The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1888-11-23

more sound. None the less was l sound
Republican. went with the party which j
conceived to be the highest and most sincere
representative and exponent of the Ameri-
can idea; the party which gave the greatest
aid, encouragement and protection to Amer
lean industries, American labor and Amer
lean progress. The party that saYed the
country and the only enc that contains the
elements that wW or can continue 10 save it i.
the party that is on the side of freedom, Of
enlightenment, of sobriety and Of morality.
The business party. The party that rains
in its blows against whiskey with one hand,
while il prudently grips the pOcer to do SO
with the other; unlike the ram, or the one
idea political party which throws itself
bodily into the combat, and cut off from its
"base Of action" by the willy foe, must gain
lose all. Not that 1 claimed perfection for
that party--no party can be perfect so long
as individuals are not perfect--neither did
], as thee would seem 10 intimate, despise
the Democratic party. Personally claim
many warm friends in that party whom
believe TO be in the main honest in their
political faith, my only wonder was, (before
read thy open letter., that the defects Of
their party had not long before apreale d 10
their commonsense, and common honesty, in
short why they we're not eifectually sicken.
ed and disguised. Thee has made it all
plain. Now while never had doubt as
TO thy personal honesty and sincerity in thy
political beliefs, was led to think thy party
had justly subjected themselves to the
charges of gross inconsistency and insincer-
ity but thy claims reassure me; let us see;
thee speaks of the immense gains in your
vote since 'S4, $4,000 thee says in all now,
though thy friend, the prophet Daniel,
quoting from his official figures claims but
300, 900; but then $4,000 is a mere baga-
telle' in such vast multitude. Thee ap
parently values numbers more than the go,d
performed; perhaps thee has reason for
that. If SO large crowd proved un-uly,
know thee would feel better not to explain,
and it would not be prudent 10 do so. Any
how if thee feels all was not right, thee had
lots Of company. hear thy party claimed
500 900 in 's6. suppose they have been
chatting between two opinions" ever since.
Thee specifies some places where the vote is
doubled since 'S6, in Maryland for instance.
have been told that was caused by the
Democrats who could not trust their party
with the tariff-who through prejudice or
pressure wouldn't vote with the Republi-
cans-and preferred to waste their Votes with
thy party. But Ihad thought perhaps it
was only step in The pro. ess of eroiution of a
Democrat into full fedged Republican.
Then thee knows German was setting them
a good example by working with the Pro-
hibition;sts in New York. The vote in dig
ferent localities would seem to show that the
"off OK" is not pulling with the nigh one"
and Pm afraid it will eventually put too
much strain on some OF you. sincerely
trust none of thy party, for the sake of num-
bers, may become initiated by their new
com panions into The dark secrets of the bal
lot box. The results in our locality do not
seem TO sspan out'' so we'll. To be sure our
county gave you IS votes in 'S4 and 80 in
'8S, but that little crowd was so skillfully
marshalled by an accomplished Democrat
as to win the county for his party. That
shows that even few are not to be despised,
properly handled. Our village gave you II
against Is in 81, a majority of4, but not
for thy ticket. think the other were
scared eff by the whooping of our club boys.
The "great victory" thee aludes to is prob
ably the vote in Oxford. There l find
gain Of 2 in four years, ] man year.
fear at that rate the Republican party will
have the temperance question well settled
before thy party elects President, or their
Democratic adherents get chance to
scramble for the offices, and by the way,
would advise thy party not to syt too many
of them INTO the 3rd party dough at once.
See that they get thoroughly kneaded in or
they may slip out just at election time and
vote for rum, as they did in N. J. and in
many other places. No doubt this immense
gain in Oxford was due to the great "whoop-
ing up" thee gave it there, and especially 10
the immense meeting and the jubilee singers
thee had hired. No doubt should now be
voting the 3rd party ticket had l attended,
for am quite fond of good music. Yet
know some good people who have no more
ear for music than gourd. Music, it is
said, is the what you.may call 'em that
soothes the irritation in the savage breast,
and takes his hand off his tomahawk. Yet
it seems thee and thy party were pretty
"aeT tomahauke" from all accounts but
your own on Nov. 9th, and i think it was
these "unmusical gourds'' that did il. They
didn't understand nor appreciate the
sweet lays Of thy singers nor the "pipings"
of thy speakers. No doubt they thought
these were
"oniy Crusaders shipped fr I'm foreign cline
To crack the voice of melody and break the legs