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 a 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
| lions 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
jority in the Third congressional district,
nine hundred votes will cover the major
| Ivy III Uut udlduCc vi bhO SbdbO at OiiC iaSt
election. Our whole majority was about
| six Thousand, so that if three thousand
Democrats, which is less than twenty in
IA precinct vote with our opponents the
party is in peril. | wish that l were mis-
taken about this, but l thought that
would give you the figures, SO that you
could draw your own differences. 1t is all
very we'll to say that we lost number OF
| ha tar;F If thiS
we're so, there are local issues which, in
all probability, 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 maj
ity of our people, safely within the Dem
ocratic ranks. 1t is not the controversies
among political faction that should oc
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 disaffection among the
people who are Democrats from principle
who want no political Office, and who
have no party favors to ask except al
honest administration of the party's at
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 and re
auirements, bus there is power behinC
the factions that cannot be purchased
and silenced in this way. A earnest pro
test would go up against any scheme o.
redemption and deliverance that propose
to save the party by distributing til
offices and spoils. This plan of compro
mise was tried in neighboring city anc
the outcome was the most corruptlns
state of politics that ever disgraced tn,
pages of our history, state of politics tt
which is attributable i'll a 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 the.
are advancing upon US. Under the mos
thorough and continuous discipline. the.
are strengthening their organization il
every precinct of this city. The Repub
lican leaders, recognizing the fact tina
their party in this city can be kept to
gether only by holding out the hope o
common plumber, authoritative word ha
come from Washington that the princi
pal federal appointments will not be mad
in Maryland until after the election, anC
with fifteen thousand colored voters col
onized to a considerable extent, in solit
line they present an unbroken front, thei
objective point being the next Legislature
and Republican senator from Maryland
while we are rent and torn by factiona
uiscord, fighting over spoils that are al
ready within the grasp OF the enemy.
would regard the ascendancy OF the Rs
publican party in this city as a calamIt.
and misfortune. We can reform our
selves without any help from it. | d.
not believe in its principles, nor in it
narrow minded aud sectional policy.
have no faith whatever in its honesty a
party.