Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1889-04-25

April 15. 1889.

SnWP VI JIG euemy. okiliul plans
are being laid, harmony in the oivis-
ion Of the spolls. and concert of ac-
ton among the leaders Is agreed upon,
and supplement to this. all the appli-
ances which bad and unprincipled
men can devise. inspired as they are
by triple spirit of hate, intolerance
and prescription. In the dominant
party honor and capacity TO admins
ter the peoples affairs without cater
ing 10 and becoming the plant tools
Of shiftless and vicious constituency
seems TO be TO them an unknown quail
ity.
Tbs body polite. in almost all its
rsmifcations aud departments, may
truly be likened to that of poor Pro-
meIheus chained to the rock while
hungry vultures are feeding upon bis
vitals. Shall the lovers Of justice,
right and equity sit idly by and see
their heritage despoilsd? Will the
democracy of old st. Mary's. now that
nearly all is gone save honor, be long,
er torn by factiOnal feuds and differ
ences (? What can be accomplished
by such course? 1t has been clear
ly demonstrated more than once that
democracy united is invincible. Then,
ITO your tents; Oh Isr@l," and or
ganize for the fray. See that none
but honest. capable and true demo-
Gratis are placed upon the ticket; men
who will vote for democratic men
and measures a ticket which will
command the respect of the party
and its leaders throughout the State,
and then, even should defeat and dis
aster befall it, which we doubt, more
good and wholesome legislation will
be effected for poor old st. Mary's
BY Democratic Legislature than has
been her good fortune to obtain for
many CHARACTERIZATION that will re.
suit in an inflow of population and
wealth from abroad making her desert
fields bloom with beauty and effectu.
ally supplant the gregarious horde
that now holds her with a monsters
grasp. The democratic party which
has survived the throes and struggles
of century, whose age if it were
traced back would be found to be as
old as Magma Charta, has before it
work that is colossal, but not enough
to appall it. In the language of Gov.
Hill, the democratic party was not
born TO die, but is forordained to dem
onstrate to the nations of the earth
the alta hilits IF a irnA-A -y.- D-r-L-
lie.
The republican party like beast
of prey is gloating over its ill-gotten
sPoils, flushed with victory in the ma.
ton, the result of bossism, bribery
and sectional greed for power and
gain. No wonder if an OVERLOOKING
treasury be rapidly depleted by reck.
less expenditures, and added to this
horrible picture of tie thousand and
one evils consequent upon a possible
bloody shirt policy.
The signs of the times are omiuous,
the demsnds of the late republican
convention (colored) in Baltimore city
tell in no unmistakable language, what
has heretofore been somewhat obscur-
ed, the ultimate goal and ambition of
their party. We rejoice that the
monster no longer seeks to hide his
cloven foot but with an audacily char
acteristic of his brazen nature throws
down the gauntlet and invites the ir-
repressible.
We are slow to believe, Messrs. Ed
itors, that had the soldier patriot
Washington, the statesman Jefferson,
aud other fathers and founders of the
Republic foreseen what would be its
political and social condition to-day
there would have been no monument
on Bunker Hill to commemorate the
gallant achievements at its crest or
the death of the patriot Warren no
history would have chronicled the
desperate resolution, born of an al
most forlorn hope, Of crossing the
rapid and icy Delaware on that freez.
ing December night to surprise the
Hessian camp at Trenton; no sangui-
nary Long Island; no holocaust Of
death and famine at Valley Forge; no
glorious Saratoga and Yor ktown would
have gilded its illusisious pages. We
maintain that No such tinkering with |
the constitutional rights of be PEG. |
pie, was ever contemplated by those
mighty intellectual giants. Jefferson,
Madison and Henry. Or. if they did
they were careful to incorporate safe
guards in the body Of that mighty in. |
strument, the Constitu ton, ade-
aua ate In their pure minds 10 deter tha |