The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-10-10
An Address to the Voters of the
Second Congressional District
and Others Whom it
NAV Concern.

MoJ SOACCAA'
Having been nominated by convention
representing the agricultural and business
interests Of this Second Congressional Dis
rict, he'd at Glyndon, BALTIC. CO., Ii becomes
my duty as well as my privilege, TO express
in this public manner my acceptance of the
responsibility unanimously offered, and my
accord with the principles expressed in the
platform then adopted, and to give briet
but substantial reasons why voters should
now cut loose from all idolatry to past party
ties and cast their ballots so that they will
mean something on the iire issues ofthe day
and thus best sLbserye their own interests.
need not remind you of the fact that we
belong to farming district where the large
majority of our people are most directly
dependent upon the soil, and that therefore
it is neither just nor proper that we should
continue 10 look TO the one legal profession
for our leaders in the future, as in the past,
lest we look in vain for a champion of our
cause.
We submit that the government cannot
longer be successfully run on the issues of a
war that ceased more than twenty-five years
ago. Questions affecting the rights oil
Labor, Corporate Power, Finance, and the
Race Problem will not and cannot be hon
estly and permanently settled by parties
that cannot now agree upon any of them,
because these new issues, pressing to the
front, are foreign to the purposes for which
they continue TO exist. No question OF
Right, Truth or Justice is safe in the hands
of.either old political organization while
they know of no motive higher than 'Po-
litical Expectancy" and are ruled by men
with whom moral considerations have no
value.
We need new division Of polit1cal forces
in which it will be possible for the bes,
interests of our whole country 10 be con-
suited, untrammeled by the corrapting in
iluences vi the money of the Unfortunately
wealthy, who now confessedly and openly
buy up the vote of the ignorant and the
vicious, and thus small minority are en-
abled to control both Of the oldest political
parties.
I am fully in accord with the ideas en-
braced in our State platform of the Prohi-
bition Party, believing them to be correct
expression of the wishes Of, the majority of
the people at the present time. believe
that radical change in the attitude of our
National and State government towards the
manufacture and sale of alcoholic drinks, to
be necessary preliminary 10 the correction
Of existing evils and political abuses. No
government can pros?er while 1t is in
partnership with any business that debauch-
es and destroys the citizen.
charge the present member of congress
from this district with incomplete nee to
understand the financial questions of the
day, as evinced by his vote aud speeches on
the silver questions, which subsequent
events have shown to be absolutely false in
theory. l charge him also with being
untrue to the interests Of the Homes of this
land and the piincille of allowing each
State to use her own police power for her
own protection, by his vote against that
measure called the Original Package Law.
I charge the Democratic and Republican
parties with treachery to the best interests
of our State, by their cowardlv silence or
open championship of the cause of the
saloon, under the guise of High License
even in those counties now enjoying the
benefits of local prohibition by the permits
sion of our democratic State government.
For these reasons we ask the voters of this
commonwealth of Maryland, that has been
the home CT eminent statesmen in the past,
to wipe ont the disgrace that is now being
put upon her by the effete representatives of
a dead strife, that she may again take her
place of honor in our American Republic.
Very respectfully.
GEO. BALDERsToN.