The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1889-10-18
The Coming Election.

A little more than two weeks will elapse
before the voters of Hartford county will be
called upon 10 express their choice for per.
sons to fill various places in our State and
county government. While the Democratic
candidates would not suffer by comparison
with their opponents, yet as comparisons are
unpleasant, to say the least, we will not make
them, but simply repeat what We have said
heretofore, that all things considered. the in
terests of the people of Hartford county can
be more safely entrusted to Democratic con-
troll than be surrendered into the hands of the
party which is now at the head of the nation
al administration.
For many years the Democratic party
managed the atfairsof the country upon Dem
ocratic principles, and under its policy the
country prospered The results of the war
gave the control of national affairs to the
Republican party, and what has been the con-
sequence? Ever since 1867 when the inflated
war prices for farming products collapsed,
wheat, corn, hay and cattl have been stead
lily falling. u priT VILE y taxes on all that
the farme c " are continued,
until now, Aft -, = I'd work, the I'M
happy farmer finds hsAe o better off than
before, and can congratulate himself if he be
able to pay his fertilizer and store bills and
the interest on his mortgage debt.
While the farming interests have suffered
to an extent never before known in this
country, manufactures have fourlshed to an
nprecedenteddegree The wealth of the coun-
try, which was at one time centered in the
land, has been absorbed by corporations aud
by trusts which in many lines OF business
have driven out individual capital, and en-
abled combinations of money holders to die.
tate their own prices to purchasers There
must be reason for this state of affairs and
it is not difficult to find. The policy of the
Republican party, throughout its whole ca
reer, has been to foster and encourage aggre.
cations of capital, while the interests of the
farmer, upon whose labors the entire slruct-
ure of business rests, have been ignored The
Republican party, by its unwise class legisla-
tion is directly responsible for the depressed
state ofour farming community.
For one term of four years since the war
the Democratic party under the patriotic and
wise administration of Grover Cleveland,
had control of one branch of the federal gov
ernment. President Cleveland was hamper.
ed and embarrassed by an adverse Senate and
by the beniticiaries of high protective tariff
in his own party. He made gallant srug-
gle in behalf of the people and especially of
the farming and aboring classes, but was de-
feated by the corrupt use of money The
Democratic masses of the country are look.
lag hopefully to the election of Grover
Cleveland or some equally good Democrat
as President in 1902. Democrats OF Hartford
county should remember this and they should
also remember that every vote cast for any
Republican candidate for any Office will re-
tard this much.desired result.
1t may be argued that some of the offices
are non-poltical and should be administered
without regard to politics. We admit this,
but at the same time no one who gives seri-
GUS consideration to the subject can escape
the conclusion that the election of any of the
Republican candidates, in Hartford or else
where in the State, will lessen the chances of
the election of Democratic President ia
1902.