, courteous nor generous.
The energies of the Third party In Hartford were
given to Hartford. and no one knows what vote
they could have commanded by earnest, active
agitation, hence the Times misrepresents them,
and its satisfaction over the apparent decline OF
the vote savors OF spirit OF ingrattude to its
Co workers In the recent local contest, and this
we think will be evident to any fair minded man,
be no Democrat or Republican.
AGAINST LICENSE.