The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-05-25
IN A CRITICAL CONDITION.

Isidor Raynor. Ex-Congressman From the
Third District Warns the Democratic
Party of Which he is u Member that the
Republicans are Getting More and More
United, While Democrats are at War with
Each Other
The Concordia Opera House, in Balti-
more, was crowded on Tuesday night.
1t had been announced that Ex-Congress-
man, Isidor Raynor would speak on the
future of the Democratic party. Mr..
Raynor was warmly received and liber-
ally applauded all through his speech,
the delivery of which occupied nearly 2
hours He began on the tariff question
and then touched on the political rela
tions of the colored and white people in
the South. The most interesting part of
his address was that relating to state
politics which was as follows:
THE PARTY IN a CRITICAL CONDITION.
The Democratic party in Maryland is
in critical condition. We may say
otherwise, and deceive ourselves in think
ing to the contrary, but the fact still re-
mains that it is. If we deduct the ma
iority in the Third congressional district,
nine hundred votes will cover the major
ity in the balance of the state at the last
election. Our whole majority was about
six thousand, so that if three thousand
Democrats, which is less than twenty in
"a precinct, vote with our opponents the
party is in peril. | wish that | were mis-
taken about this, but thought that |
would give you the figures, so that you
could draw your own differences. 1t is all
very well to say that we lost a number of
votes upon the tariff issue; even if this
were so, there are local issues which, in
all proba oilty, may lose us the same
number of votes over again. | believe in
looking this condition squarely in the
face, not to try temporarily to bridge it
over, because this, perhaps, may be done
but in order to adopt some permanent
plan that will bring us back to our moor
ings and keep this state in accordance
with the true sentiment of a large major
ity of our people, safely within the DEM
ocratic ranks. 1t is not the controversies
among political faction that should &C.
casion the whole alarm, because some
times they drift apart very widely and
come together very closely afterwards.
What ought to concern us is the spirit of
discomfort and disatfection among the
people who are Democrats from principle
who want no political office, and who
have no party favors to ask except an
honest administration of the party's af-
fairs. We might convene all the warning
factions in this city and apportion among
them the public perquisites and patron
age according to their influence aud re-
quirements, but there is a power behind
the factions that cannot be purchased
and silenced in this way. A earnest pro
test would go up against any scheme of
redemption and deliverance that propose
to save the party by distributing its
offices and spoils. This plan of comprO.
mise was tried in neighboring city and
the outcome was the most corruptIng
state of politics that ever disgraced the
pages of our history, state of politics to
which is attributable in large degree
the disaster of our last defeat.
THEIR OPPONENTS ARE ADVANCING.
What is the condition of our opponents
at the present time? Step by step they
are advancing upon us. Under the most
thorough and continuous discipline. they
are strengthening their organization in
every precinct OF this city. The Repub,
lican leaders, recognizing the fact that
their party in this city can be kept to-
gether only by holding out the hope of
common plumber, authoritative word has
come from Washington that the princi
pal federal appointments will not be made
in Maryland until after the election, and
with fifteen Thousand colored voters col
onized to a considerable extent, in solid
line they present an unbroken front, their
objective point being the next Legislature
and Republican senator from Maryland
while we are rent and torn by factional
ulscord, fighting over spoils that are al
ready within the grasp OF the enemy. l
would regard the ascendancy OF the Re-
publican party in this city as calamity
and misfortune. We can reform our
selves without any help from it. l do
not believe in its principles, nor in its
narrow minded aud sectional policy. |
have no faith whatever in its honesty as
party.